2019 the year of the Scotch Bonnet

I have more than enough SB seeds now, way more than I have room to grow for, so I decided to create a poll to let you people help me in selecting the most interesting varieties!
 
I'm not going to start my grow just yet, that will have to wait for somewhere in February. That is, if I can wait that long!
 
I want to limit my grow to 10 varieties. I can stretch this to 12 if absolutely neccessary but I prefer not to.
 
So let me know what you think!

 

[MarcV]

I have used self adhesive copper tape in the past. I taped it around the stems of my citrus trees requires less tape compared to taping it around the container!
Never seen a copper mesh like that before...
 

 

[lespaulde]

I hate slugs! Indeed copper tape should work, we also often use this kind of solution:

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[PaulG]

Hey, folks. Great slug barrier ideas!

 

[MarcV]

Try fermenting them... it's great as a sauce!

 

[CaneDog]

Try fermenting them... it's great as a sauce!
 
 
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...but I might be wrong...

 
I guess posts like this are why you have your signature disclaimer?

 

[MarcV]

 
I guess posts like this are why you have your signature disclaimer?

 

 

[Ghost Pepper Revolution]

Try fermenting them... it's great as a sauce!

Ohhhh you a sick dude.

You could also get road salt, itll last thru a few rains.

Sauce...this guy

 

[MarcV]

Here's a small update picture of my grow...
 

 
My grow list has changed somewhat...
 
- SB Chocolate
- Scotch Brains
- SB Black River Red
- SB Papa Dreadie
- SB7J
- SB Trenton Farmers Market
- SB Cappuccino
 
Some varieties were eliminated because the seedlings were growing very weakly and I didn't want to start them over. That includes the stuffing SB, which is sad because I was really interested to try it. Also the purple PdN x BMJ gave up for some unclear reason... it stopped growing and wilted...
 
On a positive note some other interesting varieties were added from seeds I got from Lee via the Scotch Bonnet Pepper Aficionados group on Facebook. These are the...
- SB Falmouth : 4 out of 4 germinated (keeping only one as usual)
- SB Walton Farm (isolated seeds from 2017) : planted 4 of them but only one germinated.
- SB Walton Farm (seeds from 2018) : 4 out of 4 germinated but one very weak. Keeping only one.
 
This brings my number of plants for this season to 10

 

[PaulG]

 Some great looking starts, Marc.
 
Sorry to hear of the recent demise
of the PdNxBMJ 
 
Good luck going forward!

 

[MarcV]

Plants are shaping up nicely...
 
The youngest ones :

 
The smaller ones of the first round :

 
The largest ones :

 
Looks like we need another background for picture taking...
Working abroad right now, luckily my daughter takes care of the plants and the pictures!

 

[Trident chilli]

Coming along nicely Mark .... good cross section of bonnets

 

[MarcV]

Wish I had some fruit growing already!

 

[Walchit]

Wish I had some fruit growing already!

Don't we all? Lol

 

[Ghost Pepper Revolution]

Wish I had some fruit growing already!

  

Don't we all? Lol

I third that

 

[MarcV]

In the mean time we can already start making preliminary plans for the 2020 season!

 

[MarcV]

I decided to add a couple of annuums to my grow, varieties that I wanted to grow before I switched to all scotch bonnets :
 
- Mini Piperka
- Orange Pepperoncini
- Yellow Pequin
- Small Thai Orange SSE
 
All from Refining Fire Chillies except the SSE which is from my own harvest of 2017.
 
I'm also trying some seeds from a box of dried Thai chillies my daughter bought somewhere. Not sure how authentic these are or what variety it is. They are hot though...
 

 

[CaneDog]

In the mean time we can already start making preliminary plans for the 2020 season!

 

I don't know...  My 2020 grow list is pretty much maxed out already.  

 

[MarcV]

It's been a while since my last post so here's a small update. I have the first flower buds appearing on one of my bonnet plants! 
It's the black river red... :
 

 
Here they are all together. That's right, only 5 bonnet plants left. I'm playing safe here... It may very well be that bonnets are too hot for me or I might not like the taste. So I kept only the ones that I'm really interested in. I gave the remaining plants away to a Mexican colleague at work who wants to grow his own chiles. In the mean time I started some milder annuum varieties.
The ones I kept are the Black River Red, Papa Dreadie, Scotch Brains, Walton Farm 2017 isolated and Falmouth.
 

 
The annuums I'm growing are the Cirereta, Small Thai Orange SSE, Mini Piperka, Orange Peperoncini, Yellow Pequin and Jeromin.

 

[MarcV]

I'm also trying some seeds from a box of dried Thai chillies my daughter bought somewhere. Not sure how authentic these are or what variety it is. They are hot though...
 

 
Oh and these seeds don't grow... 

 

[MarcV]

The wife sent me this picture this morning when I was at work! 
Looks like our cat had an issue here... Luckily my wife could recover all plants and no real damage was done...