Who here is interested in growing hot peppers
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:56 pm
Ok, I am starting late this year, but earlier than last year. I have my seedling trays filled with seed starting mix, my grow shelves, lights, and heat mats set up. If I can get up early tomorrow I'll plant some seeds (144 of them). I'll probably plant some more as time goes on. I get my seeds from tomatogrowers.com and peppermania.com.
Update: Ok, so over two months later, growing indoors under lights. The seed germination rates were awesome and I lost less seedlings than the last two years due to forgetting to water them.
I gave them more fertilizer this year too.
Here's my list:
Capsicum Chinense:
11 Naga Morich images
9 Aji Limo Rojo images
5 Fatalii images My 3rd year trying these, very hard to grow, needs lots of sun and nutrients. The peppers are out of this world.
8 7 Pot / Trinidad Scorpion cross
Capsicum Baccatum:
7 Aji Chinchi Amarillo
7 Aji Limon One of my faves. Great heat, makes awesome powder. Good in ceveche.
7 Lemon Drop New to me but much like the Aji Limon. Also from Peru.
Capsicum Anuum:
8 Maule's Red Hot
7 Goat's Weed I hear these actually grow like mad.
7 Joe E Parker Numex (organic)
7 Fresno I bought these before and they made an awesome sauce. Great for poppers too.
8 Ring of Fire Grew these before, not a superhot but felt like a flamethrower in my mouth fresh.
7 Super Chili Hybrid 3rd time's a charm, right? Supposed to be very prolific.
7 Large Red Thick Cayenne Grew this before, good sized plant and peppers.
8 Sahuaro Hybrid
7 Numex Sunrise
6 Big Bomb Hybrid My 3rd year growing these, very reliable pepper.
By my count that's 126 plants. I grew about half that much last year. I probably have room for about 80 in the ground, maybe not even that much. Like I said they can be a bitch to grow but worth it if you can get a bit of a harvest.
I don't mind giving away some surplus but they've been a lot of work. Some aren't in the best shape; as usual by this point some have lots of dropped leaves. The Chinenses are shorter, stockier, and have nice wide deep green leaves. They seem to do awesome under the lights but they won't do as good outside. However feed them well and give lots of sunshine and they can rock. Some varieties have done well for me. The Naga Morich, 7 Pot, and Scorpion are all "superhots" and are as hot, or even hotter than the famed Bhut Jolokia (ghost pepper). Two years ago the Aji Limon gave me a good amount of peppers so here's hoping for another good run with the Baccatum. Capsicum Anuum types are a bit easier to grow in our climate. Some of mine don't look so hot but they should thrive outside. I've had some crappy plants really take off.
The main thing is these guys have had a head start indoors. I use trays with larger cells so they can build a larger root system before going outside. Next year I may use trays with even larger cells but I'll have to cut back on the numbers.
Edit: added links and more info
-Rob
Update: Ok, so over two months later, growing indoors under lights. The seed germination rates were awesome and I lost less seedlings than the last two years due to forgetting to water them.
I gave them more fertilizer this year too.Here's my list:
Capsicum Chinense:
11 Naga Morich images
9 Aji Limo Rojo images
5 Fatalii images My 3rd year trying these, very hard to grow, needs lots of sun and nutrients. The peppers are out of this world.
8 7 Pot / Trinidad Scorpion cross
Capsicum Baccatum:
7 Aji Chinchi Amarillo
7 Aji Limon One of my faves. Great heat, makes awesome powder. Good in ceveche.
7 Lemon Drop New to me but much like the Aji Limon. Also from Peru.
Capsicum Anuum:
8 Maule's Red Hot
7 Goat's Weed I hear these actually grow like mad.
7 Joe E Parker Numex (organic)
7 Fresno I bought these before and they made an awesome sauce. Great for poppers too.
8 Ring of Fire Grew these before, not a superhot but felt like a flamethrower in my mouth fresh.
7 Super Chili Hybrid 3rd time's a charm, right? Supposed to be very prolific.
7 Large Red Thick Cayenne Grew this before, good sized plant and peppers.
8 Sahuaro Hybrid
7 Numex Sunrise
6 Big Bomb Hybrid My 3rd year growing these, very reliable pepper.
By my count that's 126 plants. I grew about half that much last year. I probably have room for about 80 in the ground, maybe not even that much. Like I said they can be a bitch to grow but worth it if you can get a bit of a harvest.
I don't mind giving away some surplus but they've been a lot of work. Some aren't in the best shape; as usual by this point some have lots of dropped leaves. The Chinenses are shorter, stockier, and have nice wide deep green leaves. They seem to do awesome under the lights but they won't do as good outside. However feed them well and give lots of sunshine and they can rock. Some varieties have done well for me. The Naga Morich, 7 Pot, and Scorpion are all "superhots" and are as hot, or even hotter than the famed Bhut Jolokia (ghost pepper). Two years ago the Aji Limon gave me a good amount of peppers so here's hoping for another good run with the Baccatum. Capsicum Anuum types are a bit easier to grow in our climate. Some of mine don't look so hot but they should thrive outside. I've had some crappy plants really take off.
The main thing is these guys have had a head start indoors. I use trays with larger cells so they can build a larger root system before going outside. Next year I may use trays with even larger cells but I'll have to cut back on the numbers.
Edit: added links and more info
-Rob