in today's video we're going to be doing a giveaway of a brand new led grow light this
thing is pretty cool we're also going to be weighing my pumpkin to see if I managed to
beat my record from last year and of course we're going to be taking a look around at
my chilli's
my name is Shaun, also known as ChilliChump and I absolutely love growing chillies if
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those things.
let's start off by taking a quick look around my greenhouses and see how my chillis have
been getting on it is getting to the end of the season now so there's quite a few ripe
peppers actually so there's something to see but it definitely is starting to slow down
let's get inside the small greenhouse first and see what's going on in there i've just
come back from holiday we spent a few days out in the lake district and it was good fun
nice to get out for a bit but I did look forward to coming back and checking in on my plants
this time of season is typically when things are starting to ripen up and i've already
done quite a few harvests but we still have a lot of new ripe peppers here so we're going
to take a look at a few of my plants and see how they have been doing the first plant we'll
have a look at is this one it's the thunder mountain longhorn and I just love these peppers
I am certainly saving some seeds from this and we'll be growing them on again next year
because just check out those peppers we can see that these things are huge I don't know
if you can really tell on the camera but that's more than the length of my hand and there's
even longer ones than that um they take quite a while to ripen they seem to take ages for
the last little bit so this one here is ripe but right at the end there we can see that
it's still quite green but won't be long before that's fully ripe i've already isolated a
few so i'll make sure that I can grow them on next year but quite an interesting plant
and there will be a checking out chilli's episode coming with this plant because it's
actually quite an interesting tasting one too this is one I was particularly interested
in checking out as soon as I got home this is my peri-peri cross lemon drop and you would
have seen an episode of that recently i'll put a link up above and you can see there's
quite a few new ripe peppers on there and of course I have a few isolated that have
come through quite nicely up there so this plant is doing really well i'm still contemplating
whether I will overwinter it or not um I don't really see the point as long as I get some
isolated seeds from this then i'm going to be growing on for the next season but if I
didn't manage to get these ones up here in particular to ripen up and actually get some
viable seeds then yeah it might make sense to hold on to this plant for a little bit
longer but it's more than two years old now so I think it's almost time for it to retire
but it's done really well and it is looking still very healthy and yeah the next generation
is certainly going to be quite interesting this one is the CGN19198 it's one of the ChilliChump
seed kit plants and i've really enjoyed growing it how have you guys been getting on with
it because it's something it's it's not the most impressive in terms of size or even the
size of the chillis themselves they're tiny little chillies but i've enjoyed growing them
they're pretty little flowers these purple little flowers here and uh tiny tiny peppers
I don't know if I can find some ripe ones here i've been harvesting a heck of a lot
of these so there's a one of the ripe ones but i've been harvesting quite a lot of them
and i've been saving a lot of seeds uh talking of which I will actually be selling seeds
starting at the end of this year it will not be the biggest selection this year just because
of the challenges i've faced with my growing season but yeah there will be some coming
on the market and I will be doing a lot more next year but these will be one of them that
will be on the market so keep an eye out for that i'll make sure to announce it in my newsletter
so make sure that you subscribe to that this is a plant i've actually been quite impressed
with it's the first time i've grown it it's the red crystal spike and it's just prolific
i've already harvested twice off this like pretty big harvest i've saved quite a bit
of seeds and certainly again another one i'll be growing next year but these are interesting
tasting chillies as well and I think there are a few sources I want to try with them
but I will be doing a checking out chilli's episode on it and i'll give a bit more detail
there's actually a few plants in my greenhouses that I need to do checking out chilli's episode
