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Chilli Pepper Bonanza


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I'm growing loads of hot chillies and sweet peppers again this year here at 51N. It has become a bit of an obsession for me, to the point that I may have to declare my yard a 'chilli farm'. On a serious note, I may actually go into business, making hot sauces from home grown chillies, as well as releasing and selling some of my cross breeds in seed form. It's just a pipe dream at present though.

This summer has been pretty warm and pretty dry. My last rainfall was 3 weeks ago here and it has been very sunny of late. We are leaning more and more towards a warm-summer Mediterranean climate in southeast England these days; with cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers. At times it has been very hot and very dry. The peppers have been thriving here.

Things are due to change here this week though as autumn/fall finally arrives in force (with some much needed rain), so I thought I better get a bunch of pictures up. We're still about a 4-5 weeks away from the first frost though, hopefully...

English Mammoth AKA 'Goliath' (my own cross breed)

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Aconagua

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Agora or Titan (not sure as I may have mixed up seeds)...?

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Lipstick

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Semorah

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Green Mutant

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Sweet Chocolate

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Kaibi Round (tasty bell pepper, but also prone to mould on the stems for some reason?)

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Purple Beauty

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Lemon Drizzle (my own cross breed)...

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Snack Peppers (orange and red)

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Orange Snack Pepper, which may be the tastiest pepper I have this season... :drool:

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Raptor Claw (breeding project)

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Buena Mulata (one of my favourite)...

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These will go red eventually, but they stay purple for ages and can be picked when purple, before they eventually turn pink, then orange, then to red :)

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Trinidad Perfume (one of my favourite)

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Apache

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This guy is on rodent duty. I have serious problems with rats/mice here. 

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Padron's are extremely productive and get both pretty big and pretty hot if you don't take them early...

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Flamethrower (one of my cross breeds)

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Cheyenne is a spicy girl...

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Rex Tooth (my own cross breed). 

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Serrano

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Jalapeno Early

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Purple Tiger

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Basket of Fire

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Poblano

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Pimenta De Neyde

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Bolivian Rainbow (tiny, tiny plants, but pretty hot peppers)

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Paper Lantern

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That's enough for now. And that is just the sweet, mild and medium heat peppers, and it's not even all of them. I think the super hots (Jolokia's, 7 pots, Reapers, Scorpions, etc) will need a separate post entirely on here. I've got all 10 of the hottest chilli's in the world maturing back here, although they are always slower to grow and take longer to mature for me. Although quite a few are ready now though. I'll probably post them up in the coming days. 

I'm also interested to know whether anyone has any rare or heirloom chilli/pepper seeds on their side that I could maybe grow out next year? I'm looking for interesting lines to work with as I have been engaging in some breeding operations here over the past two years. I am currently working on the biggest possible pepper and the craziest, most uniquely coloured pepper... :lol2:

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Average annual precipitation - 18.7 inches : Average annual sunshine hours - 1725

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That's a nice collection indeed!  You have enough to eat peppers with every meal - you really should go into business!  My collection consists of orange bell pepper and Carolina Reaper.

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2 hours ago, Fusca said:

That's a nice collection indeed!  You have enough to eat peppers with every meal - you really should go into business!  My collection consists of orange bell pepper and Carolina Reaper.

I've got some orange bell peppers this year, although they're not great. The plants are on the small side, as are the peppers. They taste real good though. I might look for a different orange bell pepper next season though. I couldn't get seeds for my usual type this year.

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I've got lots of these white bell peppers as well...

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Here's what I picked this evening. They were stuffed with rice and served for dinner. The family loved them. 

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We had our first rainfall in over 3 weeks here today, however I went outside this evening to find more snapped branches, either from the wind or the weight of water on them. Both things probably contributed to it and the amount of snapped branches are really mounting up now. What you can see here is about 10% of the amount I have had snapped in recent weeks. I clearly need to do a better job at staking the plants next season.

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19 minutes ago, UK_Palms said:

I've got some orange bell peppers this year, although they're not great. The plants are on the small side, as are the peppers.

