2018 Pepper Season Begins

[Argoboy]

It has been a hot summer in S Ont this year and my peppers have grown pretty well, I picked some today, I grew time bomb hot cherry peppers, jalapeños and habinaro peppers. I plan to make some fermented hot sauce, controlled burn hot sauce and cowboy candy. I seem to have more habinaro peppers this year, I like my peppers to turn red before I pick them.

[Pirate Scott]

Will the Orange Habaneros turn Red? Or were you referring to the Jalapeño?

[Attjack]

I had a bad year because I planted squash with the peppers. Then I spent July in California while everything grew and I wasn't here to train the squashes so thth blocked the peppers greatly limiting their yield. Live and learn.

[Pirate Scott]

That Stinks.

[Argoboy]

No I meant the jalapeño peppers, I like to wait until they are red, I prefer red or orange hot sauce over green hot sauce. Danny Carlson has a good hot sauce recipe on the web that I like to make as well.
I started my fermented hot sauce this afternoon, I follow Brad’s recipe from It’s Alive/Bon Appetite.
I have more peppers growing so I may smoke some as well.

[Mr. Bones]

My poor plants (1 each, Lipstick Pepper, New Mexico Pepper, Goliath Tomato) also have also had one helluva rough year

We had Winter until th first week of May, then peak Summer temps of ~100°Â±, nearly every day, since.
(We literally went from 19°, Monday mornin, to 100° Friday afternoon. Oof!)

Watered my plants every evenin, after th direct sun was off them...
Come home from work, every day, they're curled up like somebody sprayed em with Roundup.
Repeat, daily, fer 3+ months.

16+" below on rainfall, here. Most corn an beans were long ago chopped fer animal feed...

All my plants have blossomed several times, then jus dropped their wilted blossoms, no fruit.

Within th last week, have finally got two Lipsticks goin on, mater have two new fruits that weren't there yesterday, NM chile is blossomin galore, but no visible fruit, jus yet.

Hopin temps cool out a bit, then I'll have some yield, fer mebbe 6 weeks, til th first freeze knocks em down.

I gots me some killer seeds (Ghosties, Scorps, Reapers) fer next year, an a modified plan, as well.

Enjoy yer capsaicin, yall!

Stay thirsty, My Friends!

[Mr. Bones]

Goliath, she has 7 baby maters, now!!! WOOT!

[Harry]

We still have a few tomato plants producing, but our peppers are almost done. No rain to speak of since early July, but I did water diligently. Salsa is all jarred and on the shelf. A few mild jalapenos still show up. Better luck to you next year. Wife is "doing" her seed order as you read this.