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Happy belated birthday John!    Your plants are looking really lush. Has your weather picked up yet, I've heard you've had a bit of a tough start on your summer.   What size air pots are you using? I've got 5 chinense in 3 litre air pots, one or two of yours are in them, but they seem to...

  Cheers John! I haven't had to support it yet, but the branches hang down on the table so it isn't so bad. I believe I should have the yellow variety, but a lot of the pepperlover seeds I got from that batch have been a little off. At least the general shape looks about right.  Did you like the...

  Wow, that's quite a difference. We don't get temperatures over 30 really. So when selecting rocotos to grow I picked ones that can grow in any climate, just to make sure I'd get some fruit. 

  It's crazy how big this one got, I did not expect that. So far I've been really happy with the growth and pod setting, I might have close to 20 pods as well, varying sizes though. I'm giving this one liquid fertiliser with every watering and the pod size got larger after that. We have not had...

  Now that's a beautiful sight! I love finding discarded flower petals. 

Beautiful shots Chris! What tomato variety was that? 

    Ah, but is it as wide as mine? This boy is only in a 3.6 litre pot.   

I'm starting to see tiny fruits on my greenhouse chinenses. Now that I've pruned off the lower leaves on my tomatoes I think the pollinators have been able to find the plants hiding there.    This is my Habanero Manzano, not the largest fruit there is, but it has firmly set.   I now realise...

Gave the tomatoes in the greenhouse a well needed pruning. I took off a lot of the lower leaves, and I can finally see my peppers down there! I hope the pollinators will take notice as well now.    Given the foliage the plants have, I doubt they'll notice I stripped them of some leaves.   ...

                Thank you for the kind words!

Quickie picture update.    That Aji Oro rocoto is getting huge, and no sign of stopping flower production. The fruit are about half the size they should be, and that's probably because the pot is on the small side.    I like these three, the plants themselves look really similar. From left to...

  Wow, I can't even comprehend having that many pepper plants. I think I have 40-45 this year and even that's quite a few. I mean, what will you do with all the fruit? That many peppers must be enough for the next 10 years.

I'm always impressed with that HUGE field of peppers you have. I'm sure I read it somewhere but can't recall, how many plants do you have growing this year? 

Ah, I picked up the achocha seeds too, but never got around to planting mine, just didn't have the space. I'd be really interested to see how yours turn out. 

  You're completely right. I hope you don't mind. You sent me a lot of extra seeds so I decided to share them with Ohjay.    And Ohjay, the pictures are great! The peppers look so pretty once they start to turn colour. Looking forward to the reviews on all of them, especially the reaper XD

  Cheers! I'm stoked with how my grow is going so far, it's only the end of June and I'm way ahead of where I was last year. We've had amazing weather since the start of May, and the plants have been thriving.    I think I'll put up a few more progress picks whilst I'm at it.   Peas have run out...

Look at that flower cluster!      The cherry tomatoes have been hitting the roof of the greenhouse lately, it's quite the jungle in there! The full sized tomatoes are doing well too, but one variety seems to have started developing BER which is really strange. I feed it it with tomato...

  I'm growing both Lemon Drop and Aji Pineapple this year, both come very highly recommended. I grew the Aji Melecoton last year, it was a decent pepper too.

  I'm sure someone must have mentioned this one before, but Aji Cito was actually a really nice baccatum. I really liked it. Not that I've grown many varieties, but I could easily see it being my staple baccatum in the future. 

Oh, I nearly forgot, I harvested my NOT Colombian Yellow pepper today. It's a baccatum, so not super hot. Quick front of tongue burn, it smelled like a pepper and tasted like a pepper, maybe a little on the flowery side. Haha, I really don't know, the colour was really cool, I ate half a pod for...