Sporeheads 2015 what have I done? GLOG +++updated!+++

sporehead · Mar 8, 2015

Apparently the waxworms survived. I went to toss the jar contents and saw a bunch of little worms in there. I also just received a Peruvian Apple cutting. It's similar to Dragon fruit.

D3monic · Mar 8, 2015

sporehead said:
Thanks! Ya It's a cactus. San Pedro. It rooted quickly and has been growing like mad. It's getting etiolated unfortunately. Hopefully it'll cut that out now that it's directly under the lights. The square gallon pot is pereskiopsis, a fast growing little cactus. Last time I grew them, I started with 4 6" unrooted cuttings. It only took two months to have 50 or so. They are great grafting stock.

I've been wanting to grow a few Peyote so when I retire they are ready.

sporehead · Mar 8, 2015

Start now if you want to grow them. They take a long time. Another option is grafting the seedlings to a fast growing grafting stock. Large buttons can be grown in just over a year this way. They would need to be degrafted and potted to balance the water, health and alkaloid content. It's a quick way to circumvent nature but requires alot more attention.

Runescape · Mar 8, 2015

For anyone else who has no idea what a Peyote is:

sporehead · Mar 9, 2015

Well I've noticed some puckering on a few of the leaves. Looking a little closer I saw some white powdery things that I'm sure are scale. We've already been doing a weekly neem spray on some other plants for scale, mites and aphids. I really hope this does not get out of control. A friend recommend azamax for the problem. Anyone have any other suggestions?

sporehead · Mar 12, 2015

Well it looks like the peter pepper will join my grow. I couldn't resist! Thanks again to everyone who supplied me seeds.

Runescape · Mar 13, 2015

sporehead said:
Well it looks like the peter pepper will join my grow. I couldn't resist! Thanks again to everyone who supplied me seeds.

Lol, cant wait to see what pods you get...

socalgardengal · Mar 13, 2015

Great job! Good Luck!

sporehead · Mar 21, 2015

Got problems! Anyone know what is going on here? Some leaves are puckering, becoming translucent and becoming necrotic in areas before falling off. It hasn't affected the new grow in a lot of them but it is starting to. I suspect nutrient deficiency or overfertilization. The pest problem seems under control elsewhere. I suspected scale but can't find any. Interestingly enough, the majority of plants showing these problems were received from members here. Not an accusation, but maybe just coincidence. The fresno, aji colorado, and jalapeno were the only seeds I paid for. In my soil is 2:1:1 soil:compost:pumice. I watered them once with fish fertilizer three weeks ago. The issue did become more prevalent around that time. The plants are still growing very fast though. I'll be spreading them out soon. I have to rearrange the grow room to make way for more lights. The white dust on some leaves is diatemaceus earth. Any help would be great!

Jalapeno

moruga red

some are ok

sporehead · Mar 22, 2015

Runescape · Mar 22, 2015

sporehead said:
I suspect nutrient deficiency or overfertilization.

Yeah, I think it might be overfertilization...

Coldgrowth · Mar 22, 2015

Woodrose, peyote and morning glory? If I'm not mistaken, you're growing quite a bit of psychedelics? Pretty interesting!

moruga welder · Mar 22, 2015

D3monic said:
I've been wanting to grow a few Peyote so when I retire they are ready.

you been listening to too much Jimmy Morrison ! lol :onfire:

nice little grow you have there ! :onfire:

sporehead · Mar 22, 2015

How can i amend the overfertilization?

I'm not growing peyote actually. Unfortunately it is illegal here. Maybe one day though. San pedro is active though. I hope to one day start a nursery specializing in sacred and magical plants. I'm preparing for a large grafting project to grow lots of cacti so I can stock up Fast. The seedlings are just starting and grafting stock is growing rapidly enough to be ready for the seedlings in a month or two.

sporehead · Mar 25, 2015

I read that the soil could be flushed with water til it runs clear to remove fertilizers. I can try that but I did use compost. Not sure if a flush will help that. They are getting pretty big though. Maybe transplanting them to one gallons with some inert soil would help? Is waiting it out feasible after a flush?

Runescape · Mar 25, 2015

sporehead said:
I read that the soil could be flushed with water til it runs clear to remove fertilizers. I can try that but I did use compost. Not sure if a flush will help that. They are getting pretty big though. Maybe transplanting them to one gallons with some inert soil would help? Is waiting it out feasible after a flush?

Flushing the really bad cases seems like the easiest thing to do... Not sure what you mean about the compost, but I think the overfertilization was due to excess fish ferts, not super rich compost...

That being said, I havent had this issue yet, so I dont know exactly what your best options are...

sporehead · Mar 26, 2015

Oh maybe I used too much fert liquid or didn't dilute enough. I will flush it out tomorrow and see what happens in the next week. Regarding the compost, I used some in my soil mix. The fish fert was an additional supplement I used only once as per someone else recommendation.

sporehead · Apr 9, 2015

Been a while since I updated! Lots has been happening here. The indoor garden is growing rapidly and taking up more and more of my time. I've got some new additions and some updates on old favorites.

We had a problem with over nutrification on a lot of these peppers. The compost in the soil combined with a little too much fish fertilizer made the leaves all dumb. I flushed all the peppers when they were in 4" and the next day they looked a lot happier.