Mine are about the same size.  So far I've only harvested one but there are many more on the way.  The plant is massive but the fruit is relatively small.  No ripe hot peppers yet here but I got a late start on all of them.  I don't think I started the seeds until mid-May.  First time for me growing the Carolina Reaper variety!  Thanks to @jimmyt who supplied the seeds!

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I am challenged getting my peppers past the seedling stage. I don't know if it's birds or insectoids, but few make it past. 

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That's a rainbow of beautiful peppers!

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Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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  • 5 months later...

A few more pictures of last season's colossal harvest...

These are the late season peppers, which came down in October-November, so they don't look as great as the earlier August-September ones...

Corno Di Toro

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Yellow Monster

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Kaibi Round

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Dulce De Espana AKA 'Spanish Mammoth'

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I'm forever picking these things off my plants here...

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Shishito

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Zimbabwe Black

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'Galician' Padron

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Padrons and Jalapeno's

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Peach Scorpion

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'Early' Jalapeno's

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Buena Mulata's and Apache in late October...

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Serrano doing what it does best...

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The Paper Lantern is an excellent producer here

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The Douglah is probably the second hottest official pepper after Carolina Reaper, and since my Reapers did so poorly again this season, here is the next best thing...

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Gunsmoke

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Some late plant out peppers...

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Trinidad Perfume

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I was harvesting peppers aplenty well into November last year as the first frost didn't come until 10th November. 

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My very last harvest was some Scotch Bonnets which hung on until early December, despite losing most of its leaves in the cooler temperatures. You can see the empty raised pepper bed in the top right of the background, which had been stripped out a few weeks earlier. The plant labels are still sticking out. 

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Onto this coming season, most of my 2021 peppers have now germinated and are being planted up tomorrow. I'm hoping to have them all above soil by this time next week, although I can't plant them outside here until early May at the soonest. I don't want to risk a late spring frost getting them, although typically my last frost is around mid April here. 

I'll update again soon. Lots of interesting new varieties for this coming season. 

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5 hours ago, dalmatiansoap said:

Beautiful collection! Do you have any extra seeds for sale of bell varieties?

Hi Ante, unfortunately I have now germinated all of my seed stock pretty much. I have about 15 different bell pepper varieties in total and they have all been germinated now. I'm just waiting for them to sprout up above the soil in the coming days. I will provide an update on them in this thread. 

Funny enough, I am unable to get hold of the 'Yellow Monster' bell variety this year, which is only available in Croatia, where you are. I usually grow Yellow Monster every year here, but I cannot get it in the UK this year, for some reason, and it seems that Croatia is the only place in Europe. I have therefore substituted 'Golden Cal Wonder' in its place. I would like to do the two varieties side by side though, to see which yellow bell pepper is best. I have also been unable to get hold of the 'Lipstick' variety of sweet pepper this year. So that's two of my usuals off the list, sadly. 

This year I plan to save a lot of seed from my cross breeds and from any standout pepper plants. That way I won't have to purchase as many seeds, or risk certain varieties not being available next year. Maybe in the autumn/fall, I can send you some of my best seeds from this season. What varieties are you planning on growing this year?

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I don't know, we usually used to grow black peppers and old fashioned small bell. Didn't even planned any for this season because of garden remodeling but after seeing your thread...:)

Btw, what's croatian seller , can you send me a link or something...

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@dalmatiansoap Ah okay. Well peppers have really come a long way in the past 4-5 years since I first started growing them. There's just so many different varieties around to choose from nowadays and some of the ones that have come out in recent years are insane. Stuff like the Buena Mulata, Trinidad Perfume and the red/orange/yellow snack peppers come to mind, which are shown in my posts above. You could easily grow 4-5 different bell pepper varieties and a couple of hot peppers in a small space. Definitely give it a go. 

The Yellow Monster seeds are listed on Ebay by a Croatian seller called '007miki007'. Right now it gives my estimated delivery time as 7th April, and that isn't even factoring in Brexit or the pandemic, so I reckon I wouldn't receive the seeds here in the UK until mid April probably. That's a bit too late for me as I really need to start them by mid March here at latitude 51N. I may still take a gamble and order a packet though. The seller has a few other interesting pepper and tomato varieties you should look at since you are also in Croatia.

