Well, it’s been a month since we posted any pictures of our peppers…save for the ones that were afflicted with a little blossom end rot and have since been disposed of from our plants. Pictured above is the voluminous production of our Cayenne plants, and both plants are producing the same amount of peppers. Very long and still very green, these ones have a few weeks to go before they are ripe enough to harvest for our use. The tough part, believe it or not, is dealing with Joe’s red-green colorblindness and him wanting to pick some of those peppers when they’re still green.

Oh, are we gonna have us some serious Jamaican hot peppers to use this year. While most of them are still green, one or two are turning brown-ish and could be ready to be picked any day now. Judging by the amount of flowers yet on both plants, there will be no shortage of these peppers either. Love those chinense peppers!

Sitting out in the yard away from the house, the Lemon Drop peppers keep on truckin’ with their growth. Interestingly, these plants are not only producing a fair amount of peppers (all still green now), but are huge vegetative plants as well. These peppers would never suffer from sunscald because there is simply so much in the way of leaves and foliage that these peppers are very well protected from the elements.

After culling the blossom end-rot peppers, the Sandias just keep on producing all the same. Within 3 days of the cull, these plants have at least a half-dozen peppers nearly ripe enough for harvesting. To prevent further trouble, I think we’ll pluck these from the plants as soon as each is ready rather than wait until we can get most of them at once. These peppers look like they’ll be ripening all through the season.

While the Rocotos have no peppers yet, they are flowering quite extensively right now. These are the only pepper plants we’ve ever grown that have grown these purplish flowers on them! We will be excited the first time we see that one of those flowers is actually a pepper that’s growing. Funny that the smaller plant is the one making the most flowers right now.

Last but not least is the Bhut Jolokia plants. Maybe these guys don’t like being separated from the others, but they are far and away the slowest growing of the peppers we have. With a scarce amount of flowers, we keep hoping these will kick it into gear sometime soon. These Bhut Jolokia plants have certainly needed the most babying this season, so we hope they continue their growth towards fruiting.

Next update in about a month. Stay tuned!

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