Bhut Jolokia - Last Update Until Next Year

futuremind in #esteem • 4 years ago

Greetings Steemians,

Some of you might have been following along with my pepper plant journey.

I was fortunate enough to acquire a bhut jolokia (ghost pepper) plant over the summer, and did my absolute best to nurture and care for it.

I was successful with this endeavor, and produced some 1 million scoville peppers, which ultimately my plan was to do the ghost pepper challenge.

That was my first post on @threespeak, and thankfully I owned that challenge like a boss. I was going to upload no matter how it went, and really I want to experience something even hotter than these. Next summer I might try to get some Carolina Reapers. Not sure yet, but I have some plans.

So anyway, enough rambling.

After a little research on how to care for a pepper plant during the winter, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I could put the plant into hibernation!

Awesome! So now I'll be able to grow some more of these next year, and I might need to re-pot it into something bigger as well, but we'll worry about that when the time comes. This is the current state of my bhut jolokia:

As you can see, it's now sleeping, but still very green and healthy!

How about a semi-macro shot?

Indeed, bhut is very healthy, and even though pepper plants are asexual as far as I know, this plant feels female to me, I'm not sure why, but that's just the vibe I get, what do you all think? :)

Some of my green thumb friends might also notice the exposed roots. I'm well aware, and will take care of this next year. For now it's in a dark closet and I know it won't be an issue.

Here's what bhut looked like over the summer:

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Not bad for growing in a coffee container! :)

In other news...

My succulents are under infestation currently with gnats. I think they are a "mold/fungus gnat", but unfortunately for them, my plants can go a long time without water, so I'm combating with refraining from watering. About a week without a watering and I notice the population has come down drastically, another 3 weeks I'm guessing we should be good. I know my plants will survive because I love them so much. I'll be taking some photos of them as well in the near future and sharing.

Photography by futuremind with Samsung WB100

Thank you all for stopping by. I hope you're having a wonderful day!

Much love,
@futuremind

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jerrytsuseer 4 years ago

I love plants, but so far in the last few years I've not been in a location
Where I could try food plants.
I DO have a friend with a garden, and I now live not too far from her.
I doubt she would appreciate any cross pollination between a
Super hot pepper and any of her bells, chili or jalapenos.
Many years ago, my mother planted bell peppers almost
Alongside cherry peppers and hot chili peppers.
The resulting fruits of the bells and cherry were hotter
Than they should have been.
Who knew? We did then. Also, she had arranged for
A load of pure chicken compost (raising chickens
In long factory houses is big business down
Where I am from, so their droppings are
Problematic to dispose of. That may
Have been a factor.) I've been
Cautiously adventurous with
Habanero peppers; don't
Like the heat THAT
Much, so I'll stick
With my Poblano
And Jalapeno.

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futuremind 4 years ago

Cross pollination can definitely cause "super breeds" to occur. When I was a young lad I experienced a habanero that was far hotter than it should have been. In fact I'm pretty sure it was hotter than these ghost peppers were. It could just seem that way because I was not used to hot peppers at the time..

I'm working on an indoor greenhouse. I'm going to check out some LED lights. I just found out that they are much cheaper than they were years ago, and apparently they are awesome for indoor growing :)

Thank you for your thoughtful comment Jerry :)

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jerrytsuseer 4 years ago

I don't know about LED Grow lights, but LED light strips are very
reasonable. Rather than put up with the BUZZZZ of the overhead
fluorescents, I put one $15 strip over my sink and another
Over my stove

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futuremind 4 years ago

Yes, LED are an inexpensive, energy efficient, excellent solution for indoor plants.
I picked up 3 of these just a short while ago. No post today, I'm very busy tonight :)

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jerrytsuseer 4 years ago

Enjoy.

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jerrytsuseer 4 years ago

I just saw this, and I couldn't resist
Please laugh and don't be offended Jake

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futuremind 4 years ago

I'm not offended at all Jerry! That is funny 😂
That sounds about right, I'm always eating extremely hot stuff! 😂

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elianaelisma 4 years ago

Hello @futuremind, I'm glad to see that your cayenne pepper is already bearing fruit. But the results are certainly a little because you planted them in pots. Why don't you plant it on a large area, sir. Have a great day, sir.

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futuremind 4 years ago

Hi miss @elianaelisma,
I hope you are well today.
Yes I agree this plant would do better in a larger pot. It is tough for me to garden because it can be expensive, and I cannot grow outdoors because there are many thieves around here, and wild animals that ruin plants.
I'm working on an indoor greenhouse to produce better plants. This will take time and patience.

Have a great day miss.

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owasco 4 years ago

haha you got a million peppers! Good luck with overwintering your plant.
I had a gnat problem on plants once, and I put small dishes (metal jar lids really) with apple cider vinegar on each post near the stem. The gnats drown themselves in it.

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futuremind 4 years ago

Hi @owasco,
The overwintering is proving to be a rather painless process. Luckily this plant was not near the others and didn't get infected. It needs just a light watering here and there, but it's plenty comfortable right now, I'm sure :)

I found the main infestation, (which was just one plant really, and unfortunately they killed the mother plant, which I did save some clippings from and am in cloning process currently.) and with the others, sprinkled a small bit of cinnamon atop the soil. I'm seeing zero adult gnats currently. I also upgraded my lighting system to LED full spectrum red/blue (which I read gnats don't like too much as well) and everything is going great.

I am going to be making a post within the next day or two updating the status of my little garden.

I needed to take a bit of a break from Steem and tend to some real life things for the past couple of days lol.

I really appreciate the advice, and might need to utilize it soon, as I'm planning to grow some vegetables as well. It's nice to have this here as a resource. Your kind words and advice are very much appreciated, thank you so much! :)

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