Cubanelle Sweet Peppers

Our first harvest of the season are the new Cubanelle sweet peppers. It simply didn't take long for these new plants to produce. Our Cubanelle's plants have several more peppers on there way.

 Our sweet heat peppers yielded some nice peppers again this year early.

 Tomato Patch

 Bush Goliath

 Celebrity

Roma

Bonsai Sweet Heat Peppers

The sweet heat peppers in 2nd year certainly are keeping up with their reputation of bearing fruit first! Even if they look like Bonsai pepper plants. Yep, after pruning just 8 weeks ago the peppers are popping out. Our plants at Alejandro are much smaller due to the pruning but these sweet heat peppers are healthy with strong trunks and mature enough to blossom and produce.

It was unintentional to create small Bonsai peppers plants. In our first year we assumed that these plants would grow out again before baring fruit. We learned that these plants are mature enough to bare fruit even with just a few branches. It will be fun to see how these Sweet heats yield this year.  



Peppers Plants 4 Weeks After Pruning

The Season is yearly but we're getting some nice growth out of our second year pepper plants. We are continuing to water once every other day since the weather is still very cool at night. The pictures following show our pepper plants 4 weeks after pruning back old limbs.

The Serrano peppers are really thriving as you can see there growth has really responded the the fertilizer we gave them.

 (Serrano Peppers Above)

The Sweet Heat Peppers (above) are getting an early start was well. They were the first to produce fruit last year and we're hoping for another great year.

The California Wonder (above and below) bell peppers were really a bust yielding just a few peppers. Looks like there getting off to an early start as well and hopeful for a better performance.

The Costa Rican peppers (above and below) are lookin a little shabby but they should make it just fine. This was one of our favorites from last year.

The Mariachi Peppers (above and below) look like they are still in some shock but are coming out of it. Probably our favorite in taste and yield.

We are in the process of adding another row to Alejandro Pepper farm were we'll be planting tomatoes. to make room for our Tangerine Dream peppers we'll be giving away 6 of 8 Serrano pepper tubs. Updates to follow. 



Pruning Back Pepper Plants

The season is over and time to cut back our pepper plants and prepare for our next crop. Pruning back each plant can be a little tricky. Watching for new growth around the trunk and near where branches split off is a great place to start.

 Alejandro Pepper Farm after pruning

 Serrano Pepper Plants after pruning

 Sweet Heat Pepper plants after pruning

 Hot Big Guy Peppers after pruning

 Costa Rican Pepper plant after pruning

 Mariachi Pepper plant after pruning

Serrano Peppers new growth after pruning

In preparing for the colder month's we pruned down each pepper plant and reduced the irrigation down to once every other day. With the irrigation we added plant growth fertilizer to stimulate each plant.

Is this our last Pepper Harvest?

Almost the end of our pepper season. After picking several nice peppers from the Alejandro Farm today, I can tell this will be almost the end. Yep, there aren't any new blossoms on our plants so it's looking like the end of a great season. Harvesting Mariachi, Serrano, Sweet Heat, Hot Big Guy's, and we finally got some California Wonders. We've sure enjoyed our first season of gardening.

Second Harvest at Alejandro Pepper Farm

What a nice second harvest at Alejandro pepper farm. The top left side of basket are Costa Rican peppers, top right side are Serrano peppers, bottom left side are Hot Big Guy peppers, bottom middle are Mariachi peppers, and the bottom right are Sweet Heat peppers.

It's time to make some salsa!

First Pepper Harvest at Alejandro

Our first harvest on September 1st at Alejandro pepper farm was modest but fruitful. We chopped them up for the freezer for a future use.

 Hot Big Guys were a little smaller than expected but very good to the taste.

 The Sweet Heat peppers had a great sweet mild taste. Our pepper plants are producing lots of fruit.

 The Mariachi Peppers are fun because of their orange and yellow colors they produce.

 Serrano Peppers are plentiful!

Costa Rican peppers are large and full of flavor.

Pepper Plants Baring Fruit

It's been a few weeks since our last post and the peppers are really multiplying. It's exciting to see your work start to payoff as we are getting very close to harvesting time for many of these peppers on the Alejandro farm.

Mariachi Peppers

Hot Big Guy Peppers

Sweet Costa Rican Peppers

Sweet Heat Peppers

Serrano Peppers

California Wonder Peppers

 

We added a new shot of fertilizer to the irrigation and moved to a 3 times per day watering as we get closer to harvesting.

Peppers, Peppers, Peppers

Peppers are starting to show signs of explosion, meaning that the yield is picking up the pace. Especially the Sweet Heat Peppers. We are getting a lot of blossoms on all the pepper plants.

The sweet heat peppers are startiing to yield several peppers. The plant is smaller that the others but plentiful in fruit.

The Serrano's are starting to yield several peppers.

Our smallest plants are the Tangerine Dream peppers. We actually have one plant barring fruit.

The Alejandro Pepper farm is really growing fast and are excited as we enter the harvesting season.

First Pepper at Alejandro Farm

Our first pepper at Alejandro Farm, Sweet Heat Pepper. Our pepper plants have expoded with growth these last few weeks. Pictured below is the pepper farm right after a thunderstorm. The got beat up a little but will be fine. The umbrellas we added provided a nice protection. We adjusted our automated irrigation down to twice a day.

First Pepper Blossoms for 2012

Our first pepper blossoms are coming out. Very exciting stuff as these pepper plants settle in their new home at Alejandro Pepper Farm. We gave them a shot of fertilizer and we can see a noticeable difference in their growth rate. Below is the first evidence of a blossom from the burpee sweet heat pepper plant.



Our irrigation system seems to be working out very well with a occasional blow-out on the tube connections. Hey, we've got 50 psi coming through these lines. Guess I'll have to get the zip ties out. Still watering 4 times a day with 2 minutes per cycle.