Your peppers please!

Billy the Mountain

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Im finding out more and more that those that grow weed also grow and like hot peppers. I was at the grow shop recently and those guys are growing hot peppers in the store!
Anyway, I've been growing hot peppers for years. I've tried many vendors' seeds for Carolina Reaper but haven't gotten any with the stingers. I mean they were all hot as hell and made some good sauce and powder. Just not the correct pheno as a lot of pictures show. Do you remember where you got your seeds?


I got them from a place called Waylandchiles.com, via Amazon

The Carolina Reapers (from multiple vendors) I've grown aren't particularly uniform; the shape in particular seems quite variable. I think this is due to the fact that it's a relatively new cross (red hab and ghost iirc)

The Trinidad Scorpions generally have the stingers and the two often look quite similar

Both are really tasty and ridiculously hot


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Killaki

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Here's my jalapeno I've been collecting seeds from for the last few years. I tried sweet peppers this year but the seedlings didn't survive when I went out of town earlier in the year. I'll try them again next year and I might also plant multiple jalapeno seeds from years past and compare. This year was funky, and everything outside seemed a little sad.
 

xtsho

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So I have another Thai pepper that's starting to have the peppers growing upwards. It's late in the season so maybe it's just normal but I've never observed it on these pepper seeds before.

I've also done a couple of crosses and am hoping they take. I did a Carolina Reaper pollen to a Thai chili and I also did the Sicilian peppers I've just started growing to a Thai as well. There's quite a bit more hands on work involved with crossing peppers than there is with cannabis. We'll see how things go with that.

I'm also going to dig up a green/red pepper and use it to graft on some branches from the other peppers and bring it inside under lights along with an indeterminate beefsteak I have in a pot that's just starting to flower. I'm hoping for a few tomatoes over the winter. I'm grafting the Reaper, Thai, and Sicilian. I'm prepared for failure.
 

MICHI-CAN

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Just fill it with vinegar?

I think I'll try something similar.
I've already made over a gallon of hot sauce, have a gallon of dried peppers; some pickled ones might be nice
Almost. I grew the carrots and garlic. Bought vidalia's.

But seriously. I use Heinz pickling vinegar. It is proper acidity. Label will explain quick pickle process. I add turmeric, white pepper and cumin.
 

xtsho

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Damn, every variety of peppers I have are all still green. Everything here is late. My Thai, Sicilian, and Carmen are all green. Lots of peppers but they're not turning red. My Carolina Reapers are also all still green. Spring here was not good for the garden so everything got planted late so I guess they'll ripen late. They're all still blooming quite a bit and setting peppers still.

I'm going to be making some fermented hot sauces this year.
 

Killaki

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Damn, every variety of peppers I have are all still green. Everything here is late. My Thai, Sicilian, and Carmen are all green. Lots of peppers but they're not turning red. My Carolina Reapers are also all still green. Spring here was not good for the garden so everything got planted late so I guess they'll ripen late. They're all still blooming quite a bit and setting peppers still.

I'm going to be making some fermented hot sauces this year.
Same in my area, at least for me and my neighbors. Must be a western thing.
 

Dorian2

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We've been having 20 - 22°C temperatures during the day but it's cooling off in the single digits at night. My little Red Habanero pot gets wrapped in a warm blanket and put in the garage at night. Then back out during the day. Waiting for that big green one to turn. Took the pic to make the plant look mightier than it is. :bigjoint:

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Dorian2

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I'm considering a seed experiment with this one. This is the first offspring from the store bought one, and I'm figuring maybe it's showing some tendencies already. It was really, really, really, slow from seed but the pepper I got it from was small. This one is small as well, but I picked maybe 2 or 3 peppers the size of these ones. There are a couple here that are quite a bit bigger than that one.

Idears?
 

Billy the Mountain

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I'm considering a seed experiment with this one. This is the first offspring from the store bought one, and I'm figuring maybe it's showing some tendencies already. It was really, really, really, slow from seed but the pepper I got it from was small. This one is small as well, but I picked maybe 2 or 3 peppers the size of these ones. There are a couple here that are quite a bit bigger than that one.

Idears?
What's the objective with experimenting with the plant that is very slow to develop and has yielded just a few peppers?
Not to denigrate your efforts, just genuine curiosity.

This habanero is nothing special, a neglected leftover in a 2 gal pot.
Its probably yielded a hundred peppers so far and plenty more to harvest despite losing a few branches from falls off the table.


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