• Dojan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I struggle so hard with peppers. Jalapeños growing like weeds sounds like a dream.

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      8 months ago

      It might benefit you to know that pepper plants can be kept alive nearly indefinitely if you give them good enough conditions. So if you keep them in a pot, you can trim them and move them inside over cold months (bare stems is fine as long as they don’t dry out), and then in spring they are already super well established and big and start putting out peppers really early.

      I never do well with new pepper plants, but second season they produce like crazy.

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        8 months ago

        Thanks you for the tips, I actually didn’t know they were perennial. That said, I think they just aren’t too fond of the climate here. I’d need a greenhouse (and space outdoors) or a heating mat and a decent sun light. I tried with chilies the other year, and even got a few fruits, but they were small and never ripened. The plant really struggled. To be fair, the plant was an experiment from the get-go. I germinated it from seeds I got in a cheapo chili flake jar from Lidl so I didn’t have huge expectations to begin with.

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      8 months ago

      I live in Norway and one year I planted 10 chili plants. I treated those plants like royalty and in the end I got like maybe 2 chilis per plant lol

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, that echoes my experience here in Sweden. I guess the reason we use so much rotted fish in our cuisine is because we had no other way to introduce stronger flavours. 😭

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      8 months ago

      I will note that when I moved to MD the plant did well but grew like 1 pepper all year. Gave up after that. Heartburn also made it less viable to eat so many. :p

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      8 months ago

      The growing season is so short here, you need to start them inside 2 months before planting them outside if you want them ready before the first frost in sept gets them.

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        8 months ago

        Right now I only have an inside. My balcony gets morning sun, but not for very long. :(