Aussie Peppers 2007

[Grub]

Hi,

Another thread for my compatriots.

I have a lot of overwintered hot and sweet peppers that I need to add to today's sowing of more, mainly sweet peppers.

GRUB’S PEPPERS 2007-08-29

SWEETS

From Andrey:
1. Parnas – yellow orange hearts from Belarus - 5 germinated
2. Zupska Rana - 1 germinated
3. Galathea (early)- 5 germinated
4. Amethyst - 2 germinated
5. Alyosha Popovich - 5 germinated (one poss. cross)
6. Solnyshko - 0 germinated

Also
7. Bull nose – 1 seed only - 0 germinated
8. Beaver Dam - 6 germinated
9. Ariane – 1 just germinated
10. Jimmy Nardello - 3 germinated
11. Lipstick - 1 germinated
12. Corbaci - 1 germinated
13. Bell surprise colour - 2 germinated
14. Mini Chocolate - 4 germinated
15. Conquistador - 0 germinated
16. Kogsolai – Rosco - 0 germinated
17. Red Ruffled – Grub - 1 germinated

From Michael MDVPC:
18. Franks - 6 germinated
19. Corno di Capra (goat horn) - 0 germinated
20. Corna Rosso di Toro (red bull’s horn) - 1 germinated

Medium NuMex types
21. Espanola Improved Chile - 1 germinated
22. Joe Parker - 4 germinated

And a couple of hotties...
23. Bradley’s Bahamian - 2 germinated
24. Hawaiian Sweet Hot - 5 germinated

ends

[tessa]

marconi rosso
big jim
and i've saved seeds from the sweetest orange bell pepper i've ever in my life eaten. i'm hoping it comes true to type!

[obispo45]

G'Day Grub...and your compatriots. Wait a second, I'll be right back...need to get my faranheit(sp) to centigrade temp. conversion chart. BTW I wish y'all a wonderful upcoming season! Nice variety of, well everything! I grow tons of the hot stuff(maybe went a wee bit overboard this year), I'll be scaling things back next year to include a greater diversity of sweet varieties.

I have overwintered only a handful of pepper(only chiles) plants the past few winters consisting of two varieties. I'll be including a few more....both plants and cultivars this winter. I've always been a little "nervous" doing this, but so far it has worked out fine. Obviously in their native environs many pepps are perennials and experience a period of dormancy of varying length depending upon climatic and geographic variables. However the "laws of nature" cease to exist in a basement in Minnesota, USA in the winter. Or do they?

In the past I pruned the bloody heck out of the particular plants(Criolla Sella and Golden Aji, both C.baccatum), gave them roughly 10hrs daily of indirect HID light and kept temps at around 10C. Like I mentioned, things worked out fine but is that more light than they need? Temp wise, what do you normally do? Here, the hotter the pepper variety/plant the more it SEEMS to be able to tolerate less than ideal growing conditions. Generally speaking is this true inside too? Sweet stuff more sensitive than hot stuff? What size container/pot do you normally use or recommend? Any piece of advice or words of wisdom you could relay would be most appreciated!! When in doubt (I'm filled with mass quantities of it, though I'm a very optimistic guy LMAO!!!) and in general I like to keep things as simple as possible.

Everything will be in a basement. Only HID or fluoro light will be used. Plants will be down there for 5 months give or take. Can regulate temps to some degree but winter fuel costs here are nuckin futs especially when its a balmy -34C a few times per season.

On a more personal note...a nice, young college guy works seasonally for me. He just returned from a semester abroad in Australia. Needless to say he had the time of his life and it already plotting his return ASAP. I'm sorry to put your country thru this...LOL!!...just kidding, he's a good man!! We made a friendly bet a while back. I lost. My "punishment"? 2008 Olympics I'm going to be wearing an Aussie 2008 Olympic Swim Team jersey for the duration of the water events. I love to swim and assist in teaching an excellent local youth team every winter. You guys and the Dutch scare me!! Thorpedo coming back?

[Raymondo]

Thought I'd put my oar in. This season, I've sown:

Sweet
Alma Paprika
Earlired
Frank's Sweet
Lemme's Italian
Montana Wonder
Piquillo
Tangerine Pimento

Hot
Aji Pineapple
Ashley's No. 1 (a red cayenne)
Bulgarian Carrot
Congo Trinidad
Fresno
Jaloro
Mulato Isleno
Pineapple Baccatum (?Aji Pineapple)
Sonora
Tuste Blanco

[tessa]

wait a minute, grub.
no big jims?

[Mantis]

Its probably one of the overwintered ones Tessa
I only have one overwintered one, Mariachi hybrid (gosh darnoodley hot). Have 6 sweet bell and long pod types coming up.

[Grub]

Manto has it. Ihave two b-i-g Big Jims that have overwintered really well and are now starting to flower. One is about 4ft tall.

[tessa]

i really like the big jims, thanks for telling me about them.
i like their unpredictability. some hot. some not.

[Spatzbear]

So did any of you win that Big Jim contest that was going on last season?

[Mantis]

Not even close Spatz. http://www.thechileman.org/bigjim.php

[Spatzbear]

Wow! 11th! That's great. Congratulations!

[Grub]

An he didn't even try... I had lead weights on the end of mine for weeks

[cosmicgardener]

Have discovered the chilli monster. 16 chillie seedlings have been sheared off in the hothouse leaving 16 empty pots. This morning I went in and spotted a slight movement - looked. looked again, looked away, slight movement - gotcha! One large stick insect. Didn't have the camera but he has been removed to reside in a tree - that should feed him. Now I have to see what chillie seeds I have left or it's jalepenos rule. Can't turn your back for five minutes.grumble, grumble.

[Grub]

Gees,
Just goes to show that camouflage is everything... you did well to find Mr Stick. And to think he or she has a chilli habit? Who woulda thought.

[shelleybean]

Grub, I see you grew Sonora last season but it's not on you list this time. Did you not like it? It sounds like a good producer but I wonder if it would have enough heat? I have read it's one of the milder of the Anaheim types. I'm looking for a versatile, mildly hot pepper. Not terribly hot but not bland either. Thanks for your thoughts.