kilpikon3's chile season 2008.

[kilpikon3]

Hello ladies and gentlemen.

I'm an 18-year-old Finnish grower, and this is my first season and I decided to document it in a form of a diary for other people to watch and comment how a first-timer does stupid mistakes

Well, as the season has gone on for a fair amount of time, I'll post some pics in the correct order!

To begin, a list of my first chiles:

Thai Dragon
Naga Morich
Lemon Drop
Apache
Inca Berry
Starfish (expecting a wicked growth from this one!)
Yellow Pointed Habañero
Bolivian Rainbow
Peruvian Purple
Chinese 5 Color
Pink Habañero
CGN 22871
Ultimate Pube
C02598
Super Pube
Malawi Bird's Eye

Well, and now the pictures.


http://onni.jkl.fi/~tuure/valo.jpg

Here are my little seedlings doing rather well under a really warm daylight  lamp. Doing well, even if the lamp is a bit far!

http://onni.jkl.fi/~tuure/puskat.jpg

Here is when the chile-madness kicked in and I bought a 600W HPS
Little seedlings under the smaller light and the bigger ones under the HPS! Mainly thai dragons there, but a severely damaged Caribbean Hab which I got from a friend.

http://onni.jkl.fi/~tuure/chiles_2008.JPG

Here is the class of 2008. All the chiles expect the EBB & Flood system that I built is in the pic. (It has 3x Lemon Drop and a CGN28871) Article about building my ebb can be found in here:http://www.fatalii.net/growing/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=69

This is what the EBB looked like when the plants were moved into the system:

http://onni.jkl.fi/~tuure/eppi.JPG

But now, some time later when the lemon drops are ready to be cut:

http://onni.jkl.fi/~tuure/ebbinyt.JPG

You can also see the tree-like Caribbean Hab on the left side.

Now, here are half of the soil plants on a window sill since the HPS broke down and is now being cured:

http://onni.jkl.fi/~tuure/viidakko.JPG

Feel free to comment. Have fun growing!

[kilpikon3]

Very neat new growth occuring in Lemon Drops after cutting! Only thing bothering me is that the plants in the EBB have a half pipe-like shape in their leaves. What could it be?





All of the EBB-plants right now. Highest ones are Lemon Drops and the small ones are 2x Naga Morich and 2x Ultimate Pube. Those seedlings are there only temporarily, I'll move them into an EBB of their own once I've got the energy to build another one!





New growth in cutted Lemon Drops! Looking pretty good.

[kilpikon3]

Update, update!

So, I decided that it's time for those big lemon drops to leave the ebb and make room for smaller seedlings as the tallest ones reached height of over 60 centimeters!

Today I moved 2 biggest lemon drops into buckets that have a layer of expanded clay on the bottom and the rest is peat soil. Actually I had an accident with the tallest plant; as I started lifting it from the ebb it hit the lamp above and snapped into half !  :oops: Well, we wish a quick recovery on that one!



Pretty good looking roots on the smaller lemon drop.



Both lemon drops repotted into peat soil buckets. I'm feeding them with a nice Bio-Grow-water -solution!

[luca]

Actually I had an accident with the tallest plant; as I started lifting it from the ebb it hit the lamp above and snapped into half !  :oops: Well, we wish a quick recovery on that one!

Hehehe! That's happens very easily, as baccatums grow tall fast and are very fragile in the beginning, with a very soft stem.  But don't worry, your plant will recover.  And even better, if you plant the top part that snapped off, you might even end up with two plants! This happened to me a couple of times

[axo]

Some people say that it's hard to make that cutted top grow roots without clonex etc. I don't have experiences yet but i think i try to cut that one over-wintered tabasco half, we'll see then  :wink:

[luca]

To my experience, baccatums root really easily.  As I mentioned, I've done it quite a few times before, when the plant snap in the middle.  I've never used clonex in them, but they grew roots very easily, just sitting in a cup with water.