karoo's 2015 glog

I live in a small town near the southern tip of Africa with a moderate to hot climate.
Summer highs 45C or 113F.
Short frosty winter for 4 months . Lows of 0C or 32F . Enough to kill unprotected plants.
Last year I started with Cayennes , Jalapenos and habeneros and managed to overwinter a few.
 
My greatest asset is great soil and homemade compost.
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This year I made the leap to superhot's and ordered Choc habs , Trinidad scorpions , red habs.
 
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Jalapenos on the overwintered plant . Great early start . Still 6 months left in the grow season.
 
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[robbyjoe01]

Love your soil (I compost too) and I see we have about the same temps here as you do(I'm a little colder). Great looking OW jalapeño although here we seem to not raise jalapeños here(cheep as hell in the store). If your interested in a bird pepper ya might try a Zimbabwe bird. They're great in a container and to me taste as good as a Texas bird(my 2nd favorite bird now). Good luck on your grow

 

[Hawaiianero]

Yeah can't beat compost mix in your soil. You're in your springtime moving on to summer down there so your ow"s are going to jump. Very nice

 

[karoo]

Apologies for the repeat .
Sorted my membership and now posting fotos is a breeze.
 
At the moment I have a good mix of ;
 
new 3 week old plants
- Trinidad scorpion
- Chocolat habaneros
- Red habeneros
- Big Jim ( for the rest of the family)
- Baby bell peppers for ( for friends and salads )
 
older 10 week old plants
- cayenne
- jalapenos
 
overwintered plants ( already fruiting and flowering)
- cayenne
- jalapenos
 
 
 
 

 

[karoo]

Not exactly pepper pictures .
Yesterday I moved my plants into the shade!
 
 

 
It says 44.5 degrees C or 112.5 degrees F  in the shade in October!
January is our hottest month.

 

[MarianneW]

Ouch! At least chiles can survive that & hotter. Hope you have a bunch of shade!