Today I took the nice and ripe penis pepper off the plant and did a photo shoot. I think this is the winner:

And I proudly present to you, my first ripe completely LED grown chili! The peter penis shape is not as I hoped for but nevertheless I think this is a cool one.

Doctor: Well, that means that it is possible to grow chilli under LED light my son!

Doctor: Although, I have to say, this is one strange looking penis you’ve got there

I guess these peter penis peppers really like my leds, the first one didn’t grow that much in length anymore but got a bit thicker, and the small second one you saw on earlier pics, well, look for yourself!

The ajoema plant is also going pretty good. It started making flower buds a while back but none got a real flower. I guess it’s not ready yet. But, I’m not in a hurry and just let it do its thing!

So look at that, about a week further and it is starting to look like a chili!

And some others are starting to grow as well.

I couldn’t really believe it, some weeks ago I saw some flower buds appearing on the peter penis pepper. It was only under the 4 ultra blue bright LEDs. When I noticed the buds I also put some red light on it and a couple of days later the first flower came out. I pollinated it with my finger and another couple of days later the petal leaves started to shrivel up and you could see the little chili butt appearing.

Also some other flowers coming out. I really hope that this one stays on!

And when I had a look at the ajoema today, I saw it also made a flower bud. The plant is still relatively small, but this is cool I think. I will also leave this one on and just have a look what the plant is going to do with it. Normally you would take those early buds off to let the plant spent all the energy in getting a bit bigger but I wonder what it’s going to do with this one ( too small plants also drop their flowers )

It’s been a while, unfortunately, I cannot say I got fruit (yet). I have mostly been struggling with keeping the temperature up. Since my room is not good isolated at all it tends to get fairly cold here during the nights. The growth in the plants decreased and I’m not sure what the exact reason is. My conclusions so far are that giving your plants a head start for the season is very good possible with these LED’s. But I’m not sure if flowering and fruiting will work out. (with the setup I’m using at the moment)

For now I just leave the plants under the light, and have a look how they end up. I also came across some 130.000mcd blue LED’s which are incredibly bright. I made a kind of private solarium for a seedling using 4 of these 130.000mcd LED’s.

I place this old coffee can over the seedling giving it a huge amount of light. And it seems to work out pretty good. The plan with these new plants is giving a head start for comming season. I have one peter penis pepper and one ajoema growing:

I decided that it was getting a bit crowded in the little box so took out 2 plants. Now having only 3 left they have a bit more space.

Last week I turned around the tray because I saw the front ones were going better than the back ones. For the pic I changed back:

It’s always amazing to see how much they grow in a week, especially when you’re not home to have sneak peaks during the week. So this is what you get when you light plants 24/7 with LED light (for 9 weeks). Setup is still 8 red, 44 blue. Last week I gave the plants a bit of Chilli Focus, which is supposed to be the best nutrient for Chilli. The middle one where I pinched out the top last week also recovered good.