We have a tomato thread in this subtopic, called 'got tomatoes', that I was posting pictures in recently. If you haven't already checked it out, you definitely should. I don't know whether you grow tomatoes as well...?

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The new season is fast approaching so I am going to upload some pictures from last season, which I never posted. 2021 was not a very good year for peppers, or tomatoes, or most things in general, at least compared to recent years. I still had a decent enough harvest, but 2021 wasn’t on par with the previous 4-5 years. 2022 will almost certainly be better.

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Carolina Reaper

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Lemon Drop was pretty prolific this year…

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As were Jalapeños…

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And a lot of other stuff

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Golden Cal Wonder

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King of the North I think…

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Purple Beauty

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Basket of Fire always produces…

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Poblano

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Unknown? Possibly Lemon drop again…

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Serrano

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Supposedly Golden Cayenne, but not sure if it is hybridised seed…

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This is one of about 3 big harvests…

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Very nice peppers. This post finally made me go and start some seeds for this year. It's kind of late, one because I'm lazy and two because my yard is quite shaded, so I usually plant slightly later.

Also, have you heard of mattspeppers.com? They have quite a large selection of interesting varieties if you ever need.

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23 hours ago, spike said:

Very nice peppers. This post finally made me go and start some seeds for this year. It's kind of late, one because I'm lazy and two because my yard is quite shaded, so I usually plant slightly later.

Also, have you heard of mattspeppers.com? They have quite a large selection of interesting varieties if you ever need.

It's definitely not too late to be starting seeds yet, especially if you are in SoCal. You could start seeds where you are in March and have huge, bountiful harvests by July-August with your warm, sunny climate. Where I am up at 51N, I would definitely have to start 'early' because they grow slower up here (less heat and less sunlight) and the growing season is much shorter.

I need to start early to maximise growing time before the first frosts hit in late October / early November. I only have a 6 month growing season between the last frost in late April and the first frost in late October. Even still I have only just started germinating some seeds here. I think the general rule for anyone in the northern hemisphere is to start pepper seeds by March 1st ideally. In warmer places with longer seasons you could start later in say April or May, since you will be cropping until Christmas anyway. 

I have just checked out that MattsPeppers site and the guy has some very interesting cross breeds, although they're pretty pricey. I would definitely try some out but I doubt he will ship to the UK as it seems to be quite a small business. I also don't trust our customs here on my end to let the seeds in, following the new Brexit regulations that came into effect in 2021. A lot of the European countries have stopped shipping seeds and plants to us due to customs issues and I worry an expensive order from the US would get held up in customs. 

What peppers have you germinated Spike? 

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Just now, UK_Palms said:

It's definitely not too late to be starting seeds yet, especially if you are in SoCal. You could start seeds where you are in March and have huge, bountiful harvests by July-August with your warm, sunny climate. Where I am up at 51N, I would definitely have to start 'early' because they grow slower up here (less heat and less sunlight) and the growing season is much shorter.

I need to start early to maximise growing time before the first frosts hit in late October / early November. I only have a 6 month growing season between the last frost in late April and the first frost in late October. Even still I have only just started germinating some seeds here. I think the general rule for anyone in the northern hemisphere is to start pepper seeds by March 1st ideally. In warmer places with longer seasons you could start later in say April or May, since you will be cropping until Christmas anyway. 

I have just checked out that MattsPeppers site and the guy has some very interesting cross breeds, although they're pretty pricey. I would definitely try some out but I doubt he will ship to the UK as it seems to be quite a small business. I also don't trust our customs here on my end to let the seeds in, following the new Brexit regulations that came into effect in 2021. A lot of the European countries have stopped shipping seeds and plants to us due to customs issues and I worry an expensive order from the US would get held up in customs. 

What peppers have you germinated Spike? 

Yeah, most peppers can last over the winter here but they do slow down a ton. I wouldn't say they crop until Christmas for me, more like early-mid november. I'm growing the italian pepperocini from burpee seeds, some facing heaven peppers, a bird's eye, and a yellow one which looks like hungarian wax but no 100% ID. Also some california wonder bell peppers, nothing special. I'll probably end up buying more seeds/plants as they become available.

