2025 Peppers Started

[Ella NJ]

I am jealous. Your peppers look so yummy. I am about to plant my jalapeño. Just jalapeño this year. I have for a few years grown shishitos. We just did not use them as much as it was produsing. Gave lots away. Jimmy Nardello and Yellow Marcony were really good. I will probably grow them again.
I started marinating jalapeño slices last year and we love them so much, I decided to grow them this year. I see they are great productive and healthy plants in your garden. I hope my will be the same. Just 4 will be planted soon.
Keep on posting pictures.
BTW are you picking jalapeño green or red?

[karstopography]

@Ella NJ Thank you. On the jalapeños, so far I only have green ones. I’ll pick some red ones later on as they ripen.

[maxjohnson]

Let me know if the Lemon Spice have any actual spice to it. I grew orange and pumpkin spice last year and it's basically a "sweet pepper" to my taste buds.

[rossomendblot]

Let me know if the Lemon Spice have any actual spice to it. I grew orange and pumpkin spice last year and it's basically a "sweet pepper" to my taste buds.

That's interesting since Orange Spice is supposed to be almost 3x hotter than Early Jalapeno, though Lemon and Pumpkin are milder, according to the breeders (table at the bottom of page 2 of this study - https://cpi.nmsu.edu/_assets/documents/SpiceJals.pdf).

[maxjohnson]

I'll try orange spice again then. But I did remember pumpkin spice having very little heat, I was basically chewing it raw. All the seeds were from baker creek.

[karstopography]

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My peppers have never been so healthy or productive. Maybe it is the increased morning light courtesy of Hurricane Beryl that could account for this positive development. Guajillo looking strong as is Shishito.

I harvested ten big, huge Megatron Jalapeños yesterday for my son to make poppers. He was really impressed with how big and thick these peppers were. Still, plenty more grande peppers to harvest on my three megatron plants.

[karstopography]

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Trying Padrón and shishito blistered again tonight. These picked off one plant each.

Hopefully, the Padrón isn’t so hot this time.

[pepperhead212]

I planted most of my peppers today; the only later ones still under the lights are the chinense peppers, and the ones I planted later, because a couple didn't germinate, and some had almost every seed sprout.

[karstopography]

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First peppers of 2025 on the copper.

[karstopography]

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Picked the first Gatherer’s Gold, a mystery pepper (dropped the tray, tags got jumbled) that is probably Dulce Mediterrano, and Gypsy.

Gatherer’s Gold has never gotten quite this large for me, but the rest of the gatherer’s Gold still on the plants look big.

[DK2021]

I got started late this year, but we've had cool nights so I guess I won't be as behind as I thought. Night-time temperatures will be in the high 40's this week-end and then are supposed to stay above 50 after that, so I can start thinking about getting my tomatoes and peppers in the ground. I have a few Jimmy Nardellos that I purchased as seedlings from a local farm. I had also purchased a couple of hot peppers from the farm but whilst I was away a few days for work, a chipmunk ate most of them--I'm keeping the stubs going as they're sprouting new leaves so I might be able to keep them going. Started from seed I have chilhuacle negro and four types of chiltepins (started 5 types but one so far shows zero germination). I don't grow peppers every year but I'm out of dried chiltepins so this is a pepper year.

[karstopography]

Picked a bell pepper yesterday that topped a pound. Better Belle. Hybrid bells have been the way to go in my garden. My open pollination bells are always and invariably inferior in every way in my garden. Golden California Wonder was so bad I pulled all three plants. Some sort of malady struck and severely damaged each plant. The surrounding pepper plants are just fine.

My one Keystone Resistant is healthy and far better than the complete dud three California Golden Wonder (MMMM swap seed), but the Keystone R bell peppers are 1/3 the size of Better Belle

Better Belle continues to thrive, set and mature fruit. Note to self, remember in future seasons to plant only hybrid Bell peppers. Better Belle is a good one. Sweet Bella has been good in past seasons.

Open pollinated bell peppers in my garden aren’t worth the garden space.

Open pollinated non bell sweet peppers like Giant Aconcagua or Gatherer’s Gold do amazing. No problems with growing those at all. It’s just the OP bells that refuse to work.

[GoDawgs]

Open pollinated bell peppers in my garden aren’t worth the garden space.

Open pollinated non bell sweet peppers like Giant Aconcagua or Gatherer’s Gold do amazing. No problems with growing those at all. It’s just the OP bells that refuse to work.

For years I tried bells of all kinds and none really did worth a darn. Then I read somewhere in a UGA publication that the heat here isn't conducive to bell peppers and that the longer types do much better. I switched to the longer ones and the problem was solved! Maybe since then they've developed some hybrids that are more heat tolerant. You area is just as hot and maybe more hot than it is here so I'm glad to hear about your success with hybrid bells!

I am growing Gatherer's Gold from swap seed so we'll see how that does here. Two of the smaller types returning from their initial grow last year are Frank's Sweet. Lipstick and Ozark Sweet Snack. Got three jalapenos planted mainly for making fermented pepper sauce and canned salsa since I still have a lot of jars of pickled jalapeno slices left. Other peppers this year include Bridge To Paris (swap), Habanada, Petit Marseillais (swap), Sonora Mild, Sugar Rush Peach and Striped Sugar Rush Peach (for comparison).

[karstopography]

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The big better belle pepper slipped just under a pound overnight. Weighed in at 15.9 ounces this morning.

Peppers, tomatoes, they all start losing weight the moment they are picked.

[karstopography]

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The Better Belle next to a six ounce Keystone Resistant. All the keystone peppers are this size.

[rxkeith]

i have one korean dark green pepper that germinated in doors around february
in the pot its parent grew in that now has basil growing in it. that plant now has
a few small peppers on it. outside i managed to plant jimmy nardello, red and yellow,
chervena chuska, early perfect italian, zupa, and a couple jupiter plants. still have to
plant a good number more. some will go in pots, in the back of my truck garden. also
going to try a few pots on top of the wood pile that has black rubber roofing on top to
keep the wood dry just to see how they do there. also need to semi isolate my lone
yolo wonder, stafford select, and shisitso plants in order to save seeds. i might grow those
on our enclosed porch in pots. i will be the pollinator in that case.
making progress slow, but sure.


keith

[karstopography]

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Peppers looking good. Drying a few. Fertilized today, used calcium nitrate and langbeinite.

[karstopography]

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Picked a heap of shishito and padrón peppers. Felt like I had to or risk shutting down the plants for the rest of time.

Most or many of the peppers might be too mature to be especially delicious. Many of the Padrón are almost sure to be too hot to enjoy and much of the shishito too noticeably seedy.