When you grow chile peppers at work then you know you are a chile head
These are my plants (all pictures from 20080528, sorry for the poor pictures)
Hot Pepper Lantern Capsicum Chinense. A plant from 2007, it feels great to have ripe pods of a Capsicum Chinense in may.
Habanero (Habanero Orange) Capsicum Chinense. Several pods on thier way, the unripe pods looks very similar to the leafs in this picture.
Some pictures taken with flash in the evening.
Tasmanian Red (Capsicum Annuum/Chinense) is a very prolific plant. I belive it has produced more than 100 pods.
Aji Norteno Capsicum baccatum - the first pod is now almost red. I belive this one is of the most common peppers in Peru.
Misqucho Colorado PI 152225 Capsicum chinense is a also a prolific pepper still yet to mature.
This one turned out to be a hybrid. This in not Habanero White Giant as you can see there is a small pod that turned out red I am now looking for Habanero White Giant seeds as I really love those big white pods.
Sorry for the not so good quality of the pictures taken in a hurry
Regards
Patrik
It is still 2007 but the 2008 season (pre-)started today when I put 3 varieties of chile peppers in water to see if this speeds up the germination. The varieties are:
Brown Rocoto (C.pubescens)
Rocoto Cusqueno (C.pubescens)
Rocopica (C.pubescens/C. cardenasii)
9/1 2007
I planted all chinense, pubescens, frutescens and some other peppers for 2008 season
16/1 2007
I planted the rest (annuum and baccatum) of the peppers of 2008
On new years eve my wife gave birth to our first child (a girl), thats why I have not been able to write on the blog
/Patrik
There is a big differences in the height of my Capsicum chiense plants.
From left to right (and tall to short)
Bode (very tall already, almost as high as the tall baccatums), Long Chocolate Habanero (also tall), Cili Goronong, Maraba. All four was planted 2008-01-09.
Matured pods of White Fire, Champion, Aji Colorado, Topgirl
I have started to harvest some of the peppers. It is allways interesting when you taste a new pepper for the first time. Here are some of my reflections.
White fire:
Somewhat of a dissapointment. I have tasted two pods and they had no heat at all. The taste reminded me of sweet red bell peppers.
Champion:
Matured pod: I could not feel any heat. In my opinion sweet with the taste of green apple and green grass.
I did also taste a not matured green pod and a well(over-) matured pod. I prefered the matured pod.
White fire Capsicum annuum and Champion Capsicum baccatum
Aji Colorado:
This one I really like. First of all a very beatuful plant with pods in many colors. The pods have some heat. The taste is typical baccatum. It reminds me of Aji Cristal in taste. I belive they are good as immature as well.
Topgirl:
A sweet pepper. Mild and very tasty.
Bulgarian Carrot:
This one looks like a carrot and it did also taste like a carrot (almost )! Sweet and fruity taste. Nice heat, Scoville units 10 000 - 30 000.
A hot carrot!
Hot Pepper Lantern:
Hot, but not very hot in my opionon. Also very tasty.
Tasmanian Red
This one was hot, but not as hot as many habaneros. The taste was ok. No typical chinense taste.
Tasmanian Red Capsicum chienense or should it be Capsicum annuum ? ( I belive so)
F2 hybrid from Jaloro F1 (isolated seeds).
Very tasty Jalapeno Hybrid with typical Jalapeno heat.
More to come soon, watch my photopage for more new photos
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These pictures are from my picasa blogg, I had to create the picasablogg to show my picasa albums pictures here. For some reason I cant put the pictures directly from my album. I hope I will found a easy sollution soon.
Many of the peppers now have flowers, Bulgarian Carrot and Jaloro Hybrid F2 have pods. I moved some of the plants to our summerhouse. I reppoted the peppers at the sommerhouse, including the plants I saved from last year (Peruvian White Habanero, Amazon Chile Roma, Locato PI387838, Turbo Pube, Cap 1492, Poblano(this one looks almost dead))
Two pictures from the balcony (not the summerhouse):
The beautiful Rocopica is a hybridised variety which resulted from a cross between a Rocoto, capsicum pubescens and Ulupica capsicum cardenasii.
Criolla Sella, capsicum baccatum.
Misqucho Colorado PI 152225, this capsicum chinense have a pubescens like fuzz on the stems.
It looks very nice when mature, once again I got the seeds from John. Here is one of his pictures. PI 152225.
if that did not work look for it at http://www.pbase.com/chiles400
Pickled peppers. I got the recipe from Blast, thanks.
