Peppers We Are Growing This Year - 19 Pepper Crosses Planted So Far
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2024
- Last year and the year before I did a ton of manural pepper crosses. That is why we have so many pepper crosses growing this year. We have 19 planted so far, but I have seeds for more if I can find some room. I'm going to try to save seeds from the ones that I planted the earliest, and grow the next generation outdoors this spring and summer. Let us know what you think of some of these pepper crosses. If you are interested in knowing how to do a manual pepper cross, I did a video on that subject. A link to that video is below.
How To Cross Pollinate Pepper Plants To Create A New Type Of Pepper: • How To Cross Pollinate...
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Very good Dr. Jim-N-Stein😂 .Thanks for shareing . Just amazing work my friend.
Lol, thanks! It's going to be a fun pepper year.
All your peppers look so healthy and so many great varieties!
Thanks! It's going to be a fun pepper year.
This is so cool. Who knew that peppers could look like that!
Thanks Katie! They have been a lot of fun to work with. I can't wait to see how this year goes.
Always look forward to see what’s going on your garden!
Glad you enjoy seeing it. Thanks for watching!
Best wishes 2024 Jim and family.
Thank you! Best wishes to you and your family also.
Awesome! Some of them look so beautiful and ornamental that I feel like they should be houseplants. Ha ha ha. Hope you enjoying the weekend, mate. Cheers!
I guess some of them would make good houseplants with the right light. I'm trying to produce some that are ornamental and taste good also. Have a great weekend!
Good Morning Jim - Wow you sure have a lot going and it is only January. Love the purple pepper with purple leaves. The cold is coming so the peppers indoors are fortunate to have a warm toasty place to thrive. Hope you have a great weekend and stay warm..
Good morning Sue. Thanks! I'm just glad our power hasn't gone out yet. It got below zero here last night. The pepper projects will keep me interested until spring gets here. Have a great weekend!
A ton of cool varieties growing over there. Thanks for the share!
It's going to be a fun year. Thanks for watching!
Your peppers are always so healthy and beautiful. Wow! Happy new year!
Thanks! Happy New Year to you also! I think it's going to be a fun pepper year here.
I love the varigated leaves, and purple!
Me too.
Awesome stuff Mr Jim!
Thank you!
Beautiful purple and varigated leaves. Would love to make some pepper sauce.
Thanks! Some pepper sauce sounds good.
Absolutely love all these hybrid variations! I have my favorite pepper plant overwintering in my underground well access compartment. It's a combination of so many things I couldn't even keep track. 😆 Last I checked it was still alive.
Thanks! I hope that overwintered pepper plant makes it. Those overwintered plants usually do great the following year.
I have a really poor track record for overwintering pepper plants indoors. 0 for 2, 3 for 15, 0 for 4 over the 3 years I've tried it. This year I have one very healthy plant (no damage at all) that was just put either in the garage or in a tiny (2 x 3 x 3') greenhouse so far, but as it gets colder I will have to put it somewhere warmer temporarily (even the garage will be much too cold). I'm convinced having a cooler than room temperature location (but still at least 28F) is the key (yes, this pepper plant, a tabanero, has been subjected to still air at 28F many times with no damage; I also have a c. annuum pepper in there too, which eventually lost its leaves but it may still be alive too).
wow! I'm feeling inspired to plant some peppers
Good luck if you do.
Some of those plants are really beautiful, I especially like the look of the dark leaves! Gardening is such a huge subject, with so many possibilities! If one were to live a 1000 years, there still wouldn’t be enough time to explore everything! I love to see what other gardeners are up to! Your pepper work is particularly fascinating!
Thanks! I totally agree. No matter how long I live, I'm going to be leaving work that is unfinished. Glad you enjoy the pepper projects. I get a lot of enjoyment from them too. Have a great weekend!
@@MidwestGardener Be prepared for some cold temps coming two weeks
They look so pretty! Great job friend! 😊
Thank you 🤗
Those plants are beautiful! Insect and disease free. I especially like the purple ones. I'm glad you can keep them going during your winter. I've just about given up on growing peppers. I can't get rid of that leaf spot disease. I think it's in the soil.
There's not a lot to do in my garden (except to remove weeds) not my favorite chore. Its been too wet and cold for me. Take care, stay warm. Here's hoping spring gets here soon.🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Thanks! It's pretty hard to stay warm here for a while. We got down below zero last night, and I think the high temperature for Sunday is 1 degree. I hope spring gets here soon too!
