Dear Friends,
It's been a while when I posted anything to THP, but it does not mean I was not following the happenings on this forum.
Let me share a short recap and some pics with you.
I was growing red Habaneros at my small flat, and at my parent's house, both in pots and in ground. This was my first season, and my experience is that I started late, since the plants were put to the garden only in June, and suncald damage caused some issues. Totally I had 11 plants, out of which the ones struggling in my flat did not produce a lot (approx 70 pods on 3 plants). But the rest...ahh...I cannot beleive how productive they are, I had so many peppers, I could sell some, and could make my friends sick giving them peppers as present. (more than 500 peppers
)
When the first frosts came in the mid of October, I harvested almost everything, including a cayenne-Thai-like-noname chili along with Cherries, to avoid frost damage
I'vre read the overwintering posts on this forum, so I decided to try them out.
It was easy to deal with those peppers which were in pots, but the ones in the ground were hard to dig out due to our stone-rock soil. At my parents we saved 5 plants out of the 8, and I saved all in my flat (3).
Poor baby
After a nice haircut
I trimmed the rootball
In their new 1 gal pots
I mentioned that I started late,so my heart was hurting when I went to the garden, and saw the plants full of with pods waiting their destiny, so I decided to try to dig out as big rootball as I can, and give to this poor plant 1-2 weeks chance to have their pods ripened.
In the new pot:
The strange thing I experienced: the pods started to ripen, but in the same time, the leaves started to dry out and to fall.
It was interesting to see that the pepper drops the leaves down, but out of the approx 150 pods kept all of them.
I picked and dried/pickled the pods, no matter if they were half-ripen, the taste and the heat was there.
Here is a box of dried peppers.
It's been a while when I posted anything to THP, but it does not mean I was not following the happenings on this forum.
Let me share a short recap and some pics with you.
I was growing red Habaneros at my small flat, and at my parent's house, both in pots and in ground. This was my first season, and my experience is that I started late, since the plants were put to the garden only in June, and suncald damage caused some issues. Totally I had 11 plants, out of which the ones struggling in my flat did not produce a lot (approx 70 pods on 3 plants). But the rest...ahh...I cannot beleive how productive they are, I had so many peppers, I could sell some, and could make my friends sick giving them peppers as present. (more than 500 peppers
)When the first frosts came in the mid of October, I harvested almost everything, including a cayenne-Thai-like-noname chili along with Cherries, to avoid frost damage
I'vre read the overwintering posts on this forum, so I decided to try them out.
It was easy to deal with those peppers which were in pots, but the ones in the ground were hard to dig out due to our stone-rock soil. At my parents we saved 5 plants out of the 8, and I saved all in my flat (3).
Poor baby
After a nice haircut
I trimmed the rootball
In their new 1 gal pots
I mentioned that I started late,so my heart was hurting when I went to the garden, and saw the plants full of with pods waiting their destiny, so I decided to try to dig out as big rootball as I can, and give to this poor plant 1-2 weeks chance to have their pods ripened.
In the new pot:
The strange thing I experienced: the pods started to ripen, but in the same time, the leaves started to dry out and to fall.
It was interesting to see that the pepper drops the leaves down, but out of the approx 150 pods kept all of them.
I picked and dried/pickled the pods, no matter if they were half-ripen, the taste and the heat was there.
Here is a box of dried peppers.
