Sluggy's grow blog
Season 2012
April 7, 2012
Who be knockin on mah do' ?
It's Mr. Mailman, but what fo' ?
To deliver a huge ass package on my grateful doormat, yo.
When there's a big sticker on the side of the box that reads THIS SIDE UP, you can bet your bippy they'll
put it UPSIDE DOWN, and as per usual, the contents of the package look as if they've been playing soccer with it.
No shit, I've gotten many a parcel in the mail with big YETI footprints on it, or vinyl albums shaped like the letter 'U', all bent up and crammed in my mail slot. I mean WTF, and then you should be lucky to receive anything at all, because half of the time those dimwits manage to lose your shit !!!
Mind you, I've actually worked for this same company, TNTPost. Bastards still owe me pay for 10 weeks of double shifts !!! They'll readily hand out 300K bonuses and golden handshakes to every Tom Dick and Harry COB (or should I say SOB) but homey can't have none. Well, FUCK TNTPost in the ass with a glazed ham.
Okay, so where was I ?
March 14, 2012
Sadly most of the super exotic seedlings from the seeds sent to me from Australia died, and I also managed to cook a good number of them germinating.
Double bummer. I now attribute the astounding seedling death to simply insufficient light.
Germination rates are fine, nearly every seed pops and begins growing, but once they're about an inch tall it's like they run out of steam, shrivel up and perish. And I mean all of them ! This is extremely frustrating and can drive a pepper grower to despair ! OK, maybe not tot to the point where you want to stick your fuckin' melon in the oven and turn on the gas, but still, dammit, it's always hard to let go. Unless you're holding on to a monster shit log.
Anyways once I added a 30 watt 7000 K bulb the baby seedlings responded well to it and the seedling death problem seemed to be solved.
Thankfully there are still some healthy survivors including Purple Jolokia, Jolokia Peach, and 4 or 5 Bhut Choco/Yellow 7-pod hybrids, all of which sound like exciting and super lethal chillies. Read more about odd jolokia strains here
Fellow Chilehead Bruce was as kind as to send some other interesting seeds over from the good old USA. Thanks Bruce !
That's just how the chilehead community rolls, people. The package dropping on my grateful doormat contained various Bhut Jolokia hybrids, pure Bhut strains, and the enigmatic Trinidad Sunrise. The latter originates from Jim Duffy's personal collection and may well be the hottest pepper on the planet.
Local dollar-store chain ACTION had propagators on sale for 2,99 euros a piece and being the big spender I am, I moseyed on overthere and purchased six of those motherfuckers. That's right, six. Each prop fits 15 plastic cups with seedlings perfectly. Fistpump.
My experiments with LED lights are beginning to show promising results. I made one panel with high power / high brilliance led strips. Not quite finished.
I am making another growpanel with 1 watt LED emitters. Read about Sluggy's super smooth soldering shenanigans somewhere nearabout here.
The cuttings from last year are doing alright andturning into juvenile plants.
January, 2012
Alrightee-o spaghettios, New year, new season. It's on !
Now that the new season has officially STARTED I'd like to take the opportunity to say all that Maya calendar gloom and doom weak shit talking can KISS MY ASS. Just relax already, nothing's gonna happen.
Besides I am ready for the global apocalypse and have taken all the neccessairy precautions as always :
hard liquor, hard hats, hard-on, and some VERY hard to find seeds ! NO WAY these Maya ass-foofs will stop me from growing :
Douglah strain 7 pod
SB7J (Scotch Bonnet x 7 Pod Jonah hybrid)
Trinidad Scorpion Douglah strain
Douglah x Trinidad Scorpion Butch T.
Bhut Choco x 7-pod yellow F2
Trinidad Douglah
Bhut Choco x 7-Pod yellow F5
Bhut x Mayan Red F3
7 Pod white hybrid F4
Bhut Choco x 7 pod Yellow F2
Bhut x Habanero Giant White F3
Pimienta de Neyde x Bhut Jolokia black variant F4
Bhut Jolokia Peach
Can you say 'Whoa, sick ass seeds' ? Damn right they are.
Second of all I'd like to express my gratitude to Grant at Junglerain for kindly sending me most of these seeds all the way from Australia.
Right on to the brother !
December 28, 2011
My buddie Juan sent over some 'rojo' seeds over from Mexico. Grass y ass hombre !
This appears to be some local habanero variety that that bean-eating son of a bitch and his loco amigos eat before they have sex with pinatas on Cinco De Mayo.
I guess we'll have to wait and see whether they'll make this here Euro gringo break out a sweat, but word on the street is that they are mighty tasty.
Word on the street also is, that beer makes you fart like a sonofabitch. .
