I am a noob. I've freely admitted it before, but just to preface this... I've got a good amount of gardening experience but have never ventured into territory hotter than habanero until this year. I ended up stockpiling seeds for about 220 varieties. Many are just 5-10 varieties I've traded with various THP folks. In my recent obsession to learn as much as possible, I dove head first into this site and spend hours upon hours looking at pictures of peppers & reading up on them. I'm hooked big time.
One slight frustration I've had is not having a clear resource to go to for uniform pepper info. I think it would be really helpful to have an online spreadsheet with the following information:
* Name
* Species
* Photo
* Color
* Plant size
* Pod size
* Country of origin or history
* Best uses
* Taste
* Scoville Units
* Days to maturity
* Productivity of plants
* Anecdotal narrative
And this list would cover not just the 50-75 varieties that seem to pop up often on people's grow lists- it would be as exhaustive as possible. Semillas site comes closest to this that I've seen, with a huge list that's easy to navigate, but I haven't found one site with all of the information I'd like. I'm a high school teacher & track/cross country coach. In an effort to pass time, allow me to work on cross country stuff during class, put together a pepper resource I wanted, & maybe teach kids a tiny bit about something for my Global Awareness class, I had them fill in a google doc I created with the above information for about 120 varieties of peppers I was looking to grow at the time. That was over a month ago & there have been a lot added to the list & a few taken off. Also, I'm not sure I can trust much of the info kids found. For Chocolate Habanero, a kid typed in that the pods look like a "gnarly poop ball." Then again, I guess that is accurate.
Along with the basic observations of each variety, I'd also like to have a sort of ranking system of families of peppers that relies on visitors' input. Categories that I see questions about on here a lot: Best Superhot, Best Great Taste/Mid Level Heat, Best Habanero, Best 7 Pot, etc. I've got to admit when it comes to something like which 7 Pot to plant: Jonah, Barrakpore, Primo, Brain Strain, India Carbon, Mad Ballz, Bubblegum, etc., etc., etc... It's difficult to get a feel for which direction to go. They're all red. They're all hot. But which do people who know prefer & why?
I don't think it would be outlandish to think you could come up with 400+ varieties to feature on a site like this- a lot of work for one person. I'd hate to have such a valuable resource in a public Google doc- open to anyone to alter, but perhaps there's a method I don't know about that is similar to that that would allow people to add info but not delete anything or alter anything others added. T'would stink to have someone wreck everything maliciously or otherwise. ...or maybe there's a way for people to submit info and an administrator approve it before it was added.
Any interest in something like this? Ideas?
One slight frustration I've had is not having a clear resource to go to for uniform pepper info. I think it would be really helpful to have an online spreadsheet with the following information:
* Name
* Species
* Photo
* Color
* Plant size
* Pod size
* Country of origin or history
* Best uses
* Taste
* Scoville Units
* Days to maturity
* Productivity of plants
* Anecdotal narrative
And this list would cover not just the 50-75 varieties that seem to pop up often on people's grow lists- it would be as exhaustive as possible. Semillas site comes closest to this that I've seen, with a huge list that's easy to navigate, but I haven't found one site with all of the information I'd like. I'm a high school teacher & track/cross country coach. In an effort to pass time, allow me to work on cross country stuff during class, put together a pepper resource I wanted, & maybe teach kids a tiny bit about something for my Global Awareness class, I had them fill in a google doc I created with the above information for about 120 varieties of peppers I was looking to grow at the time. That was over a month ago & there have been a lot added to the list & a few taken off. Also, I'm not sure I can trust much of the info kids found. For Chocolate Habanero, a kid typed in that the pods look like a "gnarly poop ball." Then again, I guess that is accurate.
Along with the basic observations of each variety, I'd also like to have a sort of ranking system of families of peppers that relies on visitors' input. Categories that I see questions about on here a lot: Best Superhot, Best Great Taste/Mid Level Heat, Best Habanero, Best 7 Pot, etc. I've got to admit when it comes to something like which 7 Pot to plant: Jonah, Barrakpore, Primo, Brain Strain, India Carbon, Mad Ballz, Bubblegum, etc., etc., etc... It's difficult to get a feel for which direction to go. They're all red. They're all hot. But which do people who know prefer & why?
I don't think it would be outlandish to think you could come up with 400+ varieties to feature on a site like this- a lot of work for one person. I'd hate to have such a valuable resource in a public Google doc- open to anyone to alter, but perhaps there's a method I don't know about that is similar to that that would allow people to add info but not delete anything or alter anything others added. T'would stink to have someone wreck everything maliciously or otherwise. ...or maybe there's a way for people to submit info and an administrator approve it before it was added.
Any interest in something like this? Ideas?
