Harvest - Reimer Sweet Heat Pepper - 08/21/18

[Shawn]

The plants looks good~

lots of promising buds..great project

[nick]

Wow! Impressive!

[MaryL]

Ohmygosh it’s grown so much!  Your buds are about to pop!  

[Kate]

Buckets of buds getting ready to open. I can't believe how many there are on this little plant! It's literally COVERED with buds.

[Shawn]

Yes, the Sweets are a dense plant with tons of leaves, buds and soon to be peppers

[MaryL]

Looks like you’re in for some fun!

[Kate]

I'm excited to see them. They're such a pretty pepper, and the plant, so far, is really lovely.

When I end my tomato plants, I have several pepper seeds I want to try. I have at least one that has purple or blue flowers, and purple or blue peppers. Sounds beautiful!

Pretty Purple Hot Peppers
90 days. Capsicum annuum. Open Pollinated. Plant produces good yields of purple hot peppers. Peppers are extremely hot and turn from green, to purple, to red when mature. Plant has purple leaves, purple stems, and purple flowers. 18 inches tall

and this one that looks like it "might" work in a Harvest...

Filius Blue Hot Peppers
90 days. Capsicum annuum. Open Pollinated. Small compact plant produces good yields of 2 ½" long by 1" wide hot peppers. Peppers turn from purple to red when mature. Plant has green stems, violet tinged green leaves, and blue flowers. 12 inches tall

I have a couple more that stay very small, under 12 inches. The rest are about 24 inches. If anyone has an idea of another pepper or suitable companion for the Pretty Purple that stays between 18-20 inches, please let me know. I'm trying to always plant companions that are about the same size when mature, so nobody is cheated on light and wants to get leggy.

[MaryL]

I can’t wait to see the purple!  Love purple. It was our school color. (All girls)

[Kate]

Hiding in the uber-dense foliage and buds I found about 6 of these, in addition to several more fully opening!

[MaryL]

Yaaaaay!!!  Beautiful, Kate!

[Shawn]

Yes, these peppers hide well.

[Kate]

It's covered with open flowers that have baby peppers, now. It's definitely very efficient at self-pollination, as before I even get to the flowers to pollinate, within 24 hours a pepper has started to form. It's far and away faster than the Tequila Sunrise. I'm almost worried how prolific it is. How can this little, bushy plant bang out so much fruit so fast, and maintain it's lush foliage? There's not one leaf that looks anything but deep green and perfect. I keep waiting for issues, but so far it's super happy and really beautiful. Fun project, for sure.

[Kate]

Okay, so I guess I need to start hacking the top off?
My house is cool, too. We keep it about 67 degrees. You’d think it would be smaller, not bigger.

[Shawn]

It seems like Cheddas is also tall and a different vendor.  His thread is in the pepper board.

[Kate]

I wonder if it will keep growing. Most of the flowers and baby peppers are below the top of the canopy, but I worry now that it needs to be topped.

[Shawn]

I would hold off.  If it does not grow more just cut off some of the top leaves.  

[Kate]

Well, it’s certainly healthy with an insane number of flowers and baby peppers, and has super dense foliage. Most of you live where it’s been pretty warm, I think. We’ve had a lovely fall, but it’s cooled down quite a bit. Not as cold as the northern Lower48 has been, though. Anyway, since we keep the house relatively cool, you’d think it would be smaller, not taller.

[Shawn]

You can thin out some of the older leaves to give it some breathing room if you want.

[Kate]

I'm more concerned with the height.