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Post by daylilydude on Mar 18, 2011 12:38:47 GMT -5
For those of you who also have short seasons/cool climate, what peppers have you had great success with?
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joseph
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Post by joseph on Mar 18, 2011 13:40:55 GMT -5
For those of you who also have short seasons/cool climate, what peppers have you had great success with? I grow landrace peppers in my garden: Saving the seed from whatever individuals grow best for me. Each year I trial a few new varieties. If any of them do as well as my saved seed then I also save the seed from them... Sweet yellow bananas are great for my short season garden. Jalepeno's do well for me. Regular sized bells do better than monster sized. Pimentos don't ripen here, but they sure produce a lot of green peppers for salsa.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 18, 2011 22:23:54 GMT -5
Superchilis, jalapeños (some varieties), and fresnos are good early producers, and also have done well for some gardeners I know in colder areas. The more tropical types they have to start very early, and have them in large pots, by the time they put them out in mid-June (with not much time left!)
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adobo
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Post by adobo on Mar 22, 2011 4:34:16 GMT -5
hot bananas produce fruits very early on my area... some even have pods even if the plant is 6" tall...
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Post by daylilydude on Mar 22, 2011 19:28:56 GMT -5
Oooo... now I've got 6 banana peppers started so maybe I'll have pickled peppers for the 4th of July shindig?
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Post by nolika on Mar 23, 2011 1:54:28 GMT -5
Sweet Mini Bells (Chocolate, Red, Yellow and Orange) do best for me, they are the only ones that tusn color before September, others are quite late... It is great to have many green peppers for eating but not so good for saving seeds. So I plant some varieties in pots I can move inside when the weather turns cold and I can save the seeds from those plants. It is easier to control pollination in those too
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adobo
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Post by adobo on Mar 23, 2011 3:59:42 GMT -5
another early IMO is jimmy nardelo. I have a batch of pepper seedlings right now and all nardelos have flower buds already...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2011 4:38:40 GMT -5
How short? When asking a question about season length, it would help if zone etc., was included... I'm in zone 6. they all do well here except tropical ones. (120-180- days)
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Post by GunnarSK on Apr 6, 2011 13:45:51 GMT -5
It seems that most peppers, especially hot ones, do poorly in this extremely cool and short season climate, but I'm gonna try anyway, especially if the new flat gives me (more) opportunities to play in the windowsill, and the greenhouse gets built.
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Post by coppice on Apr 6, 2011 15:23:36 GMT -5
It seems that most peppers, especially hot ones, do poorly in this extremely cool and short season climate, but I'm gonna try anyway, especially if the new flat gives me (more) opportunities to play in the windowsill, and the greenhouse gets built. Gunnar I had my best luck in lakes region NH with paprika.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2011 21:15:58 GMT -5
Healthy is a fairly early one.
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