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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jan 13, 2015 12:22:10 GMT -5
I am curious as to what kinds of peppers you folks will be growing this year. Please post your lists so we can see what goodies you'll be growing! To get the thread started, here is my tentative list: *** = returning from last year Sweet:Alliance Hybrid Doux Long d'Antibes Early Sunsation Hybrid*** Lipstick NuMex Sweet Orange bell pepper (seed saved from a supermarket pepper)*** Sweet Hungarian Sweet Parade Hot (well, sort of hot, anyway):Black Hungarian Chichimeca Hybrid*** Czech Black Mosquetero Hybrid (ancho) NuMex Primavera (mild jalepeno) NuMex R Naky Shishito*** I might also grow Tabasco for pepper sauce. But I have all these new varieties to try that I just might buy pepper sauce this year and use that Earthbox to plant more of the new ones. I may also grow some ornamental peppers (Bellingrath Gardens Purple), but they would be in the flower beds out front, and not for culinary use. I might have to trim this list. I only have space for 48 pepper plants, and I want to harvest a lot of the bells and other large sweet peppers for salads, cooking, and freezing for later cooking. So the bells will get much more than their fair share of planting spots. The jalapenos will get a lot of spots, too. So I won't have all that much room for the others...unless I can figure out a few more planting spots. I am looking really forward to trying NuMex Primavera. Something about my climate or the way I grow peppers in the EB seems to really increase the capsaicin in my peppers. Even the "mild" jalapenos I have grown in the past have been hotter than grocery store jalapenos. That's a real problem for a pepper wimp like me. So I am always looking for jalapenos that have just a hint of warmth, so that after my growing conditions kick up the heat they will be just perfect. NuMex Primavera is supposed to have about a tenth the heat of a standard jalapeno - and it is supposed to have uniform heat from plant to plant and from fruit to fruit. (Every other jalapeno I have grown has been inconsistent with heat. Some are mild and some are painfully hot. This is particularly a problem with poppers. Since you are eating the whole peppers, if the pepper is too hot to enjoy it ruins the experience.) So, I hope that this variety will work out better. I will also be re-growing Chichimeca, although turned out to be too hot for poppers last year. But the Chichcimeca plants were healthy and produced well, so I was thinking of using this variety for pickled "nacho" slices. I can always dice up the slices when I use them, and use them sparingly to control the heat. So I can use a slightly hotter pepper in those. And the heat should even out some after they sit in the jar for a while, so the hottest ones will mellow a bit and the mild ones will have more kick. Sooooo...let's see what the rest of you will be growing!
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Post by paulf on Jan 13, 2015 14:32:53 GMT -5
Here is my list; all are sweet. Nobody in the family eats the hot ones.
PEPPERS 2015
BURAN CHINESE GIANT FRANK’S SWEET GIANT ARCONCAGUA GIANT MARCONI GOLDEN TREASURE ORANGE BELL TA-TONG
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Post by swamper on Jan 13, 2015 21:29:31 GMT -5
SWEET Chablis Red Belgian* Yummy Etuida* Eros* Sunset Red North Star Redstart f1 Bulls Heart Cupid* Lunchbox Red* Chocobelle f1*
HOT Arledge CvetaX Mariachi PeppinoX Tam Jalapeno Dancing spiritsX Havasu f1 Capperino f1 Demon
CHINENSE Bonda annuumX Bonda brazilX 7 pot white 7 pot primo Hot paper lanternX Maya* Pi 281429
BACCATUM Aji Omnicolor
X denotes selection from insect cross * denotes new for me this year
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 14, 2015 12:52:08 GMT -5
Just plain ole banana peppers...
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Post by timothyt on Jan 14, 2015 14:54:01 GMT -5
Some mighty fine pepper lists folks! Well, DLD's could use a little plumping up! <grin> Reckon this means I need to start working on mine for this season!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jan 14, 2015 17:40:37 GMT -5
I'd be happy to send DLD a few seeds if he wants to branch out.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jan 14, 2015 23:39:24 GMT -5
I just updated mine today, and here is the list. Not quite complete, as I am still looking for a good jalapeño, and one I was eying was the Chichimeca Hybrid, which is why I was surprised Laura is growing it! Good to hear that it grows well - it sounded good when I read the descriptions and reviews. The Craig's grande tastes great and did well last year, except for the fact that it got some sort of leaf fungus while under the cover to prevent pepper maggots (unfortunate necessity, and jalapeños are the worst with those!), while a hybrid jalapeño (the last of my Ixtapas, which I can only find on one site, which I don't really want anything else from) right next to them were totally clean. I'll just keep trying! Note the sweet peppers! *= new in 2014 Ancho Mexican Large* (ecoseeds) Fresno (new seeds from RR) Habanero - mustard* Habanero - red savina Habanero - white bullet (earliest hab ever) Hanoi Market Lombak Numex Big Jim* Superchili hybrid (earliest pepper of all!) Superthai (my nam prik pao pepper) Thai Nippon Taka Thai Red Demon Thai Superhot (evergreenseeds) New for 2015. 7 pot jonah (had to have one superhot!) Aurora Carno D'Torro Rosso (sweet) Giant Aconcagua (sweet) Giant Red Marconi (sweet) Numex Sandia Puya (I'll see if it's different from the one last season) Ring Of Fire (good many years ago when I tried it, but it got pepper maggots, which I can now control) Santa Fe (another good one, that got pepper maggots) Thai Dragon (still looking for that good one from years ago)
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jan 15, 2015 8:38:47 GMT -5
Yes, well the ad I read last year when I bought the seeds said that Chichimeca is a milder jalapeno. And it is, but it's hotter than Senorita or TAM. I couldn't even eat some of the poppers I made with it last year - I had to just eat the filling with a spoon...and even the filling had absorbed enough capsaicin to be hot! So I figure you will find it to have a hint of warmth. Chichimeca made big, thick, meaty peppers, and plenty of them. I can't say how it does with pepper maggots because that's one of the few pests I haven't had problems with. (Yet!) Dave, you're growing some sweet peppers?!? How did that happen?
