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Hey, HobbyPepper. Here's a few bits of info that may help you. Seeds that are sold commercially as F1 Hybrids are not intended for stabilization. These seeds are meant to grow one generation only, with the next season starting from new F1 seeds. These F1 seeds are produced from very stable...

It's not nitrogen deficiency. It looks a bit like what happens when you put a developed plant in dark and it continues growing without light, but there's also some indications of burning or dehydration in the misshapen leaves and damaged leaf margins. How long of a time period and under what...

Congrat's Tdub! Pepper flowers are strongly self-pollinating and most peppers will pollinate without any assistance, often during the process of the flower opening when a flower's anthers brush against the stigma. If you want to improve the likelihood though, manual pollination with a small...

Looks like the gang is coming along nicely! Bhut varieties often have a ruffled leaf perimeter, but that's something different, most likely related to a lack of water to support the affected leaves during formation. With luck, maybe the soil was just dry at the wrong time and it won't...

I don't really know whether it would make a difference going from freezer to fridge to room temp. I'd take out the minimum seeds possible each time and that isn't much thermal mass, so without the fridge step they'd thaw quite quickly. Seems like transitioning them through the fridge could...

I had a couple bad performers recently that were about 6-8 years old, when normally I have solid results going back that far. Maybe I should follow your lead and do a better job with storage and maintenance for the varieties I don't grow often, but want to have dependably available in the...

Hey Marturo. Sure. I dry my seeds in various ways too. Typically, during colder months when our humidity is low and the heat is running regularly, I put them on top of the Nesco dehydrator for several hours to dry the seeds' outsides quickly, then I just leave them out somewhere with no extra...

Came here to say the biggest factor is likely proper dehydration prior to storage and that the big seed banks store seeds at below freezing, but @BlackFatalii beat me to both points. Not the first time that's happened either! :)

You have some gnarly looking bumpy pods in there. Some nice rocoto pods too!

And I don't see any of them stating that they're selling Hybrid F1 seeds, so are the seeds being sold actual "jalastar" F1 seeds they bought wholesale (and are reselling) or did they grow out F1 hybrids and they're now are selling F2's etc. - which could be significantly different? If Nunhems...

Sound delicious! I hope everything is fine with it.

Nice. Hope you have great luck with them!

Well, your pH is good and low and the sauce looks perfectly fine to me (the white stuff looks like yeast, not mold), but I sure wouldn't want to tell you it's okay and have it not be, especially when I'm just looking at some pictures. You say it tastes fine and I assume there's no bad odor or...

I enjoy seeing little mushrooms pop up from time to time, but I'd say neutral and perhaps a reminder to confirm your environmentals are on target, especially that the soil isn't staying too damp. The mycelium that forms root symbiosis with peppers doesn't produce any visible fruiting bodies, so...

Be careful about losing the dome cold turkey once they're used to it. I'd suggest a break-in period of just cracking it open and/or leaving it off overnight to get them used to the transpiration demands of drier, more intense conditions. Sprouts can dehydrate quickly and not recover if the...

For getting decent production from a container with soil (as opposed to hydro), I'd probably use at least a nursery #5, which is a 10.75 inch diameter. Going a little bigger, like a #7, would probably result in a bigger plant - mine in the ground and raised beds have always been bigger than...

Can't answer that, but I can say that if you're going to the brewing store you're doing something right!

I think Semillas la Palma has some very good rocoto offerings - SLP's rocoto page. Here's a quick take on what they have that I've really liked. I have seeds for all these, but most are a few years old now and only a few were isolated. I'd be happy to share seeds from a mix of the varieties...

I've grown lots of pubescens and overwinter several each year in my garage. In my experience, they won't tolerate frost and are good with the same soil/media as others, although I've seen some indication they may not like the soil quite as hot (as in heavy nutrients) as some other peppers...