I transplanted 46 peppers into gallon pots. There are 36 more that are to be re-potted and given away. 7 more are mine. There are also 29 more that are new and rather small. In addition to that there are some peter pepper red, orange and yellow just starting out. That's it. I promise

Transplanted:

7 pot brains strain red
7 pot yellow
Aji colorado
Bahamian goat
Bhut jolokia chocolate
Birds eye chili
Bonda ma Jacques
Carolina reaper
Chocolate scotch bonnet
Congo Trinidad giant yellow
Fresno
Habanero antillais caribbean
Jalapeno
Moruga red
Red Bubblegum
SB7J
Yellow fatalii

I just sowed seeds of datura, coffee arabica, E. novogranatense, a random cactus mix, T. pachanoi, kanna, gotu kola, cilantro, Hawaiian baby woodrose and more toothache herb and the rest of the calea seeds. I just checked to make sure I didn't miss anyone and saw a little seedling in the ephedra planter. I think I mislabeled something and I suspect that's my first HBWR. We just received tomato plants from territorial seed company. They are: sungold/sweet million, grandmas pick/heirloom marriage big brandy, san marzano/pozzano. All are double grafts.

I had to kill the wax worms... The substrate they live in attracted a zillion grain mites. They sort of just appeared. Really sucked... I had a lot of pupa and moths ready to lay eggs. It was either them or the other bugs.

Before I begin, what the hell is this? It's only on the Fresnos. No other plants currently have pest issues (besides the lemon tree). The plants seem otherwise ok. When wiped, a watery residue can be felt. It does not move. Mite eggs? IDK. I neemed the hell out of them because I was too lazy to wipe them. I will tomorrow.

First up is my makeshift propagation space. A tarp on the floor works wonders. Notice the new didgeridoo? It's a beast and sort of difficult to play. It's an F# multidrone by wet didgeridoo.

The kitchen is looking good. Pineapple takes a long time to root! It's been in water for nearly a month now.

The bedroom

Onto the grow room...
We finally got rid of an old roomates bed so look at all this space! We have some brackets to assemble but no top for a table just yet. Going to need it soon.

This is the whole front wall by the door.

The top table here is mostly stuff needing potting up when they get big enough. Most of them are but I have not had a chance yet. most of these will be given away. The leggy guys to the left are red okra. The smaller plants are a mix of early jalapeno, red cherry sweet pepper, sweet banana pepper, chocolate habanero,and birds eye chili. The san pedro is looking weird but healthy. The pereskiopsis are still multiplying but I don't have quite enough yet.

Underneath the picture above are some of the recent transplants. We have some happy passiflora incarnata finally climbing. The succulent tray in the upper left never wants to root. But it wont die. Weirdos.

On the top of the next table over is... More peppers! On the left of the photo are some young tomatillo verde, parsley, arugula, and spinach. The covered tray with some green in it is all lettuce, but we haven't dealt with it. Maybe we wont. The two trays in front of the peppers are all coleus from seed from my mother plants. I'm excited to see what random plants this produces. The back barely visible tray is pereskiopsis leaves. Probably wont root. I've not had luck rooting succulent leaves for some reason.

Whats in the other covered lid you ask? Some lazy seed starts of henna, peter peppers, various nicotiana species, star jasmine (why wont you germinate?!) and ephedra. of which on died. Also passiflora edulis still awaiting germination. The coleus are in the back, before I changed things around. Can't remember what the cactus is up front.

Look who popped up at last! Cant wait to start grafting these. Gotta take pere cuttings this weekend and when they root I'll have enough for who's ready in these containers here.

Psychotria are still hanging out. They look healthy still so we'll see what happens. The little green dude is the first of two B. caapi seedlings! The alicia is still a no show. The calea and toothache herb are in here. Some succulents to the left.

Everyone here is doing ok. The brugmansia, ginger and turmeric all had an issue with me lowering the light but they seem to be adjusting now. The dead looking stumps are all coleus and beefsteak. I took cuttings.

Crazy coleaus reaction to more light.

Some cuttings of coleus and beefsteak, mother in law tongue, succulents and the same sad lemon tree. It's been battling scale for a while.

That ridiculous brugmansia. Jeez. Also the salvia! I'm adjusting the humidity slowly now. I want some big flat leaves. I'm taking the risk of potting it into soil this weekend. There are way to many roots in there and I want to give it nutrients.

The bugs are multiplying like crazy! First pic is mealworms. I'd guess I have about a thousand now. Started from 100. The second pic is their parents and the pupa that are going to make me a thousand thousand more bugs.

Got more bug pics but I reached the max for a post. They were blurry anyway.

Well that's it! I'll update when everything looks radically different. As seeds start to sprout etc...

sporehead · Jul 2, 2015

Here are my babies today! I got rid of half of them, now I have 60. A lot of these have started flowering but I keep pinching them back. I want to let them continue to grow up and out. I will let them flower in a month or so. Since there are so many, and so close together, I will probably end up with a lot of hybrids. I need to get some bags for them to isolate the pods. A few jalapenos are fruiting. They are the only ones I will allow to do this. I need some peppers! At seasons end I will select the best ones as mothers and bonsai them.

This is one of four or so that I did not pinch when it was younger. It is getting quite tall while the others have branched out.

This is a murupi. From what I can tell, it is the one with the most flowering sites. The other day I pinched off nearly 30 flowers. It must grow taller and fatter. Maximum pepperage please.

Full garden shot

sporehead · Jul 3, 2015

Can anyone offer any pointers for me? This is my first year growing. I am in the pacific northwest and temps are very high lately. Our season isn't really over until September, if history is a good indicator these days.. I want to let these guys grow as tall as they can before pollinating. I'd like to get the maximum amount of pods per plant so I will be doing a fair amount of pinching back. At some point I will need to let them produce flowers and pods and start feeding them for optimum output. Can I get a suggested rundown from anyone? I'd like to learn as much as I can in my first year so that I can buff up for some thorough cultivating in the years that follow.

Thanks Ya'll

I got all my seeds from here. Thanks for the inspiration.