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jan 15, 2015 23:50:22 GMT -5
I found two more new ones that I overlooked, as they were gifts:
Long Skinny Chinese chili
Super Variegated Fish Pepper
Those sweet peppers I gave up on years ago, when pepper maggots attacked all sweet, and fairly mild peppers (though a few, like Bulgarian carrot, were decimated by them, despite being fairly hot). I can't tell you how many I never grew again, despite being good later in the season (the flies stop laying eggs around the first week of Aug.). I'll have to go through my paper (all we had back then! LOL) notes, and see what I may want to try again. You are so lucky not to have those, Laura! They also infest a native plant (horsenettle) found in the NE, so maybe they aren't a problem down there in general. And friends of mine, who don't live near water, have no problems, as horsenettle is found in wetlands. I have read that they also invest eggplants and tomatoes, but have never once seen the eggs on those.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jan 16, 2015 0:51:00 GMT -5
I had to look horsenettle up...I assume you mean Solanum carolinense? That is supposed to be a native weed here, but I have not seen that particular plant in my yard. Maybe the Spanish Needle outcompetes it. I've seen other nightshade weeds, but not that one. After reading about it, you can bet I will go to war with it immediately if I do see it, and not just because of the pepper maggots - though that would be reason enough!
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Post by stratcat on Jan 27, 2015 1:51:01 GMT -5
I'm cutting back on pepper varieties this year to concentrate harder on tomatoes. For sweet peppers, I'm going to grow my old standby, Buran. Also, Lipstick for the second time. For hot ones, I'm planting u Šara and some of my experimental peppers. If some Bellingrath Gardens Purple volunteers pop up, I'll pot one up, no doubt.
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Post by daylilydude on Mar 22, 2015 20:35:26 GMT -5
Ok, I'm gonna branch out a lil... no sweet banana this year, I ordered just 2 different ones... Zavory and Pepperocini.
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Post by stratcat on Mar 23, 2015 10:15:20 GMT -5
OK, here's my updated list. The seeds are sown and I'm waiting for liftoff. I planted more than I planned on.
Sweet Buran Lipstick Sweet Chocolate
Hot Purira u Šara Experimental
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Post by paquebot on Mar 25, 2015 21:05:49 GMT -5
Hot peppers:
Ancho Gigante Beaver Dam Bhut Jalokia Carolina Reaper Habanero Jalapeno Kung Pao Scotch Bonnet Sera Demre Vezena Wailua
Sweet:
California Wonder Chinese Giant Corno di Toro Fooled You King of the North Mama Mia Margaret Ukrainian Yummy Orange
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 30, 2015 8:19:26 GMT -5
I'm cutting back on pepper varieties this year to concentrate harder on tomatoes. For sweet peppers, I'm going to grow my old standby, Buran. Also, Lipstick for the second time. For hot ones, I'm planting u Šara and some of my experimental peppers. If some Bellingrath Gardens Purple volunteers pop up, I'll pot one up, no doubt. I didn't mention them because they are not for culinary use, but I am growing some of the Bellingrath Gardens Purple again this year for the mailbox flower bed. I learned last year that after they are established and get some size, they tolerate a fair bit of drought. (My sandy soil is bone dry 4 days after a rain...plants that are not drought tolerant have to be watered if it does not rain for a few days.) The BGP plants seem to love the hot conditions out by the street. They are cute little plants, too. Thanks again for the seeds, Strat.
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Post by aqua on Apr 3, 2015 10:08:44 GMT -5
Oh goodness. I am WAY over my head here- thought there were just bell peppers, and OhNoI'mGonnaDie peppers. Uhhmmm..
I have a question- someone told me that of I planted hot peppers near sweet peppers (like bell or banana or cubanelle) that then they could become hot, too. I do NOT want hot bell peppers! so I need to know if hot peppers can make other peppers (or even tomatoes) hot, just by growing in close proximity. I have plenty of pollenaters, so I guess this is a cross-pollenation problem?
thank you-
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Post by swamper on Apr 3, 2015 20:56:47 GMT -5
If you're saving seeds you can get heat in the next years crop from cross pollination. You wont get heat in this years fruit if pollen from a hot pepper pollinates a sweet pepper blossom
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Post by stratcat on Apr 3, 2015 23:44:54 GMT -5
I'm cutting back on pepper varieties this year to concentrate harder on tomatoes. For sweet peppers, I'm going to grow my old standby, Buran. Also, Lipstick for the second time. For hot ones, I'm planting u Šara and some of my experimental peppers. If some Bellingrath Gardens Purple volunteers pop up, I'll pot one up, no doubt. I didn't mention them because they are not for culinary use, but I am growing some of the Bellingrath Gardens Purple again this year for the mailbox flower bed. I learned last year that after they are established and get some size, they tolerate a fair bit of drought. (My sandy soil is bone dry 4 days after a rain...plants that are not drought tolerant have to be watered if it does not rain for a few days.) The BGP plants seem to love the hot conditions out by the street. They are cute little plants, too. Thanks again for the seeds, Strat. YVW, Laura! Those pepper plants are quite ornamental. Nice specimens!
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