Gardening: My Tomatoe and Pepper Progress

[Apple_Jacker]

Pretty sure my volunteer tomatoes are San Marzano and Marzinera

 

[Apple_Jacker]

 

[Apple_Jacker]

I've picked several zucchini and squash, and more keep trickling in:

And my butternut squash is coming along

 

[Apple_Jacker]

The jalafuego peppers are doing great:

My cayenne's are nice and bushy, but they're succumbing to something...

Looks an awful lot like some of the disease/fungus I'd see on some tomatoes

 

[passedpawn]

I'm so glad my Jalapenos came in this year. I love fresh jalapenos on chips with sour cream.

 

[AF1HomeBrew]

This was the first year of gardening where I bought seeds from Burpee and started them indoors in March. As they got big enough I used grow lights until the weather was good enough to put outside. Lots of tomatoes, peppers, garlic, horseradish, asparagus, rhubarb and this year round zucchini (Burpee's Eight Ball) . The hot, muggy weather this week has accelerated a sluggish growing season.

 

[AF1HomeBrew]

My "Other" garden. Hopefully in the next year or two I'll have several bee hives to start producing honey.

 

[user 211287]

Pics are 6 days old

LONG cayennes

LONG beans

Scorpions galore. I think i got 7 plants atm and they are all loading up now

Death Spiral

Turkish spicy bells

Spicy brown bells from southern Mexico

Brown Reapers and my late Death Spirals (back2) will be setting pods any time now

 

[AF1HomeBrew]

After looking todays forecasted 1.5" of rain heading my way today I decided this morning was the time to harvest the Garlic that I planted last Fall. 70 bulbs.

on the good side of things by drying them in my basement I am certain I've taken care of the vampire issues in the area.

 

[Sbe2]

The newer job has allowed me to really focus on the garden this year!

 

[mbg]

Need help getting rid of bugs on our squash!

I noticed on the underside of the leaves these black dots. I thought maybe butterflies but my daughter said they are squash bugs. Any suggestions on how to rid them (and a few chipmunks) appreciated.

Thanks-Mike

 

[501irishred]

Bells, Serrano, Cayenne, and T Scorpions are all producing great this year. Jalapeño and Ghost peppers look like they mill be a wash this year.
Just pulled what was left of the cilantro plants and collected the coriander. A couple of our state birds (mockingbird) have absolutely wrecked our tomatoes! We haven’t been able to let a single tomato ripped on the vine. Thought it was a bigger critter judging from the damage, but finally caught them in the act!
Melons are coming along, but several have started splitting. Hope a couple survive anyway....

 

[HoppyDaze]

you grew a basketball?

 

[501irishred]

you grew a basketball?

Yeah this is my first year growing them. Not sure what I did wrong, but the skin didn’t form properly. Its almost smooth, like a worn out street ball. Maybe more fertilizer next year?

 

[user 211287]

Bells, Serrano, Cayenne, and T Scorpions are all producing great this year.

Im growing Scorpions from CARDI seeds. There are actually a couple they offer. One is called Moruga Scorpion or Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. Do you remember where you got the seeds? Yours have a pheno a little fatter/shorter than mine but not quite like Moruga either.

I had my Scorpion plant last year next to a Naglah Brown. I planted 7 this year and just by chance i have 1 throwing reddish brown pods. Sofar the others have been red. Personally, Scorpions are my favorite super hot. Good flavor for the millisecond you can taste anything before the pain kicks in. Best production ive had sofar too.

 

[Apple_Jacker]

I made 2 pint jars of marina sauce as well as a few bottles of hot sauce with the tomatoes and peppers I've picked the last 2 weekends. My garden is shaping up to be my best one since moving to TN

 

[501irishred]

Do you remember where you got the seeds? Yours have a pheno a little fatter/shorter than mine but not quite like Moruga either.

One day I hope to have the time and patience to grow my peppers by seed, but till that transformation happens I buy plants. We have a local nursery that has a really good selection, and is the only place close that carries a few supers.
Makes it super easy, But has down side of being very “generic”. As for the shape, mine tend to be a little sporadic, and can vary from pod to pod.

 

[user 211287]

One day I hope to have the time and patience to grow my peppers by seed, but till that transformation happens I buy plants. We have a local nursery that has a really good selection, and is the only place close that carries a few supers.
Makes it super easy, But has down side of being very “generic”. As for the shape, mine tend to be a little sporadic, and can vary from pod to pod.

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That is a Moruga Scorpion or possible a Butch T in his picture. Posting mine up now. The scoville will probably not be that high but mine last year were as hot as my Reapers.

 

[user 211287]

PIC DAY!!!

