Sulsa's 2024 "did it again" Glog

Well... you guys know me and i know you guys....
I was seriously planning on taking it easy this year, but somehow it happened again!
The past few years were crazy productive and my household is completely saturated with peppers.
Dried, frozen, canned, you name it we got it. Actually my house is starting to look like a spices warehouse of the VOC (east india company)
Wich makes sense, since i'm living in Middelburg wich played a major role in this part of Dutch history.
Even today my town still breaths the spirit of that time and so the need and greed for more is both genetic as well it is a product of my surroundings so it can't be blamed on me, right?

Middelburg skyline in 1615 (hasn't changed much actually! )

As i was saying, i was going to grow only a few peppers this year. I did want to grow some different varieties of Jalapeno because i haven't got a good jalapeno in my inventory and i need a good tasting jala in my list of staples. Sadly some varieties i wanted weren't available at the time i went pepperseed shopping and i didn't want to have them shipped from the other side of the planet. (you see, we have changed!) I did order some classics from Fatalii seeds and some were generously given to me by THP members. So my quest for great jalapenos is partially saved. Up till here things would have been manageable, then came the seedtrain and things went down hill from there. I did manage to keep the number of Chinense down, cause i really have enough of them stored allready. I will grow some baccatum again, despite i am not a great fan of the Baccatum taste. Anyway my 2024 growlist is quite Annuum heavy and way longer than it should be!
Maybe i will be able to keep the numbers per variety down a bit?

Heres to another great season!


2024 grow list:

Peppacream
Peppapeach stripey
Aji Guyana

7pot yellow
Habanero Kukulkan
Bhut Jolokia
Yaki blue fawn
Habanada
CGN 21500

Ot hiem
Tasmanian black
Kiss of the raven
Pimiento padron
Jalapeno M
Jalapeno Zapotec
Jalapeno el Jefe
Jalapeno "Tinkerbelle"
Jalapeno farmers market
Chilhuacle Amarillo
Kapia
Feher ozon
Cayenne #1
Piment d'Espelette
Mallorca #6
Mallorca #7

 

[MarcV]

That's a nice amount of seedlings!

 

[Sulsa]

That's a nice amount of seedlings!

No Marc... it's a crazy amount of seedlings!
It seems i'm not able to control myself when it comes to peppers.
Just imagine all the pepper processing later this year!

 

[MarcV]

Then you're very different from me... I've got myself perfectly under control!

 

[Sulsa]

We need help!

 

[Tinkerbelle]

Join the club Sulsa - we need an intervention, I had another package of pepper seeds that I forgot I bought arrive yesterday

And that MarcV is telling porkies again

 

[PaulG]

No Marc... it's a crazy amount of seedlings!

Perfect response

 

[Sulsa]

First flowers on the Cayenne, Padron and the Chilhuacle amarillo

Some variegation on the jalapeno El Jefe. Last time i grew them was two years ago and i had variegation on all plants.

 

[MarcV]

Once the flowers start to appear, things will go fast!

 

[Sulsa]

Found some differences in the individual Kiss of the Raven seedlings.
Some have lancet shaped leaves and others have more heart shaped leaves.

Curious to see how they will develop over time.
Being a cross between Jalapeno and Pequin some genetics from both may turn up. Growing a lot of Jalapenos this year and most of them have a heart shaped type leave. The Zapotec have very broad shouldered leaves

The Farmers market have a more lancet shaped leave.
And very fuzzy

jalapeno M are the only ones until now that developed some edema (time for some better weather so they can go outside)

The Padron peppers all have a triple fork

 

[Sulsa]

Photo drop! Closet is getting crowded, hoping for better weather in 2 weeks and move them outside during the day.

Farmers market Jalapeno dark branches and leaves. Very hairy too!

Jalapeno el jefe with variegation

Mallorca #7 also have a lot of hair. Curious to see how these turn out!

 

[PaulG]

Nice photos, @Sulsa! Plants are looking great and rarin' to go!

 

[ahayastani]

Mallorca #7 also have a lot of hair. Curious to see how these turn out!

Growth will be bushy then.

 

[Sulsa]

Growth will be bushy then.

When i was young bushy was the standard, so i don't mind!

 

[Sulsa]

a little background story on the Mallorca peppers:

Last summer my wife was at a garage sale in our neighborhood looking for old weck glasses and she came into a conversation with the people living there about growing vegetables and ofcourse peppers. Turned out those people also grew some peppers. Since our household was overloaded with peppers at that time my wife went there a couple days later to give them a bag of peppers.
Last Januari our doorbell suddenly rang and there were those nice people to give us a bag of dried peppers they collected during a trip to Mallorca. PPATB! Below a picture of those dried peppers. I decided to grow the #6 and #7 this year. I have no idea what peppers they might be, so any suggestions are welcome!

 

[Tinkerbelle]

I love a mystery pepper

 

[Sulsa]

Long due update from the Netherlands!
It has been quite a busy year and with the rotten weather we had in the north of Europe there was not much to update for a long time.
Normally i would be knee deep in peppers allready, but this year everything is 2 months behind.

Tasmanian black:
(the green one in the front, the bigass dark leaved one in the back is a overwintered cgn 21500)

Peppapeach stripey:
(No sign of the peach or stripey yet)

Yaki blue fawn:

Ot hiem:

CGN 21500:
(overwintered plant wich is becoming huge)

A lot of varieties still missing from my backyard. Need to take some more pictures!
I will do another post soon for all the different jalapenos i got going. Same for the Habanada and Kapia in the vegetable garden.

 

[Sulsa]

I got four "Kiss of the raven" plants. (Cross between Jalapeno and Pequin)
I saw quite early on that there were some differences in the individual plants like leafshape and growth habit.

pheno 1:

Compact plant

Chinense type pods? (Berries )

Canopy shot

Pheno 2:

Compact bushy plant

Pods as you would expect from those two parents... tiny pendular Jala/pequin type

Canopy shot

Pheno 3:

Wide growing plant with larger and darker leaves

Pods.....

Pheno 4:

Wide growing and leaves similar to "normal" Jalapenos

These also look like jalapenos and have roughly the size of one, but they have very thin walls though.

Haven't tried any of them ripe yet. Had some green since my chickens like to tear plants into pieces sometimes
Taste wasn't really developed but they all have thin walls and are quite hot!

 

[hadanero]

That CGN21500 plant is looking great. Nice number of Peppapeach Stripey pods as well.

 

[MarcV]

That CGN21500 is indeed a really beautiful plant!
I know the feeling about the weather... I should be picking pods now but almost everything is still green. Production is abundant though, I did not expect that a couple of months ago...

 

[Tinkerbelle]

hey Sulsa, I'm still waiting for the CGN to pod, had the same shitty weather you've had - hopefully September will be kind