misc How productive are your plants?

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Does anyone count how many pods they got from a seed grown plant in one season?  If so, would you be so kind as to share the variety name and the number of pods please? 
 
I know that different growing conditions will alter this number, but I have seen seed sellers list the same variety with number of pods ranging from "around 30" to "300+" and thought that getting numbers from people who have actually grown the plants could be a good baseline for home growers.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I got about 190 serranos off a serrano pepper plant it :hmm: s first year in Seattle in about a five gallon pot. The serranos were about 1/3 the size of what you would see in the store.
 
i used to grow sugar rush peach indoor in 9oz cup. starting from seed. 5 months later, there are only 40 pods.  i guess i might do something wrong.  i will try it again next time.
 
 
 
Ive gotten over 100 pods off of a orange hab and off of lemon drop plants. Even in 3-5gal pots. Probably just as many off of a Super Chile in even smaller pots. I only got around 25-30 off each of my Serrano plants last year in smallish pots too but i had 4 plants. The plants were rather small but the peppers were delicious. Loved them though just because they ripened to red quickly compared to jalapenos ive grown.
 
The number of pods on my lemon drops would have been more but our season isnt long enough for the last ones to ripen. Im sure i had at least another 50 total from the 2 plants.
 
I normally don't count the pods I get from a plant, but I did run a contest last year, where everyone guessed how many ripe pids I could pick at one time from a red charapita plant.

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/62055-anniversary-contest/page-1

The final tally was 289. That was just one picking of ripe pods at that time.

I picked three separate big waves of pods from that plant, just like the picking for the contest. That would put that one plant at like 900-1000 pods in a year. That's one of the reasons I'm not growing aji charapita this year. Picking all of those little pods is such a PITA.
 
It's dependent on variety, conditions, and pot or in-ground. I have had an in-ground serrano nearly choke me to death by continuing to crank out ripe peppers in late October; I couldn't say how many this one plant fruited. I know one in-ground ghost gave me about 6 dozen ripe peppers one year. Another ghost in the next bed the same year gave me about a dozen. I've had about 10,000 Thai hot in a 10-gallon pot (ok, exaggeration) and about 10 ripe Tabascos in a 10-gallon pot. In terms of actual volume, I'd say aji limo is the gift that keeps on giving (jelly of the month club!) any time I plant it, in a pot or in-ground. Using all the same fertilizers and obviously the same weather conditions.
 
The pepper gods can be both kind and cruel.
 
Very difficult question to answer. You narrowed it down a bit by asking about one season, but there's a ton of variables like light levels (limiting factor), temperature, nutrient availability. Plant genetics will play a role of course, but your results for a given variety could vary widely depending on the variables above. More generally, several hundred in 6 months with optimized conditions doesn't sound like a stretch. 
 
I have a Serrano that's multi years old now and every 2 to 3 weeks I prune it back and pick around 10 lbs of pods to share at work.  This year the fert's have the pod production way up but leaves are small and few.  Odd but its still producing and happy so not changing things.  I keep it cut back to 5' tall roughly.
 
Just picked it this morning.
 
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Nuclieye, thats pretty amazing. First time i'm seeing a bonafide pepper tree. You could harvest it for lumber. How does the plant fair during the peak of your summer heat?
 
TheHydroScientist said:
Nuclieye, thats pretty amazing. First time i'm seeing a bonafide pepper tree. You could harvest it for lumber. How does the plant fair during the peak of your summer heat?
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The past years its continued as normal even in the "winter".  This year I hit it with 48-0-0 and now 11-52-0.  This is the same fert's given around here to all commercial fields for max production.  Fruit yield has improved but fewer and smaller leaves this summer.  Hit 108 here on Friday and now back to 71 so its one big crap shoot really. 
 
The 48-0-0 on a volunteer tomato plant is incredible!  I'm pruning it back weekly...
 
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