A thread for hot pepper-a-holics...

Hello Pepper Pals:

This thread will be for myself, as well as other hot pepper lovers, who just can't get enough! We can discuss growing tips, varieties, show pics, whatever we want in relation to hot peppers.

Here's some photos of some of my 2009 hot pepper fruits. I just recently planted a whole list of varieties that I will be showing pics of as they grow. I grow peppers all year round, both indoors and out...

1st ornamental pepper
2nd mixed pot of long red cayenne, bolivian rainbow, trifetti variegata, and aurora
3rd unripe bolivian rainbow

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Here is a list of some types I am and will be growing...

~ Black Cuban
~ Black Scorpion Tongue
~ Purple Pepper
~ Numex Twilight
~ Numex Centennial
~ Tobasco
~ Peach Habanero
~ Orange Habanero
~ Fish (heirloom)
~ Jimmy Nardello (looks like red cayenne, but fruits are sweet!)
~ Togarashi (5 color Japanese pepper)
~ Ornamental Variegated Japanese pepper
~ Purple Tiger
~ Fire Cracker
~ Aurora
~ Explosive Blast
~ Medusa
~ Little Blue Pot
~ Long Red Cayenne
~ Trifetti Variegata
~ Bolivian Rainbow
~ Black Pearl
~ Fluorescent Purple
~ Red Cherry
~ Purple Cayenne

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More shots of my peppers...


1st trifetti variegata
2nd purple cayenne
3rd unripened long red cayenne

 

More shots yet...

1st many of the peppers already listed when they were just young
2nd trifetti variegata
3rd jalapeno and my budgie Henry

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My indoor medusa fruits...

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So glad you're here!

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Yes, you will have to post your pepper shots too. The more pepper photos the better. They are all welcome.

I love to look at pepper photos. I mean what could be more gorgeous than this...

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professional pic of 'aurora'...

 

Very pretty indeed.
I'm off for the night but i will get some pepper pics tomorrow.
Have a great night everyone,

 

Ill start with some pictures of my Chili Peppers. :)

 

Thanks for joining the thread, Penny!

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I don't think I need to tell you how gorgeous those are, Blake! WOW!

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I am looking forward to growing those so much. I bet they're delicious too.

Great to see you joined the thread too. Thanks.

 

My unripened trifetti variegata fruits...

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Yay peppers!!! I shall post pics soon as well.

 

I agree Blake, those all look great!!

I lost one pepper plant this year, due to cool weather and all the rain, hmmmmm, wonder if it lived, could i have posted pics here, it was the infamous, Peter Pepper........LOL!!!!!!
Oh and my Bhut Jolokia's died as well.

 

Welcome, ShearMe - glad to see you made it!

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So sorry to hear about your pepper plants that took a nose dive, Penny!

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I know how crappy our weather was before. Now it's so hot you can barely stand it! Most of my plants outside just dwindled along until the temperature warmed up. Now things are growing like crazy!


Ok, just took these shots now of some of my outdoor peppers and how they're doing currently

1st Bolivian Rainbow
2nd Trifettie Variegata and purple Aurora
3rd Bolivian Rainbow

 

Its nice to see your Tri-fetti doing well, so is mine.
I had to really look at the one pic to find Henry....cute wee guy!

 

Yeah, the trifetti and the bolivian rainbow are so pretty. First tme growing both of them! I like how plentiful they are, and how they ripen.

Both of them grew, produced, and ripened in my kitchen window before I put them outside! They were in small little pots and thrived all Spring and early summer. I am collecting many seeds from both plants, that's for sure. Love to see pics of yours soon...

If you click on my pics three times, it will enlarge them way bigger than what you see posted here. Henry is small though, yes. You can see his pic too, at the bottom of my postings, above my Chinese proverb...

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P.S. Check out how much bigger the pot has grow since the pic in my first post in this thread! The long red cayenne are in the back, but are just now putting on a new and huge crop. The 2nd shot was just another close-up I took...

 

Well they all look great, I've never grown the Tri-fetti, and as for the Bolivian, i dont have seeds for that one, but it looks great too.
The long red cayenne looks great, nice and healthy!

 

Thanks!

Yeah, if you look closely, you can see the many little cayennes starting on the plant - there's tons! I am so excited for the ornamental beauty as well as how delicious they are! Long red cayenne is one of my favorites.

Anyway, I just love hot peppers. They lift my mood just to gaze upon them. They're cheerful little fellas and I can't imagine gardening without them.

Good luck, Pepper Lovers, with all your capsicum plants this season.

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Funny to see everyone complaining about their weather, because its in the 100s here.

 

I guess it just depends on what is considered 'normal' for your area. We went from being freezing to being instantly hot! A number of people I know are even sick from it. It seems like it's all or nothing anymore, with the weather.

Ok so back to topic - where's everyone's pepper shots, already?!!!

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Can't wait for this beauty to sprout for me:


'Tobasco'...



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Yippeeeeee! My orange habanero and Black Cuban varieties germinated tonight!

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Woooohooo, i am so glad that they worked out for you Sherry, well done!

 

Thanks, Penny!

I was surprised at how fast they germinated for me - it's been less than a week!

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Hoping some others will pop this week too...

 

Really, less then a week, thats great~~!!