It's never too early to get started!

Sooo... 2022 season is over and most of my 2023 plants are already there - no reason not to start a new thread already!

While all my current plants are technically overwinterers, only a couple have grown through the 2022 season and are considered interesting enough to keep for next seasons grow.

Let's start with the famous Schneider farms SB plant, which will be going into it's third season in 2023. It currently doesn't look all that nice but that was also the case during the winter of 2021 so no worries here...

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Next in row is my Scotch Brains plant...

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And then there's the Humble Servants Homestead (HSH) SB, which was also elected to stay for next season...

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[Downriver]

... Overwintered plants take up a lot of room as they grow quite a bit bigger (while not necessarily producing more or earlier...

Well said.

 

[MarcV]

Current state of my little seedlings...
Top left is the 7pot burgundy, center is the KSSR, right is the KSLS.
Below the KSSR is the Scotch Brains and next to that is the Scotch Brains 7pot pheno.

The 2 other diagonally placed pots are a couple of annuums I planted today, mainly to please the wife :
Maria Elena and San Juan Tsile Pueblo, both from RFC. I have these seeds for a long time already, hope they're still good. The San Juan Tsile Pueblo I have grown before and turned out to be really delicious, very sweet with a strong nutty flavor. The Maria Elene is one I haven't tried yet.

I have grown quite a few of the (new) mexican varieties from RFC. They all had one thing in common: they don't really grow very well in my climate. But they do sound very compelling when I read the description of the RFC web site...

I also have some thai basilicum seeds going that I got from Vivian ...

 

[Tinkerbelle]

looking good Marc - what or who is RFC?

 

[MarcV]

Refining Fire Chiles (Super Hot Chiles) by Jim Duffy.

https://www.superhotchiles.com/shop/

There's an interesting (to me) sub-category "native american chiles": https://www.superhotchiles.com/native-chiles/

Be aware though, RFC may not ship to the EU anymore because of import duties. If he does ship to EU, you'll have to pay import duties...

 

[Tinkerbelle]

Repeat after me - I AM NOT BUYING ANY MORE CHILLI SEEDS

 

[Nulle]

Repeat after me - I AM NOT BUYING ANY MORE CHILLI SEEDS

Will it also help if you keep your fingers crossed behind your back while saying it?

 

[Ratatouille]

Repeat after me - I AM NOT BUYING ANY MORE CHILLI SEEDS

Stop showing off your self-restraint, it makes me look weak.

 

[Tinkerbelle]

I'm just waiting for the last lot I bought to arrive then that's it - promise promise promise

 

[MarcV]

Yeah right... until you see something else you don't already have

 

[Tinkerbelle]

Yeah right... until you see something else you don't already have

You can see right into my black heart

 

[MarcV]

Added "Velarde" to the list of annuums... dang... I need space...

Some info on the other annuums...
Maria Elena
San Juan Tsile Pueblo

Love reading about these

 

[Ratatouille]

Great backstory on both those annuums.

 

[Nulle]

Maria Elena sounds like one I'd like to grow

 

[Grass Snake]

Can’t go wrong with the New Mexican varieties.

 

[Tinkerbelle]

I like the sound of Maria Elene - don't make me buy any more seeds

 

[Nulle]

I like the sound of Maria Elene - don't make me buy any more seeds

Are you talking (writing) to yourself?

 

[Tinkerbelle]

Are you talking (writing) to yourself?

yep - as usual - I know Marc is trying to tempt me but it's not going to work, I'm going to be strong and resist

 

[MarcV]

Go for it! I know you want it!

 

[Tinkerbelle]

Nope nope nope - I shall not give in
not yet anyway

 

[PaulG]

Be strong, Sue!