Skip Pallesen

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Retired Chemist

The harvest is almost done. I ended up with enough Guajillos and Anchos dried for a couple years of chili. As always, my Bell peppers and Banana peppers ended up being stuffed and eaten through the summer. My New Mexico Peppers also produced a good crop, which are now dried and I will use in my chili in place of Pasilla peppers. I gave away eight-gallon baggies of peppers. I’ll be ordering my seeds for next year in about a month. I think that I will try to grow peppers that I never tried to grow before.

Even my bell peppers are producing lots of peppers in temperatures over 100F. As for my other peppers, I am going to have a bumper crop.

All of my pepper plants are now in the ground.

Normally when I harden my plants I do so on consecutive days. This year that was difficult as the sixty and seventy degree days was interspersed with snow. The forecast is looking better next week so I hope to get the plants outside and planted. Even with topping, they are outgrowing my growing chamber.

Started hardening off my seedlings

The question was asked about topping seedlings. I have never done so but I am being forced to this year. After no germination last year, I planted my seeds earlier than normal and they have grown like weeds, to the point they are toppling over.

Now that the seedlings have a number of leaves, I am starting them on some weekly fertilizer.

I am not sure exactly why but my ghost pepper seeds are much slower growers than my other peppers.

I am starting to get real leaves.

All twenty of my pots have germinated.