Very excited to see a little sprout on day 9! I'm growing Chinese 5 Color Peppers. I picked this variety for their heat and curb appeal. They're 30,000-50,000 Scoville Units and change colors as they ripen from purple, cream, yellow, orange, to red.

These first two images were from 4days ago...


After a little pruning and picking some peppers (maybe prematurely picked, but still tasty) ... Pepe has exploded throughout the BLOOM. Pictures from today after his water change.

There are tons of flowers and the peppers just keep growing in. Every where I look, there’s a pepper!

Here’s a pic of some of our harvest from over the weekend. Some peppers were SO spicy, I had to run for the milk, whereas others were very mild and tasted like miniature bells. I’m definitely going to let them ripen longer before picking the next round, but overall I’m very happy with the taste and spice level. I see tons of homemade hot sauce in my future!

@DJ Not seeing any signs of sex yet. Unfortunately, you may have to wait a little longer to tell as it is hard to determine during veg stage. Keep us all posted with new photos and hopefully we'll be able to tell sooner than later.

@JT Says that it can grow up to 4 ft. tall. I am starting to see more and more stretching every day and it's beginning to see some flowers!

Pepe actually seems to be coming back to life over the last few days. I did a major prune and really trimmed off most of the right side where we accidentally snapped a main branch. The left side is thriving again and I'm seeing a ton of little purple and yellow peppers throughout the plant!

More peppers have come in over the last fews days and I'm starting to see a lot of new flowers as well. I've been more adamant about pollinating the flowers every day and it seems to be paying off. I typically just shake the branches a few times to "pollinate".

The peppers are also changing colors and growing larger. Apparently they get spicier as a they change colors, so I'm definitely going to make some hot sauce to be able to "control" the heat.

Has anybody made their own hot sauce before? I'd love to get some tips on how to do it!

Started some Lilac Bell Peppers from seed about 10 days ago and 2 little seeds finally sprouted!

Going to let the bigger one get a little stronger before snipping the smaller one. Excited to see how this plant does for Grow #2 in my BLOOM!

Hey Bloomer's! Helping @DaiSugi-2 out with a recipe for an OJ Kush Hybrid from a live plant.

You can use the same recipe from @HenHennesy's grow, without the need to input the Germination Stage.
Additionally, I would suggest changing the "Veg" stage to only 10 days. @Gr0w3r @HenHennesy @I_like_plants, does that match up with your experience so far?

They only grow to about an inch (cone shaped) and apparently get hotter with each color change. Very intrigued by these!

Video: Deciding which one of the two seedlings to keep...

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Clipped one out, not too tough of a decision because I think they both would have flourished. Debating whether or not to move to stage 3 tomorrow, which will bump my PPM up to 800.

Results are in! After drying in the BLOOM for about 6 days and curing in the jars for about 5... I weighed out 9.6 ounces!! We also saved the trim and some of the smallest nugs so that we can make hash down the line, so that is not included in the weight. Not wasting anything and it's smelling pretty awesome! Very happy with how this turned out and to be able to grow so much in only 3 months time is incredible.

Before drying in the BLOOM, me and a few friends did a wet trim. There was a lot to trim, so i'd recommend recruiting some help :)

You can use the trellis to hang the branches on but this time I just attached some string to the provided suction cup hooks and used hangers.

@the-green-thumb Nice job pruning and training!

@omacoder the carbon filters do a pretty good job hiding the odor, but I happen to have an external carbon filter that I use as well.

Well, thought I'd try to grow a Sativa-dominant hybrid in the bloom. Since sativa's are usually taller and more scraggly than indica's... I thought this might be a bit of a challenge. Thankfully, I did some reading on the forum and got some great help.

This strain is called Slazerbeam and I started from a feminized seed. It's a cross between Super Lemon Haze and Gupta Kush.

I'm skipping to the good picture first, then I'll go back in time and share some of my tricks that helped this strain thrive in the bloom:

Today 11/30: Been flushing for 4 days now. Trichomes were still a little white, but I figured the middle of the plant was ready. If 60% or so of the plant is showing milky trichomes, then it's time to flush. Best to have a microscope on hand to check these or a really good camera.

11/17:

11/5 and 11/4: The one really tall branch was getting close, so I eventually took a suction cup and string to pull the branch down lightly towards the side. Doing this would avoid burning the top of the cola on the top lights.

Buds were beginning to fill in nicely and I was able to prune a few of the bigger fan leaves to make trimming a little easier later on.

10/27:

10/19 Before Pruning:

10/19 After Pruning. The fan leaves were HUGE! So it's important to prune them often. This will allow light to penetrate the rest of the plant and allow the plant to take in nutrients where it really matters - the bud sites:

10/13 Before pruning:

10/13 After Pruning and training:

I gently pulled some of the branches through various spots inside and outside of the trellis.

10/2: This was a big day! Plant was starting to shoot out pistols, which tells me it was definitely a female.

I also flipped it to flower a few days after the pruning.

Before pruning:

After Pruning & Training. The training might seem aggressive, but it worked out! Bending the plants spreads the branches out and allows each of the branches to get more light. I wanted to make the most out of the space in the bloom and this would allow more surface area for buds to develop later on.

9/24 Last couple days in veg stage. Still loving those huge fan leaves, but they had to go:

9/17 First Topping! You want 4-5 nodes before topping. The inner nodal spacing in the bloom tends to be shorter, which is great news for keeping your plants an appropriate size:

Looks like you picked a good one! Can't wait to see how she does

Hi @pdxbloom. Relative humidity in your area could slow down the rate of drying. To combat this, you can try to increase the temperature a few degrees. This should kick on the exhaust fans more often to begin to pull some of the humidity out.

It's pretty dry in my area so would love to know how this goes!

@growguy That's some pretty good advice. I let mine get too tall before switching to flower and it's getting prettty close to the lights. I'm excited to see how this does since you're switching much earlier than I did. Going to keep following your posts!

Thanks for the tips

@gr0w3r Looks tasty, I can see some nice big buds in that jar! Impressive!

@pdxbloom Looking nice and milky, I would wait another few days before flushing as well.