contest Ají Charapita Growdown Throwdown 2024

Do you have what it takes to be crowned the Growdown Throwdown King or Queen in 2024?

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Here are some of the Charapita I've harvested so far. Many went into salads and on nachos, things like that, I'm I've given some away. Mostly I just dry them in my dehydrator and they can go to make pepper flakes as I need them later. My Peruvian Cerezo has also been yielding a nice harvest. The Charapita taste a little bit better and are a bit hotter IMO.
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WatchingPeppersGrow
 
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NJChilehead said:
It's funny that you say that, just yesterday I was pondering how huge the plants are that @Pepper-Guru grows in those grow bags, and was wondering what a bell pepper would look like in that set up. Probably a friggin tree with enough bell peppers to fill your freezer. I love it.
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I've grown Bell peppers a bunch of times in cloth grow bags like I do my other pepper plants, they actually don't get that big. This year my Sugar Rush Peach Striped towered over them.
 
watchingpeppersgrow said:
I've grown Bell peppers a bunch of times in cloth grow bags like I do my other pepper plants, they actually don't get that big. This year my Sugar Rush Peach Striped towered over them.
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Interesting! They've always been relatively squat and short when I grew them in my garden as well. One of the worst as far as size in my experience is Shishito (I know its not a bell pepper but the plants are always tiny).
 
MarcV said:
Next growdown will be bell peppers...
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NJChilehead said:
It's funny that you say that, just yesterday I was pondering how huge the plants are that @Pepper-Guru grows in those grow bags, and was wondering what a bell pepper would look like in that set up. Probably a friggin tree with enough bell peppers to fill your freezer. I love it.
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watchingpeppersgrow said:
I've grown Bell peppers a bunch of times in cloth grow bags like I do my other pepper plants, they actually don't get that big. This year my Sugar Rush Peach Striped towered over them.
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NJChilehead said:
Interesting! They've always been relatively squat and short when I grew them in my garden as well. One of the worst as far as size in my experience is Shishito (I know its not a bell pepper but the plants are always tiny).
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Downriver said:
Yeah, true for most people, but you're forgetting the @Pepper-Guru effect. :crazy::lol:
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Bell types get just as big as any other types. They just are less forgiving of early rapid growth conditions. If you provide large root zones, and loose nutrient rich mediums, they get gigantic. I’ll post a few photos of all the Bell/Pimiento I’m growing in #15’s this year when I get off work.
 
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