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contest Ají Charapita Growdown Throwdown 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.
Pic shows close to actual size.
cheers
WatchingPeppersGrow
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Pepper-Guru
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First Harvest: 14g
Second Harvest: 695g
Third Harvest: 1085g
Total So far: 1,794g
Second Harvest: 695g
Third Harvest: 1085g
Total So far: 1,794g
Pepper-Guru
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MarcV
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Next growdown will be bell peppers...
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.
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.
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).
Downriver
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Pepper-Guru
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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.
I am sorry but I have been so busy this year, that pepper gardening took a back seat. I spent over an hour today picking this batch. The bag weighed about 0.3 oz so this is like 1 lb 2.5 oz worth of charapitas. Rich, your plant is insane. Congrats! Excellent job!
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Nice looking harvest!
Pepper-Guru
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First Harvest: 14g
Second Harvest: 695g
Third Harvest: 1085g
Fourth and MAYBE FINAL HARVEST: 1805g
Total so far: 3599g
Colombia next week with Alan Rockefeller for a mushroom foray and wild capsicum hunt. I’m assuming this is my last harvest, but who knows what will still be left after I get back. Maybe the frost won’t come until December, here in Atlanta.
Second Harvest: 695g
Third Harvest: 1085g
Fourth and MAYBE FINAL HARVEST: 1805g
Total so far: 3599g
Colombia next week with Alan Rockefeller for a mushroom foray and wild capsicum hunt. I’m assuming this is my last harvest, but who knows what will still be left after I get back. Maybe the frost won’t come until December, here in Atlanta.
MarcV
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Maybe change your user name?
Pepper-Guru
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Remember, first the capsica and then the derrumbes.