Hello all,
This year is my first real hot pepper grow where I started most of my plants from seeds. I did run into a number of issues that slowed the growth of my plants. For starters, I tried to overwinter some Ghost Peppers and some Habaneros that I had purchased online. All of my OW's died. Lucky me, along with bringing in the OW's, I also brought in aphids. The aphids hit my seedlings hard. I tried Neem and it didn't work so well. I eventually put some netting up and purchased some ladybugs. They were awesome and took care of the aphids in National Geographic fashion. Eventually, the ladybugs all passed away. Not sure where all the ladybug carcasses went...
Next, it seemed like fungus gnats became an issue. Combo that with a bunch of other mistakes like leaving the heat mat on too long, sun burning the plants while attempting to harden them, etc, I didn't have the best overall "seed becoming a healthy plant" ratio. Who would guess that a good 25% of my plants I didn't label fast enough and forgot what they were. Ugh.
Anyways, it is the beginning of August and I am finally getting to pick some ripe peppers. I know these plants aren't filled with pods but I am excited just the same.
For starters, I will start with a few pics of plants that I purchased. Here is a Serrano. I have gotten a few off of this plant already. None have turned red. The picture of the plant showed green serranos. I don't know if all types of Serrano are supposed to turn red or not. Perhaps I will leave these on the plant for a few more weeks.
Next is a pic of a 7 Pot Bubblegum plant I purchased from Refining Fire Chiles. A couple of nice pods there. I also bought seeds from Buckeye and germinated two plants. No pods set on those yet.
Aji Amarillos from RFC. I purchased 6 different plants from them and all are doing well.
Now to the stuff I have grown from seeds. Here are a couple of pods of Fatalii Jigsaw Gourmet. Not the best picture but you can see the pods are huge.
And a Fatalli White from Fatalii.net as well.
Here is a pic of an unlabeled plant. I think it is a Pumpkin Habanero from Pepper Joes. Or it could be a Scotch Bonnet.
From the same plant, I had picked this ripe one. Looks like a Pumpkin Hab should, I guess.
Well, thanks for looking. I plan on posting more pics as the plants produce more peppers. I do have a bunch of unlabeled Habaneros that I really do not know what they are since I didn't plant any standard Golden Hab seeds. This forum has been so tremendously helpful. I look forward to attempting another round of Over Winters this year. Hopefully I will have better luck.
This year is my first real hot pepper grow where I started most of my plants from seeds. I did run into a number of issues that slowed the growth of my plants. For starters, I tried to overwinter some Ghost Peppers and some Habaneros that I had purchased online. All of my OW's died. Lucky me, along with bringing in the OW's, I also brought in aphids. The aphids hit my seedlings hard. I tried Neem and it didn't work so well. I eventually put some netting up and purchased some ladybugs. They were awesome and took care of the aphids in National Geographic fashion. Eventually, the ladybugs all passed away. Not sure where all the ladybug carcasses went...
Next, it seemed like fungus gnats became an issue. Combo that with a bunch of other mistakes like leaving the heat mat on too long, sun burning the plants while attempting to harden them, etc, I didn't have the best overall "seed becoming a healthy plant" ratio. Who would guess that a good 25% of my plants I didn't label fast enough and forgot what they were. Ugh.Anyways, it is the beginning of August and I am finally getting to pick some ripe peppers. I know these plants aren't filled with pods but I am excited just the same.
For starters, I will start with a few pics of plants that I purchased. Here is a Serrano. I have gotten a few off of this plant already. None have turned red. The picture of the plant showed green serranos. I don't know if all types of Serrano are supposed to turn red or not. Perhaps I will leave these on the plant for a few more weeks.
Next is a pic of a 7 Pot Bubblegum plant I purchased from Refining Fire Chiles. A couple of nice pods there. I also bought seeds from Buckeye and germinated two plants. No pods set on those yet.
Aji Amarillos from RFC. I purchased 6 different plants from them and all are doing well.
Now to the stuff I have grown from seeds. Here are a couple of pods of Fatalii Jigsaw Gourmet. Not the best picture but you can see the pods are huge.
And a Fatalli White from Fatalii.net as well.
Here is a pic of an unlabeled plant. I think it is a Pumpkin Habanero from Pepper Joes. Or it could be a Scotch Bonnet.
From the same plant, I had picked this ripe one. Looks like a Pumpkin Hab should, I guess.
Well, thanks for looking. I plan on posting more pics as the plants produce more peppers. I do have a bunch of unlabeled Habaneros that I really do not know what they are since I didn't plant any standard Golden Hab seeds. This forum has been so tremendously helpful. I look forward to attempting another round of Over Winters this year. Hopefully I will have better luck.
