Chopped most of mine now. Hung them in the tunnel to try and ripen the remaining fruit. Lots of super hots nearly ripe but battling mold and rotting daily now.
"‹"‹"‹"‹"‹"‹Moruga scorpian left, 7 pot yellow right.
Possibly final harvest
Smoked habanero fermented hot sauce made this week. Choc/orange habs fermented for 6 weeks. Blended with smoked garlic, smoked onion, smoked sweet pepper, cider vinegar and sea salt. Heat is med/high I would say. The 2 of the right are redder as they were blended with fermented moruga scorpians so a fair bit hotter. Nothing crazy tho.
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I am also trying to overwinter some peppers.
One is a saved seed from a supermarket pointed fruit plus 3 that were given to me and some chilies that were grown with tomatoes that crowded them out in a mixture of red clay and horse manure.
Those pointed peppers take ages to ripen. I am yet to harvest a good one but I do get closer each time I try.
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Picked all of my peppers yesterday. Came to 2.3kg of mostly unripe sweet peppers. They are turning colour, though, so should ripen indoors hopefully.
They actually did really well in the end, outside at my allotment. They didn't start ripening until really late, though, so next year I will grow some different varieties billed as early maturing (these ones were just seeds saved from shop-bough pointy sweet peppers).
I also brought in my potted pepper plants and dug up three of my best sweet peppers from the allotment and potted them up, all to try and overwinter.
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When you say moved on - where to? The site has sorted itself out. Least I find it mainly useable now.
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I too struggle to grow jalepenos don't know why ... Not heard any thing from Mitzi , but a lot of people have moved on since the upgrade .
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Originally posted by Ms-T View PostWow !/5 very impressive. Enjoy.
The bahmanian goats have made up for all the failures as they are really nice and I got loads. My new favourite. The seeds were from Mitzi in the seed swap. Is he still about? Not heard anything from him in quite a while.
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I ferment loads to make various sauces. Mainly the hotter ones. The ring of fires get frozen to use for cooking and dried for chilli flakes. Make loads of harissa, about 20 jars of pickled jalapenos. I'll give loads of them away too. That pic is probably about 1/5th of the total harvest this year so it's a little excessive but I can't seem to control myself when the new year comes along and I have lots of seeds.
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Originally posted by SimpleSimon View Post
Wow that looks fantastic ...what are you going to make with them all. ? Just being nosey
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My Habanero's that I have taken into my kitchen at home have finally started to look like Habanero's and are laden with fruit.
The ones I left in the greenhouse have realised its autumn and have started dropping there leaves. Just goes to show what that added bit warmth can achieve.
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Originally posted by ameno View Post
Are you sure that's the fault of the weather?
I had 2 Royal Blacks 1 I left in the growroom as a test with constant heat and 12 hour days, on this plant the fruit started later than the greenhouse but accelerated past once they it stared fruiting.
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Originally posted by ameno View Post
Are you sure that's the fault of the weather?
I've had quite a few fruit rot off, both this year and last, and every single one happened because the fruit had been compromised, either by a slug or snail or by some other insect. Once a fruit has a hole right through to the cavity, no matter how small the hole is, its days are numbered.
These problems will be looked into over winter ready for next year.
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I’m still waiting for some mavras sweet peppers to ripen,I don’t think they will now, I think it was the weather we had this year & I sowed them too late,looking on the seed sowing thread i soŵed them March 10th. I’ll pick them soon,they’re just sitting on the plant never changing.
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Originally posted by Plot70 View PostThe weather has not been good for peppers this year.
I had one fruit start going red before rotting off.
I've had quite a few fruit rot off, both this year and last, and every single one happened because the fruit had been compromised, either by a slug or snail or by some other insect. Once a fruit has a hole right through to the cavity, no matter how small the hole is, its days are numbered.
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