I acually AM growing some peppers!

[wordwiz]

I'm more into tomatoes and potatoes but I do have a few pepper plants in the garden. Here's what I picked last night. My son wanted me to grow some cayennes, so I planted a few plants. The place he was working at, that wanted them, closed. But it was after the peppers were planted.

Last year, by the time the Bhuts started to ripen, it was the middle of October and a killing frost came. I started the seeds on December 26 this year and got decent plants in the garden in the middle of May. Haven't harvested lots of pods but here's what I got:

One pepper I really wanted to grow for salsa was jalapeno. The company I ordered seeds from only had the Purple Jabs but they have done great.

Two more coming.

Mike

 

[wordwiz]

These peppers took third out of three entries at the county fair. I think the reason is the judges thought habs are suppose to be orange, not red. Neither of the other entries were close to this size. They are Caribbean Red:

And lastly, I planted a bunch of banana and Hot Wax peppers. Alas, trying to tell them apart has proved impossible. Picking a 1/2 bushel of them at a time is easy, though:

Mike

 

[Nova]

For a guy that doesn't grow peppers you do an extroardinary good job of faking it!!

They all look fantastic wizza, btw those guys that gave you third are NOT your friends!

 

[Ballzworth]

you're getting a lot of great stuff there. And I guess those "judges" were just looking for the stuff they see in the grocery store every day. A familiarity complex if you will.

some of those Bhuts are very large as well. good luck with those!!

 

[Silver_Surfer]

Look like you're into peppers to me.

Nice pod plunder!!!

 

[RichardK]

Nice harvest man! Good luck on the rest of the season...

btw, your "Caribbean Reds" are too wrinkled, Caribbean Red's are round and smooth.

like below.

Those look kindof like the "West Indies" habs I have growing, either way they should be good and hot, though not the same flavor. Might be a cross of some kind, very interesting.

Edit: Looking online a bit and I found a variety called a "scotch bonnet caribbean red" and they look like what you are growing...

Aparently they are also known as the "Antillais Caribbean", a more wrinkled form of the Caribbean Red. I wonder how they compare heat and flavor wise.