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2019 the year of the Scotch Bonnet

I have more than enough SB seeds now, way more than I have room to grow for, so I decided to create a poll to let you people help me in selecting the most interesting varieties! :)
 
I'm not going to start my grow just yet, that will have to wait for somewhere in February. That is, if I can wait that long! :D
 
I want to limit my grow to 10 varieties. I can stretch this to 12 if absolutely neccessary but I prefer not to.
 
So let me know what you think!
 
I hate slugs! Indeed copper tape should work, we also often use this kind of solution:
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Here's a small update picture of my grow...
 
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My grow list has changed somewhat...
 
- SB Chocolate
- Scotch Brains
- SB Black River Red
- SB Papa Dreadie
- SB7J
- SB Trenton Farmers Market
- SB Cappuccino
 
Some varieties were eliminated because the seedlings were growing very weakly and I didn't want to start them over. That includes the stuffing SB, which is sad because I was really interested to try it. Also the purple PdN x BMJ gave up for some unclear reason... it stopped growing and wilted...
 
On a positive note some other interesting varieties were added from seeds I got from Lee via the Scotch Bonnet Pepper Aficionados group on Facebook. These are the...
- SB Falmouth : 4 out of 4 germinated (keeping only one as usual)
- SB Walton Farm (isolated seeds from 2017) : planted 4 of them but only one germinated.
- SB Walton Farm (seeds from 2018) : 4 out of 4 germinated but one very weak. Keeping only one.
 
This brings my number of plants for this season to 10 :)
 
Plants are shaping up nicely...
 
The youngest ones :
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The smaller ones of the first round :
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The largest ones :
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Looks like we need another background for picture taking... :D
Working abroad right now, luckily my daughter takes care of the plants and the pictures! :)
 
I decided to add a couple of annuums to my grow, varieties that I wanted to grow before I switched to all scotch bonnets :
 
- Mini Piperka
- Orange Pepperoncini
- Yellow Pequin
- Small Thai Orange SSE
 
All from Refining Fire Chillies except the SSE which is from my own harvest of 2017.
 
I'm also trying some seeds from a box of dried Thai chillies my daughter bought somewhere. Not sure how authentic these are or what variety it is. They are hot though...
 
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It's been a while since my last post so here's a small update. I have the first flower buds appearing on one of my bonnet plants!  :dance:
It's the black river red... :
 
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Here they are all together. That's right, only 5 bonnet plants left. I'm playing safe here... It may very well be that bonnets are too hot for me or I might not like the taste. So I kept only the ones that I'm really interested in. I gave the remaining plants away to a Mexican colleague at work who wants to grow his own chiles. In the mean time I started some milder annuum varieties.
The ones I kept are the Black River Red, Papa Dreadie, Scotch Brains, Walton Farm 2017 isolated and Falmouth.
 
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The annuums I'm growing are the Cirereta, Small Thai Orange SSE, Mini Piperka, Orange Peperoncini, Yellow Pequin and Jeromin.
 
MarcV said:
I'm also trying some seeds from a box of dried Thai chillies my daughter bought somewhere. Not sure how authentic these are or what variety it is. They are hot though...
 
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Oh and these seeds don't grow...  :rolleyes:
 
The wife sent me this picture this morning when I was at work!  :eek:
Looks like our cat had an issue here... Luckily my wife could recover all plants and no real damage was done...
 
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