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  1. thebat

    Thebat's starting 2023 early glog

    I want to start off by saying I'm excited to be trying my hand at growing peppers again. This is the first time I'm doing any gardening aside from growing some countertop kitchen herbs in the last 8 or so years. Anyway, I picked up a bunch of seeds from Texas Hot Peppers on Black Friday...
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    shopping Any black friday/cyber monday sales coming up?

    Not sure if this is the right place to be asking about this or if it would belong in the classifieds section. Does anyone know if any seed vendors will be having a black friday/cyber monday special going on? I'm looking to stock up on some seeds for next spring season and a few to try and grow...
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    Back from a grow hiatus

    Hello from MN! I was active here about 10 years ago, had a glog with sprouts and talked with some members about growing mushrooms. I never updated my glog after I got some sprouts going, if I'm not mistaken many didn't survive. I had to move so I wasn't able to continue growing peppers, but I'm...
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    favorite Favorite hot sauce

    I apologize if this has already been discussed but what are your favorite hot sauces? It doesn't have to just be about heat but it can be those with a nice flavor. I want to pick up a bottle or even more soon to add to the fridge since the only ones I have a srirachas, franks, red hot, and my...
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    Growing mushrooms

    No, these are not magic mushrooms! Now that that is out of the way.... I'm gonna try my hand at cultivating mushrooms. I really do enjoy them with dishes, they add a nice flavor to certain meals :) So far my favorite I've had were some morels that my grandfather found growing in a leaf pile at...
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    One of these things

    One of these things is not like the other (no, it's not my pre-calc book) I'd like to introduce you to my new addition to my pocket, the pepper pen! It is to be carried with me at school so if someone wishes to try some ghost chili powder (currently filling the pen) they may have some. But...
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    preservation First attempt at drying peppers...

    So I decided to try drying some habs just so I can get the hang of it. I don't have a dehydrator so I used a fan and oven instead. I had them on the fan for 3 days and they wouldn't fully dry... So I popped em in the oven at 170 for 4 hours and they weren't fully dry. I got impatient and...
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    fermenting My first mash

    I had to post this up because I'm so excited about it. I decided to start a hab mash to make my first hot sauce later with my own recipe instead of one given to me. To make my mash I used 125g carrots 500g habs 45g pickling/canning salt 2/3 cup whey from greek yogurt water to top it off a jar...
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    Hot honey

    So my friend and I wanted to cook with peppers today after trying some smoked bhut powder I bought. So we decided to make some hot honey. We bought some orange habs and honey Supplies/ingredients double boiler honey habs strainer funnel cooking thermometer We weighed out a good amount of...
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    Thebats 2012 glog

    So this year I wanted to grow some peppers after being bored at work and browsing the internet. I found out that the ghost chili isn't the hottest pepper in the world anymore. That got me interested in what was and all sorts of other things. Then I found this website and am constantly on it...
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    Our first super hots

    So muskymojo sent me some seeds and pepper powder. This powder is composed of a mix of 7 pot peppers, one of which was douglah. Enjoy the video!
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    Chocolate dipped hot bacon

    So I know people like chocolate dipped bacon and I had friends over to make 5 lbs of candied bacon (what a mess that made!). 2 lbs for me and 1 for each of my friends. Muskymojo was kind enough to send me 8 different kinds of seeds and some powder made from barrack pore (can't tell if its a u or...
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    Need some starter help

    So I've decided that this summer I'm going to grow some peppers with my friend when we move out to college. We will have a duplex so we'll have a yard. So I told my parents about my pepper growing plans and they're very excited about it. They gave me a sprouting kit for christmas (heat mat, 72...
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    New from MN

    Hello! New soon to be grower here from Minnesota! I was bored at work one day and looked at peppers online for some reason and stumbled across this website and have been inspired to grow peppers. I'm looking forward to being a member of this forum. I hope to grow some nice peppers this year and...
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