Experience.........do tell.

[armac]

We have lots of members here, and lots of good experience. My question to everyone, have YOU ever grown a super hot pepper from seed to pod? My thoughts are that experience is the best teacher and making your experience, or lack thereof, public knowledge would help fellow forum member to gauge the advice we give.

I have been growing superhots for a year in April, I have had super hot pods from a purchased Bhut, right now I have 30 super hots plants that I started from seeds and I have pods on 5 plants, none of them ripe yet.

Not to be devisive, just trying to gather our collective experience.

Anybody want to add their experience?

 

[gnslngr]

Various habs(orange,red).annums,fruts,wilds for about 8-10 years-from seed to sauce.Tropical plants 10+ years
3 yrs ago Super hots from purch'd/traded plants and Savinias from seeds-with 0 outside knowledge input(red savs,scotch bonnets,bullets)...no web knowledge input.....
Started 40 seeds from Pepper Joe last season,discovered the Hot Pepper.... followed by 20 starts more in March and May, gave half away, brought 30 through the season.Patrick was mentor extrordinaire-so I made a point of not buggin him this time!.These starts were supplemented with live plants located from a few web sources that happened to be in Houston.Half were in 3-5 gallon pots ,half in the ground.
This season 84 seeded starts, all potted up and 40-50 put in the ground....and another grow going on ,on the vessel...yeah,really

 

[Flamecycle]

I'm pretty newb. I started some seeds really late last season (june or july), but since I live in AZ and we don't have true winters, I got a grip of cayenne, a few bhut pods and 1 yellow 7 pod that never fully ripened, the rest of my plants haven't put any pods out yet... I still have all my plants from last season, many that have flowers now, + I just started some seedlings for this season so I think by fall I should have a decent harvest.

From watching peoples grow logs, you can get a good idea some of the members who definitely know their shit. I'm certainly not one of them, I wont even post pics of my measley plants because I'm embarrassed to compare! You can't fake heaps of towering pepper pictures and buckets/tables full of fresh pods ever few days. There are some pretty amazing pepper growers on this forum, many of whom are very active and willing to give advice too.