Last Outside Pepper Update Before Our First Freeze - Project Peppers
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2023
- There are some pretty unique peppers in this video. I'll show you about 6 different pepper projects. I have about a dozen more that didn't make it into the video because of timing. Most of those have already been harvested. I have a couple of 6 way crosses that have already been harvested. Those should produce a crazy number of different phenotypes.
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We can nickname you "Dr. Pepper" - you know so much about peppers :)
That is very kind of you to say. I'm still learning though :)
It's a lot of fun watching you cross those peppers!
Glad you enjoy it! I think next year will be much better than this year.
That is alot of cool and unique peppers. That first one was insane. To have just one seed from that one would be a great find. The cold is here for sure now. Stay safe and motivated. Thanks for the share!
Yep, wish I could find one or two seeds from that one. I have quite a few peppers growing indoors to keep myself entertained. Enjoy the off season!
What a great year it was for peppers here in Southeast Kansas. Hope all is well with you Sir. God bless
Glad to hear you had a great year for it. It was a little toasty here during August. We got up to 111, and 108 a couple of days. The peppers coasted right through that though. Doing well here. Hope you and your family are doing well also.
Had a very bountiful year here in Montgomery County.
Jim, I love seeing your fun pepper projects, especially the seedless mutant plant. Was that the only mutant pepper that didn't produce seeds?
We've had several hard freezes here, and my garden has been kaput for several weeks. However, I still need to plant my garlic and spring flowering bulbs. The more mature (aka OLDER) I get, the longer it takes me to get things done. Apparently, there is less go in my giddy-up. 🐎🤣
I hope you two lovebirds have a fun and relaxing weekend! ~Margie🤗💐🦋
Thanks Margie! That one plant was the only one that was seedless. A couple were pepperless, so technically they were seedless too :) Lol, I know all about how maturity can make things take longer. I just got my garlic in the ground yesterday. It's raining today, so that didn't work out too bad. Have a great weekend!
Awesome! Some of the peppers and some of those plants seem like created by a “mad scientist” (in a good way). Ha ha ha. Hope everything is going well, mate. Enjoy the weekend. Cheers!
Thanks! I'll take that as a compliment :) Some of my crosses will be really fun in the next generation. Have a great weekend.
Great looking pods on that mutant.
Thanks!
Good morning Jim. Interesting peppers. You have a freeze coming. I don't even think about that over here. I just think about it raining. See you on your next video. Take care.
Good morning Bob. Wish we didn't have to worry about freezing. Hope you are enjoying the warmer climate!
I do like it warm. I grew up in the Denver area and was used to it, but when I got back from Vietnam that changed the cold makes me hurt. So warm is good for me.
A nice update on the peppers, Jim. Enjoy the upcoming garden "off season" as the frost moves in.
Thanks, you too!
Those are very interesting pepper projects. Those mutant plants with no seeds and no peppers are also very interesting. I'm curious as to how that happened. I'm sure you will figure it out.
I didn't do my cross between the scotch bonnet and jalapeno, ole arthritis got me good in the knee, I had to take a few days off of garden work. The scotch bonnets are now developing into peppers .
I hope you have a lot of pepper projects to keep you busy over the winter. Take care, stay warm and have a great weekend 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Thanks Shirley! Hope your knee is doing better now. They can be a really problem when there is pain involved. I've really got more pepper projects than I have room for. Have a great weekend!
That was interesting !!
Thanks!
I had a lot of interesting random hybrids this season. The colors, shapes and heat intensities were all over the place, but I like them all. I've never seen anything like that first hybrid/mutant. Hopefully you find a seed.
Very cool that you got some hybrid that you like! Yes, that weird pepper is really unique. I was pretty disappointed when I figured out they were seedless.
@@MidwestGardener I have two racks of peppers drying in the oven right now to grind into powder. The combination of the sweet/hot/extremely hot balances out so nicely.
One of my lemon drop hybrids turned out seedless and heatless.
@@Swarmstead Wow, that's pretty unique too.
Good Morning Jim - yes the frost is coming and we are done for another year outdoors. So unusual that a pepper plant would have no seed with which to reproduce another year and a plant that produced no peppers. I am in the process of moving some production indoors for this winter and wonder if you have any tips to avoid common issues or plant varieties that don't do well. Hope you are continuing to mend and have a blessed weekend..
Good morning Sue! Thanks! I don't have too many tips for growing indoors. I think some folks over water and over fertilize. Other than that, it usually goes pretty smoothly.
