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Here we go again. Summer 2021 : I hand pollinated some Aji Ahuachapan (aka CAP 220) flowers with Hallow’s Eve pollen. I was hoping to create a hybrid with the taste and production of the Aji (a favorite of mine) but on a dark plant bearing hotter fruits. I didn't use mini Ziploc bags or any other pollen "barriers" because I wanted to prevent the pollinated flowers from overheating and then falling off. A fruit finally formed on one of them so I thought my first cross was born! Next year (2022). I grew a single F1 plant. The foliage was beautiful with its dark margins and veins, as were the stems. The flowers looked great too, showing characteristics of both species. Unfortunately, the fruits took too long to ripen and frost came...

Hi! In the last 6 years my pepper cultivation has always been ecological and spartan: no heating, no lamps, no fertilizers, no pesticides. But this year, after starting with the usual setup, I decided to change on the fly and upgrade, at least with a radiator and LED lamps, given that the C. chinense and the wilds didn't agree very well with my natural choices, and I am always open to change. So I recovered a growbox from the cellar that I hadn't yet used for peppers. I'm very late (actually I'm on par with other years, but being surrounded by professionals from two forums I feel the pressure 🙃 ). At the moment I have 35 live cultivars out of 40: the failed ones are sterile interspecific crosses, problematic wilds or poorly preserved...

Decided to drop a few seeds in december for next year so decided to start a '24 Glog early. I'm very lucky in that in addition to a small domestic greenhouse at our house I also have access to a significant space in a commercial greenhouse (our little island used to be the UK's leading tomato supplier but the industry collapsed in the face of cheaper imports from warmer climes so there are a lot of huge greenhouses looking for uses here). In it I grow a lot of perennial stuff that needs a mediterranean climate (or is marginal there) - bananas, figs, tamarillos, various passiflora and my peppers sit interplanted with them. With our mild climate it is possible often to overwinter capsicum of all species in ground in these big...

I always grow more peppers than I need, so my goal this season is to grow less. My freezer is full of scotch bonnets, so I am focusing more on annum peppers this year. My seed starting grow tent in the past has been in a cold unfinished basement. This year I have the tent in an unused bedroom. I am excited to see how much better everything grows with the warmer temperatures. In the basement, air circulation and heat were competing variables. I could heat the tent if it was closed and unventilated, but then I noticed negative effects from lack of air circulation. From my reading, I think the plants probably weren’t getting enough CO2. I have a west facing window in the new tent location. Not sure if a little natural sunlight...

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 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...

This GLOG will be dedicated to some hybrids of interest that have emerged from my pepper garden since 2020. I plan to follow them at least until F3 to see if they are worth it. Please note that no seeds will be shared at this time. Let's grow! *DRx GLOG

Hello   Decided to publicly post my attempts at growing peppers this year. Would appreciate any advice given.   So I am currently growing    2 Aji Limons (one planted on the 27th February, the other on 4th March) 1 Numex Twilight (planted on 4th March) 1 7-Pot ( planted 4th March I think) 1 Bulgarian Carrot (planted 4th March) 1 Pumpkin Pepper (planted 27th February) 1 Habanero (planted 27th February) 1 Jamaican Hot Chocolate (planted 27th February) 1 Bhut Jolokia (planted 27th February) 1 Bird's Eye Pepper (planted 27th February) 1 Chimayo (which germinated but later found to have died due to damping off)   Habanero and Pumpkin Pepper were the first to hook which was on the 4th March. Aji Limon on 5th March. JHC and Bird's Eye on the...

According to the Urban Dictionnary, the word "unexpectational" refers to the active state of not having any expectations... In 2020, I grew a single Devil’s Rib plant, a habanero relative coming from Ghana. To be completely honest, it was without much expectation as I’m not really a big habanero fan! Our summer was exceptional that year so the plant grew very healthy and reached massive proportions. It gave me a shitload of pods averaging 20 grams each, with some weighing just over 25 grams. They were tasty and quite hot too, somewhere between the alleged 414 000 SHU and Ghost pepper level I’d say. At the end of the season I was quite happy I decided to grow it! As usual, I kept seeds from the nicest pods and planted about 30 last...

Back again and trying to get my first decent grow going in a few years. Experimenting a little with an aeroponics setup for some of my starts. Not certain how that will go but taking a punt. Have a bunch of different varieties down from varying age seeds (some from 2011-12 right through to 2022 all stored in fridge since early 2015) Most seem to be doing as they should and germinating. Some are being a little stubborn as expected. Once germinated they are going under a 500-600 watt LED panel with extra natural light in the greenhouse on a heat mat. Only thing I am lacking is a fan to get some more robust/less leggy seedlings which you can see in the seedling pictures. Multiple strains of myself and PaulG's Trippaul threats plus...

