wascaptain
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Fig tree is finished for the season, birds and bees can have the rest.
Picked these to make a salsa this morning
Picked these to make a salsa this morning
Your peppers please!
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Larry {the} Gardener
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I did get by the old house to check on the two fig trees there. Still a few days away. Only a couple were turning, and I'm going to need a ladder if I want to pick them. {I used the zoom on the camera to get this shot} Need to do a lot of vine clearing after the season. This is my Mom's old place, and it belongs to my sister, but I try to keep the fruit trees halfway in shape so they will produce. Lots of good stuff there, just needs to be kept up. Grapes, three kinds of pear, peaches, apple persimmon and blueberries. Oh, and kumquats, one tree of sweet, and two of the regular ones. Lost a few citrus trees a few years back to cold weather when they were not covered up. Out of sight, out of mind.
Olive Drab Green
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Is it difficult to grow Bhut Jolokia/ghost peppers?
Dave's Not Here
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Banana peppers in 3 gallon containers.
Larry {the} Gardener
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Nice and healthy. Are those the hot banana? I have Hungarian Yellow Wax this season, and I thought they were hot. I tried one, just to see. Not hot at all. Now I'm eating them everyday along with the Mini Sweets.
Dave's Not Here
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Thanks! Those are Burpee seed sweet banana peppers, they usually yield well for me if they have good soil etc. I have a Hungarian wax pepper plant or two growing but they got started a little late, maybe I'll get some, first time trying them..
Larry {the} Gardener
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Last year my sweet banana peppers didn't do well, so I didn't plant any this year. I have noticed that near the oak where they were at, the field corn and pole beans there this year are stunted too. I guess I'm going to have to increase the area around the tree where I don't plant. Those tree roots are sucking up all the food and water.
My HYW was one of the first ones to bear for me this year. I'm having trouble with leaving them on the plant until they turn red though. They are getting bad spots on them before then. {you can see a spot on the one near the lower right hand corner of the bread tray} I guess I'll just have to pick them sooner. I did use a sprinkler to water them early one. They didn't like it then, and they are not liking the rain now.
Dave's Not Here
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I've got a couple big trees in my yard too that send their roots everywhere... My first two years trying to veggie garden I had my garden near a big walnut tree.. almost everything was totally screwed up. I about gave up.
My container pepper plants are the best pepper plants I've grown yet. I have a bed of peppers too and some in the ground but they're not doing as well as the container plants. I used 1/3 leaf/grass/veggie compost, 1/3 cheap bagged cow manure and 1/3 Pro Mix.
Larry {the} Gardener
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Sounds like a good mix. I use 8 five gallon buckets per kiddie pool mix. It will change a little, but it's two buckets of mushroom compost, one of peat moss, one of cow manure compost, one of chicken manure compost, one of Metro Mix {good potting soil}, one of Jungle Growth {cheap potting soil} and one of High Cotton compost. To that I add four cups each of 3 or 4 kinds of organic fertilizer, a cup each of 4 or 5 kinds of chemical fertilizer, including a couple of time release ones, 8-12 cups of coffee grounds, 4 cups lime and 2 cups Epson salts. I split a five gallon bucket between 3 holes. Here is my pepper patch under construction. I've got to drill some holes in a cheap hose {I picked up for that purpose} to make a soaker hose for these guys. I'm hand watering, and it takes a lot of time.
choomer
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Well, it's almost embarrassing as my garden this year is 90% volunteer from last years heritage as life got in the way during planting time.
The pics are huge. I didn't feel like resizing so be forewarned.
But as to peppers:
Nursery bought starts -
Volunteers -
Nothing was done to the soil except mulching it w/ grass clippings and trying to protect the garden from glyphosate used on the production field you see in the background of pic #1.
I think next year a hoop house is going to be necessary to protect my garden as everything in my yard suffers from the field herbicide use.
The pics are huge. I didn't feel like resizing so be forewarned.
But as to peppers:
Nursery bought starts -
Volunteers -
Nothing was done to the soil except mulching it w/ grass clippings and trying to protect the garden from glyphosate used on the production field you see in the background of pic #1.
I think next year a hoop house is going to be necessary to protect my garden as everything in my yard suffers from the field herbicide use.
Larry {the} Gardener
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Looks good. Having big ag close by can be a bitch. I have a couple three hundred acres of cotton behind me. I do have a buffer of pines, but they offer a challenge as well. I sell my pinestraw, and they spray Round Up to kill the briars a couple months before they get the straw. I hate to hear them pull up in the trees if it's a windy day.
wascaptain
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Here is my Tabasco plant I over wintered from last year. It's growing in a 5 gallon planter.
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GrowUrOwnDank
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I too have a couple of pepper plants. One looks pathetic but the other is looking ok. They've been planted a month or two. The one that looks ok has holes in the leaves and is not near bearing peppers yet. So why the holes in the leaves? Any ideas? Anyway they are like Hungarian wax peppers. And they are outdoors the ok one is in a 2 gallon planter with happy frog soil. I have fed it once and may throw a small scoop of Maxibloom powder at it today. I'm a terrible grower. I mean, I just ain't inspired enough although, I "wanna be" a good gardener. I do want these peppers to grow tho. Also, I plan to bring these in and keep them going through the winter. Good idea or it won't work? Thanks.
Larry {the} Gardener
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I've over-wintered a few pepper plants. I've let a few more die. But then I'm not used to growing under lights. Most gardeners with real short growing seasons have to do this to get a good pepper harvest.
ruby fruit
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nothing better than turning these crabs into a chilli crab meal 
ruby fruit
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it will work but I have found by trying both ways the chilli plants that are overwintered outside tend to do better the following season especially if they are transplanted from those pots as the new season starts to bigger pots or the ground
wascaptain
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Caught theses a few weeks back. They look way different then yours.nothing better than turning these crabs into a chilli crab meal
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ruby fruit
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Same type of crab family by looks
Larry {the} Gardener
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We always have a few nights a year when it gets down in the teens, so outside is out for me. I'm hoping to have a greenhouse by then, though.
Dave's Not Here
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I grew these two plants in the same container the year before last and only got a few peppers off each of them. Then I brought them in after the first light frost and threw them under a single cfl light for the winter, almost every leaf died and fell off. Towards the end of winter they started to get a little new growth, when it warmed up enough last year I separated them into separate containers, cut off the dead stems and threw them outside. They put on a lot of peppers at first but seemed slow after that.
The one on the left is some sort of red bell and the other one is a camelot pepper if I remember right.
The one on the left is some sort of red bell and the other one is a camelot pepper if I remember right.