peppers loving the heat

Minnesota Mato · July 9, 2012

This week here in minnesota it has been hot, real hot. Keeping everything watered sucks but one good thing... my peppers love this weather! They seem to be way ahead this year. Here is a picture of one of my crosses I have been working on, it should turn a nice chocolate color and be really hot.

BarbJ · July 9, 2012

What a beautiful and scary looking pepper! lol! Looks like it has habanero in it somewhere. That should give some heat!

Darren Abbey · July 9, 2012

When did you start your peppers? Mine are flowering, but not a fruit in sight yet. The hots I'm growing are Serranos (family saved seed from 19 years ago).

rockhound · July 9, 2012

I haven't counted them but guessing I'd say 60-70 fruit are set on my ghost pepper, still blooming. Waiting now for red to creep in. Lotsa green, no red yet.

Mudman · July 9, 2012

Yep, great weather for the peppers up here, hot peppers have set but sweet ones are just flowering.

recruiterg · July 9, 2012

My peppers are fruiting like crazy. I've never seen anything like this year. Even the super hots are setting fruit relatively early.

Minnesota Mato · July 9, 2012

I bet all of you in my area have been getting rain though? I am in a little strip by the iowa border that hasn't got any rain. the grass is brown and it is really dusty. As long as I can water my peppers they are ok. I have about 120 plants so thats not always fun. Last year I crossed a carribean red with a jalapeno and have 5 plants each alittle differant that are fruiting alot and I can't wait to see what they taste like!

recruiterg · July 9, 2012

It has been pretty hot & dry in the Twin Cities too.

simmran1 · July 10, 2012

A very good link (posted on another forum) addresses fertilizing and mulching quite well.

http://fiery-foods.com/chile-pepper-...pper-pod-yield

sprtsguy76 · July 10, 2012

Nice looking picture and pepper!!

Damon

GoGayleGo · July 19, 2012

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Originally Posted by Mudman

... hot peppers have set but sweet ones are just flowering.

Is this normal? I was getting ready to post, I have four sweet pepper plants, about 2.5 feet high now, but only one flower. Didn't know if they just take longer, or if something is wrong? My two hot pepper plants are flowering nicely.

BigBrownDogHouse · July 20, 2012

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Originally Posted by recruiterg

My peppers are fruiting like crazy. I've never seen anything like this year. Even the super hots are setting fruit relatively early.

Unless some disaster strikes, this will by far be my best pepper year and I have had some really good ones. The best ones are all in pots but I do have some doing well in the ground also. Japs in the ground are the least exciting this year.
I cannot even guestimate my Thai pepper count right now.....it would be off the charts.
I have a habanero in a pot on my front porch that I stopped counting at 30 peppers this morning.
Peppers all over the place!

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Originally Posted by Minnesota Mato

I bet all of you in my area have been getting rain though? I am in a little strip by the iowa border that hasn't got any rain. the grass is brown and it is really dusty.

I'm not in your area but it's rained only once in the past month and a half and that was an overnight rain. We are on watering restrictions. Every other day, three hours in morning and three at night.
Been painfully dry.
Here's my front lawn:

b54red · July 20, 2012

We are having a very good pepper year also. We always have the heat but this year we are getting a decent amount of rain compared to the last two years. During the summer dry spell the peppers barely produce many years but this year they have continued to set fruit. A couple of my bells are almost 6 feet tall already and we still have four more months for them to grow. I think I will have to start topping them because I have no way to support them when they get that tall. Has anyone had experience with topping peppers?

Mojave · July 20, 2012

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Originally Posted by b54red

We are having a very good pepper year also. We always have the heat but this year we are getting a decent amount of rain compared to the last two years. During the summer dry spell the peppers barely produce many years but this year they have continued to set fruit. A couple of my bells are almost 6 feet tall already and we still have four more months for them to grow. I think I will have to start topping them because I have no way to support them when they get that tall. Has anyone had experience with topping peppers?

6 foot bells, that's amazing! There's a thread here on the subject of topping peppers.

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=23590

dustyrivergarden · July 26, 2012

Lots of peppers here to. I have had a extremely good year in peppers.

July 9, 2012	#5
Mudman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NW Wisconsin Posts: 910	Yep, great weather for the peppers up here, hot peppers have set but sweet ones are just flowering. __________________ Mike

July 10, 2012	#9
simmran1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Iowa Zone 5 Posts: 305	A very good link (posted on another forum) addresses fertilizing and mulching quite well. http://fiery-foods.com/chile-pepper-...pper-pod-yield __________________ Tomatovillain

July 26, 2012	#15
dustyrivergarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Holbrook, Az zone 5 Posts: 157	Lots of peppers here to. I have had a extremely good year in peppers. __________________ “The yield of a crop is LIMITED by the deficiency of any one element even though all of the other necessary elements are present in adequate amounts”. J. Von Liebig's law of the minimum.

July 9, 2012	#2
BarbJ Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: California, USA Posts: 154	What a beautiful and scary looking pepper! lol! Looks like it has habanero in it somewhere. That should give some heat!

July 9, 2012	#3
Darren Abbey Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Minnesota Posts: 586	When did you start your peppers? Mine are flowering, but not a fruit in sight yet. The hots I'm growing are Serranos (family saved seed from 19 years ago).

July 9, 2012	#4
rockhound Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Tennessee Posts: 285	I haven't counted them but guessing I'd say 60-70 fruit are set on my ghost pepper, still blooming. Waiting now for red to creep in. Lotsa green, no red yet.

July 9, 2012	#6
recruiterg Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Edina, MN (Zone 4) Posts: 945	My peppers are fruiting like crazy. I've never seen anything like this year. Even the super hots are setting fruit relatively early.

July 9, 2012	#7
Minnesota Mato Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: minnesota Posts: 175	I bet all of you in my area have been getting rain though? I am in a little strip by the iowa border that hasn't got any rain. the grass is brown and it is really dusty. As long as I can water my peppers they are ok. I have about 120 plants so thats not always fun. Last year I crossed a carribean red with a jalapeno and have 5 plants each alittle differant that are fruiting alot and I can't wait to see what they taste like!

July 10, 2012	#10
sprtsguy76 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2007 Location: Santa Clara CA Posts: 1,125	Nice looking picture and pepper!! Damon

July 20, 2012	#13
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	We are having a very good pepper year also. We always have the heat but this year we are getting a decent amount of rain compared to the last two years. During the summer dry spell the peppers barely produce many years but this year they have continued to set fruit. A couple of my bells are almost 6 feet tall already and we still have four more months for them to grow. I think I will have to start topping them because I have no way to support them when they get that tall. Has anyone had experience with topping peppers?