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Super hot peppers

11 years ago

Hey All, I planted my super hot peppers mid March. I have Carolina Reapers, Trindad Scorpion peppers and Ghost peppers. I planted in total 30 seeds, 10 of each. Of those seeds, 8 Reapers sprouted, 5 TS peppers sprouted and 2 Ghost peppers sprouted. I hit the 2 month mark last week and the tallest plant by far are the Reaper plants. The tallest is 3 inches. The smallest is the Ghost peppers at around an inch. Although it took nearly a month for the ghost peppers to sprout. Is this too slow of growth? Any way I can speed up the growing? I have all plants outside under a gazebo to protect them from the torrential rain of this past month but I move them on the edge of the gazebo the days we have no rain in the forecast to get plenty of sun. I hope the lack of sunshine this past month is not causing them to growing so slow. Any other advice you can send my way is well appreciated. Thanks
David


Comments (10)

  • 11 years ago

    I would think at this point that they should be a littlebit further along. Also your germination rate is not real good. But at least you got a few of each variety. I started my plants February 15th. And here is a photo of some of them after 95 days which is about how far along yours are. I have Reapers, Yellow Ghost and Yellow 7pot Brainstrains in the group. All super hots. The one on the top right is a Hot Hungarian Wax (not super hot)

    Your method for sunlight sounds fine. But there are two other possibilities. First is temps. Are your plants experiencing temps below 50 degrees at all? Second, even with your efforts to keep them out of the rain, are they staying too wet for too long? Neither of these conditions are prime growing conditions for peppers.

  • 11 years ago

    Thanks, well the temps here in Austin have not dipped below 65 in the last month and has stayed between 70 - 90 the last month. I think they are getting a bit wet but the days that we have not had rain they have dried up nicely. I have not had to water them all month this month. I also added some Epsom salt to help with the nutrients.


  • 11 years ago

    I have the same crap with torrential rain over here in Bastrop county. Had to bring all the pots into the GH so they wouldn't drown. The plants in the ground are doing OK, but could use more sun. Overwintered Ghosts are loaded with pods, and the Lemon Drops are setting too.

    Your strategy sounds fine. Looks like the rain will be ending next week, so keep it up. Try some MG for tomatoes, or Tomato Tone granular fertilizer. They'll take off once they get more sun.

    atxman thanked tomt226
  • 11 years ago

    That's way too small. They must be being stunted. Here's a pick of a moruga recently at about 60 days (that's a 5 gallon bucket):


    This is a pick of yellow ghosts at 55 days:


  • 11 years ago

    Wow those are great looking. I hope mine start growing soon. I just changed the pots for all peppers to 5 gallon pots because the roots were visable from the hole in the old small pot


  • 11 years ago

    There is a trait in ghost peppers which deserves a mention here.

    I grow yellow bhuts commercially, my particular seeds have been grown out for 7 years; isolated.

    The trait is dwarfism. This week I pulled a bunch of plants that are 90 days but only 6-7 inches high. The minitures produce flowers and peppers, but only 20 peppers per plant.


    They make nice gifts, and take up little space; my friends who don't like hot peppers TOO much are all getting free ghosts.

    For comparison, this is a yellow ghost from the same seed lot at about 80 days:


    It's a trait that I see in about 1:100 seeds.


  • 11 years ago

    Now that's bizarre. Do the seeds from those pods grow dwarfs too?

  • 11 years ago

    I assume. The pods are hot, but smaller than a typical yellow bhut. I always pull them, and have never grown them. I assume the seeds would grow a mix of full size and dwarf plants.

  • 10 years ago

    I would love to get some of the seeds if anyone has available. Im from the Caribbean and love my hot peppers. Thank you

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