Cap 1492 looks alright in the early spring. In the country house we always have problems with bugs but it seem to be under control. As you see we still have loads of snow. But soon we will have warmer weather (I hope!).
Maybe this is a sign. On our plum tree a branch broke. We put it in water inside. Now it looks like this:
//Patrik
Soon it will be time to move the plants outside, actually I have some of them outside during the days. Here is a picture from 2007. It shows my small balcony with mostly peppers. It is hard to see the pods, but they where there;) As you see my balvonyspace i very limeted and this means that some of my peppers grow in very small pots, like Chimayo from last year that where growing in the white pot in the picture.
A closer look at the Locato PI387838, sorry for the poor quality of the photo, also from 2007. So many beautiful flowers!
Some new pictures:
Kaleidoscope Capsicum baccatum
Kaleidoscope Capsicum baccatum
Thai Hot Capsicum annuum
Monkey Face Capsicum annuum
Kaleidoscope was recomended to me from a pepperfriend, it has no or very little heat. Thai Hot is a capsicum annuum from Thailand and it is easier to grow here in Sweden (from what I have been told) then the Thai bird peppers that belong to Capsicum frutescens. There are two versions of Monkey Face, one yellow and one red -I grow the yellow one.
My Annuums and baccatums germinated very vell this year. But I cant say the same for the chinense. Only about 1/3 of the seeds germinated. So I started to germinate some more seeds of the most wanted.
From 28/1 -31/1 i started to grow more seeds of these:
Trinidad Scorpion (already staring to germinate)
Cherio Recife
Aji Panca (already staring to germinate)
Jalapeno Olé
Shiny red (bad seeds I belive)
Giant White Habanero
This weekend I also started germinate, just for fun, some Hot Lemon seeds from the freezer - does it work? will it work?
On the 3/2 I planted some seeds of the white bacctum Blondie. It will be intressting to follow this one as bacctums with matured white pods seems to be very rare. Is it a realy bacctum? Will it stay white even as matured and overmatured? ...time will tell.
Some of the plants now grow in somewhat larger pots than before. I dont have enough space to give them any bigger. One of the plants in the picture are still in the small pot (9x9 cm)
Some more varieties have germinated
18/1
Trinidad Perfume
Tasmanian Red
19/1
Aji Colorado (the only baccatum that I started to grow 9/1 2008)
Long Chocolate Habanero
Hot Pepper Lantern capsicum chinense
This is one of my indoor plants. I can harvest the pepper almost all year long , these pods were harvested yesterday. It is very easy to remove innerwalls and seeds from the pods. It is also tasty and quite hot. Recomended.
Yesterday, I planted the first seeds of 2010.
Seed I planted were:
[in] Capsicum chinsense [/ i]
Bhuta Jolokia, Chocolate Bhuta Jolokia, 7 Pod, Yellow 7 Pod, Douglah Trinidad, Trinidad Scorpion - Morouga Blend, Morouga Yellow, Pimenta da Neyde, Naga Moriches, Habanero, Limo, Limon, Habanero Golden Bullet, Peruivian White Habanero, Spicy Porto Rican , Wild chinense
[in] Capsicum frutescens [/ i]
Tabasco Greenleaf
[in] Capsicum baccatum [/ i]
Inca Red Drop, Pimenta Barra Do Ribeiro, Aji Brazilian Bonanza Unknown Large Red baccatum michu from Peru,
[in] Capsicum annuum [/ i]
O'odams Indian Piquin, Chiltepin DOI031 (Origin: Cameron County, Texas)
I have already sown the Locato PI 387838 (Capsicum pubescens) in early December. One of the seeds have already germinated.
Within a few weeks, I will plant more varieties mainly annuum but also some baccatum.
/ / Patrik
2009 09 07 Pics from the balcony
Rocopia
Rocopia, no ripe pods yet.
Musqucho Colorado PI 152225, this one is really becoming a favorite...
...aswell as this one Tasmanian Red, very prolific and very beautiful (in my opinion). More pictures of this chile pepper...
...here..
...and here.
Brown Rocoto
Aji Norteno
Can you guess the pepper!
This pepper is related to Trinidad Scorpion, the seeds I planted are from a Trinidad Scorpion FG pod.
Here is a picture of the peppers that I will have on my balcony this year. Not included on this photo is Rocoto Brown and P. Padron.
