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Xymox

Xymox

I live in a apartment and I have grown hot peppers of many varieties on my patio for 10 years..
 
My patio faces east.
 
I live in Phoenix Az. During summer I get 110 F days for like 2 months.
 
Its very dry humidity.
 
I have trouble growing some peppers. They grow into big bushes, but some never flower. Or they flower and I manually polinate them and they never have fruit.
 
Some peppers grow awesome and I get tons and tons of peppers.
 
Over the years ive tried every kind of fertilizer and trick.. Nothing like that works. Ive decided it must be my sun length and climate.
 
Im starting into a new growing season and I want to grow at least one kinda esoteric pepper. Its really hard to find info for growing climate for a lot of peppers. Standard Serrano, Habenaro, Jalapeno, Thai all grow awesomely. Trinidad scorpions, bhuts, Reapers, Scotch Bonnets have all grown nicely and flowered sometimes but no fruit.
 
I keep trying a new one.. This year I will try a 7 pot Douglah

Any suggestions on a pepper that would be super hot and grow under my sun and climate conditions ?
 
7 Pot Douglah do very well for me but our climate is more like 90/90 rather than your 110/5
 
Most of my peppers don't even flower when its 100+
 
But the ones I have had issues with do flower just fine, kinda small flowers, during the spring and fall just fine when temps are more normal. But even during these times I never get fruit.
 
Our humidity is very low almost all the time. Almost always under 20%. There are times we get under 5% for days, even weeks.
 
So you guys dont think the direct sun for only like 5 hours is a issue either ?
 
This has really been a mystery for me. Standard pepper plants have grown great. I had one Serrano plant that lasted 6 years and produced just tons of peppers almost year round. That plant was really awesome, flavorful and surprisingly hot. It did finally die tho, overcome by seasonal bugs.
 
Its been very annoying to spend years growing big bushy plants and never get fun peppers.
 
I was reading up and most of these esoteric peppers are native from high humidity locations.
 
Well I will try this again with the 7 pot.
 
Usally for me my normal pepper plants fruit like crazy in spring up to the 100F weather and then go crazy again in fall once temps drop below 100F. As we have very very mild winters, I usally see peppers thru till like nov and start to see them again in feb..
 
Super hot C. chinense do produce in Phonenix, but it is possible that when the temperatures are right (fall and spring) you don't have enough sunlight for the peppers to fully ripen. But you should definitely be able to get fruit.  Probably need to start seeds in November for a spring crop.
 
Maybe check out this hot pepper grower's videos.  He is in Phoneix.
Also, consider yellow or red brain strains.  They apparently ripen sooner than and are more prolific than many other super hots.
 
 
 
 
 
Well that is encouraging..
 
Maybe I am doing something else wrong..
 
I am going to do everything a bit different this time around.
 
Thanks, at least I know it possible. Weird how some grow fine, but, others do not...
 
When its 100 out flowers drop. Maybe try a carribean red habanero. They did well for me. White Bhut was a heavy producer for me too. Maybe try shade cloth, a lot of people use it, I think it helps when the temps are high.
 
All my plants stop in temps above 100. Thats OK, I understand that one. The problem I don't understand is that for the months before and after summer when temps are 70 I get flowers, but no fruit, on the more esoteric plants.
 
I will try both the plants your suggest.
 
If you manually pollinate, the flowers either set pods or drop blossoms / mini-pods - those are the two options.
 
If your plants are dropping blossoms or mini-pods, it is usually caused by either overwatering or overfertilisation. Especially if the pedicel and calyx turns yellow before dropping, it means that one of those two conditions are usually true.
 
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