What peppers you growing?

[Martin Mikulcik]

I've grown a lot of peppers over the years and it seems it must be pepper season what with all the posts recently

Peppers have incredible diversity and I'd love to here which are your favorites

My favorites are:
Cayenne
Jalapeno
Aji (no named family heirloom)
We have a mild paprika we bred i love
Chile de arbol/pequin

Other ones I'm growing this year
Czech black (idk looks promising)
Feher ozon (not doing well)
Serrano (excellent)
Cap 455 baccatum (i think this is a keeper)
Jimmy nardello (can recommend)

I once had a hybrid chinense x annuum? I think. It was a natural cross. This is one plant I'm still kicking myself for losing. Very tall vigorous plants, an indescribable flavor and too hot for me. That's what did it in. It was so hot we couldn't properly taste them all and they were highly unstable. I've seen ed currie say it takes 8 generations to stabilize, i had an f3 but I'm not sure any were really as good as the original.

Others I've done before and can recommend
Guajillo
G76 Anaheim
Tabasco (aged in white oak)
Habanada
Revolution Bell
Mild jalapeno
Banana (if you don't like flavor)
Trinidad scorpion (if you've never done a superhot)

There are plenty of others, what's yours

 

[Meadowlark]

Fresh pepper season here lasts from about May to November with plenty of fresh peppers for the table throughout the period. Jalapenos, Bells, Corno di Toro are the mainstays with a few green Serranos and Chilis.

The green Serrano is as high on the Scoville Range as I grow. Habaneros I have grown but no point in growing them if you aren't going to use them.... just too hot.

The Mammoth Jalapeño is the go-to pepper here. We use them in many different ways. They produce continuously from spring to frost. The pre-frost peppers are the best IMO. The plants really put on a production spurt heading into frost time and not only is the quantity great, but the quality is outstanding.

I usually only grow four of the mammoth Jalapeño plants and try to carry over seeds each year. I once tried to count the number of Jalapeños produced by one plant through the season and it was well over 300 mammoth Jalapeños. Four plants may not sound like much, but they easily exceed 1000 peppers in production which is more than enough for fresh use and frozen to carry us through until fresh becomes available again.

I can't recall the last time we had to buy store bought peppers.

Growing peppers that you must wear gloves to harvest just does not interest me.

 

[Sluggy]

I sent off for a new chilli seed called Kerala ( a State in India) where we have had a couple of holidays. If you think of the number of seeds in a chilli pod I received a packet containing 6 seeds. Only 2 germinated and one died (my fault). If buying seeds try and check the number in the packet.

 

[Mrsclem]

My favorite- shishito! Heavy producer and fantastic grilled or charred in cast iron. A little salt and champagne vinegar. Supposed to be 1 in 10 hot. Grew them for 3 years and never got a hot one. Hubby ate 1 and screamed about how hot it was. 5 years in, eating over 100 per season, only had 2 that were hot.

 

[DiggersJo]

My favorite- shishito! Heavy producer and fantastic grilled or charred in cast iron. A little salt and champagne vinegar. Supposed to be 1 in 10 hot. Grew them for 3 years and never got a hot one. Hubby ate 1 and screamed about how hot it was. 5 years in, eating over 100 per season, only had 2 that were hot.

These are interestingly like (and possibly linked according to the web) Padron peppers Apart from looking alike they have the same trait of some being hotter. We don't grow them, but with recent weather changes I might give them a go as we love them - especially classic Spanish style. I grew Basket of Fire (BoF) previous years for the small size plant, varied pretty colours and heat that suits us most. I had zip-lock bags going back to 2022 that I've only just composted as I realised we would never catchup as I'm using fresh already. ChatGPT recommended NuMex Twilight as an alternative to BoF of which I lost both plants after 4 years.

 

[dirty hands]

We use a lot of bell peppers and freeze them for winter. I use them in eggs and sloppy Joe's as well as other burger dishes like spaghetti and chili. My first crop here isnt doing very well but I will get enough use fresh.


I like the flavor of poblano and they are doing better now that i put a fence around them. Apparently something (probably racoon) really likes the plants too.

My stomach struggles with hot peppers but I like the flavor of jalepano but I didnt grow any this year.

Banana peppers are doing good but I havent cooked with them much. Im going to experiment with them this year.

Serranos are doing great.

I forget what the others are maybe Birds eye. They are doing good too. I need to pick a bunch of them.
I think they are cayenne.

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[Xraycer]

The only 2 peppers I've been growing are from seeds of store bought fruits we've eaten: jalapeno and a mini sweet pepper. Just wanted to see if these seeds would grow, for me, if I stuck them on soil. The answer is: yes!
They both grew kind of slow, but are now flowering and forming fruits.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

The only 2 peppers I've been growing are from seeds of store bought fruits we've eaten: jalapeno and a mini sweet pepper. Just wanted to see if these seeds would grow, for me, if I stuck them on soil. The answer is: yes!
They both grew kind of slow, but are now flowering and forming fruits.
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You must be luckier than me every store bought one I've tried is immature

Anyone try the fish pepper?

 

[Xraycer]

You must be luckier than me every store bought one I've tried is immature.

The only seed I'd failed on was a store bought watermelon seed and a jarred popcorn kernel.
Here's a kiwi and a forelle pear, I'd also sown just for fun and curiosity.

 

[Pepperpots]

I'm new to growing peppers and i started these chocolate primotali last spring, i think i might have a chocolate carolina reaper mixed in there too.

I have a question for you seasoned pepper growers. I have 7 of them in pro mix hp/worm castings and 2 in pro mix garden and vegetable. The two in the garden and veg are growing a little slower and only a few of my bigger plants (in pro mix hp) have flowers now.

If you look at the picture of the smaller one it's really bushy compared to the others and has alot or tiny foliage crowding around the stem, should i trim these little leaves off and clean it up? Or just leave it as is?

Thanks in advance.

 

[DiggersJo]

Lovely looking plants, far more professional detail for me. From what I understand they grow to whatever size you restrict them to, might be the pictures, but those containers look little?

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

I'm new to growing peppers and i started these chocolate primotali last spring, i think i might have a chocolate carolina reaper mixed in there too.

I have a question for you seasoned pepper growers. I have 7 of them in pro mix hp/worm castings and 2 in pro mix garden and vegetable. The two in the garden and veg are growing a little slower and only a few of my bigger plants (in pro mix hp) have flowers now.

If you look at the picture of the smaller one it's really bushy compared to the others and has alot or tiny foliage crowding around the stem, should i trim these little leaves off and clean it up? Or just leave it as is?

Thanks in advance.

If you watered the ones in the ground the same, perhaps they are stunted from cooler soil

Also you're starting with the hardest to grow peppers so it's pretty normal to just start getting flowers on them right now even here so I'd say you're doing pretty good

I wouldn't prune healthy growth

 

[Pepperpots]

If you watered the ones in the ground the same, perhaps they are stunted from cooler soil

Also you're starting with the hardest to grow peppers so it's pretty normal to just start getting flowers on them right now even here so I'd say you're doing pretty good

I wouldn't prune healthy growth

Thanks for the tip. I just figured since the more ventilated ones grew taller and made flowers maybe this little plant was putting too much energy into the small leaves. Maybe its just because it's planted in denser soil who knows.

 

[Meadowlark]

I like to pick my peppers pretty much clean this time of year to allow them to recharge for the fall production which can be the best of the year here. In about three weeks or so they will be blooming again and getting ready for the fall push.