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@UK_Palms your pepper plants look great.  I see you have quite a few plants in smaller pots than I would've thought you could use.  What do you do in terms of soil and fertilization (type, frequency, etc)?

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Y'all have me researching apartment gardening to replace all the palms I kill. :blink:

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20 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Y'all have me researching apartment gardening to replace all the palms I kill. :blink:

It's not too hard, peppers don't need a huge pot. I pot most of my long term ones, one gallon should be fine.

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8 minutes ago, spike said:

It's not too hard, peppers don't need a huge pot. I pot most of my long term ones, one gallon should be fine.

I have a plethora of empty 1 and 2 gallon pots, a big south facing window in my office, and a little room under the grow lights in my apartment - plus lots of bright East Texas sun. This might work. 

 

This is what I love about this community - y'all make me think about things I ordinarily wouldn't think about. 

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18 hours ago, Chester B said:

@UK_Palms your pepper plants look great.  I see you have quite a few plants in smaller pots than I would've thought you could use.  What do you do in terms of soil and fertilization (type, frequency, etc)?

Thanks man. Some of them ideally should be in bigger pots in order to produce more, but I suppose I can get away with having some in smaller pots since I have so many plants. Either way I will end up with more peppers than I need. I’m talking thousands, even last year. If I had less plants, I would probably make sure I use bigger pots to maximise yield on each one.

On the flip side though, I actually had a couple of pepper plants in much bigger pots than I needed. It didn’t help that our spring and summer were bad last year, so plants didn’t grow as big and yields were down massively. If the weather was as good as previous years, I would have had bigger plants last year. The same could be said if I had grown some in a greenhouse too last year, which I unfortunately didn’t. By the law of average, the 2022 growing season has to be better than 2021.

Most of my peppers go in the ground as opposed to pots, but for both I use a mixture of farmyard manure, some good compost and for the pots some vermiculite to hold in moisture since we are usually pretty dry in the summer here. Feed-wise, they usually get a couple of drinks of a good vegetable/flower fertiliser in the summer and autumn/fall. Tomato feed works equally well for peppers too, especially in the fall when they are producing fruit. 

One advantage of using pots is that I can bring them under cover if we have bad weather and strong winds, or if we have an overnight frost forecast later on in the season, come November. They will go back outside the next day, but it allows me to keep cropping the peppers well into December here. This is an unheated garage at the bottom of my back yard. 

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How are people getting on with their pepper seedlings/plants this spring? I am eager to start planting mine out now, but I know I should still wait another 3-4 weeks for the soil to warm up. The days are around 16C (61F) but I still had a frost on Saturday night, although I am hopeful that will be the last freeze now until November.

It is supposed to get warmer next week, so I will plant some of the peppers in the greenhouse next week probably, but most of them won’t go in the ground until early May. I have moved 90% of them (100 seedlings/plants) outdoors now though, under cover, pending a late cold snap. They should be okay from here on though.

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So I better provide an update on this year's peppers and chillies. Unfortunately I didn't take as many photos as I would have liked, especially over the summer and early autumn when the first few harvests were coming in. However I still have plenty of pictures, although the majority have been taken over the past month or two. It has been a fantastic season!

Anyway, starting with the sweet peppers.

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Interestingly my peppers that were grown under glass or polytunnel did pretty crap. Like they started off okay, but most got attacked by bugs and developed fungal issues in greenhouses. Some had all their peppers mould before they were even ripe, such as the Yellow Monster grown under glass. This may have been down to humidity possibly. I had far better success with peppers grown out in the open, whereas it was the opposite with my tomatoes. The best tomatoes came from those grown under glass, unlike my best peppers.

Here you can see some of the greenhouse sweet peppers that were effected by disease quite early on in July-August.

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Now onto the chilies, including the super hots. Carolina Reaper seen below on the far right.

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This isn't all my peppers and photos. I have more plants and pods, which I will add in the coming days/weeks. The majority of plants are still alive and going as we approach winter. I have only had one night down to 35F so far, which isn't enough to knock out the plants. It looks like some will be producing outside in the open still as we head into winter now.

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