The first ones moving out

Hi!

Today I decided to move some of the peppers outside. I chose the overwintered varieties. It's always a thriller and kind of a big moment to move them out. The weather is not so predictable, but I think they will be OK.

Here you see a tepin to the left, a malagueta in the middle, and a rocoto to the right. The rocoto doesn't really show, but it's there. The malagueta is full with flowers, and some pods. Some mature, and some new ones.

And here is an overwintered Brazilian chinense. It has flowers too, and maybe it will be too cold for it at night, but I give it a try...

And here is a happy me, enjoying the sunshine :-)

Have a great week!
   Mats

Chiltepin

Friday afternoon, and I think what I will have as a snack when I get home!

My chiltepin did not produce many pods, but the few pods that are on the plant are proud ones :-) Take a look at this beauty! "Soon to be in my stomach!"

More pictures here: http://petterssononline.com/habanero/peppers.php?action=variety&id=1245

Wishing you all a nice weekend!
Regards,
   Mats

Chiltepin

Inspired by the nice weather I went out to the balcony to get a picture of one of my favorite varieties. Chiltepin. It's a Capsicum annuum

I have grown some other similar varieties. Tepin and chilipiquin. More pictures to be found here:
http://petterssononline.com/habanero/peppers.php?action=variety&id=145
and here:
http://petterssononline.com/habanero/peppers.php?action=variety&id=1203

I'm going out to Bergianska today to meet my friends from the chile pepper association. The annual autumn party. http://www.bergianska.se/index_program.php?vidare=aktuellt_hostfest11.html

Wishing you a nice Sunday! And maybe see you there :-)
Mats

Chiltepin

Thanks to my friend Marco who sent me these seeds!

Chiltepins are fantastic! Look at the fantastic shape of these flowers!

 

True beauties!

Regards,
  Mats

Repotting (again) - and aphids (again)

Hi!

It's been a while since I posted anything. It's not because of laziness. Rather because of the !"#¤!¤ aphids!

We have really been struggling with the aphids. I think it's about the same amount as last year. It was terrible. But I expect them to go away as soon as the plants are moved outside.

Today I repotted three more varieties. Black pepper, pimenta da Neyde and the Mexican chiltepin.

I will get back with some pictures later. Right now I don't think that they are so good looking so it's even worth taking a picture of them.

How about you? How do you experience aphids this year? Better? Worse? Or the same?

Regards,
  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

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