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Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:25 am
by worth1
Oh yes peppers.
My favorite vegetable or is it a fruit.
Its a fruit.

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2021 5:10 pm
by Amateurinawe
[mention]worth1[/mention] All these need is a drizzle of Olive oil and some salt and a blast in the oven. We have some left over chilli so this will go down as a nice horses doovers ....

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 3:48 am
by rossomendblot
Have you tried Shishito peppers? I prefer them to Padron since the plant is smaller and they seem to be more productive in our climate.

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:44 am
by Amateurinawe
[mention]rossomendblot[/mention] I tried to grow some this year but failed miserably apart from my menorcan red pepper, some apachi chillie, cayenne and the padron. Next year i shall try again and keep many of them in the greenhouse as this years weather just kept coming around and around blasting the garden with rain, wind, hail - each time I had to try and salvage or replant.

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 3:18 pm
by rossomendblot
I've only tried to grow peppers outdoors here once and even though it wasn't a complete disaster, I wouldn't bother again. Like you say, everything outside gets battered a couple of times each summer and peppers really don't appreciate that. The only pepper that seems to do fine outdoors here is a rocoto. Someone I watch on Youtube grows sweet peppers very successfully outside under a low tunnel so I may give that a try, but for now they all stay in the greenhouse safe and sound.

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:44 pm
by worth1
For the most part I live in pepper growing heaven AKA Texas

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:06 am
by karstopography
[mention]Amateurinawe[/mention] Those padron peppers look beautiful. How much capsaicin heat do they tend to have?

I grew shishito peppers this year for the first time and they were very prolific, but a little disappointing on the heat. Seems like 1/100 might have had a bit of capsaicin heat, not the 1/10 that gets talked about.

I wonder if you have seen Right on Red sweet pepper there in the UK? It’s a fast to maturity variety and I use them like I would a sweet bell pepper, but they are faster to produce than the typical bell. Here’s a link to the description.

https://www.westcoastseeds.com/products/right-on-red

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 5:59 am
by Amateurinawe
The outside beds seem to be having a bit of a come back from the early blight, the greenhouse plants are all good with some nice fruit forming.
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Black triefele
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Cherokee purple and perhaps a glimpse of MSITK in the background
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And Miss Dolly Parton ...

The F2's are now beginning to flower so hoping there is time left in the year for at least one truss of fruit.

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:52 pm
by Amateurinawe
[mention]Tormato[/mention] so here are two msitk f6 or f7. There are more coming on in the greenhouse but these are all the same and similar shape. Not tasted them yet.
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Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:56 pm
by Amateurinawe
[mention]karstopography[/mention] mostly they have negligable heat. It's a bit of Russian roulette as there will be one in x that will be hot. Think of it as a dinner party parlour game :-)

The simplicity of cooking with Olive oil and salt makes these so yummy. Yeah the stalk and gimp the whole pepper in one mouthful along with lots of other small dishes. [mention]Nico[/mention] will be the expert on this type of eating, but I love tapas.

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:03 pm
by Amateurinawe
[mention]karstopography[/mention] thanks for the right on red, I think I could only do bell peppers in the greenhouse so these look interesting.

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 9:39 am
by Rockoe10
Amateurinawe wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:52 pm @Tormato so here are two msitk f6 or f7. There are more coming on in the greenhouse but these are all the same and similar shape. Not tasted them yet.IMG_20210825_204913_hdr_kindlephoto-107019972.jpg
Are these Potato Leaf?

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:42 am
by Amateurinawe
[mention]Rockoe10[/mention] Yes the ones that survived are potato leaf, i have another potato leaf in the greenhouse an the fruit are turning out the same

And here it is sliced
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Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:48 am
by Amateurinawe
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Some fred limbaugh, some small Cherokee purple, more pimento de padron, black triefele and a copper river

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:51 am
by Amateurinawe
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Black triefele

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Tasmanian chocolate
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Cherokee purple

All nom nom nom....

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 11:29 am
by Tormato
Amateurinawe wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:52 pm @Tormato so here are two msitk f6 or f7. There are more coming on in the greenhouse but these are all the same and similar shape. Not tasted them yet.IMG_20210825_204913_hdr_kindlephoto-107019972.jpg
Thems imposters.

Miss Scarlet should be a plump, red heart, that can get to 1 lb+.

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 11:40 am
by Amateurinawe
[mention]Tormato[/mention] it is an imposter, it's not plump, it's not heart shaped, and it's PL. And the other PLs come out the same. Here's hoping for MSITK next time.

Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:38 am
by Amateurinawe
Some of the f1 crosses ready ...
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Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 9:53 am
by Amateurinawe
This one blew my socks off for taste.....

Fred Limbaugh
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Re: AmateurInAwe's Garden

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:44 am
by Amateurinawe
So remember I had little success with germination of peppers, so I moved them outside ready to reuse the compost and took out the labels. Then mother nature decided to flick the germinate switch.

Well here they are, and I haven't a clue what they are...any ideas ?
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I think the last one is a sweet Antigua.