New to pepper growing!!

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pedders91

So after a few years of liking my spices I have decided to grow my own peppers. I am very new to the game so there is a lot of trial and error with a lot of reading.

I was aiming for about 20 plants but I have been slightly over successful and have 200+ across 5 varieties which are:
De cayenne
Sweet Romano peppers
Razzamatazz
California wonder peppers
Hot Thai peppers.

Any advice?
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Your plants look quite healthy to me, so you must be doing something right  :D
 
My only advice would be to maybe consider adding some other species of peppers as well next year. If you are going to have 200+ plants, why limit yourself to only capsicum annuum varieties? There is so much variation in heat and flavor out there in the pepper world! Exploring all that is what makes this hobby so interesting, at least for me.
 
 
 
BlackFatalii said:
My only advice would be to maybe consider adding some other species of peppers as well next year. If you are going to have 200+ plants, why limit yourself to only capsicum annuum varieties?
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why limit yourself to only capsicum annuum varieties grow cali wonder?
 
Ha ha sorry, I just really hate that variety. It came out in 1928 for crying out loud. We've had a lot of improvements since then.. Flavor? try Ace, Karma, Yolo, or lose some size and pick up the cajun belle, the 2010 AAS winner, . Disease resistance? can't beat the X3R series: Red Knight and Aristotle are always winners in my garden.
 
Gorizza said:
 
why limit yourself to only capsicum annuum varieties grow cali wonder?
 
Ha ha sorry, I just really hate that variety. It came out in 1928 for crying out loud. We've had a lot of improvements since then.. Flavor? try Ace, Karma, Yolo, or lose some size and pick up the cajun belle, the 2010 AAS winner, . Disease resistance? can't beat the X3R series: Red Knight and Aristotle are always winners in my garden.
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Like I said only my first year growing and got the seeds very cheap.
A lot of different varieties that I haven't heard before let alone considered growing. I will definitely be doing more research for next year.


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I thought I was bad....I started with 6 and ended up with 40.
 
You will like the Thai Hots.  Huge producers.  I have one plant this year and it has produced over 150 pods.  They work great for drying and grinding.
 
ako1974 said:
Nice!
 
How much room do you have/how many do you really want to keep?
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I don't have a huge amount of space. (A small green house) I will probably keep 5 of each.

Looking at what a few people have done on here I might plant some around the garden. Just very difficult with British weather (2 days ago lovely Sun shine and very warm. Today rain all day not higher than 10 degree C)


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So after a lot of reading and seeing what other people are doing I went to the back of my shed found some bigger pots and some buckets.
I have planted some plants in into the ground at front of my house as I needed to make space and couldn't bring myself to destroy some.

I even bought a apache f1 as it was the last one in the garden centre. So I still have a lot of plants [emoji33].

As I am still very new. What should I experiment with on my other plants in smaller pots?
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pedders91 said:
I was aiming for about 20 plants but I have been slightly over successful and have 200+ across 5 varieties
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Sounds about right.  Welcome to the club.  :D
 
pedders91 said:
And to say I have only lost 6 due to slugs
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:shocked:  Lies and slander!  You are no longer welcome here.  I wasn't even on the isles when it happened!  I'll have you know I already had these Thai chiles in my grow, and furthermore...um...
 
You had 200 freaking plants.  Who the hell could expect you would miss six?
 
(You can't prove anything.)  :seeya:
 
Slug said:
 
Sounds about right.  Welcome to the club.  :D
 
 
:shocked:  Lies and slander!  You are no longer welcome here.  I wasn't even on the isles when it happened!  I'll have you know I already had these Thai chiles in my grow, and furthermore...um...
 
You had 200 freaking plants.  Who the hell could expect you would miss six?
 
(You can't prove anything.)  :seeya:
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Guilty conscience much?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
:rofl:
 
Those "in ground" plants look kind of close together.  They may a different variety than I have grown, but they usually get pretty big.  Good luck though, even if they start crowding each other for space, it's a good problem to have :)
 
Mike
 
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