What Peppers and Tomatoes are you Starting for 2012?

Glyphosate: A review of its health and environmental effects

http://www.ofa.org.au/papers/glyphosatereview.htm

HoneybeeNC - Would you post that same link under a seperate thread for Glyphosate? Thanks!

Dave - that pepper sounds nice. Let me know how it grows this summer.

Hot peppers already producing:

Hungarian Yellow
Big Jim
Poblano
Orange Habanero
Takanotsume

hot peppers from seed:

Cubanelle
Uba Tuba
Cajamarca
Aji Limon
Datil
Mulato
Chiltepin
Takanotsume
Costeno Amarillo

Sweet peppers from seed:

Green Bell
Sweet Banana
Pimente de Espelette
Mixed Bells
Shishito

Tomatoes:

Black Krim
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Mortgage Lifter
Sweet 100
Roma
Cherokee Purple

For all you chile heads, New Mexico State University's Chile Institute sells packets of seeds, most @ $4 and has lots of different varieties available, including most of the ones I listed above.

planted all my seeds this past weekend 1 flat of 72 and 1 flat of 38. My first time starting the spring garden from seed so if all of these survive I will have to give away lots! lol

Tomatoes:
Celebrity
Juliet
Brandywine
Roma
San Marzano

Peppers:
Jalapeno
Scotch Bonnet
Chocolate Habanero
Big Bertha Bell
Tabasco
Cubanelle
California Wonder Bell
Mexibell
Orange Bell
Yellow Bell
NuMex Big Jim
Ancho
Serrano

Here are the peppers I've got up from seed so far this spring:

Aji Dulce Amarillo
Anaheim, Sahuaro Hybrid
Ancho, Giganta
Ancho, Ranchero F1
Ancho, Tiburon F1
Bhut (Bih) Jolokia Improved Strain II
Blushing Beauty Hybrid
Cacho Negro
Canario
Cantina
Chimayo
Chocolate Bhut Jolokia
Corno di Toro Giallo
Criolla Sella
Cubanelle, Key West X3R Hybrid
Dulce Italiano
Early Sunsation Hybrid
Fish Heirloom
Goccia d'Oro
Guyana PI 199506
Italian Gourmet
Jalapeño Ixtapa Hybrid
Lemon Drop
Manabi Sweet
Marconi Rosso
Mirasol
Mucho Nacho Hybrid (Jalapeño)
Naga Morich
NuMex Suave Orange
Orange Bhut (Bih) Jolokia
Orion Hybrid
Pasilla Bajio
Pasilla, Holy Mole Hybrid
PI 439416
Pinocchio Hybrid (Cayenne)
Purrira
Red Knight X3R Hybrid
Revolution Hybrid
Robertos Coban Seasoning
Rocoto Manzano Amarillo
Rocoto Red
Rosso Dolce Appendere
Short Yellow Tabasco
Socrates X3R
Tabasco
Tepin (Bird Pepper)
Tobago Seasoning
Trinidad Scorpion
Vicentes Sweet Habanero
Wilde Grove

All seeds were started in flats over a heating pad set to 80F

Of the peppers you all have listed. What is your favorite hot & mild peppers? What makes them your favorite?

frogymon - Thanks for the info on the NMU Chili Institute. They have an interesting assortment of peppers, cookbooks, and accessories. Esp like the chili pepper shaped flash drive.

In case anyone else is interested, here's the link for the New Mexico State University's Chile Institute http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/files/tiny_mce/file_manager/2012Catalog.pdf

rjogden ~ What do you use for a starting medium for your peppers? I read on a website that orchid mix is a good one.

Evelyn

I guess I should never say never, 'cause look what I got 3 of today from BigLots! After my TopsyTurvyTomato fiasco last year, I swore off- but these were just $1 each! I don't plan to put peppers in them, but probably strawberries. Each has 7 openings for plants.

I'm waaaaaaaaaaay late with this reply, but, regarding using the clear plastic cups, I made an interesting observation last January when I potted up over 200 tomato seedlings. I usually pot up to 16 oz. RED Plastic Solo cups, which I did, until I ran out of my supply. But, I had a whole package of CLEAR Plastic 12 oz. cups, so, hey, it is what it is. Then I noticed something interesting....

All the plants on my fluorescent light stand that were planted in the CLEAR plastic cups were greening up, and growing at a much faster rate than those in the RED plastic cups. And, I could see a much more developed root system in the clear plastic cups. All the growing conditions were the same for the entire group. Only variable was the cups.

