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And we're off and running... I started these on February 4th. Without heat, things are progressing a little slowly. But I think I'm seeing something in every cell. Here's my grow list for 2022, starting with my AeroGarden seedlings... From Refining Fire Chiles: (2) Piment d'Espelette (2)...

Let's get 2021 started!!!   My grow list is a blend of my yearly regulars, new peppers I want to explore, and unstable crosses.  Like a lot of people, I can never seem to grow enough pepper plants to satisfy all my desires, so I have to make some decisions.   I have a lot of Annuums on my grow...

I'd been keeping a text-only Glog for myself on my computer.  I figured I might as well add some pictures, and share it with everyone here on THP. Here's my current grow list for the year: Annuums Jamaican Yellow Mushroom (3) About 5 or 10 years ago, a friend bought some peppers at a farmer's...

Are there any types of wood chips that are especially good or especially bad for growing peppers.   The local water utility is doing a lot of work in the green space next to my house.   They're cutting down dozens of trees to prepare for their project, and, as luck would have it, they're...

I've run across several stories in my news feed pointing to a study that linked the consumption of peppers to a lower chance of cardiovascular disease.   I guess Google has me well profiled.  :)   Here's a link to on of the articles in USA Today:  ...

Something's been eating just the bottom of peppers!     I hate to admit it, but I may have contributed to this problem.   I've been broadcasting crushed red pepper into my raised beds in an attempt to deter the squirrels.  This may have had the unintended consequence of conditioning the...

I have a stump where I was discarding all my over-ripe and damaged peppers last year.  I was curious to see what kind of volunteers would grow here.   I covered that area over with some mulch, and turned it over a few times.  Aside from one night of freeze protection, I didn't do much else.   No...

I bought some St. Lucia Yellow Seasoning Pepper seeds from a vendor on Etsy.   The seeds germinated OK, but the peppers are not yellow (they mature to red), and it's fairly hot (not a seasoning pepper).   The peppers are definitely a Chinense.  They have that distinctive Chinense flavor, and a...

Tropical Storm Gordon is coming my way!   If I don't get a piece of the eye, then it'll probably be the northeast quadrant.   But I'm stocked up on beer, so I'm ready!   Wish my peppers luck!  :)

I'm growing out some mystery pepper seedlings I received.   They were thought to be some kind of Jalapeño, but the original grower had lost track of exactly where these seed came from.   I'm a sucker for mystery peppers, so I couldn't resist asking for some of these.   I got a late start on...

My neighbor has given up on her garden for the summer. That's not unusual here, she's looking at the Fall garden rather than maintaining her Spring garden.   She asked if I wanted to adopt her Jalapeño.     Why not?   It'll be interesting to see if it bounces back from this.

I haven't been growing peppers many years, so I'm excited to have my first crossed pepper (albeit accidentally crossed).   The mother is Jamaican Yellow Mushroom and I think the father is a Banana Pepper, but I'm not 100% sure.  Pollination was self-supervised, and on the honor system.   The...

A cut worm claimed one of my seedlings.  :tear:     This is the first time I've run into cut worms that I can remember.   Since the damage was done, I started rooting around the area with my trowel, and found this guy...     Let's just say it's now an EX cut worm   Up until now, I hadn't found...

I know you don't typically grow citrus trees from seed.  Most are grafted onto a root stock for another plant.   But I can't resist trying.  :)     I got this seed from some Satsuma's growing on a friend's Owari Satsuma tree.  Out of about eight Satsuma's, I only found two seeds, and this is...

I don’t understand exactly how commercial seed companies are able to produce such consistency in their hybrid seeds. I understand how dominant and recessive gene traits work, but I’m missing something about how they are able to take two different parent plants, and come up with the same...

In the context of Indian food, I often see "green chili peppers" as an ingredient.  What kind of peppers are these?   The Great Google Oracle is giving me answers all over the place, anywhere from an Anaheim Chili Pepper to a Bhut Jolokia.   What are some of the common green chili peppers used...

Uh Oh! When I was taking a load of laundry out of the washing machine, I saw a stray cayenne pepper had found it's way in.  It was mostly in two big pieces, but the seeds are mixed in with my laundry, as well as any Capsaicinoid that was leached out by the detergent. I took out the big pieces...

When harvesting your pods, I want to find out how many people here in the THP community pick/pull their pods from the stalk, and how many use clippers/scissors to snip the pod from the stalk.   I've been using clippers to snip the pods about half-way between the pod and the stalk, which leaves a...