My first pepper harvest of 2012

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Wonderful Kassaundra!

There is a broad range of pepper varieties - should be enuf for everyone! If one won't work for you, I bet there are 3 more that will.

Age of the seed makes a difference for germination. I suppose that comes as no surprise to anyone. I had a fair amount of last year's seed this time and some were just tragically slow in sprouting! It was actually worse with the eggplant but that's always true with eggplant :rolleyes:.

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Oh those are gorgeous. Now I have "pepper envy"!

I am just getting the last of my pepper seedlings (which I started myself in the house for the first time ever) into the ground today. I waited a while because the weather here has been so hinky this past year, plus we had spring rainfall on our days off every all but 2 times for about 2 months. I hope that my peppers are at least half as beautiful as yours! Those are mouth-watering.

I have purple sweet bell, sweet cayenne, California wonder bell, and a hot pepper mix (5 different types of seeds mixed up in a variety pack -- dunno what I'm gonna get but includes habaneros, jalapenos, thai chilis, pablanos, and hot banana peppers).
 

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In addition to the ones I've harvested in the pic, I also have hot cherry peppers, hot Caribean, red and yellow bells, and pimento. I know the hot cherries do very well here, I planted them last year and they did amazing.
 

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Beautiful! Poblanos are just right for me, but I can't seem to manage peppers from seed and I never find the small plants for them around here.
 

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For those that asked the pablanos are tiberon, I couldn't find the green bell tag, the yellow and red which are doing just as good as the green are early sunsation and karma.
 

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Hooray Kass! I'm so happy they've produced so early. It must have been the mild winter, and hot spring. I have flowers on all my peppers (except my thai chilis) and I did find 2 small peppers on 1 bell pepper plant. So its a good sign of an early season.

Nothing shows success like a good pepper!!! :cool:
 

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Hot cherry peppers are very popular where I live. They are the ones we see most at Farmer's Markets. I bet home raised ones are very tasty. I think I will try to raise them in 2013.
 

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Here is a pic of some of the bell pepper plants

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Wow they are producing on short stems...last year my peppers grew to 3 foot but only a few fruits...
This year they are still just seedling which I hope to get into the ground by this weekend...
 
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