Unknown pepper variety I grew. These branches broke but the peppers still ripened on the branch. Mostly.

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[–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Doesn't look like any I've grown. How hot are they?

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-f6cx4kq/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/152/1133/goats_weed_pepper__39640.1549156870.jpg?c=2

Ugly link, but Goats Weed is a nice little pepper with a similar shape to yours. But your stems aren't fuzzy and the peppers are a little too wrinkled.

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The heat is similar to the higher end of serranos. Not a super hot. The peppers have a fruity flavor. I think I might have just found out what they are, Siling labuyo, because the peppers grow pointing upwards on the plant.

Damn birds keep eating all my peppers.

[–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Red bird's eye chili are commonly mislabeled as siling labuyo in Philippine markets.

That lumpiness was tickling my memory, but didn't click until I read this line.

Can you put a netting over them to keep the birds away? The problem I had this year was these tiny green caterpillar/worms that bored into the peppers, then filled the inside with webbing and 'gunk'. I'm suspecting those white butterflies.

Do you grow other varieties too?

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I had a few serrano plants and a friend on reddit sent me a bunch of seeds for different varieties of super hots, but my apartment had a renovation that cut my patio off from light and my cat, Gizmo, finished off what the lack of light didn't get. This plant we keep outside our front door, but these branches are broken in the pic from bringing it in for freezing weather -- Gizmo again.

This spring I'm going to get a workaround going for my patio, lifting up the plants will hopefully get them enough light and keep them safe from my cat.

I'll look into netting, thanks. The bird thing just started happening. There used to be a lot of strays that kept birds away but they all disappeared.

[–]goobandit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Reflective bird deterrent ribbon worked for me, it’s pretty cheap too. I tied it to a stake in the pot like a little flag but you could even tie it loosely around the plant itself. It can take some getting used to because the light bounces off in all directions but that’s why birds hate it.

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Never heard of that before. Thanks, I'll look into it.

[–]goobandit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Another plus I forgot to mention is that it doesn’t bother the bees

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I made a Gizmo meme. This is the numero uno threat to all my plants.

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What do you grow?

[–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://ibb.co/xC0LrKb

Here are the seeds I sent into the last seed swap. Note those "Asian" seeds in the upper left turned out to be the Goats Weed peppers.

My space is a lot smaller now, so all I have going at the moment are the Goats Weed, Aleppo, and Urfa Biber. In pots in my kitchen due to rare temps in the 30s! They already didn't enjoy the winter, but that would have finished them off. Will put them back outside after this next big storm out in the Pacific hits and passes early next week. Then will get a few more of those going for the summer.

Still growing maybe 5 types of bamboo from a nursery I used to have. Also love the Tree Dahlias. Mine go from 0 to about 20 feet here.

[–]Obbop 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Do you get a buzz if you smoke it?

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They'd be good over a smoker, in a pipe that'd probably be painful.

[–]Vigte 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

So.... how do they taste :D

10/10 would grow again or 1/10 I'd rather put a campfire out with my face?

I wish I had room to plant some things, condo life is garbage.

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They have a fruity flavor like habs but less heat. No regerts, though I mostly pickle or dry my peppers and give a lot away because the wife hates spicy food and she thinks paprika is spicy.

I wish I had room to plant some things, condo life is garbage

I'm having a hard time lately in the apartment. Not enough light, pests, and especially my cat destroys a lot of what I grow. I had 4 serrano pepper plants and 5 others of these peppers that I was growing over a year that cat destroyed in a night. I was pretty upset over that.

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds delicious :D Making me want spicy stuff now...

but oh Lord, cats like nature so much they think the plants are there for them. Mine used to wreck them all too.

I feel you dude, apartments/condos are basically stage 1 of the coming "podlife" "small home" "smart city" stuff. No light, tiny space - but hey, at least the bugs will be useful protein in the future!! Maybe we could farm the bugs and sell them to chain-restaurants... hmmm

[–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They actually make 2' x 2' grow tents now.

https://growershouse.com/2-x-2-grow-room-100w-4k-hlg-led-hydroflood-complete-grow-tent-package

This is one I looked at, but didn't buy. If you really have no place outside for even just pots, a small grow tent like this might be an alternative. The more you look, though, the more options in sizes, type of lights, efficiency, and equipment you'll find.

Marijuana is obviously the most cost effective plant to grow, but hot peppers you can't buy in stores grow just as well in these.

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hot peppers you can't buy in stores

That's why I grew serranos. You can buy them, but you can rarely buy them ripe. They're a lot better red than green.

Marijuana is obviously the most cost effective plant to grow

Maybe one day we can legally grow in Texas. I'd even be happy with hemp, get that cbd, it's just an easy plant to grow.

[–]PeterBuilt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

off topic a bit, but i thought you might enjoy this.. i watched a video recently that showed how you can just cut off the white-ish bulb of a green onion and put it into a glass of water and it will grow another green onion...

btw, in this video it shows him cutting off about four or five inches of the white-ish part of the "bulb", but in the other video that i watched they only put less than two inches of the bulb into the water and you get to grow more fresh onions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrOJ95O7JHg

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I just planted a couple green onions at my parents from leftover ones I bought. Water works, but without nutrients some people think the results are less tasty.