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Wild Boar Garden´s hot Glog 2023 ✌️

Hi pepperlovers!

I think it is time to get a grow log started for the season 2023. I hope you will join in and follow along. Feel free to give me advice, critics, ask questions and leave comments of any kind! :D

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As I already mentioned in my introduction post I am growing peppers since 2019. I am lucky I have enough space to try a lot of vegetable growing, but my favourite are peppers of all kind :hot:

First of all lets get started with my two main spots for the growing. The first one is directly at the house where I grow the plants mainly in buckets. Here will be the plants I want to visit daily (actually several times a day :D) and have a really close look on. The second spot is an outdoor garden some minutes away. Here I will grow all the leftover plants an plants which work better outside of a bucket. Here I grow also most of the other vegetables, especially tomatoes. But that´s another story 🙂

container garden:

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And some big pots for the C. pubescens and C. baccatum 👍

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open field:


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germination:

For starting my seeds I usually use germination boxes. This used to work really great for me the last years. So no need to change anything :)
This year I started with C. chinense, C. pubescens an some wild varieties at 14.01.2023, C. annuum and C. baccatum followed at 21.01.2023.

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Once the seedlings got rid of their seed I transplant them into BioBizz LightMix using multi trays. Here I usually get rid of plants which do not grow that great.
For the rest of the indoor cultivation I use BioBizz AllMix. In the final containers I mix up some old soil with compost.

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The first few weeks the plants will stay in my cellar under some led lights. The temperature is roughly 20 °C / 68 °F.

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Once the weather gets better the plants will get their first sun light, staying at our big window (facing to the south).

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I think this should be enough for the beginning. Now you have an overwiev of the growing conditions I have. Next will be my selection of varieties for this season :D

I hope you will be following along!

Happy growing!

Alex
 
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Very interesting. They all look good. How long ago did you start the CAP 1487? And how long did it take to germinate?

Mine is still just two cotyledons and a small stem. I was glad it finally showed a hook after almost 40 days. I thought it would never happen.
 
Very interesting. They all look good. How long ago did you start the CAP 1487? And how long did it take to germinate?

Mine is still just two cotyledons and a small stem. I was glad it finally showed a hook after almost 40 days. I thought it would never happen.
I put the seeds into my germination box at 14.01.2023. I am not exatly sure about the actual germination date but it took roughly 3 weeks. So far only one seed out of 5 came to life, so the germination rate was only 20%.

40 days sounds like torture! Maybe I just got lucky! 😅😬

Uh I also have a Canario plant going this season, yours is far ahead, but nice to see what I can expect :)
First time for me with the Canario. I am curious about the weather this year. Last year was extremly hot and dry and the C. pubescens did not really like it. Good for the other peppers though 🙂

Did you grow some Rocotos before?
 
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Hello all!

Today I found some more flowers and a friendly guest 🙂

A01 - Beaver Dam:

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A14 - Paprika beraní roh pálivá:

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I also had to do some repotting. Most of the plants are now in 13x13 cm / 5x5 inch pots. Biggest I can do indoor with that many plants. I have 10 pots with 5 l / 1,3 gallon for some special plants :)

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There were already some roots forming above the soil, really interesting to see. That´s why I burry them quite a bit deeper once they go to the final pots :)

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Greetings!

Alex
 
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First time for me with the Canario. I am curious about the weather this year. Last year was extremly hot and dry and the C. pubescens did not really like it. Good for the other peppers though 🙂

Did you grow some Rocotos before?

I did, I have grown them with much success outside in the Danish weather, I've never tried them inside a greenhouse before, so perhaps I will run into the same issues you describe for last season :think: Same first time with the Canario, but I hope it will hit the medium heat level.
 
I did, I have grown them with much success outside in the Danish weather, I've never tried them inside a greenhouse before, so perhaps I will run into the same issues you describe for last season :think: Same first time with the Canario, but I hope it will hit the medium heat level.
My best Rocoto growing year was 2021 so far @Mildfruit. We had a lot of rain and really cold weather for the first month of the season.

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A lot of the fruit did not get ripe though and had to mature at the window. Worked actually better than I thgouht :)

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In the heat they tend to throw off the flowers and don´t set fruit. I am really curious to see how they perform in your greenhouse :)
 
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Amazing. How long did it take for the peppers to ripen indoors? And was it a South facing window?
There are ten days in between the two pictures, so it took roughly two weeks for the maturing. Yes exactly, the window is facing south. And it was also in the living room, so quite warm :)

To be honest the taste is not as good compared to fruit which ripened in the sun and on the plant. But still good for all kind of recipes :)
 
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