Then, I began to wonder if it was because there was actually more LIGHT available to the seedlings in the clear plastic cups, on all sides of the cup. The seedlings in the RED cups only received the light that was shining down directly from overhead. No light could penetrate from the sides.

I don't know if the light made the difference, but there was definitely a difference...

Linda

wow rjo. that is a lot of different peppers. You must really love Peppers.

No one sells Fafard around here except for the Co-Op. It is hard to find. I use my colander to sift the big stuff out for seedling soil and add a little vermiculite which is also hard to find except at the Co-Op

My turvys arrived and my strawberries arrived. I potted up 27 strawberry turvys. Crossing my fingers.

The snow peas are always in my way when spring arrives so this year I put the snow peas in the top side of the tomato topsy turvys. When they are done, I will put cucumbers in the turvys. I don't know how it will work out but it always worked out in 4 gallon pots that needed hangers. Crossing my fingers on these too.

I had one cherry tomato plant that was tall enough to transplant into the TOP of a topsy turvy. I cut that center section out of the lid of the topsy turvy so the plant would have plenty of room to expand its stalk as it grows.
I planted ONE big beef tomato upside down in a turvy. I need my own opinion of how it turns out. I did it by myself. I tried placing the tomato plant as deep inside the turvy as I could and it was difficult. I had to lay the turvy on its side to stuff the soil around the stalk. Then I sat the tuvry up right in a spot so the tomato tip was straddled between two objects so it wouldn't break as i filled the turvy and packed the soil.

I am transplanting peppers and eggplants today. They will later be grown in 5 gallon pots. Today they get transplanted from 3 inch pot into 6 inch pots.

I will also be sowing squash, cucumbers and more tomato seeds today.

Happy Gardening

Peppers and eggplants were started two weeks ago. Tomatoes were started last weekend.

CRicket, can you post photos of your planted Turvys? I found some for $1 at BigLots- the box says they are for Hot Peppers- each has 7 openings. I plan to put strawberries in them.

On February 17th I sowed the following seeds:

Pepper Ancho (trade) Hazzards seeds 2010
Pepper Anaheim trade 2010
Pepper Golden Bell Pinetree Seeds 2003
Pepper Gypsy hybrid Pinetree Seeds 2003
Pepper Sweet Banana Trade 2011

Eggplant Rosa Bianca Trade 2011
Eggplant Fairytale Gurneys 2011
Egglplant Long Purple Trade 2011

Tomatillo Giant Yellow Trade 2011
Tomatillo Purple Pinetree Seeds 2010
Tomatillo ? Trade 2010

And the following tomatoes:

Caro Rich Totally Tomatoes 2010
4th of July Burpee 2009
Early Wonder Tomato Garden Supply 2009
Mortgage Lifter Tomato Garden Supply 2010
Pink Ponderosa trade 2010
Fireball Bentley Seed 1999
Kellogg's Breakfast Park Seed 2010
Yellow Brandywine Platfoot trade 2010
Bull's Heart Trade 2010
Marianna's Peace Trade 2010
Golden Jubilee Ferry Morse 2010
Principe Borghese Pinetree Seeds 2010
San Marzano Lampadina 2010

I have a pepper turvy too. The strawberry and tomato turvys are twice that size.
I have no plans of putting peppers in the pepper turvy. It was a gift and I have no idea what to grow in it.
It only holds about 3 gallons of soil which is a gallon more than a regular 10 inch hanging basket.
undecided what to plant in it.

Those are some awesome planters- I hope they produce well for you. Will you sell the planters when they get filled out, or will you just sell the berries?

Just the berries. I will move them out of the greenhouse before the customers show up.
I have strawberry plants that will be for sale in 4 inch cups.
I am excited about these strawberry plants. They are Quinault , day neutral everbearing and self pollinating that produce up the 2 inch wide berries as they get older and more established. I hope the turvys work too. Meanwhile, I will be building some table top gardens for the runners that I get off the plants. I have not figured out how I am going to root hanging runners yet.

Try baggies or cling wrap with soil tied on by either rubber bands or twist ties.

Thank you Susan. Of all the ideas I have seen on the net, I haven't seen cling wrap and I like that idea more than others. Plus, I can see when it has rooted and safe to cut from the mother plant.

I've used baggies to start cuttings on shrubs. Seems like it or cling wrap should work on strawberries. You might want to think about the type of soil or mix would work best inside the cling wrap.

