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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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Closer look at my scotchies...

HSH on the left, Schneider Farms on the right. Lesya (the only annuum) in the middle. The lesya is already starting to form flower buds...
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Papa Dreadie on the left, Bahamian Goat in the middle, MOA red on the right...
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MOA yellow WHP on the left, MOA yellow Semillas in the middle, Jamaican long on the right...
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Foodarama on the left, then...
Allen Boatman left back, Marabella market front center, Jamaican True Form right back.

The only one still missing is the Beth Boyd scotch bonnet. I hope "she" germinates fast as I desperately need the space the propagator takes to give the plants some more room...
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Really feeling excited about the coming season! :dance::onfire:
 
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Growth is really picking up now...
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Beth Boyd germinating... the last seedlings of the season! Then I can finally put away the propagator and use that space to give the plants a bit more room...
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Finally got rid of the propagator. Now the young plants have a little more room to spread their leaves.
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The lesya is nearly in the flowering stage and I think the schneider farms SB will soon follow. I think it might be better to top the plants to set back growth a little but I prefer to let nature go. At some point I may need to decide to do it anyway if the get too tall to fit under the roof...

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Two of the Beth Boyd seedlings have a split cotyledon. I think I will throw those out. I can only keep one and prefer to pick one of those with "normal" cotys, even if there may be nothing wrong with those other two...

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Gave the already larger plants a haircut yesterday to keep them within their current grow space. Additional advantage would be the low branches they will get, then I can trim them down to a nice small plant in case I would want to overwinter any of them....

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Good job, Marc. Awesome selection of bonnets there!
 
MarcV said:
Gave the already larger plants a haircut yesterday to keep them within their current grow space. Additional advantage would be the low branches they will get, then I can trim them down to a nice small plant in case I would want to overwinter any of them....
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I haven't topped my Bonnets, however I wonder if I should. All plants inground last season grew 2 foot tall & 2 foot wide.
What could I expect from the plants if they were topped? Some Poblanos I topped, they were too tall. They grew long side branches
that when loaded with pods tried to break off.

I do want to overwinter 1 plant, so maybe I should consider topping that one. What do you think Marc?

As you can see the plants are short & squat with 3 flushes of ripe pods per season.


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Marturo said:
I haven't topped my Bonnets, however I wonder if I should. All plants inground last season grew 2 foot tall & 2 foot wide.
What could I expect from the plants if they were topped? Some Poblanos I topped, they were too tall. They grew long side branches
that when loaded with pods tried to break off.

I do want to overwinter 1 plant, so maybe I should consider topping that one. What do you think Marc?

As you can see the plants are short & squat with 3 flushes of ripe pods per season.


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If I had enough headroom available, I wouldn't top my plants... it's just a way to keep them in the limited space until they can go outside. It is also my experience that the branches of a topped plant aren't as strong as the branches that form by the natural split. A loaded branch can easily break off, especially after some heavy rain. Good support is definitely needed.
In my growing conditions the natural split usually sits rather high (> 1ft/30cm), like the plant in the first post. That doesn't look very nice if you want to overwinter such a plant as a bonchi.

The plants in your photo look very balanced. It looks like the branches already sit quite low. In that case I'd say... don't top 🙂As for the poblano... that's an annuum of course, they usually grow a bit differently. I currently have one annuum (Lesya) growing that I did not top, and I'm not planning to do so either...
 
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I currently have one annuum (Lesya) growing that I did not top, and I'm not planning to do so either...
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The problem I had with Lesya was getting it to grow taller. It's short, loads up with flowers & splits its branches.
I had to stay on picking flowers off like an overloaded fruit tree. This is a hands on pepper & needs some attention
never needed staking. Best stuffer I ever tasted.
 
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What a difference in size... MOA red on the right, the others are MOA yellow (one from Semillas and one from WHP)... the red is about the strongest growing plant, both yellows are the weakest of the SB's...

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The red is almost twice their height! Do they get to similar size at the end of the season?
 
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