Community service announcement about why you should consider a small pepper garden. One of the big reasons for it is that small numbers of pepper plants can provide you with a year long supply. Some examples:- 2 cayennes in pots will give you an easy year+ supply of dried ground/powdered heat- 2 hatch chile plants will give you enough roasted peppers for at least a dozen chilis (the recipe, not the pepper itself). Roast, freeze, use whenever you make chili.- 1 pepperoncini plant will give you at least 4-5 quarts of pickled peppers. Stupidly productive.- same for jalapenos. Peppers coming out of your ears.- 1 habanero plant will give you an unusably large amount of peppers. More than you can possibly use unless you're insane. For the purposes of adding pure heat to chili or salas, they freeze well.Also, peppers are stupidly easy to grow. They are not picky at all - they love to be blasted with full obnoxious levels of sun. They're pretty pest and rot resistant, although you do need to keep an eye out for aphids in the early season once they go outdoors.Anyway - it's a scientific fact - food made with peppers you grew yourself tastes better. And it's very zen tending to your spicy boys as they're growing. If you're not a cooklet, you should be doing it.
STUPID FUCKING SNAILS OR WHATEVER ARE EATING MY FUCKING CHILI PLANT LEAVESMOTHERFUCKERS
>>22091015A squirrel named Nacho ate our jalapeno plant last year. This year we went with serranos, so far no squirrel issues.
>>22091015What does the damage look like? Weird semicircles on the edges of the leaves -> leafcutter bees. Random large gashes down the length -> japanese beetles. Entire leaf gone -> caterpillar. Other small holes -> random other bugs that generally don't matter. The only one of the above that's really a danger are caterpillars, but you can spot them pretty easy.Could also try putting out a saucer of beer in case it's slugs.
>>22091027That squirrels butt exploded
>>22091117It kind of depends. You can get jalapeno seeds all the way from no heat to surprisingly hot.
How big should the pot be? I planted a Helios habanero in a pot a few weeks ago and it's growing well and flowering but I think the pot might be too small.
>>22091134I start them in 6" pots (3 seeds per pot, just playing the odds. strongest one wins). Once they hit about 12-14" tall I put in final pots.15-16" gives you reasonable results, and is a decent way to start.18-19" gives you luxurious results. They are WAY bigger than 15-16" pots.In the ground is the best, of course, but not necessary at all.Also: for the love of god, fill the pots to the VERY TOP. All the way up. Maximum soil. It's going to shrink down by an inch or two over the season any way.
>>22091151Thanks. My peeper is in about a 6" inch pot and is probably around 10" so I will follow your advice and transplant to a bigger pot when its 12". Will transplanting while it's beginning to flower be a problem?
>>22091001Immigrant SlopYou just need salt and pepper
>>22091172No, you're fine. It's a little bit late in the season (depending on your latitude) for a smaller plant like that, but there's no harm in trying.
Forget just peppers almost all spice plants are easy to grow in pots, have much better taste, and give you a huge return on the tiny investment a starter plant + pot + soil costs. Dried parsley might as well be grass clippings, fresh parsley is a flavor bomb. Also you can grow chives and green onions from the root part that normally gets thrown away.
>>22091203Also, herby things like green onions live well alongside peppers. You can even cram them in free space between plants (or at the edge of large pots).Green onions just don't fucking die ever. They're the cockroaches of planst. Plant them once and forget about them forever.
>>22091174>you just need salt and pepperyou are dented and have less value than a worm. kill yourself you disgusting freak. i hope every single breath you take is harsh and difficult. fuck you.
>>22091001>you should consider
It's July though. Isn't it too late to start growing plants? Unless you go out and buy one that is already fruiting
>>22091029clean cuts that look like circles or semicircles, idkits like someone cut chunks out with a knife
Imagine being such a loser in humanity that you decide to eat a plant that has evolved to create its own poison for survival.
>>22091777I hope you don't consume caffeine, nicotine, basil, fennel, dill, mint, lemongrass, rosemary, or thyme. and probably a bunch of other shit.
>>22091793Nope. Stop being retarded. You don't need to "season" shit if it's fresh. Stop eating crappy food you gotta jazz up to make it palatable and get it down.
>>22091772Yeah, definitely too late for this year, unless you live in like southern Texas or Florida or something. In most of the US, you sow the seeds in mid-Fed to mid-March. At this point everything needs to be outside and on it's way to fully grown.
>>22091840>Nope. Stop being retarded. You don't need to "season" shit if it's fresh. Stop eating crappy food you gotta jazz up to make it palatable and get it down.This nigga eating at Becky's tonight.
>>22092012so what's the point of this thread
>>22092049To get people thinking about next year, retard? I understand there's a good chance you might be brown and don't have the capacity to think multiple seasons in advance - food is just always available on nearby trees, ese! But, getting the ball rolling and making some plans for the future right now, is appealing to whites. Maybe you'd be more comfortable in the rice cooker thread.
>>22092056I am not brown and I occasionally grow vegetables. I just thought there was some kind of very fast growing pepper that people could still plant. I think it's very stupid to make a thread 7 or 8 months on advance on one of the lowest attention span boards. This thread is basically, "I grew peppers!"OK man congratulations on growing peppers.
