Four years of attempts resulted in my best harvest so far. New England zone 6B. Pic 1 is 10/8 and pic 3 is everything that came after
Four years of attempts resulted in my best harvest so far. New England zone 6B. Pic 1 is 10/8 and pic 3 is everything that came after
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I had to take some nuisance trees down in my yard which resulted in an abundance of sunlight, so I built a pair of metal raised bed kits. The grow was started from seeds (via White Hot Pepper Co) in Feb. I initially had 72 sprouts but a work trip was long enough to dry up and kill all but 18. Only 17 made it to the raised beds after I hardened them off way to quickly in June but those that survived eventually thrived. Nothing special, a little fertilizer after transplanting and very infrequent waterings.
This grow is a mix of hellfire weed, cappuccino habanero, cappuccino scotch bonnets, scotch brains, ghost, red ghost/scorpion hybrids and reapers. Total yield is over 5lbs which is the most I’ve ever gotten, they held strong through several 35⁰ nights until I had to pick them clean ahead of a potential frost. Currently fermenting most of them and drying the rest for flakes.
This whole thing has been a passion project since my grandfather passed in 2021. He was a great gardener and took pride in growing things just because he could. He once met a guy in Virginia while on business who told him he couldn’t grow cotton in Rhode Island, so he went home with seeds, proved him wrong and mailed him a box of the cotton a few months later. He also grew cayennes and always had the big bundles of them strung up to dry on their porch. In his last summer with us he helped me get a small grow started and I’ve been trying to build off what he taught me ever since. Hope he’d be proud of this.
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I had to take some nuisance trees down in my yard which resulted in an abundance of sunlight, so I built a pair of metal raised bed kits. The grow was started from seeds (via White Hot Pepper Co) in Feb. I initially had 72 sprouts but a work trip was long enough to dry up and kill all but 18. Only 17 made it to the raised beds after I hardened them off way to quickly in June but those that survived eventually thrived. Nothing special, a little fertilizer after transplanting and very infrequent waterings.
This grow is a mix of hellfire weed, cappuccino habanero, cappuccino scotch bonnets, scotch brains, ghost, red ghost/scorpion hybrids and reapers. Total yield is over 5lbs which is the most I’ve ever gotten, they held strong through several 35⁰ nights until I had to pick them clean ahead of a potential frost. Currently fermenting most of them and drying the rest for flakes.
This whole thing has been a passion project since my grandfather passed in 2021. He was a great gardener and took pride in growing things just because he could. He once met a guy in Virginia while on business who told him he couldn’t grow cotton in Rhode Island, so he went home with seeds, proved him wrong and mailed him a box of the cotton a few months later. He also grew cayennes and always had the big bundles of them strung up to dry on their porch. In his last summer with us he helped me get a small grow started and I’ve been trying to build off what he taught me ever since. Hope he’d be proud of this.