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Red Fire Peppers with Failed Purple Super Hot Pod

Grow log by nick · Original thread

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CropPepper
VarietyRed Fire, Purple Super Hot
MethodAeroGarden hydroponics
EquipmentAeroGarden Farm+
Plants2
AudienceBeginners

What you can learnA useful mixed-result diary contrasting a productive but messy pepper with a complete pod-germination failure.

Actions:1 Pruning
Useful practices
  • requesting replacement pods after repeated germination failure
  • repeated heavy pruning
  • evaluating maintenance burden as part of cultivar selection
Problems encountered
  • complete Purple Super Hot germination failure
  • dense bushy growth
  • heavy pollen and flower drop
  • high maintenance

*The days were calculated automatically and approximately.

Day 102
UPDATE#4
Grower update

Update #4

Actions taken

PruningTrimmed the dense Red Fire plants back many times.

N By nick

Well these things turned into BUSHES. I’ve trimmed them back so much and so many times. It was hard to even get my hands in there sometimes. Right now lots of purple peppers have shown themselves. I assume they’ll eventually be red. Plants are on the right in this photo:
Conversation
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Shawn

Yes they will. I had a few in the beginning when I first started that actually looked back before turning red.

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nick

I terminated these months ago because I found them FAR too messy to keep up with. They were dense and produced a ton of pollen. Happy plants for sure, but I must have cleaned up thousands of flowers. Also they just weren't tasty.

Day 35
UPDATE#3
Grower update

Update #3

N By nick

It’s funny to me how two plants planted on the same day can vary so much, but they both seem happy. A shot from two weeks ago:And another from today:
Conversation
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Shawn

LOL I found the same thing with my Sweet Garden.

D
drbanks

When I grew these, they were slow in blossoming, but once they FINALLY got started, the plant was covered in fruit right up until the day I terminated it. I thought these things would set some fruit and be done, but they never slowed down.I spent a fair amount of time chasing down the specific breed: Numex Twilight. Mostly an ornamental (and they are pretty indeed), but they're also plenty hot.

Day 9
UPDATE#2
Grower update

Update #2

N By nick

These peppers are much slower than their neighbors but they’re growing. On a related note: After reporting that the Purple Super Hots from this AG chili kit didn’t sprout, AG is shipping replacements. I doubt I’ll put them in with these by the time they get here but maybe.
Day 1
UPDATE#1
Grower update

Update #1

N By nick

As expected the Purple Super Hots did not sprout. That’s 0/4 successes with those pods. Will write AG customer support about them. Meanwhile the Red Fire pods are on their way. One is slowly raising its head, but it’s moving.
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