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).
 

 
 

 

[skullbiker]

A few off season rocotos I picked yesterday.
Mix of Rococo San Isidro, Equadorian Sweet Rocoto, Rocoto Montufar.
 

 

[Tybo]

Nice.
I've got Montufar seeds started this year.  Hope I like them as much as you.  They sound really good.

 

[Downriver]

Biker Billy plants lookin good SB!
 
BBJ is one of the very few hybrids I grow, and I've grown it for at least 10 years.
 
Great pepper.

 

[skullbiker]

Nice.
I've got Montufar seeds started this year.  Hope I like them as much as you.  They sound really good.

I think we can be reasonably sure that you'll like them! [emoji106]

 

[skullbiker]

Biker Billy plants lookin good SB!
 
BBJ is one of the very few hybrids I grow, and I've grown it for at least 10 years.
 
Great pepper.

I started growing them about six years ago and since always have a few plants each year. I think they have an excellent heat to flavor ratio.

 

[skullbiker]

Zapotec Jalapeno
 

 

 

[ahayastani]

Looks like 2021 is preparing to be a blast

 

[skullbiker]

Looks like 2021 is preparing to be a blast

 
It's looking good now. Tomorrow morning may look different!
 

 

[skullbiker]

I finally pulled the big Rocoto Montufar pod off of the one plant. Let's see what everyone else gets for Montufar pods this year.
 

 

 

[ahayastani]

 
It's looking good now. Tomorrow morning may look different!
 

 
I guess that's a major difference between the tropics and the subtropics... The coldest here that I can remember (over a 2 year period) is 16°C (at night), during a five-day hurricane, though 20-24°C (night) is pretty standard.
 
Glad to see you keep on producing year-round

 

[dragonsfire]

-10c right now during the day, -17c tonight. Yesterday was +10c lol

 

[skullbiker]

-10c right now during the day, -17c tonight. Yesterday was +10c lol

I haven't been away from the cold so long that I don't remember it. But, I really am trying to forget it! [emoji3063]

 

[PtMD989]

We haven’t had a deep freeze yet this winter, but the weather man is saying it’s coming ,supposed to get down to 20* below normal. I guess we’re due for it. [emoji3063]


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[skullbiker]

We haven’t had a deep freeze yet this winter, but the weather man is saying it’s coming ,supposed to get down to 20* below normal. I guess we’re due for it. [emoji3063]

 
You can have that cold weather!
 
By the way, you should pop over to this link and check out one of your Lemon Boys!
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/74544-skullbikers-2021-everything-but-peppers-golog/page-2

 

[skullbiker]

By tomorrow I should be able to see how cold tolerant various garden plants were!  
 

 

[skullbiker]

I had a bit of frost damage this morning. Ten rocoto plants were the victims, Damage was quite strange as it only affected plants on the east side of my house and only the area about 4 1/2 ft from the ground and upward. I had 2 other rocoto plants about 30 ft from these with absolutely no damage!‍
 
That being said, there was a 42°f temp spread today so the parts of the rocotos and the ones with no damage should produce some pods.
 

 

[ahayastani]

I had a bit of frost damage this morning. Ten rocoto plants were the victims, Damage was quite strange as it only affected plants on the east side of my house and only the area about 4 1/2 ft from the ground and upward. I had 2 other rocoto plants about 30 ft from these with absolutely no damage!‍
 
That being said, there was a 42°f temp spread today so the parts of the rocotos and the ones with no damage should produce some pods.
 

 
Sorry to hear about your loss    In the wrong place at the wrong time... Hope your survivors manage the stress.

 

[skullbiker]

 
Sorry to hear about your loss    In the wrong place at the wrong time... Hope your survivors manage the stress.

 
Nature always makes the big decisions, probably thought I should top those 6 & 8 foot tall plants so did it for me! I fooled it on a couple of them, I had not tied up some of the lower branches to the cage and had let them grow out radially so I'll tie those up have a couple more tall plants! 

 

[Siv]

Looks like I have the same to look forward to - WTF Texas???
 

 

[dragonsfire]

Better then what I got LOL