I dont mean to be rude here....but i find it near impossible to believe a bhut grew that much and set pods in 2 months

i agree. bhut's are some of the slowest growing chile's on the planet.

Bought seeds in early Feb, seedlings started emerging late Feb and placed them in these 18 gallon self watering container on March 31st. Growth may be due to using mostly coconut coir and moss for the soil with lots of MG tomatoe food. Started out slowly in April but with heat of May, its grown faster then my tomatoes.

The other pic/peppers I got from rdback seed giveway which arrive in early April, so these are 2 months behind the Bhuts.

Did you make yourself those rubbermaid containers? how do they work?

stefano

Yes about a 20min job. These are simply self watering containers that does a good job of keeping all nutrients within the container and keeps plants from being overwatered.

Plenty of links on google on how to make your own.

Plants are looking great kewlaid. Keep up the good work!

Rick

Jeez can you say peppers on 'roids! SWC makes everything grow super fast. I used them for 70% of my crops. Last year I had an Italian Roasting pepper plant that grow so much in them that by August the poor thing was had a serious gangsta lean because it was so loaded with fruit. While my jalapeno in a traditional pot grew slowly and the fruit avg. 1 1/2 inches only.

Im sorry as I am new what is SWC?

self watering container?

There are several DIY self-watering container designs out there. Below is a link to the EarthTainer that I designed a few years ago. Seems to work great on Peppers, Tomatoes, Corn, Snow Peas.

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Raybo

Here is a link that might be useful: EarthTainer link

I am so jealous of you guys. SWC are the shiat.

Just an update to the peppers, one month later

Bhut
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Other peppers
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Your Bhut's look nice. Mine are nowhere as productive as yours.
My most productive hot pepper is Lemon Drop. It is loaded with
peppers, so glad I planted one.

I've collected about 40 Bhut pods so far. But at the moment, all my peppers have kinda stopped setting fruit. Blossom drop due to 95-100F daily highs and constant rain. Hopefully things cool down a bit.

This thread has convinced me to give earthtainers a try. Damn, those look great. My bhuts, out since late April, are only about 10" tall now.

Those put my Bhut to shame, too....

Nice plants, Kewlaid!

Josh

Rnewste, are those cages in the pic containing peppers home-built? I've never seen any like that.

Holy SmOKES!!!! Those aren't Pepper plants. Those are Pepper Trees. GEES!

Can you give us a breakdown of exactly what you use again to make them grow fast like that?

mw chilihead,

I was able to adapt a Pea Fence from gurneys.com, where the 6 panels just wrapped around the inside of the 31 gallon Rubbermaid SWC perfectly. In fact, in the photo below I have stacked one on top of another secured with zip ties, as these Pepper plants are going crazy this year:

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Gurneys runs a $25.00 off coupon deal regularly, so if you catch it right, these Pea Fences are a pretty good deal.

Raybo

naturalstuff ->

there's not much formal setup for the bhuts:

1) started them indoors in feb in those cheap jiffy peat pellet greenhouses kit
2) transplanted them into 2x2"? black plastic containers
3) waited for weather to warm up and took 4 of the peppers and transplated them into these simple swc. mixture of mostly coconut coir, peat, perlite, and some bark. nothing scientific and didnt measure how much went into the mix.
4) topped it off with a 10-10-10 fertilizer (cheapest that I could fine at walmart)

Had a buddy come over this past weekend to do a bhut test.
large 3" pepper, 5 mins without any liquid.
He ended up with $230 from everyone donating and he did last the 5 mins. But promptly threw up entire stomach content after that.

latest July pod collection

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My Bhut's are growing great!
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My Bhuts are starting to grow.
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Thanks for the heads up on the earthtainers. Interresting concept. A little expensive to set up, but they do look to be a sound investment.

hubris,

I designed the EarthTainers for folks who lived in Condos or wanted to use deck space for urban gardening. To be sure, if you have plenty of dirt, by all means, utilize it. If you are like this poor bugger who lives in a Condo, then the cost is somewhat secondary:

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Raybo

I love the concept. I think it's fantastic. Currently my garden is 1800 square feet with the whole thing mulched in black plastic and irrigated with irrigro tubing. That being said, i still think i might make a half dozen of these to try out. I might try doing melons in a few. That would allow me to grow melons on a half acre in the back of my property without worrying about root competition with the grass.
Thanks again.

hubris,

Not exactly melons, but cukes do quite well in EarthTainers:

These are Diva cukes:

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These Burpee Burpless came in at 17 inches and at 28 ounces:

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Raybo

kewlaid,

Can you post an updated pic of your bhuts planted in the 18gl SWC on March 31st. I hope they are still doing well.

Thanks,

Ron