"...You might want to think about the type of soil or mix would work best inside the cling wrap."

Two words: Roots Organics........... ;-)

Here is my airplane/spider plant with about a dozen babies rooting- I used plastic sandwich bags with a little potting mix and a rubber band. They are rooting nicely.

so cool !

About half of the babies have rooted and are ready to have the umbilical cords cut and get potted up.

I use to raise those airplane plants. I waited til they got a little root nub and potted them up. I use to sell them on Ebay.
They were so easy .

By the time my strawberry plants have runners big enough to root, they will be hanging in a greenhouse structure covered with 30 % shade cloth for the summer.( no plastic) I will most likely use a mixture of rabbit manure compost and promix to root them.


The darn mice are eating my pepper seeds. I had to hunt down my tray Domes and cover them up tonight. I don't know how many seed they ate. Will lhave to resow a few varieties. California Wonder bell and Cayenne and my Sage too.
stinking little varmints. I covered my tomato seedlings too. I have seen mice eat the tops of my tomatoes before too.
Makes me think about the movie- The Green Mile. dunno why. has nothing to do with each other , Other than a darn mouse.

The domes over my pepper seed trays did not work........stinking mouse got in anyway and helped itself to dinner.

Tomatoes up are Black Truffle, Abraham Lincoln, Caspian Pink, Tumbling Tom yellow (for HB), Tomatoberry Hyb, Agro Hyb, Caro Rich, Roma
Peppers: Carnival Mix Bells, Giant Jalapenos, Tabasco, Bhut Jolkia, Cayenne, Pimento

This is just a start, a few of my tomatoes will phase out and I am doing a second planting if some other types just haven't deciede what they will be yet :O)

What we're starting from seeds:
Peppers: Roumanian Rainbow

Tomatoes: Brandywine (Sudduth's)
Black Cherry
Box Car Willie
Juliet
Kellog's Breakfast
Opalka

We'll also pick up a couple different types of pepper plants from a local organic place to try out. We do that sometime when we want something new but are not sure what.

Cricket - Sounds like you need a couple of cats. Are your plants on tables or on the ground?

my seed trays are on Pallet tables.
Put out some mouse traps. Got one.
I have one cat. She does a good job but she sleeps in the house during the night and that is when my seeds get eaten.
Seedling Greenhouse

Cricket, You made me and my sweetheart smile. Our Savana got ill and no matter what we did, could not help her. She got feline peritinitis. She left us last October. She was my husbands guardian and he still tears up when he thinks about her. I had an 8x10 picture made of her and put it with our family photos.
Thanks, Marie

Sorry, didn't mean to steel the thread, but had to post this

This message was edited Feb 25, 2012 7:41 PM

AWw. I am sorry to hear that Marie. So sad when our dear beloved pets pass away.
I had a cat for 12 years. Sadly, the one thing that killed her was my granddaughter chased her until she had a heart attack. Cats build up blood clots in their hind legs. It gets worse as they age. Continuous activity will give them a heart attack. No, I did not let her chase the cat but her mother did. She is resting under the Magnolia Tree.
I got BB just before Sheba died. BB is my Greenhouse Cat. She goes where ever I go. Sometimes while I am sitting there transplanting seedlings, she brings me a dead mouse and lays it at my feet.......startles me. ekkk. Today, she brought me a squirrel.

All my maters are up except the Agro Hybrid from Parks

at our nursery in our greenhouses we had to resort to putting 2 X 4 pieces in between our trays on the benches, as well as weighting down the tops. Kept them out long enough for us to get them planted and moved out of our greenhouses. As for doing trays of cukes and squashes, we just had to stack em until they germinated, and then put baited mouse traps all over, they finally were under control with little loss.

If you are on tables then one other option might be to put tin around the legs of the tables so they can't climb up them.

tin is a good idea. I guess they would slip and slide. Wonder how far a mouse can jump.


I transplanted my Big Bertha Bells, Super Heavyweight Bells, and Black Beauty Eggplants today into 10 inch pots.
I hope they don't get root bound before I can transplant into the raised beds which will be sometime during the first two weeks of April. They are about 8 weeks old now. They were slow to get growing because they didn't have very many heat hours. The electric heated wasn't working for about 5 days - guessing- when i noticed they weren't growing much... Was lucky we didn't have a freeze during those days. It's warming up now and this greenhouse will stay at 55 at night or above.

This message was edited Feb 27, 2012 3:31 PM