1st year newbie, In Seattle

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PepperBin

Hey everyone it's Ryan in Seattle. This has been my first year growing hot peppers, and so far i think i am doing pretty well. I love cooking with hot peppers, but $10.00/lb for the same ol varieties at the grocery store is no fun! so i decided to give it a shot and fell in love! Due to the mild climate where i live, i started everything from seeds indoors. i bought some inexpensive hungarian hot wax and jalapeno seeds from the local store and started them off just to make sure i wasnt wasting my money getting into this hobby, everything started nicely. then i bought some golden habs, bishops crown, and charlston hot pepper seeds online. They took forever to pop out of the soil, and i almost gave up but then they surprised me! I kind of got lazy with these new guys and one day it was super hot and most of the leaves wilted and fried off before i noticed. LUCKILY, with a little TLC i was able to nurse them back to health and they quickly sprouted some new leaves as if nothing was wrong! Anyway, i am glad to have found this site and hope that the collective knowlege here will lead to a successful harvest of delicious hot peppers for years to come.
(p.s) i ate my first home grown hot wax pepper today, still green, but tasty and spicy.. I read that the plant will use nutrients to start more flowers if you try to harvest early or as they ripen. (is this true)?

-Ryan
 
Welcome to the madness!

You'll find that most peppers are fairly hearty plants, until the first freeze. There are many theories about what a pepper will do when early harvested, but I tend to let the fruit ripen on the plant...or until it is easily removed with a light tug.
 
Thanks, I figure i will a learn a lot this year from trial and error :D i just couldnt resist chomping down this one, its been taunting me for a week now. i have about 20 plants growing currently. so i can afford to try different things and learn from my sucesses and failures.

oh here is a picture of one of my plants..

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Hey Ryan, welcome fom Cleveland. I too am am a first year pepper grower. I live in the burbs and grow in pots. I grew up on a farm so this is quite different for me.
Look forward to seeing your successes.
 
Welcome from South Carolina!


PepperBin said:
(p.s) i ate my first home grown hot wax pepper today, still green,
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*horrified gasp!*


but tasty and spicy.. I read that the plant will use nutrients to start more flowers if you try to harvest early or as they ripen. (is this true)?
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That's a lie perpetuated by uncivilized savages as an excuse for their barbaric practice of eating unripe peppers!
 
PepperBin said:
oh Pam! its just 1 little pepper :) i promise i wont make it a habit :)
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Oh right, that's what they all say. "Just this once" or "I was only experimenting" or "But all the cool Hot Pepperites were doing it" and the next thing you know you're imaguitargod and being rectally probed by aliens. So don't come whining to me when there's a flying saucer parked on your front lawn.
 
welcome from Ohio again but DEVILDUCK and Pam are right let them ripen and you will be a lot more happer
Dan


LET IT BURN
 
gday Ryan, welcome to THP from the Great Land Down Under!

if you wanna eat immature pods you go ahead and eat 'em. if you've got 20 plants I'm sure you'll have plenty to munch on ripe, green and in between. it's good to taste the difference as a lot of people prefer the flavour of green serranos and red jalapenos, my preferred flavour is :):D
 
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