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seeds-germination First Season Growing Hot Peppers

Slowburn

Slowburn

Hello All,

I am new to peppers and growing. This is my first season and here is my Cherry Bomb pepper seedlings that just sprouted a few days ago. Itook the seeds from a pepper I bought at the grocery store. Fingers crossed it thrives.
 

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Hey @Slowburn , welcome to the forum and to the hobby! Since you're in Oregon, and your seedling just sprouted, maybe you could visit a local nursery and pick up one or two other hot pepper types that will fruit a little earlier for you this year. Not that your seedling won't, but some of the nursery stuff will be about 8 weeks ahead of the new sprouts. Just something to consider if you want to harvest over a longer period of time!
 
NJChilehead said:
Hey @Slowburn , welcome to the forum and to the hobby! Since you're in Oregon, and your seedling just sprouted, maybe you could visit a local nursery and pick up one or two other hot pepper types that will fruit a little earlier for you this year. Not that your seedling won't, but some of the nursery stuff will be about 8 weeks ahead of the new sprouts. Just something to consider if you want to harvest over a longer period of time!
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Thank you for the advice, I'll go and take a peek.
 
if you still want to grow some supers this year, you'll most likely be able to find ghost, scorpion, and/or reaper seedlings at some local nurseries/greenhouses, as the hot pepper "craze" has created such a demand for superhot types that they know they can sell them.

and of course there will also be your typical habaneros, cayennes, tabasco, etc in the non-super sector to choose from as well.

happy hunting
 
I agree with @growyourown , you'll likely find a cool diversity of types available to you. Not sure if it's like this in the PNW, but here in NJ, we tend to find a little more diversity of types at smaller, mom-and-pop type nurseries vs. big box stores, but it's definitely worth driving around to both and seeing what's out there. Keep us posted!
 
NJChilehead said:
I agree with @growyourown , you'll likely find a cool diversity of types available to you. Not sure if it's like this in the PNW, but here in NJ, we tend to find a little more diversity of types at smaller, mom-and-pop type nurseries vs. big box stores, but it's definitely worth driving around to both and seeing what's out there. Keep us posted!
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it's becoming a rarity these days, but placing a phone call is likely a good first step, to find out a) if they even have hot peppers and b) what sort of varieties, so that you don't wind up making a big trip pointlessly.

as the old saying used to go: "let your fingers do the walking"
 
NJChilehead said:
I agree with @growyourown , you'll likely find a cool diversity of types available to you. Not sure if it's like this in the PNW, but here in NJ, we tend to find a little more diversity of types at smaller, mom-and-pop type nurseries vs. big box stores, but it's definitely worth driving around to both and seeing what's out there. Keep us posted!
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I will keep you updated
 
growyourown said:
it's becoming a rarity these days, but placing a phone call is likely a good first step, to find out a) if they even have hot peppers and b) what sort of varieties, so that you don't wind up making a big trip pointlessly.

as the old saying used to go: "let your fingers do the walking"
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I agree with you, but most of the mom and pop stuff here in NJ has high school or young college kids working the front, and the extent of what they know about their inventory is "um, we have both sweet and hot". I do share your sentiment though!
 
growyourown said:
if you still want to grow some supers this year, you'll most likely be able to find ghost, scorpion, and/or reaper seedlings at some local nurseries/greenhouses, as the hot pepper "craze" has created such a demand for superhot types that they know they can sell them.

and of course there will also be your typical habaneros, cayennes, tabasco, etc in the non-super sector to choose from as well.

happy hunting
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Sooooo, Nursery haul nabbed me some Jalapenos (Mammoth), Cayenne, Jimmy Nartello, Shishito, Cayanetta, Chiltepin, and Bulgarian Carrot (No idea), they had a red ghost on it's last legs so I left it there. Also had some seeds arrive from Ebay today so I have Black Pearl, 7 pot duglah, Death Spiral Mustard and a pepper sold as Pepper X which are in damp paper towels hoping to germinate. Also update: 8 of 12 Cherry Bomb seeds have made it to the Cotyledon stage and are just pokiing through the soil
 
That's a nice haul, slowburn! I'm growing Bulgarian Carrot this season and it's a monster! Don't know about the eBay seeds though; hopefully you don't have seeds for a bunch of bell peppers!
 
CaneDog said:
That's a nice haul, slowburn! I'm growing Bulgarian Carrot this season and it's a monster! Don't know about the eBay seeds though; hopefully you don't have seeds for a bunch of bell peppers!
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Yeah it's a worry but it's already done so if they ARE Bell peppers then I will just eat more Bells and go somewhere else next season I have a very small order from Texas Hot Peppers for some Morugas, Chocolate Hydras and something called a Naglah Beast Caramel
 
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