pics Plant pics 5/17/2009

peppermo · May 17, 2009

Pics of some of this years in the ground and in pots.From left to right Naga Morrich overwintered Scotch Bonnet, Fatalli and Bhut

POTAWIE · May 17, 2009

Looking good and healthy. Your Fatalii looks short and bushy like mine.

Scorpion · May 17, 2009

Great pics1 They look lovely and healthy! Do you feed regularly?

peppermo · May 17, 2009

Fatalli

POTAWIE said:
Looking good and healthy. Your Fatalii looks short and bushy like mine.

Thank you POTAWIE yes the plant is like a miniature bush here are a few more pics hopefully you can see the flowers.

Scorpion said:
Great pics1 They look lovely and healthy! Do you feed regularly?

Thank you Scorpion I do feed them usually when I think it is time to feed I wait another week.

peppermo · May 17, 2009

Fatalli

Fatalli pics

Bob_B · May 17, 2009

That Fatalli is picture perfect. So healthy looking...

I've never grown nor tried the Fatalli but after reading so many posts about how good it is, I'm going to have to give it a go next year.

Keep us posted.

Fine job!

caroltlw · May 18, 2009

Bob_B said:
I've never grown nor tried the Fatalli but after reading so many posts about how good it is, I'm going to have to give it a go next year.

Same here. Judging from the pics so far, there should be plenty of fine fatalii stock in next year's seed catalog. :cool:

chillilover · May 18, 2009

Nice, the best looking is that Fatali. Mine are still seedlings but they're looking short and bushy already.

LGHT · May 18, 2009

Great pics. Noticed your in CA when you over winter do you take them inside or just leave them outside? This is my first year and I'm trying to decide if I should go ahead and put my plants in the ground or leave them in pots so I can move them in for the winter?

Did you feel that earthquake yesterday? I was taking a dump and almost fell off. I need to put a seat belt on that thing!

PepperLover · May 18, 2009

nice looking plants

peppermo · May 18, 2009

over wintering

LGHT said:
Great pics. Noticed your in CA when you over winter do you take them inside or just leave them outside? This is my first year and I'm trying to decide if I should go ahead and put my plants in the ground or leave them in pots so I can move them in for the winter?

Did you feel that earthquake yesterday? I was taking a dump and almost fell off. I need to put a seat belt on that thing!

I am not the best person to ask about overwintering I'm working on pure luck there are others much more qualified to answer your question. I left my plants outside top pruned and they started coming back on there own late rains soaked the pots and they died. The ones I left in the ground where also coming back on there own but the rains got them to. The Fatalli in the picture got potted up to the pot it is in now in straight Fox Farm Ocean Forest.Our winters are mild enough that we don't have to bring them inside just move the pots out of the rain.I'm in Torrance and did not have a single day of frost warnings.Oh Yeah we felt the earthquake it was right behind me in Hawthorne.Hey Hang ON!!!

peppermo · May 18, 2009

Fatalli

caroltlw said:
Same here. Judging from the pics so far, there should be plenty of fine fatalii stock in next year's seed catalog.

Carol considering what you had to go through, when the plant produces peppers I will send you fresh Fatalli pepper pods if you wish.

caroltlw · May 19, 2009

peppermo said:
Carol considering what you had to go through, when the plant produces peppers I will send you fresh Fatalli pepper pods if you wish.

Nice! I'll be doing seed trades etc later this year if I get some plants I feel are good and pure enough.

lee · May 19, 2009

Great plants!. Nice and bushy

LGHT · May 19, 2009

peppermo said:
I left my plants outside top pruned and they started coming back on there own late rains soaked the pots and they died. The ones I left in the ground where also coming back on there own but the rains got them to.

Ok thanks for the tip. I guess they will be ok UNLESS they get too much rain?? Unfortunately I don't have enough space to keep them all in buckets so I'm forced to put most of them in the ground. I think I can however put a small tarp up over the area where I will be planting them so if the rain does come I can keep them from getting too wet. I'll probably keep a few of the better ones in buckets so I can move them as needed and I'll probably even keep 2 inside under grow lights and try and move them into some type of hydro setup when the rest are big enough to go into the ground.

