It's never too early to get started!

Sooo... 2022 season is over and most of my 2023 plants are already there - no reason not to start a new thread already!

See my previous glog... https://thehotpepper.com/threads/2022-too-early-to-get-started.75362/

While all my current plants are technically overwinterers, only a couple have grown through the 2022 season and are considered interesting enough to keep for next seasons grow.

Let's start with the famous Schneider farms SB plant, which will be going into it's third season in 2023. It currently doesn't look all that nice but that was also the case during the winter of 2021 so no worries here...

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Next in row is my Scotch Brains plant...

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And then there's the Humble Servants Homestead (HSH) SB, which was also elected to stay for next season...

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[MarcV]

Haha. Well, if I can ever help enable you with low heat annuums types like zapotec jalapeño or with pubescens I have a good stash of isolated seeds of those varieties and you're only a stamp away. BTW, I picked up some Jeromin seeds from Neil, which I IIRC are from the ones you originally prospected. If so, thanks for sharing those out. I just planted a couple into my indoor grow and am looking forward to them.

I just found some old Zapotec jalapeño seeds in my seed box. Don't know if they are still viable but I guess we'll soon know!
Neils Jeromin seeds are indeed originally from me

 

[MarcV]

OK, the Baker Creek bonnet seeds are in the soil!
I also planted another couple of Papa Dreadie G2 2018 seeds. I hope they are still OK. They germinated without any issues last year, so I guess they may still be OK.

This will have an impact on my current seedlings though. I want a strict limitation on the number of plants in the 2025 season. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with it though, but probably the red, caramel and brown brain strains will have to go...

Wow those papa dreadie seeds from @Sawyer really have a will to germinate... 6 years old and a first hook is already emerging after 6 days!

I'm keeping the 7pot seedlings for now by the way...

 

[MarcV]

On and on goes the season! Some pics...

Jeromín doing great. I'm no longer helping with the pollination of the flowers...

HSH bonnet overwintered doesn't look as nice, although nothing is wrong with it...

Papa Dreadie overwinterer looks much nicer ...

The young HSH bonnet plant...

And a peak inside the propagator...

The larger seedlings are the different 7pot brainstrain color variations. I now have 5 popped papa dreadie G2 2018 seeds! those are really super seeds, 6 year old seeds all germinated in just a week time! I planted several, assuming they would not all pop but I clearly was wrong!
The empty pots in the far right are the baker creek bonnets and zapotec jalapeño...

 

[MarcV]

Meet "The Brainstrains"
Yellow, Chocolate, Caramel and Red

 

[NJChilehead]

Meet "The Brainstrains"
Yellow, Chocolate, Caramel and Red

Beautiful! I'm looking forward to seeing how these guys progress this year!

 

[MarcV]

Thanks... not sure what I'm going to do with all that heat though...

 

[NJChilehead]

Thanks... not sure what I'm going to do with all that heat though...

Yeah those are pretty hot! I've been experimenting with both sweet/hot and savory hot preparations, and it seems like the sweet/hot preparations cut the heat more than the savory/hot, but that might be anecdata.

I imagine a curry made with one or two of those would be dynamite!