Nothing too much to see yet, look pretty typical when they’re 4 weeks old from seed. I added another 510 watts of LED lighting over black Friday. I will build a little table to get them elevated and have it be a drain table. Once they get large there is no way I can move them around my house. This solves moving them with also allowing them to drain during watering.

So far I have from-

Round 1 germination:

Death Spiral

Carolina Reaper

Dragon’s Breath

Apocalypse Chocolate

Romanian Sweet

White Moruga Scorpion

Round 2 germination -

Scotch Bonnet

West Indies Red Hab

Sugar Rush Peach

Chocolate 7 pot

Round 3 waiting for shipping:

Black Panther

Bahamian Goat

Hallows Eve

Scotch Brain Red

Pink Tiger BBG7

Growing the plants in Fox Farms Ocean Forest and using FF Grow Big for vegetative growth stage.

  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Should work well. I used to move my jalapenos inside when the freeze came in fall, and they’d give another crop around February.

    • Alchemy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Good to know! I will cull things off as I run out of room and also pick genetic lines I want. Looking forward to trying out this PT x BBG7

      • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Your list of peppers sounds awesome! It’s a great idea. I used to think I wanted to grow everything for salsa in my basement in the long winters of where I lived but I, uh… just ended up growing a bunch of weed. The jalapenos I just kept on a shelf in my bathroom under 24 hour compact fluorescents and they did great.

        • Alchemy@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Yeah, weed is so cheap here that unless you’re growing large quantities, it is cheaper just to go to the store. Fun hobby though! I am using about half of our office/bedroom for the two tables. My quick research looks like fresh peppers can be sold with just a business license and sales tax number to restaurants in Colorado as long as the peppers are not processed. We have a few spots around us I hope would be interested. I live in a tourism based town and I think the Mexican restaurants and the wing spots would be good to chat with.

          • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            This was before there were stores for that though, and I lived in the middle of nowhere. It was nice… I loved having the lights on at night and soaking up some light myself. Plus, I saved a ton of money (really, avoided suffering as I couldn’t find anything around there 3/4 of the time anyway) and what I grew was still some of the finest I’ve found, even in this era. I wouldn’t bother with it for personal use at this point either though.

            I had a gf long ago who wanted to start an herb business for local restaurants, and that always sounded like a decent idea. Peppers could definitely work. I think most people who get really into it end up starting hot sauce companies. You could also dry them and sell them online!