Wicked Mike's 2015 Growlog

sirex · Feb 22, 2015

Man that place looks like a tropical paradise mike! Looks good dude!

Wicked Mike · Feb 22, 2015

Galapogos Red Habanero (PI 585278):

Ají Cito:

Farmers' Jalapeño:

Peach Bhuts:

Mortalii:

Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion:

Rainforest:

Hair Pepper:

One of my (all-too-numerous) mystery plants; my bigger Red MoAs are in there somewhere:

sirex said:
Man that place looks like a tropical paradise mike! Looks good dude!

Certainly keeps me busy. This last flush of seedlings is going to put me over the top; something tells me a lot of stuff will be going down to the nursery.

Plantguy76 · Feb 22, 2015

I love your grow list & pictures so many interesting varieties and the plants are so beautifully green & luscious.
That Naga x Congo Chocolate should be interesting as well as the Jays peach scops with load of others a lot are new to me some I've heard of but know little about like the chocolate hand gernade hab.
Baccatums are always interesting .
I ask my friend thats from Africa here in the states if its not any trouble could she use her connections in Africa to get me some hot pepper varieties.
She said that she will ask her twin brother who is a farmer if he knows of any and send some.
We will see what comes of that I thought it couldn't hurt to ask.
I was inspired by the if you could visit Africa thread topic.
Also I ordered form totally tomatoes awhile back the golden marzano hybrid & black sea man tomato if your interested in them and don't already have them.

Peter S · Feb 22, 2015

Your plants are looking awesome Mike! Wow.

Trident chilli · Feb 22, 2015

Unbelievable Mike can you tell me what a Mortalii is a cross of please

tsurrie · Feb 22, 2015

The plants look awesome Mike.
It looks like you're creating your personal paradise there.

Runescape · Feb 22, 2015

Trident chilli said:
Unbelievable Mike can you tell me what a Mortalii is a cross of please

Sounds like a Moruga x Fatalli...but im not positive.

PaulG · Feb 22, 2015

Awesome all around!

ribbedturtleneck · Feb 23, 2015

Looking great, Mike. Keep it up!

Pulpiteer · Feb 24, 2015

Amazing. The plants look great - and wow, that's a ton of them.
And I should also mention, as I sit in the deep freeze up north, that I'm amazed/jealous how all your stuff is outside.

Wicked Mike · Mar 4, 2015

Thanks, guys! It definitely keeps me busy.

Trident chilli said:
Unbelievable Mike can you tell me what a Mortalii is a cross of please

I'd be happy to tell you, if I could. It's one of IKF's projects. He said Pex thought it was a mutation. It's my first time growing it, so I'm not sure what to expect.

Pulpiteer said:
Amazing. The plants look great - and wow, that's a ton of them.
And I should also mention, as I sit in the deep freeze up north, that I'm amazed/jealous how all your stuff is outside.

The trade-off is that the sun is so intense during the summer down here that you have to shade your plants or they get incinerated. The notion of filling a shadehouse with pepper plants probably won't fly here (yet), so I'm selling stuff pretty quickly in order to get ready for it.

My desk at work:

neoguy · Mar 4, 2015

Wow, just Wow. Great grow you have going on.

Plantguy76 · Mar 4, 2015

Wicked Mike is your Hawaiian Pepper plant a Hawaii Beach?
I ordered that plus Scarlet Lantern & Angkor Sunrise form JungleRain
P.s. I made a topic of it in a attempt to get feed back with the picture and description.
I asked grant if its flavor is close to a bonnet and he said yes.
The fruit is huge
Those are a lot of pods looking good mike !

Wicked Mike · Mar 10, 2015

Plantguy76 said:
Wicked Mike is your Hawaiian Pepper plant a Hawaii Beach?
I ordered that plus Scarlet Lantern & Angkor Sunrise form JungleRain
P.s. I made a topic of it in a attempt to get feed back with the picture and description.
I asked grant if its flavor is close to a bonnet and he said yes.
The fruit is hugeThose are a lot of pods looking good mike !

Nope. This is the University of Hawaii's "Hawaiian Chili."
So we ship live plants at work all the time, and it got me thinking about how most of the country is watching solo cups right now, and I'm watching these:

Plantguy76 · Mar 10, 2015

Gorgeous plants mike real beauties !

socalgardengal · Mar 10, 2015

WOW!!! I never thought there were so many peppers. Unbelievable! Beautiful plants
Good Luck with all the craziness

Plantguy76 · Apr 10, 2015

socalgardengal said:
WOW!!! I never thought there were so many peppers. Unbelievable! Beautiful plants
Good Luck with all the craziness

Heehee craziness is good Mike & I are of like minds although he has way more than me but if I could I would lol

dennish · Apr 16, 2015

Amazing log Mike, truly an education reading from start through to finish... like a good book you can't put down!

As Trident already mentioned, very interested in the ominously named Mortalii and how this turns out for you (I'm growing as many different Fatalii and Fatalii X varieties as I have been able to source this year).

Also, I am a massive fan of TS CARDI Yellow... I see you have a red version on the go too. Is this a natural mutation of the CARDI Yellow?

Wicked Mike · Apr 19, 2015

dennish said:
Amazing log Mike, truly an education reading from start through to finish... like a good book you can't put down!

As Trident already mentioned, very interested in the ominously named Mortalii and how this turns out for you (I'm growing as many different Fatalii and Fatalii X varieties as I have been able to source this year).

Also, I am a massive fan of TS CARDI Yellow... I see you have a red version on the go too. Is this a natural mutation of the CARDI Yellow?

It's been an education for me. The incredible diversity to be found, most of it in just five species, blows my mind. Compare that to, say orchids...

The Mortalii is a variety grown from seeds generously shared by one of the better horticulturists I've come across; I'll leave it up to him to chime in if he wants to. In any event, it's a worthwhile plant that I'm already propagating vegetatively.

Yellow Fatalii on the left. Mortality on the right.

I'm also, as it happens, a huge fan of Yellow CARDIs, one plant in particular:

socalgardengal · Apr 19, 2015

Damn...that thing is massive! I have a couple growing..Beautiful!!!