great job. you done awesome fellow pepper head, the ghost are my favorite'

Kypepperman, thank you for the nice words. I like the ghost most too.

The credibility of these plants goes to Al Tapla, without his container gardening education we cannot do it. Many of our forum members also giving us a lot of tips, advice and opinions they are really great contributors too, that made us to do our job easier.

Thank you everyone, I'll update time to time.

Caelian

Caelian,
Those are not only beautiful plants, but also wonderful pics. Your plants are light years ahead of mine. You must have 2 green thumbs!

Tim

Tim,
Thank you for the compliment. Most of the tips from the GW we used. The rest are the nature takes care, they have a perfect climatic condition.

I hope your plants will be fine soon.

Good luck

Caelian

Awesome peppers, Caelian!

Djole

Nice plants and fruit. Right now the only ones I have fruiting are my annuums. My Lemon Drops are just bushes, not even any buds. Very nice.
Pam

Excellent results! :-)

Josh

Nice looking pepper plants!!

Thank you all for the nice compliments, it is really motivating to us.
How we started:

They have grown like aquatic plants :-) dumping off but we found on time. The first soil we used was so called peat moss. You see the sign of green moss in the containers :( it was cause by damping off, I think.

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We repotting again in the new soil (loam and paddy husk mixed). We got a great result. We were looking for raw potting soil mix and we tried over baked brick:
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The brick is too hard to break but we use some of them. All these big plants have grown in soil recipe of loam soil, brick and paddy husk.

In March 2013 we did not know what is going to happen to our damping off seedlings and now we knew that. We are very happy to see the result and she is also happy:

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The roof (the building) is under construction after finished we have plan for a mew set up for rise bed and container made from bamboo.

This is our first introduction of container gardening, when we started, by cutting, breaking and holing the buckets people thought we were crazy, now they are talking about our plants and they would like to buy it.

Still I keep saying without the Garden Web we cannot grow a single chili plant in a container successfully. All the tips and tricks were from here. We have a lot of raw materials for container gardening but people do no utilize it.

We sincerely appreciate all of your contribution to grow our plants successfully, thank you.

Caelian

Caelian, you keep saying "We" in your posts. You might have said it already and i might have missed it, but may i ask, who is "We", i mean who are you growing your peppers with? Im just curious.

Cheers,
Djole

Djole, I am gardening with my friend :-) she has some problems to join the forum. We started our project since November 2012.

Here:
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We have been trying to introduce container gardening by using available materials.

Thank you for the questions.

Caelian

beautiful plants, and novel use of available materials. you make me feel like an amateur (well, to be fair I am one).

That's Denmark ?

Thank you Judo for the nice words. Abnorm thank you for the question. My friend lives in NorthEast India. Most of the people there do not have enough knowledge of container gardening. So the GW is the source of our knowledge of container gardening.

Caelian

I love your enthusiasm Caelian, and it's awesome to see that you are successful in what you are doing so passionately. What makes it even nicer is to have someone to share it with (things both good and bad), and someone who appreciates it. On that matter, how old are you anyways? And are those lovely peppers we see in your pictures in India or in Denmark? :)
I remember your posts and questions from the time when you joined the forum. You've really learned a lot from then.

Best of luck to You and your friend!

Djole

Djole, thank you for your questions, it is not in Denmark, there is no possibility to do roof top gardening here. I supposed to continue the old thread and I was thinking to use only the pictures so I started a new thread. My age :) I am very old, that's why I behave like a kid.

The old thread is here.

Here is a link that might be useful: Old thread

Great looking plants!!

So my theorycrafting of the warming effects of North Atlantic Current on the climate in Denmark allowing you to start peppers a lot earlier and thus have peppers reach considerable size even though it's only the beginning of June goes to waste now with that explanation :)
Your age comes as a surprise too. You don't behave like a kid, you just have the verve of someone you'd expect to be in early 20s, which is a very positive thing by all means :)

Cheers,
Djole

Djole, it is nice to have this conversation. I think it is possible to have early fruits, two of my plants with a lot of flowers I have lost in sunburn.

