Beekissed
Garden Master
This year was the first time I'd grown any and planted half dozen of them, not knowing what to expect. Can you all tell me what the typical harvest numbers look like per plant? How big a plant usually gets? How thick or thin walled the fruit should be?
I've seen various plants and pepper harvest for this variety on YT and some were regular sized with a small harvest and one was huge with a big harvest. Mine are beyond huge...one plant will fill a 4 x 4 ft space(when lifted up they are around 3 ft tall or better) and they've all fallen over due to the weight of the fruit...and I'm talking easily a hundred peppers per plant. Not sure if that's typical???
If so, and if I plan to grow them again next year, I'll definitely have to do some spacing and staking prior to them getting this big...may even have to trellis them. Didn't know habaneros grew like that...though it could just be a good pepper year? My banana peppers are also above 3 ft tall, massively huge amounts of foliage and bloom(3 sq. ft. of space each...or more) and are trying to produce a bumper crop now, when it's almost too late~thus far I've gotten some but not as many as expected, then boom...peppers everywhere but I doubt they'll get as big as those harvested earlier. I've staked many of them but they are too brittle to try and pick up, especially with all the weight of the peppers on them.
I've seen various plants and pepper harvest for this variety on YT and some were regular sized with a small harvest and one was huge with a big harvest. Mine are beyond huge...one plant will fill a 4 x 4 ft space(when lifted up they are around 3 ft tall or better) and they've all fallen over due to the weight of the fruit...and I'm talking easily a hundred peppers per plant. Not sure if that's typical???
If so, and if I plan to grow them again next year, I'll definitely have to do some spacing and staking prior to them getting this big...may even have to trellis them. Didn't know habaneros grew like that...though it could just be a good pepper year? My banana peppers are also above 3 ft tall, massively huge amounts of foliage and bloom(3 sq. ft. of space each...or more) and are trying to produce a bumper crop now, when it's almost too late~thus far I've gotten some but not as many as expected, then boom...peppers everywhere but I doubt they'll get as big as those harvested earlier. I've staked many of them but they are too brittle to try and pick up, especially with all the weight of the peppers on them.