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Are these any good..?

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Picked these little guys up today at a new nursery to me. Met the owner, seemed like a cool guy really into peppers and growing. About 25 minutes north up 441 in Boynton Bch. Small guy way out in farm land. Good mile or so of dirt road getting there. He spent some time with me and showed me around his nursrey.. Seen more different peppers then I ever knew existed,,, must have been at least 50 I'd seen, and didn't see them all.
 
He also grows these tooth ache buds, I munched 1, made my mouth very num and wet for a few minutes but no heat at all.
 
 Also had these magic buttons that changed how the next thing you eat after eating them taste totally different like something else.
 
 
 
All the little guys seem healthy and got a heavy Dr Earth green bottle spray dousing before being introduced to my garden.
 
  Hows the selection look, any special care for any of these...?
 
 
 

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DontPanic said:
That looks like a nice haul there!  :)
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Thanks, was confusing seeing so many different ones.
saiias said:
You are in for a treat..

Aji lemon, fatali, sugar rush peach.. Noice...

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Ya, he let me taste before I choose the plant. He brought me to these plants, wasn't me knowing what to look for, but they did taste great. Glad you  confirmed these are good choices. 1 of them was real sweet fruity with soft but high heat.  Another was sweet citrus like and hot. He gave me samples of his plants to taste.
 
Got home and chowed down on the cut one with corn tortilla chips and tuna, awesome. Wonder if those seeds will grow..?
 
Below pics are a few of the best tasting imo, but they all were outstanding. Maybe he just knows how to grow them and exactly when they were ripe. He snatched them right off the plant and said try this...OK.. The holes in the other 2 are not from a pest, was just me tasting em, yum.
 
 

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Awesome  :dance:
 
I wish i had this kinda local selection when i first got into growing peppers!
if you get to try even a few of the peppers you are growing at peak ripeness...
You will be hooked like the rest of us that grow our own.
 
 while it is super cool to have acess to uncommon comercial peppers...
something about having also grown them yourself that makes them seem so much better..
I would say this has more to do with the effort and time put in, along with hope that it taste good; but it truly is more than that...
When you grow your own and get to taste a good homegrown sun-ripened on the vine fruit !
You will then understand. 
 
:cheers: 
 
 
Takanotsume said:
I feel like I should try sharing some of my exotic pepper seeds with the local nurseries.
 
The only varieties they sell around here are the staples like habanero, serrano, jalepeno, etc.
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I'd go talk to a manager and see if there'd be interest. Cool idea, though; spread the love. :)
 
Beauties ..... nice selection.  Good job.
 
Those are all "normal" pepper plants, no special care required. All I can say is, the Baccatums (Aji Lemon, Sugar Rush Peach... If you got any other Baccatums, I didn't notice them in your pics, but you'll know then by their flowers...) can be frustrating the first time you grow then bc they take a very long time to ripen. Longer than most Chinense, and any annuums as far as I know.

The Fatalii is one of my all-time favorite peppers. Absolutely delicious, and just good, hardy plants to grow. But they produce pretty late, which won't be a problem for you on your climate, but you might wonder why your other plants are covered in pods when the Fataliis are not... They tend to highly productive once they get going, though.
 
Bicycle808 said:
The Fatalii is one of my all-time favorite peppers. Absolutely delicious, and just good, hardy plants to grow. But they produce pretty late, which won't be a problem for you on your climate, but you might wonder why your other plants are covered in pods when the Fataliis are not... They tend to highly productive once they get going, though.
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Fataliis down here tend to be early and often producers.  In this climate, they are one of the most prolific that I've seen.  One of the first to go, and the last to stop.  They will easily make it through our winters, and quickly turn into stout little bushes.  It's actually a really fantastic choice for Florida growers.
 
That's rad; my experiences with them has been that they are later than comparable Chinense, but the overall harvest is really big. The plants always grow strong and even though they don't get as tall as some other Chinense, they do the to get bushy... Lots of branches, lots of nodes = lots of pods.

I'm always impressed with the reliable uniformity of the pods. Seldom do I get anything off-pheno, although the last wave tends to be shorter and kinda squat.
 
For sure.  And it's nice that there are a few different color choices - none of which seem to negate the overall prolific nature of the original.
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I think OP is going to be so happy with the Fatalii.  Watch out for the kick in the stomach, though! :D
 
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