before the end of the season but this will be one of them and yeah it's uh it's a lovely
plant it's quite compact but yeah just so many chillies coming off it so yeah quite
impressed with that maybe it's a uh possibility for a cross with a certain other chilli that
I have we will see I have picked my competition poblano and weighed it and I will reveal that
on the video where I reveal who the winner is of the poblano competition spoiler alert
it is not me you guys have grown some beasts that i've seen submitted but don't be intimidated
if you have got a poblano that you've grown this year and you want to enter in the competition
you still have some time I will leave a link down below for you to enter that but uh yeah
i'm not going to be winning this year still got to do it still got to do it we're still
going to have another competition next year um i've got a few ideas of a couple competitions
actually but i'll reveal that a little bit later before we head on over to the large
greenhouse I wanted to point out something these here are my ibc containers I have quite
a few of them collecting water off my greenhouses I use that to water my plants these green
covers are to protect it from the sunlight they basically have uv protection they protect
the plastic in the ibc itself from degrading and having to replace these containers but
it also stops algae growth from inside the containers so they are quite essential the
problem is I bought cheap ones I thought these were proper oxford material but they're not
they're just cheap rubbish crap you can see at the back there how it's all torn up from
a little bit of wind so unfortunately these are just going to get thrown away and they
weren't exactly cheap I did buy them from aliexpress because I had to buy quite a few
I was trying to save a bit of money make sure that you spend a little bit more money get
the right thing so that it lasts at least a few years let's have a look at the new ones
I have which are on the other ibc's and also the same types that i'm going to be replacing
these with so all the other covers I have are this material which is quite a bit thicker
it is the oxford material I think it's 210d there are a couple different grades but this
is substantially better quality still got the metallic color lining underneath so it
is uv protective we'll see how long it lasts but it definitely feels a lot better than
those cheap green ones that I have so i've got a couple others on order they will go
and replace the green ones but yeah it is essential to have this if you just have your
ibc open to the elements then you're just going to have massive algae problems and you're
also going to damage your ibc so either get a cover or spray paint it or something like
that I did consider the spray painting option but that was that was even more expensive
than these covers the greenhouse is finally completed this large greenhouse has been a
real pain one of the most frustrating experiences of my life uh watch the couple other episodes
that i've put up around the build of this greenhouse I will be putting up one more episode
of that series just to show the final completed thing but uh yeah highly frustrating experience
it's really set my season back which is why the plants in here are not as healthy looking
or as productive or as large as the ones in the other greenhouse because I had to wait
so long before I could actually pot them up because of how long this greenhouse took to
build anyway enough of that we've got some pumpkins to weigh and we've got a giveaway
to talk about so let's go away some pumpkins and see if i've managed to beat my record
from last year these are atlantic giant pumpkins they are some of the largest pumpkins in the
world not not these specific ones but yeah these ones are nowhere near the size of some
of the record holders but they grow massive they are very impressive and I would suggest
growing them if you like growing pumpkins that sort of thing those aren't my contenders
these here aren't either these are just run-of-the-mill pumpkins this guy over here is my contender
and i'm hoping i'm going to beat my record from last year last year I grew up pumpkin
that weighed in at 17.09 kilograms or 37.68 pounds and I really want to beat that this
year i'm a very competitive person so yeah let's see let's see how much this weighs i'm
going to use my luggage scale again this guy over here I just need to zero it out because
i'm going to put the pumpkin in here to weigh
my scale is not big enough for this thing so yeah use the luggage scale so we're just
going to zero that out
there we go.
