Your peppers please!

Ozumoz66

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Yes. I have a blender I just use for peppers. But it's been a few years since I had a good fence to spray around.
Outside, with a Vitamix blender, I powered some cayenne peppers for a friend to add to his topical ointment. You learn quickly to be upwind when you take the lid off the blender - don't want the powder in your face. The scorpions likely won't be used in an ointment. I'll harvest the seeds for next year's crop.
 

TCH

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Just bagged up some pepper seeds I collected this year to send in for a fb group. 20 people. Everybody sends in 20 packs of 10 seeds for 2 or 3 kinds of peppers and then the lady will make packs for everybody and send the other 19 peoples seeds out to you. So, I will have an obscene amount of pepper seeds/varieties again next year. Lol

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Ozumoz66

Well-Known Member
Just bagged up some pepper seeds I collected this year to send in for a fb group. 20 people. Everybody sends in 20 packs of 10 seeds for 2 or 3 kinds of peppers and then the lady will make packs for everybody and send the other 19 peoples seeds out to you. So, I will have an obscene amount of pepper seeds/varieties again next year. Lol

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Are there any concerns for cross pollination or do you grow them far apart from one another to avoid that?
 

Billy the Mountain

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Peppers do readily cross-pollinate.

I had good, but inconsistent results using my seeds from the previous harvests.

On the plus side, I did grow a hybrid bell and ? (ghost or reaper or scorpion) pepper. The fruits looked like a dwarf bell pepper but had some heat. Unfortunately, seeds from that weren't anything like mom.
 

injinji

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I do mine in the shower at the riverhouse. I have a hood with 3 sets of 2 twisty CFL's. When that fills up, I use a LED shop light, but because the shower is also a tub (and the light is too long to fit inside), it is too high for the smallest sprouts. I have to move the taller ones out from under the hood. Because I always tend to do way too many, the shower fills up and I have to put some in my underground greenhouse. (which I haven't dug yet)

I missed the good above ground days in December, so I'll be planting next month.
 

vampz87

Active Member
I am confused why you guys are calling chili's, peppers ?

Chili is from Capsicum family

Capsicum has no biological relationship with pepper.
 
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