Slightly off topic (growing jap.s)

[motoeric]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone in the northeast has had any success in growing jalepeno's in home gardens. Any luck? Any advice?

And to tie it all up and stay somewhat on topic, I want to use them for ABT's.

Thanks,

Eric

 

[Smokin Gator]

My inlaws grow them in Brevard NC. Pretty high elevation and short growing season, but they do really well. I swear their yields are better than mine!!

 

[Pyle's BBQ]

I am not in the NE but I did grow some here in Iowa. I got started plants. If you have good soil to put them in you don't need much fertilizer, I used a time release type of fertilizer just to make sure they got a good start. Are you going to use containers or are they going into the yard? My plants were watered with all the other plants on a regular basis. I did four plants(3 jalepeno and 1 pablano) and harvested about 2 dozen jalepenos and I don't remember how many poblanos. Just be sure you have a use for them if you do a lot of plants.

Good luck

 

[Bill-Chicago]

Mark is one of the pepper people here. He starts them inside, because of the short season:

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10363&highlight=pepper+seeds+pots

Edit:

Crap, that wasnt the link I was looking for. He has an in depth write up somewhere. Let me look again

Here some more:

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6896&highlight=grow+peppers

and a good search results::
http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/search.php?searchid=233807

 

[backyardchef]

Try this one
http://www.bbq-brethren.com//forum/showthread.php?t=7429&highlight=Starting+plants

 

[Hoorenga]

I have been trying to grow them in the Pacific North West with little luck. What I hear is because they are a tropical plant they like the soil to be above 60 degrees. If the temperature drops much below that they will survive but they never recover completely from the dip in temperature and consequently even if the rest of the season is good they won't do as well as they might have. A greenhouse would probably help a lot.

Hoo

 

[swamprb]

I'm in the Pacific Northwest so I usually get seeds from Territorial out of Oregon or starts from local Farmers Markets, I have grown them in raised beds with good yields, but mainly I dried them or used in salsas. I have some catalogs from the 2005 season and one outfit you might want to check out in the NE is Peeper Joe's Inc. in MD. www.pepperjoe.com

Some other interesting peppers from Terra Time & Tide in Jacksonville FL
www.pepperhot.com

The Redwood City Seed Company also a good source. NoCal
www.ecoseeds.com

Hope this helps!
Brian

 

[Kirk]

They grow great here if I could keep the dang squirrels from eating them.

 

[sfisch]

I've been growing them here in Michigan for about 4 years. Never been a problem yet.

 

[motoeric]

Thanks! I appreciate the help. Long Island has sandy soil, which should be good, but I'm a little concerned about the amount of rain.

Eric

 

[Sledneck]

plant it next to my palm tree