ThePepperGrowingMan's 2010 Grow Log

Silver_Surfer · Sep 18, 2010

Fine pile of pods. Those Bhuts are beauts.

patrick · Sep 18, 2010

Man I'll echo SS's comments. Love the choco's too.

Pepper Pat · Sep 20, 2010

ThePepperGrowingMan said:
Chocolate bhuts courtesy of my neighbor, took a clone and these 3 for seeds. Tasted one too, man are they f***ing hot.

you neighbor must be one cool mofo.

:cheers:

jolokia_jas · Sep 20, 2010

You've had an awesome year so far mate. God luck with the clones!

:cheers:

Jas

ThePepperGrowingMan · Sep 25, 2010

Silver_Surfer said:
Fine pile of pods. Those Bhuts are beauts.

patrick said:
Man I'll echo SS's comments. Love the choco's too.

jolokia_jas said:
You've had an awesome year so far mate. God luck with the clones!

Jas

Thanks guys. Clones are all still alive and I'm starting to see roots

Pepper Pat said:
you neighbor must be one cool mofo.

He's kind of an a**hole. Weird his name is Pat too... :rofl:

Here's the Friday night harvest:

Pepper Pat · Sep 25, 2010

you have bananas too? :eek:

very short season for those in Illinois :rofl:

ThePepperGrowingMan · Oct 2, 2010

Pepper Pat said:
you have bananas too?

very short season for those in Illinois

It's just a really big pepper :cool:

Here's what will likely be one of the last photo worthy harvests of the year. Still plenty of pods outside but I think the low temps will get them before they ever have a chance to ripen.

Masala Mojo · Oct 2, 2010

Seems to me that you got a nice harvest considering weather you have.

I love your mix.

What do you propose to do with the loot?

ThePepperGrowingMan · Oct 3, 2010

Naga Jolokia Addict said:
Seems to me that you got a nice harvest considering weather you have.

I love your mix.

What do you propose to do with the loot?

Thanks, i think most of this one is going towards some hot sauce and to the dehydrator. :onfire:

buddy · Oct 3, 2010

can you please tell me what the ones on the upper left are (kind of look like a pattypan squash)? i ended up growing these (i think) this year and don't know what they were. thanks.

ThePepperGrowingMan · Oct 3, 2010

buddy said:
can you please tell me what the ones on the upper left are (kind of look like a pattypan squash)? i ended up growing these (i think) this year and don't know what they were. thanks.

Jamaican yellow. they don't have any heat worth mentioning. made a powder mix with one of them (mixed with red jolokia) and it's not bad. don't think i will grow it again next year though.

buddy · Oct 3, 2010

thanks. mine were the same - not much heat and not such a unique flavor that would make me grow them again.

ThePepperGrowingMan · Oct 4, 2010

Here's my jump on 2011. Took cuttings of my bhuts (including a chocolate) and am going to grow them in dwc over the winter. before last frost at the start of next season i'll take clones from my overwintered clones to plant out. or at least that's the plan...

franzb69 · Oct 4, 2010

looks like your clones are ready to be planted.

sure wish i could germinate what's left of my choco bhut seeds. running out of these from failing to germinate. lol.

Masala Mojo · Oct 4, 2010

very very interesting. I would be following your progress .

Can you describe the process in detail please?

ThePepperGrowingMan · Oct 9, 2010

Naga Jolokia Addict said:
very very interesting. I would be following your progress .

Can you describe the process in detail please?

Sure, here's what I'm doing. Keep in mind this is my first time doing this so no idea if it will work and I'm sure I'll learn a lot along the way.

I took cuttings from 4 of my outdoor plants - 2 giant bhut jolokias, 1 bhut jolokia (2nd year plant that had been overwintered) and 1 chocolate jolokia. Pictures of all of these peppers are in this thread. I put each cutting into my cloning bucket to get them started:

After the roots get going (100% success on this round) plan to move each plant to it's own dwc bucket. I moved the 2nd year bhut jolokia yesterday, it was my first:

Right now I juts have both buckets under my small T5.

After I get all 4 moved to their own buckets I will move them under my large T5 Bank (soon to be 2 or 3 4x4 fixtures) and grow them over the winter. About 4 - 6 weeks before plant out next year I will take new cuttings from the plants grown in dwc buckets and clone them in dirt and will them move them all outside to the garden mid May. If all goes as planned I should get 10 - 20 clones for my garden next year from some of my best plants this year. Nor surprises and no genetically weak plants.

ThePepperGrowingMan · Oct 9, 2010

The pepper gods have smiled on northern IL...we've been having daytime temps in the mid/upper 70's...might have even broke 80 a few times. A lot of peppers i figured would end up in the compost pile are actually ripening. They are runts compared to earlier harvests but peppers are peppers...

I picked these Thursday night:

Silver_Surfer · Oct 9, 2010

Fine pickin's. Keep it up, it hit the mid nineties here today; fooking weird weather this season.

ThePepperGrowingMan · Oct 9, 2010

Silver_Surfer said:
Fine pickin's. Keep it up, it hit the mid nineties here today; fooking weird weather this season.

Thank you and yea the weather has been crazy. started getting warm about a month early around here and now it's going to stay decent 4 - 6 weeks longer than normal. 10 day for around here shows all nights above 32 and all days above 60. not "perfect" weather but it'll keep things ripening. at the rate it's going i might actually get another 1 - 2 semi-decent harvests :woohoo:

ThePepperGrowingMan · Oct 11, 2010

Tonight's harvest, weather this season is crazy. I may actually get another couple small harvests like this one...