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container Container grown Poblanos?

the plants tend to get very large and are not "idealy" suited to pots unless your doing one plant per pot and the pots where very large
if the pots are too small it could hamper the plants growth and thus cut down on the size and quantity of fruit


still you could could give it a try

thans your friend Joe
 
Yes. I exclusively grow in pots. I grew a poblano for the first time this past season, and even though I wasn't going to initially, I ended up overwintering it. It's a very hearty plant, and was still a deep green late in the Fall when all of the other pepper plants still outside had already lost the last of their leaves - somehow I just didn't have the heart to let it go if it was going to be that tenacious. Plus, it was a good producer. According to chileplants.com, this variety gets from 36" to about 42" tall. It's not as tall as my Douglah, but then my Douglah is in it's third season. I've got it in the same size (large) pot as the douglah though, and am comfortable with keeping it in the same size pot for the coming season.
 
geeme said:
Yes. I exclusively grow in pots. I grew a poblano for the first time this past season, and even though I wasn't going to initially, I ended up overwintering it. It's a very hearty plant, and was still a deep green late in the Fall when all of the other pepper plants still outside had already lost the last of their leaves - somehow I just didn't have the heart to let it go if it was going to be that tenacious. Plus, it was a good producer. According to chileplants.com, this variety gets from 36" to about 42" tall. It's not as tall as my Douglah, but then my Douglah is in it's third season. I've got it in the same size (large) pot as the douglah though, and am comfortable with keeping it in the same size pot for the coming season.
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What size container did you grow the Poblano in?
 
Here's a link to a post in my grow log from a couple summers ago. That was early in the season, but probably shows the pot size the best. The largest pots in the foreground are the size it's in, which is larger than 5 gallons.
 
I grew them in a pot and out of a pot last year. In the pot, they gave me about 20 medium-sized and small poblanos. In the ground, maybe 30 larger ones with a few smaller ones here and there.

The pot was probably a 5 gal equivalent.
 
Most chile plants are large when they are mature and poblano is no exception. They make great rellenos. This one grown in a pot by itself.


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Love this thread. Brings out experinced growers to once again show pot vs ground. Although, there are many different variables of course, but still cool to see the "vs.". I myself was thinking about growing a poblano this year. Looks like ground for this big guy would be better.
 
I grow all my hot peppers and some sweet peppers in 5 gal. pails, good success so far
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during hot days i water every evening
 
I grew poblanos in gallon containers last year and got a few pods. I think I would have gotten about 4-5 pods per plant if I hadn't lost most of them to sunburn. Whether that represents "success" depends on where you set the bar---I think it's clear they would have produced more in larger containers, but they stayed pretty healthy and almost all of them managed to tough out an unusually cold winter and are now coming back.

In little containers like that, I did find that the poblanos were *very* thirsty compared to everything else---during the heat of the summer I was having to water them daily.

-NT
 
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