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glog 2025 Late start

Started seeds late this year. Usually I start too early so let's see how this goes.

Seeds started March 20, 2025:
Trinidad pimento (family favorite pepper)
7 Pot Jonah (This year is my first time growing a super hot. Debated if I should grow a scorpion or a 7 pot for my first.))
Freeport Orange
Orange Spice Jalepeno (Lemon spice has been one of my favorite peppers, so it is time this year to try growing the orange and pumpkin ones too)
Lemon Spice Jalapeno
Pumpkin Spice Jalapeno

Seeds started April 4, 2025:
Jaloro jalapeno (I haven't seen much discussion of this variety, but it seems to have some ornamental value.)
Mucho Nacho jalapeno (ready to try a hybrid jalapeño. During prior seasons, I wasn't impressed by Craig's jalapeño or Zapotec)
Second lemon spice jalapeno (was afraid my initial seeds might not germinate)

Tomatoes started March 20, 2025:
Brandywine
Anna Russian
Aunt Ginnys Purple

Freeport Orange picture 4-13-25
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I have been enjoying Jaloro. It has been my most productive jalapeño this year. Flavor is good. Mild flavor, mild heat, good at all ripeness stages. These have been relatively consistent. No heatless peppers and nothing super hot so far. Good size.

They start out a very pale green. Then pale yellow. Then they get an orange blush on the skin, with the flesh still yellow. Then solid orange all the way through. Then solid red all is the way through.

Traditional jalapeños ripen flesh before skin for me. These ripen skin before flesh.

They are nice at all ripeness stages, but I find them most beautiful when the skin is orange and the flesh is pale yellow.

https://imgur.com/a/F6nvKYP
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Great review and post, spicy! I'm growing Jaloro for the first time this year due to a labeling error on a bag of Jalapeno M seeds it turns out are actually Jaloro. It's a unique jalapeno - I couldn't figure out what it was at first. I'd planned to harvest just the first two red-ripe pods on my next trip to the garden, but I think I'll harvest all the colored pods and try them out the way you did. Thanks!
 
My Trinidad pimento plant is nice and big and healthy. Pods look roughly pimento shaped, but with more of a tail, and a bit more bumpy than usual, and a few bonnet shaped.

Tasted a slice, to confirm that these were pimentos. My mouth was burning and I was scrambling for food to wash it down with.

No pimentos for me this year. :(
Not sure if these are pimento crossed with something, or just the wrong variety. Seeds were from my preferred seller, https://www.superhotchiles.com/
I don’t expect 100% perfection. I will continue to buy from him in the future.

Flavor was good. Heat built slowly, and, at the moment of initial taste, before the heat showed up, I thought it tasted like a pimento.

I made a hot sauce, 50% Freeport Orange, 25% 7 pot Jonah, and 25% not pimento. It came out excellent, with a nice heat level but not overly hot.

Not pimento is my biggest most productive plant. I’m debating pruning it some to allow more space for Freeport Orange.

https://imgur.com/a/EsrPNlR
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My Jaloro seeds were from Tomatogrowers.com. I enjoy them, but I wouldn’t consider them as a replacement for more traditional jalapeño.

I grew Lemon Spice jalapeño from two different seed suppliers this year, and the plants seem slightly different. Bakers Creek Lemon Spice starts out a lighter green, and has produced larger pods. Refining Fire Lemon Spice pods start out darker green, and have produced smaller pods. Both have been excellent overall.

I am starting to wonder if there might be just as much difference between the same variety from different seed suppliers, as there is between completely different varieties.

If we are going to have 10 different varieties of Jamaican yellow scotch bonnet, all originating from the same land race, how meaningful are the differences after a decade of generally sloppy reproduction?
 
This is being a nice year for jalapeños. Towers worked well for growing these, and I have had good luck with having the peppers turn out hot. The last couple of years before, I had lots of heatless or nearly heatless jalapeño pods.

One thing I have learned over the years, is that more fertilizer is better. When I firsts started growing peppers, I read the common wisdom that excess fertilizer can reduce productivity. My experience has been that under fertilized plants produce less, and the under fertilized pods are less flavorful.

I have basil and thyme growing in the tower, along with cuttings of sage and Spanish thyme. I had less luck with keeping the basil from flowering this year.

There has been more than enough jalapeños to grab a few to eat whenever I want, and the freezer is also filling up.

The towers aren’t all that photogenic, but there is something very satisfying about them in person.

https://imgur.com/a/h06zmy7
 
It is nice having the entire series - lemon spice, pumpkin spice, and orange spice. Flavor and productivity is good with all 3 varieties.

Lemon spice is my favorite. I need that true yellow color in my garden. Pumpkin spice is more the color of yellow scotch bonnet or other yellow chinense varieties, that generally are not actually yellow.

I wish they had created a red spice jalapeño. Their goal was to create new colors, but they ended up creating simply superior jalapeño varieties that are compact, productive, and remain crisp when fully ripe.

https://imgur.com/a/57t4m9b
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I am starting to wonder if there might be just as much difference between the same variety from different seed suppliers, as there is between completely different varieties.

If we are going to have 10 different varieties of Jamaican yellow scotch bonnet, all originating from the same land race, how meaningful are the differences after a decade of generally sloppy reproduction?
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I'm right in the middle of this loop. This question started popping into my head after I saw so many versions of scotch bonnet grown by THP members; now, when I try other peppers and don't really like them, I always wonder if it's just that one variety or if I'm missing something... I was talking about it here

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When I firsts started growing peppers, I read the common wisdom that excess fertilizer can reduce productivity. My experience has been that under fertilized plants produce less, and the under fertilized pods are less flavorful.
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my experience is similar: unfertilized plants produce less, and the flavor of the fruit changes depending on the soil (and I think also on the type of fertilizer). I did read somewhere that fertilizing reduces spiciness, but I don't remember if it was a paper or not 🤔

The towers you are using are very interesting!
 
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