>>22092067>I have been deceived by clicking on a thread about gardening and I am now very angry.
too many squirrels out here or i'd do it
>>22092067>on advanceNot helping your case. Is that a stolen picture or are you ESL? And this is clearly a thread for pepper growers to talk about growing peppers.
>>22092363Give the man a break. He just had a long day casting shit/mud bricks for his favela hovel. We can excuse him for getting angry at seeing white men talk about "planning" things.
>>22091015Probably horn worms, check under leaves at night with uv flashlight cut in half with scissors
>>22091015Hate those dudes, I go out on snail patrol sometimes in the morning and shoot them with the bug-a-salt>>22091029>Weird semicircles on the edges of the leaves -> leafcutter beesInteresting, I never would have guessed it was bees, they must really like Thai basil because they absolutely Swiss cheesed mine >>22091117NACHO GOT THE SPICY BOOTY
>>22091840have you ever even left your home town, let alone country? Your comfort zone is that of an autistic 12 year old
I soaked my pickled habs from 2 years ago in vin and made liquid heat. I use it on Mac and noodles, and it kicks hard too
>>22091001True words. I have 6 different peppers planted in the garden this year. I'll be fermenting a good deal of them.
>>22091001I need to get back into gardening I loved it when I did it I just am a major alcoholic and it's difficult to do anything. I'm also terrified of spiders unfortunately so that does affect me.
>>22095061Simlpe gardening is a great way to try and get out of the alcoholic funk. Pots on a deck is about as low effort as you can get, and the results are great. Just going outside periodically to check the plants out is therapeutic I think.Bugs are a fact of life though. Although for me, I always end up with 4 or 5 huge praying mantis' patrolling my various plants - they're the good guys along with the spiders.
>>22091001>They are not picky at all - they love to be blasted with full obnoxious levels of sun.How do they do in zero direct sun while sitting on a balcony? I'm stuck living in my mother's condo until she croaks and the only "growing space" I have is if I put pots out on the north-facing balcony.
>>22091840Are you even white? White people invaded the ends of the earth to find spices -- this is why the Dutch East India Company colonized the Spice Islands, halfway around the fucking planet from Dutchland.
>>22091840>>22095208>[T]he Spice Islands were also reason for the first circumnavigation of the world. The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan wanted to find the first western route to the Spice Islands for the glory of Spain. Magellan's crew sailed around the globe, going first around the tip of South America and then on to the Philippines and the southern coast of Africa before finally heading back to Spain. Magellan himself died on the journey in armed conflicts with natives. The value that spices had then could be quantified with these facts: of the five ships that launched with Magellan, only one returned to Spain three years later. It was loaded with 26 tons of spices. After deducting the cost of the lost ships, etc. a net profit of 500 gold ducats still remained.And zoomies today think they have it bad because they only get ten bucks an hour for assembling sandwiches for lunchgoers.
>>22095202The more sun the better pretty much. The only minor caveat here is some types need to be "hardened" before being put out into full sun. That is, for about a week before you put them outside forever, you just put them out for 2-3 hours a day to get them accustomed to full sun. In practice, the only plant I've ever seen actually need this are habaneros. They always seem very prone to sunburn (leaves turn purple and then grey and die) if put out too quickly. In contrast, this year I have a hatch, a cayenne, 2 guajillos, 2 poblanos and a pasilla and they didn't give a fuck about going from indoor to 100% outdoor overnight.
>>22095202Oh, I read this wrong. Zero direct sun. You're probably going to have problems in that case. They really need direct sunlight to grow properly. What you'll probably get is a plant that is tall but very skinny and doesn't produce much.
>>22095120I agree it is a mild therapy I loved doing it
>>22095298Why do I only have 2 scotch bonnets that refuse to ripen for the last 2 months? The just sit there spiting me. I've got peppercinis, thai, jalapenos, poblanos, sweet red but the scotch are by far the least developed. The plant is healthy as can be but yet... nothing. Please help me pepper-sama!
>>22095298You can skip this part and just grow them outside they grow accustomed instantly
>>22095416What fertilizer are you using? Add phosphorus, that seems to work for me.
Along with dude weed peppers belong to the few things that are actually worth growing yourself. You can easily get enough to be self sufficient.
>>22095301>>22095298Thanks, sucks to be me I guess. Got the same advice about the big rosemary bushes Costco was selling, and about cauliflowers I wanted to grow.
>>22092598>Hate those dudes, I go out on snail patrol sometimes in the morning and shoot them with the bug-a-saltmy dad goes out every evening with a blowtorch and does that
>>22096843Murder is wrong
>>22091001Only libshits, commies, and women do that gay shit
>>22098488>growing your own food is bad>just buy it from the store, goy>t. african
>>22092067>one of the lowest attention span boardsdo you not realize that you need some source of income to buy food to engage in a cooking, right?you know how income works, right?are you just retarded?
>>22098572*cooking hobby
>>22098572Are you trying to imply that you need an attention span to have a job?
