Month: April 2016

I am moving things into the greenhouse to begin the long process of hardening them off a bit as well as to clear up space in the basement. As I pot the plants up, they take up more space, and with over 300 pepper plants, plus some tomatoes and flowers, I’m out of space. Here are some greenhouse shots:

Here is part of the reason I am out of space – the Baccatums are very tall now:

Here is a shot that shows how bound up the roots get when it’s time to pot them up. I have to break up these roots so the can grow out better in the larger pot.

Finally, here is a C. Chacoense flower. The Chacoense is a wild pepper and has a very different growth pattern. It’s an interesting pepper thus far.

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Just a few more pictures from today. I’ve spent some time continuing to work on getting the plants into bigger pots. It’s a long process.

Here is a Harold St. Bart’s Habanero comparison shot – before and after with the bigger pots:

Here is a Naga Brain Yellow – a new and very cool cross grown by a guy from Florida. This variety has grown some very large leaves. It’ll be interesting to see what the plant does as it moves outside.

The little C. Galapagoense sprouts are growing and developing their true leaves.

I got a new LED growlight in the mail today from Amazon – here it is on the upper level

And here it is lighting up some plants

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It’s been busy down in the pepper dungeon with the plants quickly growing past the limits of their pots. This means I’ve spent a lot of time potting them up into bigger containers, choosing the plants that will be mine and the ones that will go into the draft – since the drafted plants go into specially marked containers which makes it easier for me to sort out later.

Anyway, here’s a shot of the whole shebang just a few days ago. It’s changed a bit since then, but this gives you an idea of what is going on.

On the top shelf I’ve started some flowers and tomatoes – Moonglow Tomatoes which I love.

Here is what a root ball looks like when I move up a pot size. This one actually isn’t too bad. The ones that are bigger have circles around and really need to be broken up.

The leaves get huge on some of the varieties when they are indoors as they are soaking up all the light they can.

Here (below) is one of the rare C. Pubescens. I think you can see the small fuzz on the leaves in this shot.

The C. Chacoense is a very rare wild pepper and I’m excited to have some of these available. Here is one with a flower that is going to blossom soon.

These are “semi-wilds” called Tsholo or I’ve also seen them called “Tshololo” and I’m not sure which is correct. This is what they look like in their new pots. You can see some of them have leaves with a nice purple hue to them. They are a pretty plant, I’m excited to see what sort of pods they produce.

Finally, I’m phasing in some LED grow lights when I get a change. Here is one of the bulbs to give you an idea what that looks like:

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