Late harvest

After chasing aphids for most of the year, it's nice to be able to pick some pods.

Here are some orange baccatum. Sharp heat and nice taste.

And here are some Florida Bird Peppers drying. They have a dry heat. I guess they are like chewing on gunpowder :-)

And here are some Chuquisac. Mild baccatum with a nice taste.

Well, dinner is served :-)

Hot regards,
  Mats

A small chuquisac harvest

I'm definitely not spoiled to harvesting chiles this year. But today we had two ripe Chuquisac pods.

Two nice pods. They were mild but with very nice taste.

Now I hope that the warm weather for the season continues, so the rest of the pods will turn yellow.

More chuquisac pictures here: http://petterssononline.com/habanero/peppers.php?action=variety&id=1238

Hot regards,
   Mats

Aji limon and Chuquisac

Welcome to the wonderful world of Capsicum baccatum!

I can never get enough of these flowers!

Aji limon

PI596058 - Chuquisac

To see all the latest chile pepper pictures on my homepage, you can follow this link: http://petterssononline.com/habanero/peppers.php?action=dates

Take care,
  Mats

PI596058 - Chuquisac

Some pictures from the balcony today. Finally, I got an opportunity to take some pictures. One of my favorites! Capsicum baccatum!

 

More pictures here: http://petterssononline.com/habanero/peppers.php?action=variety&id=1238

Hot regards,
  Mats

Victim from the balcony

PI 596058 Chuquisac - one of the baccatum was broken on the balcony in the strong winds. I can sense a repetition from last year, when exactly the same thing happened. And from the years before.

Guarded by our Maya friend, I will see if it can develop roots. One has to try :-)

Wishing you all a nice week to come!
   Mats

PI596058 - Chuquisac

Some of my baccatum have had flowers for a while, but I've had such enormous amounts of aphids. So it has not been so inspiring to take a picture of the plants. Now I have used huge amounts of pine tree soap, and there are still aphids on them, but I think I'm getting at least some control over the situation.

So here it is. My PI596058 - Chuquisac with typical C. baccatum flowers.

I think that as soon the plants can be moved outside, it will be easier to get rid of the aphids. But until then, I have to do the hard work...

Wishing you all a great weekend!
   Mats

Final pots for three

Time flies and the bright daylight makes the chiles grow fast!

So I decided to repot three varieties into their "final" pots. It's the PI 596058 Chuquisac, Orange baccatum and the aji limon. All are Capsicum baccatum. As always, I plant them deep, and cover the stems with soil. The plants will develop roots, and will be more steady, when they are moved out to the balcony.

 

The chaos will soon begin. Here they are well positioned in our living room. How will it look, when the remaining 10+ plants will be repotted? :-)

I think today is a good day for repotting because of the "supermoon" :-) Check this out. It's a beautiful picture!
http://www.michellemyhre.com/2011/03/supermoon-saturday.html

Wishing you all a great weekend!
   Mats 

Repotting Sunday

While Patricia and Carl goes skiing in the morning, I take care of the chiles. Time to repot my Mexican chiltepin, my black pepper and Pimenta da Neyde (that I got from Patrik).

Here they are, the tres amigos, ready to be repotted :-) On the first picture we have the black pepper and pimenta da Neyde. I really suspect that they are the same variety. They both come from Brazil. So it will be interesting to see how they develop.

You know, naming conventions in the wonderful world of chiles can be really really confusing. Sometimes there are the same name for different varieties, even in different species. And sometimes there are different names for the same variety.

When I started my web site, I seriously had the ambition to bring order into the naming chaos. But I gave up after a couple of years. Nowadays, I mostly enjoy the beauty and diversity of the plants and fruits.

Anyway, here they are :-)

And here is my Mexican chiltepin ready to be repotted. Chiltepins are nice plants. I  keep four in the same pot, hoping for a nice harvest this year.

Wishing you all a nice Sunday!

    Mats

Roots

My Chuquisac was the next in line to be repotted. I keep the small plants in my mini-greenhouse, under extra lights, so I don't look at them every day. But this morning a green "shadow" caught my attention. It was the Chuquisac that knocked on the plastic ceiling telling me it needed more space.

As you see here, I had four seedlings in a small pot. After repotting I only keep two in a larger pot.

What amazed me again, was the strong roots that it had developed. As always, when I have tall plants, I repotted it deep. So I covered all the visible roots, and a couple of extra centimeters of the stem.

More about this strong rooted Capsicum baccatum later.

Hot regards from a cold Sweden
   Mats

Three more today!

• PI 596058 - Chuquisac (Capsicum baccatum)
• Chiltepin Mexico (Capsicum annuum)
• Black Cayman (Capsicum chinense)

I was surprised to see my chiltepin germinate so fast. My experience is that they take longer time. So this is either A) promising, or B) bad sign that the seeds are not pure, and therefore not really from chiltepin.

My vote and hope is option A! Promising!

The ones that I still wait for are some old chinense seeds. Maraba, cheiro de para and caronog. But also a Florida bird pepper (undomesticated annuum), a pubescens, pimenta da Neyde and goat pepper.

Well, two weeks is not that much for chile seeds to germinate. So I will stay cool!

A question to you geeks out there.
Do you keep track of when your varieties germinate, and so on? And in that case, how do you do it? I created a database some years ago, in which I log some "events", and export spreadsheets from it. If anyone is interested in the technical details, please let me know, and I can write about it and share it with you. It's based on OpenOffice / LibreOffice, so it's a cross platform solution.

Hot regards,
   Mats