SKULLBIKERS Fun with peppers in 2021 GLOG

And so it begins, another year of growing some peppers. This will be a sort of continuation of last year
 
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/73129-skullbikers-roaring-into-the-twenties-glog/page-1
 
as several of those plants are still going(and many got whacked and ended up on the burn pile). 
 
Anyway, I have 3 trays of peppers sown and many have germinated already(mostly annums). I wanted to compare several different jalapeños for taste in real time. This tray is all jalapeños, ten types from 7 different vendors. The seeds in block 3 are from 2014.
 

 
Another tray with annums at each end and mostly rocotos in the middle(and they're taking their sweet time).
 

 
 

 

[dragonsfire]

Perfect Crab Claw Crusher lol.

 

[skullbiker]

A few more pics of various rocoto plants.
This Ecuadorian Sweet is loaded with pods and flowers.
 

 
Rocoto Montufar
 

 
And another.
 

 
One of the neglected plants behind the garage.
 

 
 
 
 

 

[skullbiker]

Peppa-peach coming along. (seeds courtesy of Tybo)
 

 

[ahayastani]

 
 
One of the neglected plants behind the garage.
 

 
 
Very neglected indeed... 
 
I'll have to sow my peppapeach again. My plants have been tortured by the heavy rains and I don't think my peppapeach is going to make it  

 

[Tybo]

Peppa-peach coming along. (seeds courtesy of Tybo)
 

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Glad they are doing well for you.  Hope you like them.

 

[skullbiker]

 
 
Very neglected indeed... 
 
I'll have to sow my peppapeach again. My plants have been tortured by the heavy rains and I don't think my peppapeach is going to make it  

 
We'll be coming into our hot/rainy season fairly soon and some things may suffer a bit here when that happens.

 

[skullbiker]

 
 
Glad they are doing well for you.  Hope you like them.

 
There are about 6 decent pods now with quite a few flowers. Time will tell.

 

[skullbiker]

I picked a few more edibles today.
 
Big Bertha Hybrid Bell
 

 
Stuff Enuff Hybrid Bell(about 60% of these have heat in them )
 

 
Gonna make more Cowboy Candy with these two varieties.
 
Mucho Nacho(these are so mean that one is trying to strangle another one )
 

 
Chichimeca
 

 
Got a few Sugar Rush Peach, I haven't sampled them yet.
 

 

[skullbiker]

Flower on the Peppa-peach.
 

 
 

 

[skullbiker]

Exciting times here. I may have struck jalapeno gold with an unintentional cross from last season. I was checking out my Paquime Jalapenos(grown from seed I saved lastyear) and what do I see? LARGE ORANGE JALAPENOS, not the little puny orange spice ones. I plan on picking the ripe ones this weekend and give them the taste test.
 

 

 

 
And less exciting but still good news, I have the first Antep Aci Dolma pods almost ready to pick.
 

 

 

[PaulG]

Cool that you would up with an orange cross.
 
Be ready to send out seeds, brother!

 

[ahayastani]

Cool that you would up with an orange cross.
 
Be ready to send out seeds, brother!

 
 
Let's start a list
 
It is exciting news though, because even though there are loads of jalapeño varieties, there is little variation in their colours. 

 

[PaulG]

 
 
Let's start a list
 
It is exciting news though, because even though there are loads of jalapeño varieties, there is little variation in their colours. 

+1, my friend!
 
I hope it stays that way as the season progresses, SB!

 

[skullbiker]

Sharknado............HELL...................what about SHARKCOTO!
 

 
And a few miscellaneous rocotos.
 

 

 

[skullbiker]

Finally got a couple of Jalapeno Lemon Spice with decent size.
 

 

[skullbiker]

The first ripe Brainstrain pod for this season.
 

 

[skullbiker]

This mornings quick pick. 
The small basket has a couple of Sugar Rush Peach, Orange Spice Jalapeno, several Scarlett's Chili X Poblano F2 pods including one "stripey" off a variegated plant. Below that some Big Bertha Bells.
The next tray over has a half dozen Antep Aci Dolma peppers and a bunch of Lemon Boy tomatoes.
The last tray is all Suhuaro Big Chili.
 

 
 

 

[skullbiker]

The Peppa-peach plants are doing pretty good now. I have three plants putting out pods like this.
 

 
And one plant is putting out these less round/more long type pods.
 

 

[PaulG]

Always something nice to see here, SB!

 

[skullbiker]

I thought I had a plan for a sauce so I grew three plants of these fake habaneros. supposedly the taste of the habanero with no heat. I have tried a few and the only thing I can say they taste like is.............nothing, like chewing on some roughage with no taste. Well, it's always worth a try, that's how we learn but I'll be pulling these up and using the space for "real" pepper plants!
 

 
Now, on a positive note, I picked a few Equidorian Sweet Rocotos this morning.