Been a while, got a little update. Had some nice weather for the last week or two but it is getting hot again. Still waiting on any hot peppers but I have been enjoying the early ones. A number of things are getting ready to ripen. This is fun for me because I have not tasted a lot of the peppers I grew. Going to be eliminating a lot of them from next year's list to grow some hotter varieties.
Thai Bird's Eye got a bigger pot and loves it. Buddy of mine tried to pop one of these in his mouth seeds and all, claiming with smirked brow and shit eating grin that he was a "heat-head." He got the hiccups immediately before running for the sink a minute or two later, the hiccups lasted for a long time in which I laughed at him. The peppers were getting smaller prior to the potting up, now they are back to the normal 3/4 inches.
Caught the neighbor snapping pictures of this Hungarian Wax, I appreciated it. I had picked 3 peppers from the base right before this pick, decided I should take a picture of the plant when I noticed how many damn pods there were.
I have to water this Aleppo (AKA Halaby) every day in its little pot but it is producing heavily considering the size. The pods are getting larger than I expected.
These orange Habs will be the first super hots from my garden.
Caribbean Red pods arrived after weeks of blossom drop, excited to see those.
This 10 gallon pot is absolutely not large enough for a NuMex Big Jim, I think the pod size will be impacted, but there are a LOT of them! This is the only pepper I have tied up so far because I am worried about branch breakage.
Hot Cherries with their strange growth pattern, it is like the pepper is a the growth tip and then the plant branches just below it. The stems of the peppers are extremely thick, guests keep saying they look like mushroom peppers, not cherries.
-Phil