Just starting this glog now so it's one less thing to do in a few months when I'm knee deep in compost and getting things in the ground.   Not much to report at the moment. Strains yet to be determined, but I'll probably end up growing too many like always...lol     Only thing that's going on right now is a clean back patio and the chickens doing their part turning over my compost pile on the daily. Intersted in seeing how the soil microbes appreciate the added chicken poop!       Hope everyone has had a decent winter so far and here's to happy germination!         EDIT UPDATE: This glog has turned into an ongoing overwintering, greenhouse and soil building how-to!

Moruga Blackjack, Mantis Claw Yellow, Jalapeno Dieghto, Black Congo, T. Rex (color?), and one more I can't remember. This was late January. Seeds from White Hot Peppers. Great germination results, using Miracle Grow potting soil, started indoors with LED spotlights from HD.

Hi! Oh, I love watching that kind of stuff... I am not too experienced in growing peppers, I used to grow some tomatoes but since I moved out from my family house, I didn't have space to grow anything. I bought allotment garden (I think that's the word, english is not my native language) but I can't seem to find time to care about it full time from march to october, it's not as near my flat as I'd want it to be but maybe one year I will make my life a little bit less messy and take make it work. Now I live in the apartment with a balcony, it is at western side and in the summer the heat is kinda out of control. I think it will do! Oh, I dream of the jungle here! This year I bought some chillies from the supermarket and, as I often do...

8,000 feet above sea level, low temps, low humidity, let's see if we can grow hot peppers at the top of the Rocky Mountains. Strains Round 1 Germ: Transplanted to 3 gal grow bags Carolina Reaper - Baker Creek Death Spiral - Baker Creek Dragon's Breath - Refining Fire Chilis Apocalypse Chocolate - RFC Romanian Sweet - RFC White Moruga - Bohica Round 2 Germ: In cups awaiting transplant 7 Pot Chocolate - BC West Indies Red Habanero - BC Scotch Bonnet - BC Sugar Rush Peach - BC Round 3 Germ: Started 12/19 Pink Tiger x BBG7 - Texas Hot Peppers Bahamanian Goat - THP KS Peach Starrkist - THP Hallow's Eve - THP Thor's Thunderbolt - THP Round 4 Germ: Started 12/28 Black Panther - THP Scotch Brains Red - THP Anyone that has grown...

This year I was focused on my proprietary genetics, and others (updating) Indy pepper - 2019 - 1 Indy pepper - 2022 - 1 Indy pepper - 2022 pheno 1 - 1 Indy pepper - 2022 pheno 1b - 1 Indy pepper - 2022 pheno 2 - 1 Aji Charapita - 1 (non-growdown-showdown) Douglah - 4 Goat - 2 Gourmet Jigsaw - 1 Peach Ghost Scorpion -1 Red Ghost scorpion -1 Bubblegum -1 White Bubblegum -1 White devils tounge-1 White devils tounge pheno-1 Zapotec Jalapeno -1 Hungarian paprika -1 Chimayo -1 Thai - 1 Just popped: Hallows Eve - 1 Germinating: Buena mulata -2 Zing -1 Bahamian beast - 2 Testanera - 1 Mustard maruga x gator - 2 Hallows eve - 1 Swampthing- 2 Final batch: Sugar rush peach stripey -2 Blue ghost peach -2 Pink ufo - 2 More are likely...

Here we go again!!!! Looking back at the 2022 season i can only conclude that it has been a succesfull and very productive season, wich ofcourse fueled the pepper madness in me even more! :D Fact is i grew way more peppers than i can possibly consume or give away under normal circumstances and it would be wise to cut down a bit on the amount of plants in the coming season. I decided to get rid of all the overwintering plants and start all fresh this year. No plants to take care of this winter, no fungus gnats all over the place and in my humble experience the overwinterers did not outproduce the fresh seedlings but did need more space. Pound for pound the seedlings were more productive. Plan was to cut down on the varieties too, but as...

Hey, I want to grow vegetables again this year. Capsicum should not be missing, of course. :D Planned are: Hot pepper: Aji Guyana (Capsicum baccatum; 6/10) "Gelbes Rüsselchen" (Capsicum annuum; 5/10) "Lila Luzi" (Capsicum frutescens; 7/10) Capsicum (Anuum): Kyra Corno Giallo Tomatoes: "Rotkäppchen" (balcony tomato) "Zuckertraube" (cherry tomato) Cucumber: "La Diva" (snack cucumber) (I ordered from a German store and unfortunately can't find the English names for the hot peppers and tomatoes) Unfortunately, so far I have only been able to get the Aji Guyana under the "soil" (Eazy Plugs), as the other seeds are still stuck in the post. Since I have done a few experiments with lettuce and the Kratky method, I would like to try...