LGHT · May 19, 2009

caroltlw said:
Nice! I'll be doing seed trades etc later this year if I get some plants I feel are good and pure enough.

I might have to replant a few if they don't make it over the winter, but since they will be outside and I have about 12 varieties can I still use those seeds? I was reading that you had to keep plants a mile apart to avoid them from getting cross pollinated, but also read that the self pollinate?? If I keep them outside will the seeds be mixed? What about if I keep 2 plants next to each other in hydro will I have the same problem?

peppermo · May 19, 2009

LGHT said:
Ok thanks for the tip. I guess they will be ok UNLESS they get too much rain?? Unfortunately I don't have enough space to keep them all in buckets so I'm forced to put most of them in the ground. I think I can however put a small tarp up over the area where I will be planting them so if the rain does come I can keep them from getting too wet. I'll probably keep a few of the better ones in buckets so I can move them as needed and I'll probably even keep 2 inside under grow lights and try and move them into some type of hydro setup when the rest are big enough to go into the ground.

We really don't get that much rain so I thought they would be ok the tarp is a great idea I was gone when it rained.I am heading in the same direction as far as a hydro system for inside.I already made a ebb and flood for outside I have no experience with hydro so it will be a learning process.By the way when you bring in plants to overwinter it seems that aphids are inevitable and to truly overwinter you have to top prune and also prune roots again others on this forum really know what there doing I really do not.

LGHT said:
I might have to replant a few if they don't make it over the winter, but since they will be outside and I have about 12 varieties can I still use those seeds? I was reading that you had to keep plants a mile apart to avoid them from getting cross pollinated, but also read that the self pollinate?? If I keep them outside will the seeds be mixed? What about if I keep 2 plants next to each other in hydro will I have the same problem?

I would say yes if the plants in the hydro are different.

LGHT · May 19, 2009

peppermo said:
I would say yes if the plants in the hydro are different.

Ok thanks for the tips. I'll have to dig up some info on how to over winter a plant. I'm hoping to get a few big ones and keep them for a couple of years. As far as the seeds how do you avoid getting them mixed up with other plants or do you just grow one variety at a time? I guess i'm gonna have to just keep 2 of the same plants when I setup my hydro as I want to be able to grow from their seeds next year.

peppermo · May 19, 2009

LGHT said:
Ok thanks for the tips. I'll have to dig up some info on how to over winter a plant. I'm hoping to get a few big ones and keep them for a couple of years. As far as the seeds how do you avoid getting them mixed up with other plants or do you just grow one variety at a time? I guess i'm gonna have to just keep 2 of the same plants when I setup my hydro as I want to be able to grow from their seeds next year.

I grow most of the super hots they are planted next to each other even in pots, there are a few that I grow in the front of the house to separate from the rest for the ones I want to keep from crossing. That is why I am reluctant to offer seeds because I can't guarantee that they are pure. There is a method that involves pollinating the flower yourself and then covering it with a bag.I am going to get a hydro lights and all for a rare Doughlah seeds that I got and feel that it is to late to try to grow them outside since I have not even started them yet. I was going to wait until next year but it killing me not to plant them now.

LGHT · May 19, 2009

peppermo said:
I grow most of the super hots they are planted next to each other even in pots, there are a few that I grow in the front of the house to separate from the rest for the ones I want to keep from crossing. That is why I am reluctant to offer seeds because I can't guarantee that they are pure. There is a method that involves pollinating the flower yourself and then covering it with a bag.I am going to get a hydro lights and all for a rare Doughlah seeds that I got and feel that it is to late to try to grow them outside since I have not even started them yet. I was going to wait until next year but it killing me not to plant them now.

Ahh ok I get it now. I guess I will just grow 2 of the same plants in the hydro. I also have an indoor closed grow box of some type. It was only $20 "as is" so I got it. Has 3 u shaped CFL 40 watt bulbs and I added a 40 watt to the top. Gets a little hot so I'll have to add a couple of fans, but I think it should keep a single plant nice and happy and allow me to harvest seeds from it.