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Sweet looking harvest! Hopefully we won't get any frosts until October. Looks like you have quite a lot of pods to harvest yet in there. 

I harvested my largest pepper yesterday. It's supposed to be a Farmer's Market Jalapeño.   I'm not convinced that it is though, the rest of the peppers on the plant aren't as large, but there's very little corking going on. (The image seems to have come out a lot brighter than intended.)   ...

  I had one with some scrambled eggs yesterday. I agree that it's extremely aromatic. One wasn't particularly hot for me. I'll try two or three next time. I'm not sure I was too impressed with the taste at the end of the day, but I'm still reserving judgement until I've tried some more.   ...

    Cheers. I think mine might have been on for a little bit over a month now, so any day? The excitement is killing me, I really want to taste these. 

That as one impressive harvest! I have to ask, how long did it take for your rocoto mini to mature? I feel like mine have been on forever, and are still green. 

Super quickie harvest post.   I'm getting lots of Aji Oro, I think I've harvested nearly 10 more since taking this picture. I'm cutting them in half and popping them in the freezer, along with the Aji Lemon/Pineapple to make a sauce later on. I am extremely pleased with the size of these pubes. ...

  The ristra is quite easy to make with these smaller peppers. I literally just use a needle and thread and just add more on as they mature.      I've only really tried the Aji Oro so far, but I was blown away by it. If they're all like that I might be hooked on pubes.      That's a good...

  It's my first time trying, but I've only got one fruit on each plant, they have both aborted all other fruit. If I'm lucky enough to be able to harvest them soonish I might have time for a second set of fruit. These are not supposed to get huge. 

Edit - Double post.

My growbag pumpkins are shaping up. I put a bed of straw under them. I've had one of each variety take, but nothing more than that, which is probably due to them not having much space to spread the roots.    

  I feared that to be honest. Most of them seem to turn purple, despite being hidden in the canopy. I've never had a fresh tabasco fruit so I would not be able to tell if it's even a cros with a tabasco.      Cheers, yeah, surprisingly they've done really well in my climate. Turns out I also...

Quickie photo update. I was tying up my Rio Huallaga (I think) Rocoto, just to keep the fruit and branches off the ground. I snapped a few pictures of it. It has a decent amount of good sized fruit on it. I think I'd like to make a rocoto sauce now actually. I've had quite a few Aji Oros come in...

  I normally go around with the garden hose and shower the pots, so it really does get everywhere. Swedes actually use sand for pool filters, I learnt this yesterday.      That sounded like quite an interesting sauce, I can't even imagine what it'd taste like, but I like all those ingredients...

Sonka, thank you for posting the list! I wanted to ask you about the Kenya variety, do you have any info on the pepper, colour, shape, sub family etc?   Lucky Luke, would you care to elaborate on what those balcony cherries are or how they look? Also, the Jalapeño Señorita, my quick google...

  I've heard of people putting salt on slugs they find, but would table salt not wash away or dissolve every time you water your plants? I tend to water the greenhouse ones everyday, or close enough.      I'm glad you enjoyed the review! It seems to be an old discussion whether the...

  Yeah, those blue things are slug pellets. Slugs eat them and then just crawl away to die.    I can't take credit for the cross, I think it's been around a few years by now. I think the Mexicans crossed it at some point? 

  Cheers! Quite a few of the plants in the greenhouse have holes, it's actually slugs, I've had quite a problem with them all summer. I've been throwing in slug pellets and cutting them in half. They just keep coming back.    It's supposedly a cross, the seeds were white though, and it looks a...

I'm afraid I don't have that much to add at this point in time.    My two Margariteños only recently started flowering, but I have yet to see one set. It's two plants in that one 18 litre pot.    And the Jobito had some problems early on, it only just seems to have recovered, did see some buds...

Photos! I love taking photos of my peppers, I'm sure you guys feel the same.    We had some really nasty winds two days ago, quite a few pots fell over, but mum's flowers seem to have cushioned the fall a bit. One fruit fell off, a non fruit bearing branch and a lot of the support sticks...

Wow, that's quite an impressive list you've got there. I wish you the best of luck!