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Ha, so I go back out this afternoon and it seems this heat is causing almost every pepper on the plants to ripen. So, another brief update is in order. 7Pot Brain Strain Yellow. :woohoo: Smooth skinned, but early pods are often wonky. I also got very excited when I saw the Datil cross...

My thoughts exactly. I usually just dry them and grind them up, or toss a few diced fresh into food. Since they're so small it's easy to control the amount of heat. These wouldn't be such a trouble to harvest if not for the fact that they are firmly attached to the calyx. I've been wanting a...

Thanks! And nice looking serranos. I love seeing the variability among a single variety. Like I mentioned, I have two strains of White Hab, one that is a bit larger (I'd say 2 centimeters on average) and with the typical irregular Habish appearance, and the other is round and TINY. The former...

:rofl: Don't remind me. Icing in a bucket... ew... Sounds good! More pods is never a bad thing. Sure. I just picked these up at a local garden center because they looked healthy and I didn't have any annums at that point. These are looking to be long and thin, we just got some in at the...

Weather's heating up again and everything is taking off... something is eating my cucumber seedlings, but other than that no issues. It's quiet... too quiet. Anyway, the chinenses in particular are looking mighty fine. This is why I never bother topping my plants; they do just fine on their own...

In some cases hybrids can just be treated as hybrids and left at that. I'm talking more about people marketing F1 hybrids with a unique name. I understand why they do it for proprietary reasons, but it's still annoying. Hybrids are a big business for seed companies, as it basically ensures...

Yep... the practice of naming hybrids is kind of silly in my opinion, though I understand it's done for proprietary reasons in most cases.

I don't know what I'd call it, but I ended up with one this year. In the interest of not hijacking this thread, I'll just say look at my grow log if you're curious. As far at the poster's question is concerned, Jalapeno and Serrano are similar, so there's not much benefit to crossing. I'd at...

Speaking of crosses... I think I'll just call this post "The Experiment" I started a lot of peppers this year for the space I had, yet I couldn't bring myself to get rid of more than a handful. As a compromise, I made space in the garden and I'm going to let them fight Highlander-style- too...

Finally got the rain I wanted and the plants have exploded overnight... always amazing what a little rain can do in spite of all of our effort controlling ferts, watering, etc. I seem to have successfully selected for the more rounded berry like trait in the White Habs... I noticed two pod...

Plants aren't looking as good as they should, I'm a bit concerned because May is supposed to be our wettest month and we've received a negligible amount of rain so far... I can already hear the farmers grumbling. This could be a bad summer, you can see the grass starting to dry up in some of the...

I think I'll let mine grow a bit more before I take any cuttings, but I might take you up on that soon. I'll probably be removing the new growth further down; I've heard you should only have a couple vines until they reach the top of the support. Purple Haze, American Beauty, and Lake Atitlan...

Apparently the birds have discovered the peppers, I will need to invest in bird netting... They can have the Mini Minis, too much of a pain to pick, but going after my Brazilian small reds and Tepin crosses? No sir. :shame: (this adds another layer of challenge to isolating pods that I never...

I've noticed something is eating the new growth, there are areas where the tissue is scarred and thin, but I haven't found the culprits yet... ants love the dew excreted near the spines, but other than that I haven't noticed any pests.

For their size the walls are thick, but they're seedy as hell (makes the prospect of growing out the cross easier, but that's something I'd like to breed out if I can, though tepins are kind of notorious for this). I'll wait and see how they taste when they're ripe. I imagine they'd make some...

Figured I'd do an update for some the crosses. I don't know if I'd go so far as calling this one a cross, but I've noticed two phenotypes in my Aji Amarillo small strains... first photos shows the typical larger somewhat flattened pods, the second has smaller, narrower, and more uniform...

Haha, still in Illinois last I checked... According to Wikipedia the humid subtropical climate zone pokes its way into southern Illinois, so that might have something to do with it. We're currently experiencing optimal pepper growing weather.

I've seen a couple of them put out new growth on their own, so maybe they just start branching after the get to a certain size. The weight of the vines will cause them to droop down, I've already had a problem with a few and it's starting to happen again with some of the new growth. I'll need to...

Not to neglect my non-chile plants, I bought a mixed pack of heirloom tomatoes and some of them are starting to bloom... judging by the potato leaves on this one I'm going to guess Brandywine. I'm trying a few more eggplant this year. Last year they got massacred by the flea beetles, I might...

Weather has warmed and it's high time I post an update... **** these things grow fast. I don't know how well my MacGyver'ed support structure will hold up as time goes on, but considering this will be the last season before I need to move them it probably won't matter too much. The individual...