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]

I have to say that, despite the fact that I considered this season as "lost" at first, it turned out quite well!

But now it's over...

 

[MarcV]

All kinds of bonnets

 

[Marturo]

But now it's over...

This is the end.... Until it all starts again.

 

[NJChilehead]

@MarcV those bonnets are beautiful, looks like you had a great season! Good luck with the overwintering!

 

[MarcV]

This is the end.... Until it all starts again.

The end? for some plants it is but new life has already begun!

@MarcV those bonnets are beautiful, looks like you had a great season! Good luck with the overwintering!

Thanks... I must have been lucky. Glad I did not only get those tiny pods...

 

[Downriver]

I think you had a pretty good year, Marc! I LOVE that 5-lobe pod. It's beautiful. I wish a plant could be developed to only produce 5-lobes. Congrats on this year's grow, and here's to many more .

 

[MarcV]

I wonder if 6 lobes would be possible
Anyway, it's the only proper 5 lobed pod I found this year.

 

[MarcV]

Jeromín is doing great in the mean time. Got several pods growing already...

 

[wiicek]

Congratulations on the satisfying end of the season!

Wanna ask how you do not have an aphids infestation after moving plants inside? Did I miss some info, I should probably read more thoroughly the conversations between people in glogs... I didn't saw any aphids on my balcony but soon as they came inside, even if they were cut and left with few leaves, aphids started to appear. I kindaaccept the fact that I always have to have something to spray peppers in my hause but thought that cutting them almost bare and watching left leaves carrefully would be enough.

 

[MarcV]

I actually have very little aphid problems on my plants. Nevertheless, when I take a plant inside for the winter, I first cut it down to the desired size and remove most if not all leaves. Then I remove the soil from the roots as much as possible and do a serious trim down there also.
Next I thoroughly rinse the entire plant with a pyrethrum spray, including the roots. Then the plant goes in a small pot with fresh soil.
If I do get an aphid infestation after that, I discard the plant!