My lost scorpion, March 20, 2013 picture:

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My lost Ghost picture of 24 February 2013:

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Today's picture my first Scorpion pod:

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Today's picture here (square containers are 6.8 gallon):
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Caelian

Well, you sure took the information here and adapted it to great success!

Tsheets, thank you for the post.

I have learned as much as I can and tweak it according to my environment and use it to success.

Caelian

Caelian, it is possible, but it's not very practical :)
Here's a photo of my habanero, taken 2 days ago. It was overwintered, but not in the typical manner - since it was a late plant in 2012 and didn't manage to make fruit before the end of the season and cold weather, i took it inside and only lightly pruned it throughout the winter.

Djole, nice pods, it looks like habanero tree but I am not sure.

If we would like to grow something out of regular practice then we have to take the responsibilities otherwise it would not be practical.

I think under a control environment chili can grow and yield without consideration of the season. Growing chili without a green house in cold climate like here would be a real challenge.

I am new and do not have much experiences. What I have found and what I do have been trying to share with the forum. Somebody may think it is waste of time to read what I have written. I am a new chili enthusiast I love to share whatever I have done positive or negative. Sometimes just I enjoy to upload new pictures :-) .

My first Rocoto De Seda pod:

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Caelian

Grow with passion :-)

New experiences: Rot at the end of the pod:

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Dropping:

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Ghost Brown:

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Rooftop Garden:
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Caelian

Google Blossom end rot. Usually calcium deficiency or something maybe pH causing issues with uptake of nutrients.

Great thread and information and nice to see pics of all your plants this season.

Mark

Mark, thank you for your compliment and opinion.

It could be calcium deficiency and pH related. It has been found after applied a new soluble powder fertilizer.

I have been Googling for information about this problems since it has been found. I also found this information, "Fruit rot results from infection by fungi, bacteria, or abiotic disorders". Now available fungicide and homemade remedies has been applied. The result is not yet known but there is no deterioration. The plants have been isolated to quarantine.

I did not upload all the pictures before. This one is Aji Amarillo, I have suspicion of possible disease. The skin has some spots and as a first time grower it is not easy to identify the problems.

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Caelian

Salt buildup from fertilizers used can also cause nutrient uptake problems. Maybe the new fertilizer powder is causing salt buildup? Let us know how you do with fixing the issue.

Mark

Updates:

Scorpion Moruga Blend Yellow and 7 Pod Brain Strain in 7 gl.
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Caelian

Updates:
Wild chili C.chacoense:

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Caelian

Updates:

7 Pod Brain Strain

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Caelian

Great stuff!!!! Keep up the hard work and have fun!

Beautiful!

Josh

Thank you all for your nice words.

Caelian

This post was edited by chilliwin on Sat, Jun 15, 13 at 7:49

The pictures tell the story:

Sick Ghost Red 17 December 2012

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19 December 2012:

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02 January 2013:

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09 March 2013 re-potted to the small containers:
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02 June 2013:
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More than 6 months I have been trying fix the problem. Now these two plants spread disease to the others. To save the others and space I closed their story from my Garden: :-(

14 June 2013

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Caelian

There is nothing to learn from this thread, it is just an effort to grow some healthy plants by the beginners who has lack of knowledge of container gardening.

Caelian

My wild chili got accident :-(

C.Chaocoense 18th June 2013:

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May be it works, one of my Rocotos had the same same accident. I gave the same treatment, now she is getting pods and she is also the first producing pods Rocoto for me.

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Rocoto March 27, 2013

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Got injured on March 31, 2013:

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June 18, 2013

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Caelian

Updates:

7 Pod Brain Strain Red but it does not look like 7 Pod :-( may be too young to show her nice curves.

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Caelian

Lemon Drops Twin pod:

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Caelian

7 Pod Brain Strain, one peduncle two flowers.
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This season ants are the best pollinators for me.

Caelian