Also the last of the Bhut seeds, and last of the Butch T's are tucked in under a nice moist blanket of
wet toilet paper (unused, seeds don't need fertilizer), so now they are all comfy and snug inside of a ziplock baggie that's inside of a tupperware, on top of a warm place.
It's an all or nothing last chance type of deal. Ima keep these guys warm and moist, so for next month
it's fingers crossed.
I got an assload of different seeds germinating now : Bhut jolokia, Bhut jolokia chocolate, 7-pod, 7-pod primo, Butch T, Jamaican Red, White habanero, Fatalii, and aforementioned Rojo. Plus some ordinary strains : Thai Demon F1, yellow bells and even some huge long pointy sweet and bell peppers, which are intended for future cross-pollination experiments only.
Interestingly, the Surinamese Adjuma seeds sprouted after all. I was about to give up on them. They sure took their sweet time, though. Never had luck with these before, which led me to believe the pods may have been frozen during transport. It's no biggie because this type of chilli is a dime a dozen overhere, and widely available at any Surinamese/tropical corner store.
It is a quite tasty and flavorful Chinense strain used in Surinamese cookery that packs a good habanero like punch. Nothing crazy like a habanero chocolate though. Maybe there's an idea for a whacky crossing someday.
On a lighter note the cuttings seem to be recovering from being smack dab in the middle of the perimeter of chemical death I set up 2 weeks ago.
Oh, two more Bhut seeds germinated. Yay.
Christmas 2011
Bah Humbug ! Several dozen seedlings perished almost overnight. Like 30 of them. They grew up to 1 inch then went limp and withered away. WTF. Maybe they just couldn't take it anymore. Maybe I shoulda kept them covered up and in more humid conditions before exposing them to the warmth of the lamps. They were just regular, run of the mill strains so it's no big deal. Except the Butch T.
These ones go to eleven.
To eat a Butch T willingly is to invite screaming napalm death. And I want that because I'm the shit. You just smell like it. (Shit, not napalm)
December 15, 2011
Several of the Naga and Jolokia cuttings I made last year suddenly became wilted, with the leaves all taco'd up and whatnot. Not a good sign. Now SLIPPERY WHEN WET... there's a good sign. Sure enough I found aphids AND sciara fly all over them. In abundance. And some other, crawling white little bugs. What the hell are these things ? Baby aphids ?
There I was, with a piss-hot Euroshopper beer in my hand and cold-blooded murder on my mind. I went Dr. Doom on those scuttling little bastards and sprayed them dead in a non-stop orgy of insecticide death. Fuck you, aphids. Another battle in the war between man and bug was won, but it was just a small one, and these assholes are sure to return later after they marshalled up reenforcements.
Who be knockin on mah do' ?
It's Mr. Mailman, but what fo' ?
To deliver a huge ass package on my grateful doormat, yo.
When there's a big sticker on the side of the box that reads THIS SIDE UP, you can bet your bippy they'll
put it UPSIDE DOWN, and as per usual, the contents of the package look as if they've been playing soccer with it.No shit, I've gotten many a parcel in the mail with big YETI footprints on it, or vinyl albums shaped like the letter 'U', all bent up and crammed in my mail slot. I mean WTF, and then you should be lucky to receive anything at all, because half of the time those dimwits manage to lose your shit !!!
Mind you, I've actually worked for this same company, TNTPost. Bastards still owe me pay for 10 weeks of double shifts !!! They'll readily hand out 300K bonuses and golden handshakes to every Tom Dick and Harry COB (or should I say SOB) but homey can't have none. Well, FUCK TNTPost in the ass with a glazed ham.
Okay, so where was I ?
March 14, 2012
Sadly most of the super exotic seedlings from the seeds sent to me from Australia died, and I also managed to cook a good number of them germinating.
Double bummer. I now attribute the astounding seedling death to simply insufficient light.
Germination rates are fine, nearly every seed pops and begins growing, but once they're about an inch tall it's like they run out of steam, shrivel up and perish. And I mean all of them ! This is extremely frustrating and can drive a pepper grower to despair ! OK, maybe not tot to the point where you want to stick your fuckin' melon in the oven and turn on the gas, but still, dammit, it's always hard to let go. Unless you're holding on to a monster shit log.
Anyways once I added a 30 watt 7000 K bulb the baby seedlings responded well to it and the seedling death problem seemed to be solved.
Thankfully there are still some healthy survivors including Purple Jolokia, Jolokia Peach, and 4 or 5 Bhut Choco/Yellow 7-pod hybrids, all of which sound like exciting and super lethal chillies. Read more about odd jolokia strains here
Fellow Chilehead Bruce was as kind as to send some other interesting seeds over from the good old USA. Thanks Bruce !
