Jalapenos

Bought some strawberry plants for the kids to plant outside. The place on the side of the house is where the pepper bush was for years. Red smokin' hot peppers, year round! It died. I wanted to get some jalapeno plants too, but none were available this time of year. So we bought seeds.

We dug out all the dirt (which is actually not bad soil). I put the soil in a small trashcan and added perlite, then tossed it around. Poured it back in our 9' trench, and added the strawberries.

For the jalapenos, had some root riots left over (3), since cloned 7 days ago. What the hell, let's put the jalapenos in with the girls under the T5's! Says on the package to "start indoors, and when 3-4" tall, move them outside after frost." I have them under the dome, above a heating pad, with 3 Blue Dream clones. Will put 3 jalapeno plants in between the 4 strawberries on the side of the house, when they are ready.

Any thoughts?

Reminded me of a story when I was a kid.... my mother had a huge garden and had a nice row of peppers...I decided to go play in the dirt by the jalapenos with my little race car. I got some dust in my eye and rubbed my eyes with my peppered dirt hands. They thought I was going to loose my site, and the skin around my eyes peeled for weeks. Moral of the story...that dirt is spicey. I hope your strawberries wont be

Diabolical666 said:

Reminded me of a story when I was a kid.... my mother had a huge garden and had a nice row of peppers...I decided to go play in the dirt by the jalapenos with my little race car. I got some dust in my eye and rubbed my eyes with my peppered dirt hands. They thought I was going to loose my site, and the skin around my eyes peeled for weeks. Moral of the story...that dirt is spicey. I hope your strawberries wont be

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Thanks for the heads-up. We'll see! Think I'll keep the strawberries on one side, and the jalapenos on the other!

Shoot that is one mistake that I would NOT want to make. I do love jalapenos though, they make just about anything better if you love really spicy food (which I do) I think that your story might have actually inspired me to start planting them myself, does it say how long they have to be in for?

James Carmichael said:

Shoot that is one mistake that I would NOT want to make. I do love jalapenos though, they make just about anything better if you love really spicy food (which I do) I think that your story might have actually inspired me to start planting them myself, does it say how long they have to be in for?

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Says takes 8-10 days to sprout, then you can transplant when they are 3-4" tall.

One thing for sure is jalepenos are one of the easiest to grow as they seem a lot more hardy than other chilli plants normal and superhots...from my exp anyway.

Ya jalapenos are tough to kill. I started 1 from seed then put it in a 3 gallon pot with dirt and stuck it under the 400 during the winter with some autos. It grew really well for a while and was producing peppers, but was taking up too much room so I shoved it in the corner and stopped watering the thing. Of course it wilted and died. Several months later I thought I'd throw some water at it. Remember the plant only had hard dead brown main stems. Within a week the damn thing had green growth everywhere.

I planted it in the garden this year. You can see the brown "main" stems down low. That is where it was when I started to water it after it sat in the corner. The green started showing up like crazy.

I'm in CA. We had some hot ass weather this summer and I forgot to water it while it was in the ground. It half ass died again. We had a few rains since and here it is today. Fun shit.



There are little bud flowers everywhere.

Now I'm getting in the mood for indoor serranos.