A semi-unrelated question -- I'm still trying to figure out the best time to harvest an Odapeno. They stay purple a surprisingly long time, then get an interesting assortment of white and woody colors mixed in, I think one made it to red but that seems to take an eternity.
In my opinion, the best time to harvest them is when they aren't quite fully red, with just a little darkness on the tip. It does take them quite a while to ripen sometimes. I have a few going indoors right now.
Yeah i love when this happens, i call them tentacle peppers 😅, i find them more in annuums and they do tend to be sterile, however when it happens on capsicum chinense peppers usually have good seeds, theres a couple varieties that make them on purpose, like the "rimmerhus fun strain pepper" and the "Hulk scorpion pepper"
Thanks for the information. I hadn't seen those two types. Pretty weird looking!
Good morning☕️👈, I think small peppers are special. Are these peppers spicy? Please have a warm weekend.
Good morning! I'm sure the peppers are spicy, but I haven't tried all of them. The one cross is sweet though.
That first pepper plant is wild looking, we are about to get a bit freeze here also. The third looks similar to a Buena Mulata! The pepperless pepper plants are super wild! I wonder what would happen if you grew them indoor, maybe you could get them to flower. Seriously you have some wild genetics going on in that garden of yours!
I'm excited to see more of your crosses old timer, keep on keepin on!
Thanks! I've grown those pepperless pepper plants indoors. They always flower, but never set a single fruit. I've got some pretty interesting crosses going. The F2 generation should produce an amazing number of phenotypes. Next year should be a fun year for me.
Whoa. It looks like rosemary from Mars. I wish they werent seedless. Im crossing some purple foliage peppers with serranos. Im trying for a good size, thick-walled purple pepper thatll grow bigger than the buena mulata I tried growing last year
Sounds like an interesting project. Good luck with it!
I had an interesting thing happen the first time I tried growing ornamental peppers. Instead of producing seeds, my uchu cream plants produced a bunch of tinier peppers around the original pepper. I think that took a ton of energy, and the tiny plant didn't last very long. Super cool, but also a situation where I sadly couldn't save seeds. It seems like some kind of weird mutation from what I could figure out, but some of the stuff I found said it could have been due to environmental factors. Not too sure, and I don't think I successfully grew any of the other seeds from that pack of seeds to find out.
I guess some mutations or genetic combinations aren't meant to survive.
Thank you for the update. Of the seedless mutant dark peppers, I thought I saw a red one in the back of the plant, was that from the same plant? Black and purple are typically just as unripe colors as green, so they might ripen to red.
How cold is it going to get where you are? Here we are forecast for 30-31F around the same time -- I expect many of my peppers and even one tomato variety will survive that without damage but I will protect the most important plants in case it is colder than forecast. Or course there could be a harder freeze a few days later, such is November.
I am attempting to overwinter the best Midwest Midnight Eclipse I have, as well as saving seeds from it.
I tried to grow Matt's Xion Mutant this year, but while one was an OK ornamental, it did not have the mutant leaves.
From my hybrid experience, Annuum x Annuum crosses have a high rate of success (too high). But many early lineages of Tabaneros (which are a Chinense x Frutescens interspecies cross) had few to no seeds to the point of dying out. The ones that make it through are often the really interesting ones. Of course one of the attractions of Tabaneros is they have few, small seeds and are nice to eat with little or no processing, so that is a tradeoff.
Yes that was a red ripe one on the back of the plant. I've already harvested a number of ripe ones from that plant. They were all seedless. I think we are suppose to be near freezing tonight with a high temperature in the 30s. I can understand how the interspecific crossed would be low on seeds. Few seeds would definitely be a plus eating.
Well, you may still be able to clone it with cuttings e.g., no?
or over winter?
@@bluewolf4915 That at least... Or better both... I mean that's what I would try.
I thought of that or overwintering indoors. I'm not sure what the goal would be though, if it is seedless. Today I'm going to check every pepper. If I can find even one pepper with a seed, I'll try to find room for it even though I have very limited space.
@@MidwestGardener I understand. Space almost always an issue. I think there are at leat a few pepper varieties that are propagated only asexually.
I wish there was someone locally I could turn this project over to. I produces fruit pretty well. If I could just get a single seed. I want something I could easily share with others.
Are you adding those to Matt's Peppers too??
I only have one new cross headed his way right now. I hope to add more a little later. I'm really behind on things. I want to do some test germinating before I turn loose of some of them.
is there somewhere i can buy your pepper varieties?
Matt's Peppers should have some after his site opens and he restocks.
Yea weird pepper.