This is the start of my yearly garden, decided to document the process from seedlings to harvest this year. By August the balcony will have just enough room for only one person to walk out. Luckily I have a very large south facing balcony that gets direct sun from sunrise to sunset.
Most of these are potted in 3 gallon containers, but I will also put about 25 different seedlings in 5 gallon grow bags. I get a very decent harvest from the 3 gallon pots every year, and they get fairly nice sized, but thought I'd try the 5 gallon bags. I have multiple seedlings of each pepper type. When everything is all planted up should have about 65 plants. Previously I did 53 plants maximum do this is pretty ambitious. About half are nursery bought and the other half are from seed and started out in Dixie cups. Ive decided to experiment on some double potting and some different container sizing.
I also have about 5 different tomatoes varieties on the go too, those are definitely from nursery.
Varieties:
Thai Dragon
Jalapeno
Cayenne
Ristra Cayenne ii
Gator Jigsaw
Habanero Orange
Habanero Red
Super Chilli Red
Red Ghost Pepper
Purple Peach Ghost
Peach Ghost
Carolina Reaper
Leviathan Scorpion Red
Trinidad Scorpion Red
Chocolate Moruga Scorpion
Wiri Wiri Yellow
Devil's Tongue Yellow
Brain Strain Red
Golden 7 Pot Primo
Bishops Crown
Sriracha
Will upload a video of progress every month. Thanks for stopping by! Any unsolicited advice is appreciated!
by SOMAVORE
2 Comments
Always fun to see other balcony growers setup, yours will definitely get very busy in a few weeks and you have a very wide and interesting variety. We still have about two weeks to go before they can safely go outside around here, I am doing the most I’ve ever done on my balcony this summer with about 20-22 plants with a mix of Blood ghost, leviathan scorpion, trinidad moruga scorpion, bhut jolokia, sugar rush stripey, white scorpions, orange habaneros and jalepenos. All started from seeds except the jalapenos which I always get from a nursery.
Happy growing 🌶️

Beautiful I’m envious! Hope to see updates!