I got started a bit later this year(by design). Now I'm regretting the decision to do so. Many of my plants are still tiny. My largest are only about two inches tall.
Quite a few of my seeds germinated but the cotties struggled to uncurl or the terminal half turned brown. Although many survived their growth has been slow. It wasn't damping off but I wonder if to much water was to blame.
But, I am under way now.
While a few of these were started just to give to friends, I'll probably not be able to resist growing them all myself as well.
I'm pretty excited about this year's list. I am leaning a bit more to the sweet and sweet/heat peppers in deference to my taste for canned sweet-hots.
Corbaci Sweet
Zololisty
Sugar Rush Cream
Cream Fatalii
Aji Jobito
Aji Rosita Yellow
Aji Rosita Red
Aji Margariteno
Aji Pepon
Aji Llaneron
Pimenta Barra do Ribeiro
Brazilian Starfish
Bolsa de Dulce
Ethiopian Brown
El Oro de Ecuador
Guajillo
CAP 267
Aji Angelo
Big Jim (World Record but not likely in my garden)
Bhut Jolokia White
Queen Laurie
Serrano (sweet)
Devil's Tongue Red
Tepin x Lemon Drop F4
Pimenta de Neyda
Wild Brazil
Galapagos Red x CNG 21500
Trinidad Scorpion Yellow CARDI
Slonovo Uvo
Lemon Drop
Marupi
Pimenta L
Early Jalapeno
Sante Fe Grande
Ecuadorian Sweet Rocato
Some old friends and some new.
Some disappointments not even out of the gate.
Zololisty, Sugar Rush Cream, Aji Rosita Yellow, Aji Pepon, Aji Llaneron, and El Oro de Ecuador have not germinated or immediately died. I even tried, to no avail, a second round of seed. This is the second year in a row I've failed with El Oro de Ecuador and with different seed sources no less. I really want to grow these, so I'll probably try again next year.
Ethiopian Brown is quite a departure from what I would typically choose to grow. The description was so enticing I had to give it a try.
I wanted a hot pepper that matured white for use in some white hot sauces this year. I settled on the Bhut Jolokia White after I tasted a pod sent to me last year by inolan22. That pepper, with the requisite Jolokia heat, had such a clean, bright taste that I was sold. I am growing from the seed saved from Isaac's pepper.
Serrano (sweet) is interesting. I am not certain what I will have here. I grew these last year. The seed was saved from a normal Serrano pepper I got in a SFRB the previous year. I just wanted to grow some Serrano peppers. But, instead of normal Serrano peppers, my plant produced pods with a broader shoulder and more of a sweetness than a Serrano.
Devil's Tongue Red. These I tasted last year and really liked the flavor. Plenty hot but the flavor still shined through.
MiChris sent me a whole box of his Galapagos Red x CNG 21500 cross last year as well as some isolated seed. A very good pepper. I wasn't sure they would make my cut this season until I opened a jar of them I had canned in a sweet-hot brine. So good, they were on for this year for sure!
I also have two over wintered peppers. There's a heavily branched 30" Bolsa de Dulce that is leafing out really well in the grow room and a Cream Fatalii. Only one 15" branch survived the winter on the Cream Fatalii but it is covered with healthy leaves. I should have some early peppers of two delicious varieties!
And so it begins!
I'll post pics later when (hopefully) I'm not embarrassed by how my plants look!
Quite a few of my seeds germinated but the cotties struggled to uncurl or the terminal half turned brown. Although many survived their growth has been slow. It wasn't damping off but I wonder if to much water was to blame.
But, I am under way now.
While a few of these were started just to give to friends, I'll probably not be able to resist growing them all myself as well.
I'm pretty excited about this year's list. I am leaning a bit more to the sweet and sweet/heat peppers in deference to my taste for canned sweet-hots.
Corbaci Sweet
Cream Fatalii
Aji Jobito
Aji Rosita Red
Aji Margariteno
Pimenta Barra do Ribeiro
Brazilian Starfish
Bolsa de Dulce
Ethiopian Brown
Guajillo
CAP 267
Aji Angelo
Big Jim (World Record but not likely in my garden)
Bhut Jolokia White
Queen Laurie
Serrano (sweet)
Devil's Tongue Red
Tepin x Lemon Drop F4
Pimenta de Neyda
Wild Brazil
Galapagos Red x CNG 21500
Trinidad Scorpion Yellow CARDI
Slonovo Uvo
Lemon Drop
Marupi
Pimenta L
Early Jalapeno
Sante Fe Grande
Ecuadorian Sweet Rocato
Some old friends and some new.
Some disappointments not even out of the gate.
Zololisty, Sugar Rush Cream, Aji Rosita Yellow, Aji Pepon, Aji Llaneron, and El Oro de Ecuador have not germinated or immediately died. I even tried, to no avail, a second round of seed. This is the second year in a row I've failed with El Oro de Ecuador and with different seed sources no less. I really want to grow these, so I'll probably try again next year.
Ethiopian Brown is quite a departure from what I would typically choose to grow. The description was so enticing I had to give it a try.
I wanted a hot pepper that matured white for use in some white hot sauces this year. I settled on the Bhut Jolokia White after I tasted a pod sent to me last year by inolan22. That pepper, with the requisite Jolokia heat, had such a clean, bright taste that I was sold. I am growing from the seed saved from Isaac's pepper.
Serrano (sweet) is interesting. I am not certain what I will have here. I grew these last year. The seed was saved from a normal Serrano pepper I got in a SFRB the previous year. I just wanted to grow some Serrano peppers. But, instead of normal Serrano peppers, my plant produced pods with a broader shoulder and more of a sweetness than a Serrano.
Devil's Tongue Red. These I tasted last year and really liked the flavor. Plenty hot but the flavor still shined through.
MiChris sent me a whole box of his Galapagos Red x CNG 21500 cross last year as well as some isolated seed. A very good pepper. I wasn't sure they would make my cut this season until I opened a jar of them I had canned in a sweet-hot brine. So good, they were on for this year for sure!
I also have two over wintered peppers. There's a heavily branched 30" Bolsa de Dulce that is leafing out really well in the grow room and a Cream Fatalii. Only one 15" branch survived the winter on the Cream Fatalii but it is covered with healthy leaves. I should have some early peppers of two delicious varieties!
And so it begins!
I'll post pics later when (hopefully) I'm not embarrassed by how my plants look!
) not mind the moisture!
