I have a dedicated tent for peppers, I have 7 pot douglah, 3 reapers, a scotch bonnet , jalapeño, red Chillies and a banana pepper plant. Also I’m trying to save a chocolate habenero. It’s had a rough start. I started everything from seed.
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I’ve never tried digging one up, but I’ve brought them in in 5 gallon buckets. Ms Horse put the kibosh on that, lol! I’ve taken clones, too… and they rooted!
The past few years seem to have been hard on folks supplying pepper plants around here. Not sure why, but unless you like Jalpenos (which I don’t), it’s been hard to find what we want early in the season.
I’m not jinxing myself about damping off luck!
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Uhh oh.
We’ll be seeing Reaper Cookies OG pretty soon…
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For the standard varieties, and now the Carolina reapers, I get starts from stores/garden centers. But I want to have many different colors, I ordered through Texas hot peppers but haven’t grown any yet. Really looking forward to growing scotch bonnets and KS lemon starburst.
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that color! I want it in a filled doughnut with chocolate icing 
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you should try this, if you haven’t. https://www.amazon.com/Marie-Sharps-Fiery-Sauce-Pack/dp/B00FZ6GO04/ref=sr_1_11?crid=1NJ2EO2H86U7P&keywords=marie+sharps+hot+sauce&qid=1640722465&sprefix=marie+sharp%2Caps%2C115&sr=8-11
cinnamon stick would be good in there too. spike some hot cocoa with it!
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oooo…figs! I’m so jealous. I wish I could grow a fig here. killed 4 saplings so far. havent had a decent fig in almost 30 years.
Thanks BTG. Based on your experience, I may try to smoke some prior to fermentation, as well. Sounds like a good idea.
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I use Cardamom in my red cabbage Sauerkraut and it comes out delicious!!!
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@WubbaLubbaDubDub you got burnt my friend!!! (Well, not yet!) lol!! “Careful with that ax Eugene!” as @BigMike55 would say!!!
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I live in Central Illinois and we get snow and zero below zero temps and fig trees still can thrive here…we had a bumper crop this year…I also have citrus trees and pineapples…
Heres a fig cutting that I had in my cloner…
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Oh Gosh!! The mothers!! 
@PhilCuisine you’re giving me ideas!! My cloner will be a multitask unit!!! lol!
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Oh man, lucky you. Your pictures are making my mouth water and I just burned one down. I’m Ohio, up by the lake. Snow belt. Twice I ordered seedlings a year ahead. Supposed to be for my zone. Didn’t last the winter. I’m planning on a small greenhouse when the budget allows. I’ll try again.
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Figs trees will thrive in your neck of the woods bromigo…all you have to do is winterize them…my 2 fig trees were pruned, covered in straws and I put tarp over them for the winter…just took this picture now and it was snowing earlier today.
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They either really love you, or are trying to kill you!
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@WubbaLubbaDubDub, Second that!! Right on!! Watch out for option #2! It ain’t called a Reaper for no reason!!!
A tiny piece of it at lunchtime, may mean ecstasy or agony, dosing the difference between medicine and poison!! 
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I did prune. did just straw one year then straw and tarp the next. but that winter was bitter. this xmas was 61F for frak’s sake. screw it I’m gonna look for seedlings.
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