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Post by Wrennie on Apr 2, 2013 12:17:13 GMT -6
I got Peter Peppers to sprout!  Kenne has a nice sunny windowsil with electric baseboard heat right underneath! Yay for bottom heat. We have 21 varieties of tomatoes and 17 varieties of hot & sweet peppers (including the mirawrenniecherpeno for those of you that remember that one. Those seeds were quite a few years old too!) |
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Post by w8in4dave on Apr 2, 2013 15:15:06 GMT -6
Yay!! Good for you Wrennie!!
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Post by ChileFarmer on Apr 2, 2013 18:18:43 GMT -6
Good on ya Wrennie. I have had some of the pequin Chiles take up to 3 week to sprout. Never give up. CF  |
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Post by Christy on Apr 2, 2013 18:48:46 GMT -6
Awesome!!! I grew them few years ago. My peters were...well deformed looking  |
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Post by mogarden on Apr 3, 2013 2:16:27 GMT -6
I grew them a couple tears ago. There were as many off-types, as far as shape goes, as there were good ones. Biggest was only 3 inches or so.
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Post by Penny on Apr 3, 2013 5:42:14 GMT -6
Excellent job Wren.  You need to post some pics......HEY I'll show you mine if you show me your's  |
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Post by w8in4dave on Apr 3, 2013 7:10:39 GMT -6
Lol you two comparing peters??  |
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 3, 2013 7:49:54 GMT -6
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Wrennie's Peppers!  |
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Post by jerseycub on Apr 3, 2013 7:55:34 GMT -6
Lol you two comparing peters?? You guys may not remember, but a few years back I won the largest peter pepper contest  This is a lineup  And I think this was the winner  And a close second |
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Post by Penny on Apr 3, 2013 8:00:53 GMT -6
 Thats pretty darn impressive
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Post by jerseycub on Apr 3, 2013 11:02:51 GMT -6
Thats pretty darn impressive Yea it's a male thing....measuring that is. If i remember those were pretty hard to grow, and I had to nurse the few plants I had that year with compost and watering and fish formula. The seeds don't hold over that well either. |
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Post by Penny on Apr 3, 2013 11:07:10 GMT -6
 ;)I'll have to take a couple pics of the ones i have growing. The past couple of years when i've planted them out, the darn squirrels have come along and dug out the plants and by the time i see them, they are too shrivelled to save!!
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Post by Wrennie on Apr 3, 2013 14:25:26 GMT -6
Excellent job Wren. You need to post some pics......HEY I'll show you mine if you show me your's ;)I'll have to take a couple pics of the ones i have growing. The past couple of years when i've planted them out, the darn squirrels have come along and dug out the plants and by the time i see them, they are too shrivelled to save!! Nothing worse than a limp peter.  |
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Post by w8in4dave on Apr 3, 2013 18:27:13 GMT -6
Very nice pics!! Impressive indeed!! |
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Post by mogarden on Apr 4, 2013 9:23:42 GMT -6
My new "gotta have it" item for my small garden is the shaker full of powdered Ghost pepper. If you have squirrels, cats, whatever that want to dig or otherwise trespass in amongst yer plants, dust 'em with the ghost, they'll go play somewhere else!
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Post by Penny on Apr 4, 2013 11:01:39 GMT -6
Here's my peter pepper plant....  |
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Post by Compost Pharmer on Apr 4, 2013 15:28:03 GMT -6
Man Penney, that sure is a good looking, and healthy, pepper plant you got there.
To keep unwanted varmits away from my plants, as well as protect them from the wind, until they are at least 12" tall, I put pepper cages, cut in half mater cages, around them and wrap plastic around the cages. I bury the bottom 1 - 2" in the ground. Has worked so far.
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Post by Christy on Apr 4, 2013 18:12:32 GMT -6
Awesome Penny! Thats a good looking plant. nice and healthy looking too. |
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Post by w8in4dave on Apr 5, 2013 6:01:07 GMT -6
I cannot believe how big the are!! Heck you'll have peppers soon at this rate Great job!! |
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Post by jerseycub on Apr 5, 2013 7:45:55 GMT -6
Here's my peter pepper plant.... When did you say you started them? They look ready to set out  . Very nice, I can't wait to see how the peppers look. |
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Post by Penny on Apr 5, 2013 8:34:23 GMT -6
I started them around the first of February. Its the first time i havent grown them here, and they are doing really well. Here's a pic of an old Slovenian pepper that i got in a trade, not much info on it, other then its been in their village for years....kind of excited to try this one and see how much heat, if any at all, color, shape. I'll post some pics once its planted.  |
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Post by Penny on Apr 5, 2013 8:41:43 GMT -6
Where's that pepper pic, Wren?
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Post by Wrennie on Apr 5, 2013 14:14:29 GMT -6
No pics possible till I win the lottery and get a new home computer.
Mines not near as big as yours yet Penny. Started them Feb 28. They just barely have their second set of leaves.
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Post by w8in4dave on Apr 6, 2013 20:50:56 GMT -6
Ohhh my!!! No pics of your peter's??? Whaaaaaaat???
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Post by Wrennie on Apr 13, 2013 9:58:20 GMT -6
My new "gotta have it" item for my small garden is the shaker full of powdered Ghost pepper. If you have squirrels, cats, whatever that want to dig or otherwise trespass in amongst yer plants, dust 'em with the ghost, they'll go play somewhere else! I just saw on Amazon(click here) bhut jolokia candy! Now thats HOT! Ohhh my!!! No pics of your peter's??? Whaaaaaaat???  nope |
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Post by w8in4dave on Apr 13, 2013 10:24:26 GMT -6
lol ..Bhut Jolokia Candy..... Thats crazy!!!
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Post by Wrennie on Apr 13, 2013 10:27:16 GMT -6
Yes it is!
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Post by klorentz on May 4, 2013 16:42:44 GMT -6
No crazier than the India military making pepper grenades with em.
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Kenne has a nice sunny windowsil with electric baseboard heat right underneath! Yay for bottom heat.
;)I'll have to take a couple pics of the ones i have growing.
. Very nice, I can't wait to see how the peppers look.
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