That's just how the chilehead community rolls, people. The package dropping on my grateful doormat contained various Bhut Jolokia hybrids, pure Bhut strains, and the enigmatic Trinidad Sunrise. The latter originates from Jim Duffy's personal collection and may well be the hottest pepper on the planet.
Local dollar-store chain ACTION had propagators on sale for 2,99 euros a piece and being the big spender I am, I moseyed on overthere and purchased six of those motherfuckers. That's right, six. Each prop fits 15 plastic cups with seedlings perfectly. Fistpump.
My experiments with LED lights are beginning to show promising results. I made one panel with high power / high brilliance led strips. Not quite finished.
I am making another growpanel with 1 watt LED emitters. Read about Sluggy's super smooth soldering shenanigans somewhere nearabout here.
The cuttings from last year are doing alright andturning into juvenile plants.
January, 2012
Alrightee-o spaghettios, New year, new season. It's on !
Now that the new season has officially STARTED I'd like to take the opportunity to say all that Maya calendar gloom and doom weak shit talking can KISS MY ASS. Just relax already, nothing's gonna happen.
Besides I am ready for the global apocalypse and have taken all the neccessairy precautions as always :
hard liquor, hard hats, hard-on, and some VERY hard to find seeds ! NO WAY these Maya ass-foofs will stop me from growing :
Douglah strain 7 pod
SB7J (Scotch Bonnet x 7 Pod Jonah hybrid)
Trinidad Scorpion Douglah strain
Douglah x Trinidad Scorpion Butch T.
Bhut Choco x 7-pod yellow F2
Trinidad Douglah
Bhut Choco x 7-Pod yellow F5
Bhut x Mayan Red F3
7 Pod white hybrid F4
Bhut Choco x 7 pod Yellow F2
Bhut x Habanero Giant White F3
Pimienta de Neyde x Bhut Jolokia black variant F4
Bhut Jolokia Peach
Can you say 'Whoa, sick ass seeds' ? Damn right they are.
Second of all I'd like to express my gratitude to Grant at Junglerain for kindly sending me most of these seeds all the way from Australia.
Right on to the brother !
December 28, 2011
My buddie Juan sent over some 'rojo' seeds over from Mexico. Grass y ass hombre !This appears to be some local habanero variety that that bean-eating son of a bitch and his loco amigos eat before they have sex with pinatas on Cinco De Mayo.
I guess we'll have to wait and see whether they'll make this here Euro gringo break out a sweat, but word on the street is that they are mighty tasty.
Word on the street also is, that beer makes you fart like a sonofabitch. .
I got an assload of different seeds germinating now : Bhut jolokia, Bhut jolokia chocolate, 7-pod, 7-pod primo, Butch T, Jamaican Red, White habanero, Fatalii, and aforementioned Rojo. Plus some ordinary strains : Thai Demon F1, yellow bells and even some huge long pointy sweet and bell peppers, which are intended for future cross-pollination experiments only.
Interestingly, the Surinamese Adjuma seeds sprouted after all. I was about to give up on them. They sure took their sweet time, though. Never had luck with these before, which led me to believe the pods may have been frozen during transport. It's no biggie because this type of chilli is a dime a dozen overhere, and widely available at any Surinamese/tropical corner store.
It is a quite tasty and flavorful Chinense strain used in Surinamese cookery that packs a good habanero like punch. Nothing crazy like a habanero chocolate though. Maybe there's an idea for a whacky crossing someday.
On a lighter note the cuttings seem to be recovering from being smack dab in the middle of the perimeter of chemical death I set up 2 weeks ago.
Oh, two more Bhut seeds germinated. Yay.
Christmas 2011
Bah Humbug ! Several dozen seedlings perished almost overnight. Like 30 of them. They grew up to 1 inch then went limp and withered away. WTF. Maybe they just couldn't take it anymore. Maybe I shoulda kept them covered up and in more humid conditions before exposing them to the warmth of the lamps. They were just regular, run of the mill strains so it's no big deal. Except the Butch T.
These ones go to eleven.
To eat a Butch T willingly is to invite screaming napalm death. And I want that because I'm the shit. You just smell like it. (Shit, not napalm)
December 15, 2011
Several of the Naga and Jolokia cuttings I made last year suddenly became wilted, with the leaves all taco'd up and whatnot. Not a good sign. Now SLIPPERY WHEN WET... there's a good sign. Sure enough I found aphids AND sciara fly all over them. In abundance. And some other, crawling white little bugs. What the hell are these things ? Baby aphids ?
There I was, with a piss-hot Euroshopper beer in my hand and cold-blooded murder on my mind. I went Dr. Doom on those scuttling little bastards and sprayed them dead in a non-stop orgy of insecticide death. Fuck you, aphids. Another battle in the war between man and bug was won, but it was just a small one, and these assholes are sure to return later after they marshalled up reenforcements.
