Hello - Jamie.

[Lovechops 0]

Hi all,

 

I've been growing peppers for many years in the UK, this year I have expanded my growing capacity, mainly due to the UK supermarkets only selling red and green peppers. My goal is to introduce the people in the UK to this wonderful fruit and show them it is not just red and green peppers.

 

On the personal side I am a great believer of pure strain and do not agree with what some of the UK industry has been doing, I am interested in genetics and would love to breed a strain more suited to the UK climate. I love the flavour of the chocolate varieties of pepper and also find the baccatum’s have a great flavour.

 

Next year I plan to expand my growing capacity and will have 4 isolated small polytunnels for variety testing.

 

Here are a few pictures of my setup and season so far; I will put these in a blog over the next few days and comment on them.

 

Thanks to all and happy growing.

 

Jamie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[vitagliano 13]

Congratulations,

all well and good and glad to know that even in the UK there are keen on chillies.

I wish you an excellent cultivation and that your project is successful.

Nice pictures

[peppox 385]

WOW!!! Fantastic!

 

Welcome!

[megamastger71 8]

Welcome here

[Chuck 7]

Welcome Jamie! Are you living in paradise?

[Piccantilly 15]

WoW

 

welcome Jamie

 

... you are very professional

will be a pleasure to help you in your poject

[Macy 5]

That's it when I mean PRO!

Beautiful tunnels, full of hot gold!

 

It's funny to see that here in Italy we complain about the weather when you, in Uk, are easily growing peppers!

[Stefania 4,329]

Welcome Jamie in Pepperfriends and in a i s p e s!

[ellis 5]

Welcome! We are happy to have another pepperfriends in UK!

 

Compliments for your peppers wonderworld!

[Mistah 5]

Welcome aboard!

 

Wonderful cultivation, It's nice to see that in north Europe

Gl for your important projects. I'm interessed too in cold resistance. Capsicum Pubescens species should be the most resistant, but they are not compatible with the other capsicum species for genetic selection. So I am gonna try grafting tests on capsicastrum, we'll see.

 

cya!

[hot cat 1,220]

Welcome Jamie in Pepperfriends and in a i s p e s!

Nice job

[alemariacho 397]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!

many compliments!!!

how many plants do you have???

 

you're welcome here!!

[Peppercesco 0]

WooooooW the dream of every user in this forum What a wonderful place...

 

Welcome on board !!!

[Lonewolf 18,244]

Welcome Jamie!

Very nice setup, will be a pleasure to follow your growing season

 

Welcome in the a i s p e s too!

Give a glance to the reserved section ...

[paopao 11]

welcome jamie ( oliver ??? )

 

bloody hell mate u got a smashing coltivation.. very nice to see that in England its possible growning peppers so... now a got no excuse to come back to my wife home ... its better if she dont see your picts...

 

congratulation and which side of England u are from??

 

welcome to the a i s p e s too

[Lovechops 0]

Thank you all for your kind comments. I am based in Wiltshire in the UK - South West. We have just over 1,000 plants in the ground and 30 diffrent varieties. I have a smaller tunnel on a diffrent site which I use for isolation strains.

 

I am happy to join a i s p e s and look forward to helping stabilize variaties and grow the seed bank

 

mistah - I'm not sure grafting would be sustainable as the pods retain the genetics of the 'grafted' plant. We should talk more.

[nipotastro 1,364]

 

welcome aboard and to a i s p e s!

 

i think we'll have so much to see on your topics

 

 

 

Wiltshire sounds not so good as a place to grow anything

[Antonio 0]

Hi Jamie and welcome! Wonderfull peppers!

[tattico 238]

Hi and Welcome among Us! and in Aipes too

Very interesting your coltivation, sure we will share a lot of informatios!

[kirmen1980 10]

welcome

You have some beautiful plants,

[toto 14]

Welcome Jamie..congratulation.. beautiful plants.

[zagor69 3]

Benvenuto!

[zampillo 0]

Ciao, benvenuto.

[Mario 7]

Benvenuto

[MrKaos 2]

Welcome!