Swamp Monster's new grow> party cups!!!

I've got some new seeds starting! I already have a bunch of plants going (and fruiting), but I started them well before joining the site, so too late to start a glog. Anyway, just started NuMex Suave Orange, NuMex Twilight, Tabasco, Datil, and Trinidad Scorpion from NMSU, and Moruga Scorpion from Refining Fire Chiles.

http://i.imgur.com/rmRBQKP.jpg

 

[Devv]

Rest assured, we all want to see those existing plants
 
Never to late to start a glog....

 

[capsidadburn]

All plants must be displayed for viewing!  Pics please.  Welcome to THP

 

[Swamp Monster]

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2 crappy Purple jalapenos I dug up yesterday, cleaned the roots, and put into solo cups inside. They had been in the awful soil up front and are stunted for now...
V

Couple of small serranos and cayennes. I started too many for the garden in the back, so I put a few in front. Turns out the soil there is terrible, hence the small size. V

My 3ft 6in Indian Carbon Jolokia. V

Try to ignore the weeds... 2 serranos, a jalapeño, a cayenne, and 2 bell peppers. The jalapeño was supposed to be purple, and of course the only one I put in decent dirt turned out to be a regular green-to-red phenotype, which is why I'm gonna put the ones from the front yard in pots. V

^thats lettuce up front...started growing pretty strange when it got hot out.
Some of the harvest, thus far. I've been eating the bell peppers as fast as I can pick them, plus about a third of the others. V

 

[Swamp Monster]

About my setup... I grow organic only, with my most of my potting mixes consisting of a base mix of Sunshine #4 Advanced with worm castings and Ancient Forest and a variety of natural fertilizers chosen based on plant type and size. Strawberries and blueberries live in a homemade peat- based mix for acid lovers. My dirt gardens are native soil plus cheap organic garden soil and Black Kow manure with used potting mix. Indoors I use a 4x4 ft grow tent with a dimmable Lumatek 600W ballast. I normally use a Hortilux 600W HPS bulb, but it burned out, so I'm using a cheapo 400W MH for now. The bulb resides in a 6in ducted Blockbuster hood.

 

[Swamp Monster]

A couple of my jolokia pods have begun to ripen...

The orange one is much hotter than the green one.

 

[romy6]

 Great plants. Look super healthy.
 
 
  Never pick a bhut green. They have a bitter taste and no heat. Let them go orange then bright red. 
And like the others said never too late to start anything. 

 

[Swamp Monster]

Thanks for the advice... This is actually my first time with jolokias! It was getting hard to stay patient after looking at green pods for like 3 months.

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Cool purple flash. Let's see some close ups of the indian carbon's,those are in my top 5. Let those bhuts go red like romy6 said. Once they start changing color it will be hard to keep up,just stay patient.

 

[Swamp Monster]

As requested... More pics! Bhut below....

^ thumb for scale

^ a few green pods, and a glimpse of my super-secret water source

^ big leaf, and evidence I may be having a grasshopper problem

^ a bee that came along at an opportune time

^ some pods, a flower, and the same bee

A pod beginning to ripen^

^ what seems like the first clear sky day of the summer

 

[Swamp Monster]

Finally stops raining, and my bhut learns about july in the south. No worries... it'll be fine when the sun drops a bit more. V

 

[Swamp Monster]

More ripe cayennes!

 

[laynlow]

Nice grow you've got.   My plants look the same after a hot July day!

 

[Sanarda]

In post #10 fourth pic down from the top,  That isn't a tail on that Bhut is it?  Or is it something behind the pod?  Just wondering!!!

 

[Swamp Monster]

Thanks, Josh!

Sanarda- You know, I thought the same thing when I looked at the pics, but I think its a leaf tip turned sideways in the background.

And here we have my freshly potted-up purple jalapeños V

Miraculously, emerging seedlings can barely be seen through the gray mold on top of my rooters! V

Germination count so far is 2x datil and 1x NuMex Twilight after only 7 days.

 

[Swamp Monster]

More germination, no problems so far... V

^ Count is now 2x each: tabasco, datil, NuMex Twilight, and Moruga scorpion.
As you can see above, I've also got a 600HPS bulb again.
My jolokia is now 3ft 9in and resides in a 20 gallon tub. The 5 gal wasn't enough to keep its thirst sated. V

 

[Swamp Monster]

My new seedlings. I killed one of the Morugas by forgetting to water, but no worries; I only plan on growing out one of them anyway. V

Some jolokia pods. Most of them are affected by some sort of fungal problem or something, which seems to have been caused by staying wet almost continuously for weeks. Whatever it is, the newer pods don't have that problem so I removed all the affected ones so the plant will have room for more. V

 

[Swamp Monster]

Check out the wicked critter I found on my tomatoes! V

 

[cajunmama]

That's a horn worm with a fatal condition! Nice pics, BTW!

 

[Swamp Monster]

Thanks! By fatal condition, do you mean being found by me, or whatever those white things are?
-Edit ... Google just taught me that those are the larvae of parasitic wasps.