Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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.
Serrano Pepper plants at Alejandro Farm
The Serrano peppers are really thriving as you can see there growth has really responded the the fertilizer we gave them.
Serrano Pepper plants at Alejandro Farm
 (Serrano Peppers Above)
Sweet Heat Pepper plants at Alejandro Farm
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.
California Wonder Bell Pepper plants at Alejandro Farm
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.
California Wonder Bell Pepper plants at Alejandro Farm

Costa Rican Pepper plants at Alejandro Farm
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.
Costa Rican Pepper plants at Alejandro Farm


Mariachi Pepper plants at Alejandro Farm
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.
Mariachi Pepper plants at Alejandro Farm

Alejandro Pepper Farm

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. 


Saturday, January 19, 2013

Germinating New for 2013

It's time to germinate our additions to Alejandro Pepper Farm. After last seasons flop of growing the Tangerine Dreams and Tomatoes we decided to play bigger for these two plants. We'll be giving away several of our Serrano Peppers plants and making way for these Tangerine Dream. We did however managed to get two Tangerine peppers in our yield from very Anemic plants and their taste waste unique and flavorful. We've germinated 30 seedlings today and are excited to watch grow.
Tangerine Dream Peppers
 We'll be expanding our farm area to accommodate our tomatoes in a separate area.
Tomato Sweet Seedless Hybrid

Germination
Day one of our germination with Tangerine Dreams on the Left and Tomato Seedless Hybrid on the right. Follow me on our 2013 Alejandro pepper farm season.