I must have 500+ super hot pods out there. I got no idea what im gunna do with so many Scorpion pods let alone the massive amount of the others.

First off though Antep Aci Dolma are turning. Got big plans for a beef panang curry with some of these.

Aji Panca are all loaded like this.

Aji Oro has a few ready to pick. LOVE LOVE LOVE these peppers. SOOO SWEET.

My freak brown Scorpions. Cant wait to sample one of these nasty buggers. Should be a Naglah Brown and CARDI Scorpion cross.

Scorps out the wazoo. Every plant is packed with pods.

Death Spiral are just so cool looking and probably as productive.

No ripe mutant Reapers but look at these bad boys. Nasty looking suckers. Its a freaking jungle in there and hard to get pics.

 

[AF1HomeBrew]

PIC DAY!!!

I must have 500+ super hot pods out there. I got no idea what im gunna do with so many Scorpion pods let alone the massive amount of the others.

First off though Antep Aci Dolma are turning. Got big plans for a beef panang curry with some of these.

Have you ever tried fermenting peppers?

 

[user 211287]

These are from CARDI seed stock. They look like this.

Mine and a Death Spiral on the left

Pics inside with a probable cross with a Naglah brown pepper from last year. One plant threw off brown pods. (lower right). Top 5 are my Scorpions.

 

[user 211287]

Have you ever tried fermenting peppers?

Yes i have. Fermented scotch bonnet sauce is outstanding. I just use bonnets, salt and water. Nothing else. What ive been doing with Scorpions is just using a few and adding them to Crystals hot sauce along with other minor additions. You get that fermented "tang" from the Crystals for $1.50/12oz bottle and i can easily adjust heat by adding supers to it.

 

[user 211287]

Been looking for a virtually heatless habanero for a couple years.....Finally tried Habanda this year and it looks like a winner. It struggled at first but now its rocking out some pods.

Getting more ripe Death Spirals, Scorpions and the last of my odd brown Scorpions are almost ready. Plant was tiny and seems to be a fluke cross from last year.

Sunflowers are locked now

About sick of picking maters

 

[bleme]

My Early Girl tomatoes are crapped out. They are both about 8 feet tall now. One produced 8 tomatoes and the other produced NONE.

My peppers are really taking off though. I haven't seen any bees lately so every couple of days I've been swishing a small paint brush around all the flowers. It seems to work because every flower is producing a pod (unlike my tomatoes *growl*). I picked the first Padron a couple days ago and it is a great pepper! The one I got was very mild, about like a banana pepper, but about 10% of them are supposed to be 10x hotter (still not bad).

I'm definitely interested in those Habanda peppers. I love roasting those sweet mini peppers that all the groceries are carrying this year so I've been thinking about getting some Cornitos next year also.

 

[Dog House Brew]

Had to stake my jalapeño plants. There are so many they are pulling the plants to the ground. Tomatoes are just coming on. The deer have been manicuring my plants. Guess next I will be forced to put up an electric fence. Green beans are setting pods. I have them under a row cover. The deer are putting hole in it. Hope they survive 2 weeks so I can process some.

 

[user 211287]

When you first bite into a habanada the first thing you get is...Oh crap this is gunna be hot....and then....It aint. You are hit with that "this is gunna burn habanero feeling" that never happens. I also liked its flavor better than other aji dulces ive tried. Most were so flavorless it was a waste of time growing them. The pod size is quite acceptable too.

Todays ripe pods though were anything but mild and flavorless. They range mostly from super hots to sweet heat and some really brutal for jalapeno Numex Orange Spice.

I just hate how tiny the Numex are producing. This is about the largest one ive got from 6 plants.

 

[VApatriot]

Update on our gardens.

Got off to a late start in May due to the weather. So we started our own saved seeds for all but 4 plants. The first two pics are from 5/26.

Here's where we are yesterday. The tall stakes are 8 footers. With the two 4'x8' raised beds and two patio tomatoes in pots, we've harvested over 31 lbs of tomatoes and aren't even close to done yet. Good thing we know how to can them . The onions were an experiment. We cut about 1" off the root end of scallions from the store, planted them, and they grow just fine. There's also swiss chard in between the rows of tomatoes which we really enjoy also. And yes those are my Versa-Nets, electric knee high fences, those raccoons don't touch my 'maters anymore .

 

[Kent88]

 

[user 211287]

Got a few ready for the smoker. Just cut open and partially sun dry them first. Pods on the right i just need to get the seeds from first for personal stock.

 

[501irishred]

Got a few ready for the smoker. Just cut open and partially sun dry them first. Pods on the right i just need to get the seeds from first for personal stock.

What’s your process to store seeds? Anything special, or just toss em in a bag?