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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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That thing looks like an olive tree. Amazing plant. |
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: California Central Valley
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A couple of the Holy Mole F1 plants I kept in 5g pots produced better this year than last year! Has anyone experimented with cutting back a little vs. drastically? I cut mine back only enough to make them easier to move. |
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Tomato Cornhole
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Last year I grew plants in big containers, to ever winter I just put them in the GH. In Spring when they started growing again I removed them from the container, pruned both some roots and stems to about 15' and replanted. They grew well and have produced all year long and also made peppers earlier than the new plants I grew.
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b
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![]() It got repotted and the roots and all branches pruned heavily Feb 17th: ![]() Flushing nicely March 23rd: ![]() June 22nd with lots of peppers, more than it had made the previous spring: ![]() |
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#141 |
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: New Mexico
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Very nice illustrated progression Dawgs.
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#142 |
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: Williamsburg VA Zone 7b
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Thanks Dawgs.
My pepper plants have already dropped most of their leaves but the stems are bright green. Hoping at least a couple make it till next spring. Reminds me a little of bare rooted trees. Jeff |
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#143 |
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: Williamsburg VA Zone 7b
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Almost 3 months later.
The green pepper sticks got moved out to get a little filtered sunlight today. I've had them in the garage under a light. Still green but no leaves. I keep telling them to hang on . . . Spring is coming! Jeff Last edited by jtjmartin; February 8, 2019 at 07:01 PM. |
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#144 |
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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Mine are bare sticks by now, but green stems. Most of them will flourish once they are back outside when daily temps get to about 65.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Ozark, Mo.
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I have kept a pot of Maui Purple Peppers going for over 20 years now, they're the only really hot peppers I grow. Nine of these little peppers, chopped up in a half gallon of garden salsa, give it just the right amount of heat and a great flavor. The plants and peppers are very attractive and ornamental, too. ScottinAtlanta, they look a lot like your Black Pearl peppers as pictured, but the little Maui Purple Peppers are elongated rather than round.
Sometime in the late '90's I bought an envelope of these seeds from a lady on the Hawaiian island of Maui for $1. She offered them on eBay, and her listing showed a picture of a permanent hedge of these pepper plants in her yard. Her listing said that this pepper variety is native to Maui, and of course they never freeze there so they grow as perennials. I planted them in my garden that first year, and at the end of the season I dug up the best-looking plant, put it in a pot, and brought it inside the house by a south-facing window. The plant thrived indoors and had a good crop of peppers that dropped into the soil and re-seeded themselves. I stuck a wire tomato cage into the pot, and ever since I've had a cluster of numerous pepper plants growing and bearing fruit three times a year. They really like being crowded together. Individual plants live only 2 or 3 years, but they re-seed and when a crop of peppers gets ripe and then dries up, I always crumble some dried peppers and seeds into the soil of that pot. The pot is brought indoors during our cold months, and the rest of the time it is outdoors on our deck. I water the plant with MiracleGro about twice a year, and the same soil has been in that pot for 20+ years now without any problem. Overwintering these pepper plants has worked just fine for me, and the fresh hot peppers are pretty to look at and something we use year-round. That was a very well-spent dollar! |
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Steens, MS 8a
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: Williamsburg VA Zone 7b
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Well, 4 out of 5 Cheese Pepper plants made it through the winter and have leafed out. They are HUGE compared to my new pepper plants! The other plant stem is green but just not leafing out.
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#148 |
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: Williamsburg VA Zone 7b
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Finally learned to use Tville photo album - now if I could get the pic right side up!
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b
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Last year was my first year trying to overwinter a pepper (a 'Gypsy') and it was amazing how big and productive it was. This year I'm going to overwinter a Feher Ozon paprika since they're supposed to be a somewhat smaller, more compact plant.
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Corinth, texas
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I tried to use the photo album feature and simply did not like it. I started using the paper clip button at the top of the message box to upload photos to any post I want. I size the photos on my computer to lower the pixel density and the overall size of the photo and then upload them. The photos post in the orientation they are stored in on your computer. |
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