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Patio Peppers Growing in Edison, NJ

it'll be nice just to have good peppers that look good and cook good. i'm hoping the pearls will be nice an healthy so i can make powdered pearl. pickled pearl? mmmm. hehe :)

I love having something to look forward to. I'm glad i found the plant online.
 
I don't know if the Black Pearls will taste any good, but its mother(or father) the Royal Black had a decent flavor from what I remember.
 
POTAWIE said:
I don't know if the Black Pearls will taste any good, but its mother(or father) the Royal Black had a decent flavor from what I remember.
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I guess we'll find out. :lol: I just fell in love with the shocking look of it. I'd never seen one before. Besides, i really don't have any ornamental plants of any kind. It'll be a nice treat to have something unique. I read somewhere that they're in the 50k range on the scoville. It might make a nice pepper to blend with other ingredients if it has a unique flavor.
 
hiya fineexampl lovely selection of chilis and veg..black pearl is a great plant have to agree with potawie though the royal black is superb has the darkest foliage i have ever seen..all the best.:)
 
My first time ordering a live plant off of ebay and i will surely do it again if i need to. This little guy is GORGEOUS and already has a few buds. It's vibrant black and green and i'm really excited about this little guy. And i will NOT be watering it very much. Now that i know peppers dont need much water, i think the 6th time's the charm, eh?

Here's my Black Pearl once i removed it from the box.
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Here she is planted in my last terra cotta.
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Here is my first habanero baby to emerge. It has about 5-6 buddies from the ones i pollinated already butting their heads out as well. I'm excited that I'm finally fruiting! Now if i can convince the other 3 plants to bud correctly it'll be even cooler.
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and here's an update on the maters. They're doing very very well. I've fed them nothing but organic fertilizer, black and green tea and tea leaves, men's multi-vitamins, and pure Edison, NJ tap water. You can't see them all, but there's at least 10 or so maters on this nearly 3ft tall plant.
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My first habanero is growing nicely. Slowly, but nicely. It's definitely taking shape. I still dont understand why it's growing upright though.
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In other news, the pearl has more buds and a few blossoms that are most surely polinated. My girl calls me her little bee. Still nothing going on with the bhut jolokia. The chocolate hab has a few buds that appear stronger than the last bunch. This waiting is unbearable. At this rate i wont have fruit until September.
 
oh and that totally eaten parsley plant? it's grown back completely. A ton of new stems and new shoots.

gave a mass fertilization tonight. everything needed it aside from the peppers. i just gave them a little taste. they're still quite moist under the mulch. no signs of mold though, so i think i'm okay.
 
millworkman said:
Looking good. Keep it up, my habs are about that size and I can barely keep my hands off them.
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i've heard that picking the first one stimulates growth of new pods. not sure if that's true or not. i dont think i want to test it out. :lol:
 
what kind of hab is that fine?...

I have some caribbeans that kinda look like that...
 
AlabamaJack said:
what kind of hab is that fine?...

I have some caribbeans that kinda look like that...
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no clue. i bought it at Lowes and we all know they dont know a hab from a celery. The tag simply said "habanero".
 
fineexampl said:
no clue. i bought it at Lowes and we all know they dont know a hab from a celery. The tag simply said "habanero".
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Ha Ha. That is exactly like mine, got it from Lowes.
 
Great job Fineexampl...I knew your hab couldn't be that far behind mine!

It does look a lot like my carribean as well.
 
KJAM said:
Great job Fineexampl...I knew your hab couldn't be that far behind mine!

It does look a lot like my carribean as well.
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Thanks.
It's hard to see, but there's a bout 3-4 other new pods growing and i'm just waiting for some more blooms. I'm super stoked. :)
 
I was watering my plants this morning, but not the peppers of course. I checked out the progress of my pods. The hab that's fruiting is doing VERY well and has a minimum of 4 pods actively growing. However, i checked the black pearl and i spotted at least 2-3 confirmed pods growing. My pollenation has worked and i now have a fruiting black pearl.

I have not watered my peppers for at least a month. I fertilized them yesterday, but just a splash. I've not fed them anything but fertilizer in about a month.
 
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