Vokar
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Post by Vokar on Sept 28, 2019 21:49:30 GMT -5
Here's most of my pepper harvest from today. I picked the plants clean, in preparation for the frost, except for a Habanero plant that I might cover up. Hot peppers on the right and sweet on the left:  Black Mustard Bhutlah on the right, and regular Mustard Bhutlah on the left:  Regular Mustard Bhutlah:  Me holding the ripe regular Mustard Bhutlahs:  Me holding some unripe black Mustard Bhutlahs with anthocyanin:  Me holding the ripe black Mustard Bhutlahs (they are more orange than the picture shows):  All the black Mustard Bhutlahs:  |
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Vokar
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Post by Vokar on Sept 28, 2019 21:58:33 GMT -5
Here's my end-of-season Aji Habanero harvest, most of which I harvested a few days ago. Three fruits I harvested today. This is from three plants, from two sources. The ones in the blue bowl are the bigger ones I'm saving for seed. The fruits are more orange than they appear in the picture of course. They're a light orange. This is my favorite pepper variety. The plants are hardy and easy to grow. It has a fruity/spicy/savory taste. It's prolific, and it's early for a C. baccatum. You can harvest throughout the season. Fruits dry easily (including on the vine). I plan to make some pepper powder with them.  This picture showcases the color and size better:  Here are the ones that fell off the plant (they can fall off sometimes):  |
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 9, 2019 16:33:28 GMT -5
I've had irregular production from ancho/poblano peppers, but this year I got great results from a new hybrid variety - Mosquetero. It was a little slow - the Numex had full sized peppers when this started, but it is indeterminate, and has not stopped producing! I'll have them until frost. Next year, I might start it 3 weeks earlier, though I'll have to put them in larger pots.  Big Jim and Mosquetero poblano 10-9 by pepperhead212, on Flickr The longhorn cayennes did fairly well, but were determinate; they had 3 flushes of peppers on each plant, but the intense heat of the summer seemed to slow them - they weren't heat lovers, like most of my peppers! I'm getting more now, despite the cool weather. These are just the ones with red, so far - the 2 plants are loaded with peppers, more than the second flush, in the hottest part of the summer.  Longhorns 10-9 by pepperhead212, on Flickr I got another flush of peppers on my Thai plants - they have a bunch of full sized green peppers on them again! I really don't need any more, but what I might do is dry them - I saw something recently, that answered a question of mine: what is referred to as "white chili powder", in some Indian recipes, is simply green chiles, dried up and ground! |
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 23, 2019 14:15:13 GMT -5
Today I cut down many pepper plants, and harvested all of the full sized peppers from them. I left the longhorns, red savinas, aji dulce, Hanoi markets, and Aleppos in, to let them ripen as many as possible.  Third flush of Thai Vesuvius, showing all the peppers on one of the plants I cut down, 10-23 by pepperhead212, on Flickr  Last harvested of most varieties - a few of the cherries left 10-23 by pepperhead212, on Flickr  Last harvested of two Thai Vesuvius - 10-23 by pepperhead212, on Flickr  Last few Superchilis, and Thai longs 10-23 by pepperhead212, on Flickr Forgot the Aleppos. These are the ones I harvested, but there are at least this many full sized ones not ripe yet, and many more small ones.  Aleppos, 10-23, many more ripening. by pepperhead212, on Flickr |
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Post by desertwoman on Oct 23, 2019 18:27:59 GMT -5
I am always in awe of your pepper crops pepperhead212,, and here it is late October and you are still harvesting. Wow. |
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Post by gardendmpls on Oct 24, 2019 1:43:22 GMT -5
I keep finding red ripe ones on the ground with a squirrel bite out of each. I should just pay the squirrel to find and pick the ripe ones for me.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 28, 2019 19:21:41 GMT -5
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Post by gardenthyme on Oct 28, 2019 20:13:00 GMT -5
My pepper season was pretty good this summer. Here's a bag I picked around July. We haven't had a frost yet, so still have some peppers. The varieties I grew this summer were, Peppadew, Espiritu Santo Red, Freeport Orange Scotch Bonnet, Sri Lanka Chili Red, Friariello Di Napoli, Kang Star White Thai, Hein White Thai, Thai ( got pepper from a Thai lady), Aji Amarillo Grande, California Wonder, Arroz Con Pollo.     |
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Post by desertwoman on Oct 28, 2019 20:26:35 GMT -5
Great looking peppers, gardenthyme , What are those in the third pic- some look sort of like an apricot color! |
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Post by gardenthyme on Oct 28, 2019 20:28:01 GMT -5
Here's a picture of the Aji Dulce I grew in 2018.  |
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Post by gardenthyme on Oct 28, 2019 20:32:55 GMT -5
Thanks desertwoman, those are Freeport Orange Scotch Bonnet(which are pretty much Bahamian Goat Scotch Bonnet) They were actually a peach color, not orange.
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Post by binnylou on Oct 28, 2019 21:43:09 GMT -5
gardenthyme, your Aji Dulce peppers are such beauties. I’m a “ho hum” kind of pepper grower. I’ve settled on Red Marconi to be my basic pepper. This was not a good year for peppers in my garden...but, next year will be better. I’m sure Mumsey agrees. thanks for sharing your photos.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Nov 1, 2019 21:01:16 GMT -5
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Post by Mumsey on Nov 10, 2019 5:18:29 GMT -5
pepperhead212, Lucky you! Peppers were a bust here. Had enough for eating but few for freezing.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Nov 10, 2019 12:13:43 GMT -5
Mumsey I had so many peppers this year, I have decided to downsize again next season! And some of the varieties that 2 plants produced far more than I needed, so I will take a chance on just one each. I am also trying some new aji peppers - things I gave up on many years ago, due to pepper maggots, but now, I just cover them.
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