Your peppers please!

xtsho said:

The pepper. Such beautiful fruit. They just don't look like something that has the potential to bring so much pain.




I have a Thai chili I've been growing for a few years and saving seed each year that I use to make Prik Nam Pla. I don't know what specific pepper it is as Thai Chili is a pretty broad description since so many peppers from that region all go by the name Thai Chile.

Anyway, this stuff is good on anything as well. Chilis, fish sauce, lime juice, garlic, a little sugar. It's delicious just on a bowl of plain rice.

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oh yeah, i love that stuff. I just started fermenting a batch of 7 pot yellow primos. They are waaaaaayyy too hot for my tastebuds, so hopefully the ferment will mellow them out some.

I started germinating my pepper seeds for this year! Super excited. In addition to the tomatoes (photo below), I've got some 7 pot douglah, habanero, jalapeno, scorpion, and scotch bonnet peppers germinating. Over the last couple of years, I've found that the jalapenos grow nicely in the new england summer, but I've had problems with the hotter varieties. Does anyone else have this experience as well? I'm going to try again this year, but also going to reserve a few seedlings to grow indoors.

Bishop12 said:

I started germinating my pepper seeds for this year! Super excited. In addition to the tomatoes (photo below), I've got some 7 pot douglah, habanero, jalapeno, scorpion, and scotch bonnet peppers germinating. Over the last couple of years, I've found that the jalapenos grow nicely in the new england summer, but I've had problems with the hotter varieties. Does anyone else have this experience as well? I'm going to try again this year, but also going to reserve a few seedlings to grow indoors.

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I've been growing hot peppers for many years now. I haven't noticed any difference between ghost, scorpion, or reapers vs habaneros as far as growth and health other than the ultra-hots take a bit longer to mature. I feed all the hot peppers the same: Maxibloom @ ~ 2-2.5 EC



One of the three plants in the large planter box is an habanero, the other two are a scorpion and a NC reaper. All grew very similar in the same conditions.

Gorgeous!!

Cut/pulled the last of my Naga Viper & Birdseye's today before taking cuts for next season.



I can forsee hot sauce from the Naga's & a big batch of chilli pickle with the birdseye's (a-la Charmain Solomon's iconic recipe) tomorrow.

Slow poke hab has it's first bloom.



Store bought Mammoth Jalapeno. (I have a dozen or so saved seed MJ's about ready for transplant now)



Big storm yesterday blew over all the store bought regular Jalapeno. I used some repurposed sign stands for supports.



The taller Hatch also blew over.

I have a dozen or so Cayenne plants. Most are a little younger than this one, but I foresee lots of pepper sauce in my future.

'Tis the time of year in Aus. when one's mind turns to germinating a few seeds for the upcoming summer:


I also have some seeds forgotten for 12 years, but I figure WTF - just give 'em a go & see what happens.

Hmmm...... decisions......decisions........

@TerryTeacosy . A friend brought me some Penis Peppers back from Hawaii about 5 years ago. I lost them somewhere in my garage for a couple of years and found them when I was reorganizing. Then I brought them in the house and forgot about them for another 2 years. Dug 'em up last year (again) and decided to keep them with my other seeds for this year. So far they've been the best pepper plants of the bunch. I was pretty surprised they did so well as I'm in Northern Canada.

jalapeno and a big bertha

Round two of picking today
Ghost, Scorpion, Habanero, Reapers, and Fatalli
Fatalli's are supposed to be yellow and smooth but on 2/3 plants
they're red with gnarly texture, kinda cool.
Roughly a 1/2 gal. of future hot sauce there

So this is odd. A few years back I bought a Thai chili. I know there are many types of Thai chilis but I'm referring to the standard slender ones that are common in the Asian markets at least here in the USA.

I saved seed from that first plant and have been growing them and saving seed ever since. This year I'm growing six plants. All of the plants are doing fine and putting out peppers. But one of them is now growing peppers with the tail pointing up. I thought it was interesting to see. The one pepper started with peppers hanging down and then decided it wanted them to point up.

This is one of the other five peppers with the peppers hanging down.



This one decided to grow its peppers the other way.

That one pointing up is how the Super Chili Hybrids grow. Nifty.

Can peppers cross pollinate?

Dorian2 said:

Can peppers cross pollinate?

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I'd speculate that bees would be best-placed to answer that question for you.

Dorian2 said:

That one pointing up is how the Super Chili Hybrids grow. Nifty.

Can peppers cross pollinate?

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Yes of course. Peppers are like cannabis. People just keep crossing them with different varieties and coming up with new names.

Dorian2 said:

That one pointing up is how the Super Chili Hybrids grow. Nifty.

Can peppers cross pollinate?

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Yes. I had mini sweets too close to cayenne and the seeds were hot. I didn't plant any of them, but I assume they were a cross.

Dorian2 said:

That one pointing up is how the Super Chili Hybrids grow. Nifty.

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There are lots of chilis that grow that way. I just thought it strange that after years of growing these with seed saved from the previous year one pepper decided to grow that way. I thought about cross pollination but the only other peppers I've grown were cayenne, jalapeno, bell, habanero, serrano, and poblano since I've been growing these. I'm sure it's just some of the early genetics showing up. The Thai I started with was obviously a hybrid. Most Thai chilis actually point up so after successive generations this trait surfaced.

Billy the Mountain said:

Round two of picking today
Ghost, Scorpion, Habanero, Reapers, and Fatalli
Fatalli's are supposed to be yellow and smooth but on 2/3 plants
they're red with gnarly texture, kinda cool.
Roughly a 1/2 gal. of future hot sauce there

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Im finding out more and more that those that grow weed also grow and like hot peppers. I was at the grow shop recently and those guys are growing hot peppers in the store!
Anyway, I've been growing hot peppers for years. I've tried many vendors' seeds for Carolina Reaper but haven't gotten any with the stingers. I mean they were all hot as hell and made some good sauce and powder. Just not the correct pheno as a lot of pictures show. Do you remember where you got your seeds?

xtsho said:

There are lots of chilis that grow that way. I just thought it strange that after years of growing these with seed saved from the previous year one pepper decided to grow that way. I thought about cross pollination but the only other peppers I've grown were cayenne, jalapeno, bell, habanero, serrano, and poblano since I've been growing these. I'm sure it's just some of the early genetics showing up. The Thai I started with was obviously a hybrid. Most Thai chilis actually point up so after successive generations this trait surfaced.

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Appreciate the feedback. Also yours @injinji . I've only started doing my own seeds 2 years ago so I'm just starting to understand the different variables.

Last week we dried some peppers in the oven. We have a double oven with the divider between top and bottom. To use the dehydrate feature you have to take out the divider, so we went ahead and did three trays at once. (one tray of cayenne not pictured)



Twelve hours later. . . . I still have to run them through the coffee grinder.