@@MidwestGardener Brrr🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶 I'm cold at 65 degrees. No sunshine today.
Thanks for the update! A lot of very beautiful plants in this one!
I have seeds ready from the Midwest Midnight Eclipse I grew last year with the long pods (though earlier ripening would be great); and the Midwest Jimmy Nardello x Corbaci cross. Looking forward to trying them.
For my own crosses, my "Chisel" series has resulted in a huge variety in its F5 generation, some are much larger than the original, some just longer like a Garden Salsa, and some close to the original. The white variegation from their Fish ancestor is scarce at this point.
I have several phenotypes of Tabaneros close to the original lineage in taste and texture; Tabaneros are normally soft and juicy and never bitter, I'm considering the plants with any bitterness a failure. I had one plant last year with heatless pods but the same classic taste and texture, and so far I have two plants germinated from those seeds. Exciting to me because these are a unique combination of traits. I won't know until summer whether the next generation are also heatless.
Outside of my own hybrids, I'm intentionally growing a lot fewer varieties this year, and focusing on less hot peppers as they are more useful in quantity. (Classic Tabaneros are an exception, they are the most convenient and tasty way I know to add a predictable amount of heat to salsa, chili, or curry).
Yep, Midwest Midnight Eclipse is pretty slow to ripen. I get a little frustrated with that too. Hope you find a good one to carry forward from the Jimmy Nardello x Corbaci cross.
Sounds like the Chisel series is going to be harder to stabilize. Variety can be fun though. That should be fun for you to watch the next generation.
I'm looking forward to hearing how they all do this year.
As an ornamental, producing a few striking but also tasty pods that take a long time to ripen is OK, you get to see them in their unique black color longer. But being able to also produce more ripe pods more quickly is a nice bonus too.
I suspect Chisel has been so diverse due to additional accidental hybridization events, as it is a C. Annuum x C. Annuum cross. Tabanero is an interspecies (C. Chinense x C. Frutescens) cross, and had to get through multiple genetic bottlenecks to even produce viable seeds, so it is less likely to make further accidental crosses from nearby C. Annuum plants. However, I did get one surprise, when one Tabanero plant had clearly crossed with a Pimenta de Neyde, which is C. Frutescens and also quite attractive, and with pretty good results. One of the flaws of Pimenta de Neyde is that they take a long time to ripen and it is very hard to tell their unripe (dark purple) color from their ripe color (dark purple with maybe a little pink mottling on one side). In the cross they turn red when ripe while still starting purple and having fairly dark leaves.
If I was more of a pro at this I would control the whole process and not have accidental hybrids, of course; maybe I will get to that point eventually.
@@davidniemi6553 Those accidental crosses can be pretty fun to work with too. Nature sometimes makes a cross that I wouldn't have thought of doing.
please post updates! Im super interested in your darker foliage plants. I would be down to trade some seeds with you at the end of the season! I have a cross between a fresno and a chili arbol, (pepper grows about 2-3 inches long, in clusters pointing upward).
I'll post updates on the peppers though the summer. I really don't do much trading, because I don't even have room for my own projects. Thanks for the offer though.
Will MMEclipse seeds be available again soon? I had it on my list of seeds to buy for the 2024 growing season, but didn't see it on Matt's Peppers
Sorry about that. I had a rough year last year and didn't collect any seeds from the few of those I grew.
@@MidwestGardener I understand.
My MMOrange (variegated) is doing wonderfully overwintering as a houseplant. As it adjusts to the less intense light, the different colors in the leaves are really starting to come through. Your work is appreciated.
Nice! It's interesting how different light can help those leaf colors come through. Outside, it's sometimes hard to see any variegation at all.
Do you have a specific process for crossing?
This video shows how I do my cross pollination for peppers: ua-cam.com/video/XeC1y1LaSLQ/v-deo.html
Anyone else spot the absolute monster of a tomato hornworm chowing down at 1:20 I can't stand those nasty little creatures hahaha
Wow! Good eye. I didn't see it the first time, or when I edited this video. That was a big one!
@@MidwestGardener no kidding! I had an entire plant eaten by those suckers last season! Loving you pepper videos by the way!
@@troyjenson1862 Glad you enjoy the videos!