Hello from Wisconsin

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Isaaccarlson

I live in northwest Wisconsin. I started growing ghost peppers this last summer when my wife bought me a pair of plants. A friend of mine in Texas sent me a few peppers a couple of years ago and I didnt get to save the seeds, so she bought me some. I love the flavor and they seem to call to me in some special way. Im in love with the smell and flavor.
 
Nice! Wish I had brought all of my super-hots in. Are you still getting flowers? My ABE quit as soon as I brought it in and even dropped a couple of the new pods it had just started. Still managed a little over 20 pods off it. I'm hoping I can get it to produce inside, as I can't trust the purity of any of the pods I pulled from it. All of my super-hots looked terrible though, so I didn't bother trying with them. I picked up a Carolina Reaper, Butch T, the Ghost, and a Habanero from Fleet last season on clearance for 1.49$ each.. Only place in town here I've seen with any decent selection of super-hots. Most of the garden centers only carry ornamentals and sweet varieties, if any. One of the garden centers still has a bunch of ornamental ones on clearance.. but I didn't want to deal with the insect issues they had in them. I've been pretty clean so far and hope to keep it that way for the winter. 
How many pods did you pull off each this year, about? My Ghost was producing pretty heavy, but I only managed to pull about a dozen ripe ones and about as many green, with the late start I had. You are probably going to kill it next year with those! You planning on cloning them for more?
 
 
They are still flowering. Theyre blooming right now.

Im not sure how many pods I have picked from each plant for sure. My wife picked them up a bit late in the season and they were small, so they didnt really kick in until late summer. Probably 50+ from the one plant and maybe 30 from the other. I dont have them in a south window like I planned, but they still seem to do ok. I have them sitting in water trays so they dont dry out too fast, since we heat with wood. The humidity level in here is more like a desert with the stove going. (~19-20%). I think they would have done better if we hadnt had a drought this year too. Normally you cant stop anything from growing here, but we didnt get any rain. I was watering my peppers more this summer than I am inside.

The peppers taste great and have good heat. A friend from texas might be sending me some to compare/grow.

I have thought about cloning them. You just clip one branch and plant it?
 
I don't have any great experience with pepper cloning, yet, but.. You want at least 3-4 nodes from the tip down. I think I'm doing more like 6 with my clones. You can do like you said, or stick them in water til they root out.. or make a lab out of it. Essentially, I'm doing mine in doubled solo cups with a 50/50 mix of Perlite and Vermiculite, which are being kept in a bottom watered humidity dome tray above one of my lights (keeps the temperate in the high 70's to low 80'sF, misting the leaves 2-3 times a day, if they look dry. I also used extras like rooting hormone that aren't necessarily needed. You definitely want to remove most of the leaves and any flowers or pods that are on the cutting, so it doesn't waste energy on them instead of rooting. I left only my smallest leaves. This is only my second attempt at cloning peppers, I had horrible luck using just water, the first time. If you do go with just water, make sure you are using a darkened vessel or change the water ever couple days.. This will help prevent anything weird growing and complicating things for the pepper.  
 
 
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