Comptine's Swedish Glog 2016

stickman · Jun 2, 2016

Comptine said:
Hmm, well, looking at the map we're pretty much on the same level as the middle of Canada, so a lot further north than you are. We also have a lot of water surrounding us stabilising the temperature. I do imagine the sun is quite angled. Our summers rarely get hotter than 95F, and that's pretty high for us. We sit around 77-90F mostly. Night temps are around 50-65F, hotter night do happen occasionally. The poor greenhouse can get pretty warm during the day though, even with both windows and the door open. Last year I tried growing melons outside, obviously that didn't go too well. This year I've got two plants in the greenhouse, no idea how that'll look once they actually take off, but here's to a gardeners optimism!

Thanks for sharing... I was curious how it worked out with the difference in our latitudes. I think you get more daylight hours around the solstice, and we get more high-angle sun. Hopefully it averages out.

Comptine · Jun 12, 2016

We're getting to the point in the season where the plants are just exploding with growth and it's all just so overwhelming. I'm not just growing peppers but a lot of other things too, that I need to keep an eye on. The peppers actually just mind themselves a lot of the time.

I'm calling it on the Aji Oro now, we do indeed have fruit! Quite a few actually, it's loaded with flowers and tiny pods.

The Zimbabwe Birds has flowers and pods.

Now this is one that I'm really excited about, there was little info to be found on this one. It's called Chinese Pot, I got it from the European Seed Train. It's a super slow grower, but it's got lots of tiny buds on it.

This is my Prik Kee No Suan, I've kept the 'small red fruits' in smaller pots, since they produce more fruit, quantity wise, and this is the season for testing different peppers, so I didn't need many.

That tall thing in the back was supposed to be a Colombian yellow, but honestly the only resemblance to it is the vine like growing habit. I sent pepperlover an email asking if it's a different pepper or a cross, she reckons a rogue seed must have been mixed up in the bag. The pods were supposed to be elongated and yellow, which they obviously aren't.
The white pot to the left contains an over wintered peruvian purple, and in front of the colombian I have a coffee plant and a mini pomegranate.

The grill spot peppers are moving along, some flowering, some setting pods. The cayennes seem to have been the fastest ones to set pods actually. I'm comparing Golden cayenne to Yellow cayenne this year, I honestly don't thing there's a difference, but you can't have enough cayenne.

It's getting hard to get a group shot of the greenhouse peppers, the tomatoes are blocking them a little, but they've all bushed up pretty nicely.

My Chupentinho is budding up nicely, I'm getting really excited about trying the fruits.

az1000 · Jun 12, 2016

Great update!
Nice to see the Aji Oro pods.
I have some Aji Oro pods too,my plant set from the first flower.

Comptine · Jun 12, 2016

az1000 said:
Great update!
Nice to see the Aji Oro pods.
I have some Aji Oro pods too,my plant set from the first flower.

I just got caught up with your glog! So far both look the same XD
Yeah, no, mine dropped a few flowers first, but now it's in crazy production mode. I'm really looking forward to trying a rocoto. The other plants are outside, and whilst they're budding up I haven't seen any flowers open yet.

Oh, I should take this opportunity to post a few more pictures!

I have 4 plants in 1litre air pots inside at the moment, I ran out of soil and haven't bought any more yet. But all 4 have pods on them. One of them is the omnicolor, and it looks really cool, the pods looked a bit yellow when they first started, but more white now.

My four Russian Sweet peppers, they're all either brown or purple I think. Anyway, they're catching up. We only grow them as a novelty really.

This is an over wintered bishops hat. It used to be in a 1.4 litre pot, and it had buds when I replanted it over a month ago. Once it got the bigger pod it put off actually opening the flowers and decided to bush up instead. I really want some fruit off it now.

Trident chilli · Jun 12, 2016

Great update Alana ... plants are flying now

Spicegeist · Jun 12, 2016

Comptine said:
We're getting to the point in the season where the plants are just exploding with growth and it's all just so overwhelming. I'm not just growing peppers but a lot of other things too, that I need to keep an eye on. The peppers actually just mind themselves a lot of the time.

Everything looks beautiful. Nice work!

OCD Chilehead · Jun 12, 2016

Beautiful update.

Interested in seeing how the Chinese pot turns out. I wonder if pod's grow upright. I have a Chinese, Chi - Chien growing this year. It's a slow starter, but it's sure bushy.

The Prik Kee Noo is going to be a heavy producer. Very big plant. Every time I try to grow them, they end up short and bushy.

Over all, the garden is coming along nicely.

Thanks for sharing.

stickman · Jun 12, 2016

Beautiful job Alana, I'm lovin' the pod pics! You certainly seem to have things figured out for your growing area.

Comptine · Jun 13, 2016

Trident chilli said:
Great update Alana ... plants are flying now

Cheers! They really are flying along this year, I'm so pleased.

Spicegeist said:
Everything looks beautiful. Nice work!

Thanks for popping in!

OCD Chilehead said:
Beautiful update.

