glog TyNW 2020 grow

Hi all, This is my first glog here, I just joined the forums, so please allow me to catch you all up-

I started seeds in a greenhouse in late January-early feb. i plant ~5 seeds per 4in pot, load up trays with pots on heat mats under lights in greenhouse. Usually Ill lay a sheet of clear plastic over the soil surface to keep in humidity until I see sprouts.
I had lots of varieties, but most seeds were old, and I think I was using old recycled soil too... so I had pretty bad germ rates.
What did sprout has done excellent.
We have:

3x Aji criolla sella
5x Aji dulce #6
18x Aji Inca red drop
2x guajillo
5x Aji pilange
8x chilhuacle negro
2x mboga

So 43 plants
Plus a few more, either overwintered from last year, or late starts.
But lets focus on these 43 for now.

Sometime in March? Bout 6 weeks after planting seeds, plants were separated into 1 gal pots.
By first week of April, most were blooming already, and had been moved outside in a location that received morning sun/ afternoon shade
I was super busy this spring, and garden plans kinda snowballed out of control. I ultimately prepared ~300sqft plot of virgin land- tilled, pulled the weeds, tilled some more, added bout 100 gal of composted lawn clippings, ~100gal rabbit manure/compost, bunch of woodchips and some other organic goods. Mounded up 6 rows, and planted in the ground. By mid May.

Bout a month later, started harvesting first few pods.
I think mboga started to go first, but suffered more transplant/transition shock, which set it back.
Criolla sella has been rocking all summer long. First just 1-2 pods ripe per day,
now I have been pulling 20+ pods per day from the 3 plants, since the beginning of august, they just keep making more n more

Now everything is ripening, I have been able to harvest a few pods from most varieties, except the aji dulce. Only 2/5 even have fruits. Im going to dig them up soon and continue in greenhouse over winter

Inca red drops are covered, idk what I am going to do with pods from 18 plants lol

Pilange is delicious, its like 4 ft tall, fruits not as abundant as the other baccatums, but still plenty. I think they got more N fert, put out a lot of veg growth. But idk maybe its just a big plant.

Thats what I got so far, heres some pics from along the way.

-Early in the pots
-Plot overview (look past the weeds!)
-red drops everywhere
-criolla sella
-criolla sella ripening
-guajillos
-pilange
-red drops ripening

 

[PaulG]

Alright, Ty! Looking good in PNW!

 

[K1ng_k1ller]

looks great

 

[TyNW]

Started harvesting the red drops and chilhuacle negros today, just the beginning, plenty more to come!
Some pics:

-chili mandala!
-past couple weeks worth of harvest
-todays haul

 

[TyNW]

Aji dulces ripening up!
Really didnt get many of these, going to try to dig them out of the ground soon, pot up in greenhouse, try to get more fruits thru winter

 

[PaulG]

Tasty-looking assortment of pods, Ty.
Looks like your season is going to finish
out in great style,

 

[TyNW]

Thanks Paul!

The mboga are finally ripening up!
Looks like I have 2 totally different phenos, fun!

One on the bottom I have tried, they are not hot when green, gain a lil heat as they ripen orange. once they ripen in full to a deep red they are pretty hot, with a instant, full on, sharp brooding heat that is definitely reminiscent of African hot chili sauces. They start off crunchy and vegetal when green, but are thin skinned and strait red chili flavor when ripe.
The ones on the top, I have not tried yet. I expect to be hotter...

These are supposedly picked and used when still green, but I could see them working well as dried when ripe.