January 19, 2018 | #121 |
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Dude your always helping me out! At least let me SASE this time, and if you need anything from my trade list plz let me know.
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January 19, 2018 | #122 |
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I'm planning on devoting most of my garden to peppers this year, instead of tomatoes. My market is very competitive, but I think there is a niche for "heirloom peppers." No one else is doing that, because everyone orders from catalogs, which are almost always hybrid varieties. My family was the first one with the Johnny's lunch box peppers, and then the year after that everyone had them, and they thus became much harder to sell.
One would think that other vendors would just buy a box of my heirloom peppers or tomatoes and save the seeds, but no one does that. I am guilty of it myself, but I just saved the seeds and did not start them. I honestly did that out of spite because I was mad at the other vendor for being snarky and rude when I asked her what varieties of "heirloom tomatoes" she was selling. She wouldn't answer the question, so I just bought one. As soon as my wallet came out, she was all smiles, and I was thinking 'lady, you have no idea about my intentions with this tomato.' |
January 19, 2018 | #123 |
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Not sure if you've tried the variety 'King of the North' but I've been very pleased with it in southern Wisconsin. It might fit into your heirloom pepper plan.
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January 19, 2018 | #124 |
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Neat, thanks. I'm sure I will put in a Baker Creek order at some point. I see they carry it.
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January 19, 2018 | #125 |
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I'm growing a lot of Japanese varieties this year (peppers and tomatoes). Not sure
how marketable it's going be though. They have bred some nice tomatoes OP and hybrid. |
January 19, 2018 | #126 |
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January 19, 2018 | #127 |
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Last year I finally got a decent yield from King of the North, not writing any praise and glory for it due to past performance ... I am keeping it for this year (2018). Really hope to find something else much better though.
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January 19, 2018 | #128 |
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I never got great bell pepper yield in ground here, KON or others. Since I’ve moved my peppers to buckets I get tremendous production. My parents get 2-3 KON peppers from me each year but their garden is along the south wall of a white house they are in ground and have great results. This makes me wonder about soil temp and potentially too cool is bad for peppers.
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January 20, 2018 | #131 |
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I've also noticed peppers seem to prefer pots. My 7 pot primo performed remarkably last year considering I neglected it pretty badly and forgot to water several times.
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January 20, 2018 | #132 |
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Wonder if there is a pH element to it? Peppers can be a finicky bunch.
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January 20, 2018 | #133 |
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Oh and Cole, I have seeds if you want to use your purchase $$ on others.
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