Interested in seeing how the Chinese pot turns out. I wonder if pod's grow upright. I have a Chinese, Chi - Chien growing this year. It's a slow starter, but it's sure bushy.

The Prik Kee Noo is going to be a heavy producer. Very big plant. Every time I try to grow them, they end up short and bushy.

Over all, the garden is coming along nicely.

Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, I'm really excited about the Chinese Pot, I'm not sure what to expect as there really isn't much info on it out there on the web. Thanks for looking!

stickman said:
Beautiful job Alana, I'm lovin' the pod pics! You certainly seem to have things figured out for your growing area.

Haha, cheers, I had to have a plan from the start. Last year was all just working things out as I went along and it wasn't very effective. This year I drew a sketch of each area I had and planned it before I even put a seed in the soil. I'm really happy with how things are looking so far.

Comptine · Jun 13, 2016

Oh, I nearly forgot, I harvested my NOT Colombian Yellow pepper today. It's a baccatum, so not super hot. Quick front of tongue burn, it smelled like a pepper and tasted like a pepper, maybe a little on the flowery side. Haha, I really don't know, the colour was really cool, I ate half a pod for breakfast. Got about 20 more ripening now, then I'll probably compost the plant, it's taking up too much space. Really cool plant, and I'm happy to have grown it, even if it's not the most exciting pepper.

OCD Chilehead · Jun 13, 2016

That's a cool looking pod. Looks tasty. Reminds me of an Apricot.

willow · Jun 13, 2016

Looks juicy, great colour, nice to have some mysteries in life.

stickman · Jun 14, 2016

Yeah... the Ajis do tend to have a more floral taste and aroma... sometimes they even come across as a bit soapy. I love the way they grow here, but I'm still looking for a clean-tasting variety to plant every year.

Comptine · Jun 14, 2016

stickman said:
Yeah... the Ajis do tend to have a more floral taste and aroma... sometimes they even come across as a bit soapy. I love the way they grow here, but I'm still looking for a clean-tasting variety to plant every year.

I'm sure someone must have mentioned this one before, but Aji Cito was actually a really nice baccatum. I really liked it. Not that I've grown many varieties, but I could easily see it being my staple baccatum in the future.

stickman · Jun 14, 2016

Comptine said:
I'm sure someone must have mentioned this one before, but Aji Cito was actually a really nice baccatum. I really liked it. Not that I've grown many varieties, but I could easily see it being my staple baccatum in the future.

Thanks for the testimonial.

I'll have to give it a go next season. Cheers!

az1000 · Jun 15, 2016

Comptine said:
I'm sure someone must have mentioned this one before, but Aji Cito was actually a really nice baccatum. I really liked it. Not that I've grown many varieties, but I could easily see it being my staple baccatum in the future.

Did you grow Lemon drop?
This is my favorite Baccatum now.
I'm eager to try Aji Cito this year .

Comptine · Jun 15, 2016

az1000 said:
Did you grow Lemon drop?
This is my favorite Baccatum now.
I'm eager to try Aji Cito this year .

I'm growing both Lemon Drop and Aji Pineapple this year, both come very highly recommended. I grew the Aji Melecoton last year, it was a decent pepper too.

willow · Jun 15, 2016

Comptine said:
I'm sure someone must have mentioned this one before, but Aji Cito was actually a really nice baccatum. I really liked it. Not that I've grown many varieties, but I could easily see it being my staple baccatum in the future.

Good to know I happened to just order some of these seeds as well as the Aji Pineapple. Good times ahead.

az1000 · Jun 15, 2016

Comptine said:
I'm growing both Lemon Drop and Aji Pineapple this year, both come very highly recommended. I grew the Aji Melecoton last year, it was a decent pepper too.

Aji Pineapple didn't liked .
Another good one is Aji Omnicolor .
Last year I had Aji Amarillo but it was sick and failed to make pods.
Maybe I will have more luck this year.

Comptine · Jun 27, 2016

Quickie picture update.

That Aji Oro rocoto is getting huge, and no sign of stopping flower production. The fruit are about half the size they should be, and that's probably because the pot is on the small side.

I like these three, the plants themselves look really similar. From left to right we have Zimbabwe Bird, Chinese Pot and Prik Kee No Suan. All three have flowers and fruit. I'm really happy about that.

Grill area peppers are growing well, I think nearly all are flowering.

I have a huge bishops hat plant, it's actually overwintered, but it didn't get any fruit las year due to late sowing. It had been in a tiny pot throughout winter, and when it finally started forming flowers I repotted it into this, so it thought 'Hey, let's hold off on fruit and just grow really large for two months!' I'm finally seeing some flowers now.

Aji Omnicolour

The cayennes are super productive! And the Mini Rocoto has beautiful dark purple flowers in the background there.

I'm looking forward to getting Aji Charapita fruit.

I've had two rocotos with bad fert burt, the new leaves seem to look healthier, but it has set this one back a bit.

And this is the only picture I can get of the chinenses, the tomatoes are just blocking them from the inside. I need to get some marigolds in there to attract pollinators because we have lots of flowers!