Wow that is a great assortment of peppers! You must have lot of space for all of those varieties! How many per variety are you planting?

Penguin, a total of about 20,000 plants

DarJones

Wow, one of everything.
Bruce

Impressive inventory and a lot of work as well... now and through harvest. In the SH list, what is the distinction that you apparently draw between the 7Pot Douglah and the Trinidad Douglah ? And, of you know, what other names may be synonymous with each of the respective above two ?

Reggie

"breeding material", can you by chance point me to some material that will help me with this (beginner). How I can tell what will breed with others etc

Fusion- where are you located?

I usually start peppers March 15th to put under cover (with compost heat) in May and then in the ground under plastic in June. But I have been wondering if I could push the season earlier. I am in western Oregon.

Are you growing for market?

Nancy

Nancy,

I doubt you'll get a reply from Darrel tonight as he's very busy.
He is located in Alabama. He sells plants.

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.selectedplants.com/

Robeb got it. I am growing plants to sell. I usually put about 200 plants in my garden for peppers to eat and to produce seed. I isolate varieties by distance which reduces crossing to a minimum.

For breeding peppers, I would suggest planting the varieties you want to cross side by side. The seed will typically be between 5% and 50% crossed by bees visiting the flowers. If you want to be a bit more serious, read about manual cross pollination.

DarJones

What is your fertilizer choice for your 20,000 plants?

This post was edited by TheMasterGardener1 on Sat, Jan 19, 13 at 13:31

I normally use miracle grow 15-30-15 and a special mix for tomato plants, but if someone wants organically grown plants, I can grow specific orders using an organic mix. Please note that 1 level teaspoon of fertilizer is enough to grow 48 plants so it does NOT take much.

DarJones

You said it!-" it does NOT take much. "

I use 24-8-16 miracle gro at 1/6 strength.

Do you grow all of them in containers?