so the basket and the rope weighs about a kilogram
uh
and now the moment of truth let's see what we have please be bigger than 17.09
okay
ah I need a better scale but that is 19.18 kilograms I am very pleased with that let
me get this back up over there but yeah that's 19.18 kilograms and I am super happy that
i'm able to get a bigger pumpkin than I had last year now I just need to try and get an
even bigger one next year be nice to break 20 kilograms next year so yeah I am really
pleased with that have you grown any pumpkins this year what sort of size have you done
have you managed to get bigger than 19 kilogram actually I don't know if I want to ask that
because i'll be very upset if you guys have grown bigger pumpkins but let me know in the
comments below if you have grown something uh even if it's smaller it doesn't matter
let me know the biggest pumpkin that you've grown this year maybe we'll do a bit of a
fun competition next year so you can grow the biggest pumpkin but yeah i'll be growing
them again next year but yeah 19 kilogram pretty happy with that let's go and take a
look at what we are giving away today this here is the xs 1500 from our friends at viparspectra
they have some pretty great grow lights and actually go check out their youtube channel
they have some interesting videos on there talking about grow lights and things like
that but i'll link that down below in the description but let's open this up I haven't
actually had a look at this yet I love opening up new gadgets and toys and it is torture
having to hold out to show you guys so I hope you appreciate it
let's have a look what's in here so this is the light we will be giving away or not the
specific one i'm actually going to be using this i'll be testing this out myself I have
quite a few grow lights now and i'll be able to do pretty good testing with them the leds
on here are from samsung they're the lm301b and they're obviously decent quality coming
from samsung it also uses the meanwell driver I believe which is a really good quality driver
but actually I think the vast majority of the ones I have have meanwell drivers oh straight
away I love that that quality so I have talked about bypass spectra in the past the one thing
I really like about it obviously in our grow rooms we have a lot of humidity a lot of water
all over the place and it's important to make sure that your grow lights can handle that
this year has a rubberised coating so it's difficult to explain but if you feel this
is like a rubber glove the the gloves you'd use to wash up dishes that sort of thing a
bit rubberised but I really like that it's a really good touch like I said the meanwhile
driver it is dimmable which again I think is essential on lights these days especially
with how powerful these can be this is 150 watts but been able to go down to five percent
all the way up to 100 and that's quite useful because obviously during the early stage of
growing you don't want too much light because the seedlings can't handle it so you can either
move this away from the seedlings or leave it in the same position and just turn it down
let's see what else is in the box we have a plug it's just a kettle lead this is for
uk the specific one but it will come with whatever your local region is talking of which
the giveaway unfortunately is only for the usa canada europe australia and the uk so
that's usa canada europe australia and the uk so apologies for anyone that's not in those
regions but that's all that we're able to actually send these out to you will get a
brand new one exactly the same as what I have here see what else it has in the box uh these
are hangers which obviously clip in on the side of the light and then we have these which
are adjustable to take it up and down if you're considering a grow light have a look at viparspectra
you know i'm not saying it's better than some of the other brands that are out there but
it's certainly one to consider when you are looking at buying a light i'm really excited
to try this out I will be doing a heck of a lot of videos around grow lights over the
next few months because I have quite a few from different brands uh different sizes and
i'll be testing them all out i'll be doing as much of a scientific test as I possibly
can and also you know we're going to be growing some plants under them so we'll see how they
perform to enter the competition make sure that you are in the usa canada europe australia
or the uk and leave a comment down below this video saying show me the light so SHOW ME
THE LIGHT and uh you'll be in with chance for the drawing I will be doing the drawing
probably at the end of the month at my next live stream so make sure you check that out
as well so you can find out whether you've won this or not and also go show go show viparspectra
a bit of love check out their youtube channel and also their facebook page uh they're very
kind to be able to send me this light obviously for my own uses and testing but also to send
one out to one of you guys for this competition i'm not gonna go and look at individual plants
in my large greenhouse to be honest it's rather depressing in here at the moment these plants
I know should be at least twice maybe even three times the size that they are they should
definitely be a lot healthier than they are some of them have died as you can see in that
corner over there and some of them are quite sickly like the ones right over here it's
just not nice to see and the thing is I know why it's happened next year is going to be
a completely different story I will talk about it a little bit more in the next garden update
video I will have more time to sit down and actually chat through my season properly and
just break down some of the things that have gone on some of the successes and failures
but let's just say potting up at the right time is hugely important when you have a short
season like we do in the uk and many other places around the world but anyway there's
a quick look at some of my plants
anyway next year completely different story and we'll definitely have a jungle in here
before we finish up this video I wanted to share some exciting news we have finalized
the varieties that will be in the ChilliChump seed kit for 2022 and there are some awesome
varieties in there a couple were a bit touch and go whether we'll be able to get them but
they are very much sought after and i'm sure you guys are gonna love it so I'll be announcing
that next week i'm hoping in the early part of next week otherwise it'll be towards the
later part so keep an eye out for that video and uh yeah i'm excited to grow some of these
varieties myself thank you so much for watching this video I hope that you enjoyed it and
I look forward to seeing you on the next one until then stay spicy