Hi from the land of frozen tundra

Hi folks! I'm newly returned to posting online after a long hiatus when the kids were little and I had zero time. I've been growing and collecting a variety of heirloom vegetables for quite a while, and peppers are a big part of that.

I thought I'd say hi, and give a little background.

I was a chef in one of my early careers, now I do some specialized consulting for the hospitality industry and still play with cooking for charity events and such. I've been dreaming the past couple of years about a specialty heirloom seed and food products company as a way to expose my kids to running a business that they can understand and help with, so a lot of my growing and collecting has been geared towards that.

I'm currently working on getting certified and licensed to produce sauces, salsas and smoked and dried seasoning mixes. This year I grew more plants of a smaller variety of peppers for making test batches of sauce. Here is a picture of my first large one day harvest of just the hot peppers.

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Left to right, first row is chocolate bhut jolokia, Trinidad scorpion red, Trinidad scorpion yellow, Trinidad congo black and Trinidad 7-pot Jonah.

Second row is a yellow bhut jolokia, Trinidad 7-pot yellow, Trinidad 7-pot douglah, Trinidad 7-pot red, and Trinidad scorpion yellow (CARDI strain)

Third row is red bhut jolokia, Trinidad scorpion x morouga yellow, Trinidad congo red, Trinidad congo yellow and Trinidad scorpion x morouga red.

I also grew out quite a few different seasoning pepper varieties to use for mild sauces and as blending material to tone down the heat of some of the superhots while letting the pepper character come through in a sauces flavor profile. Most of those have been picked in the rain lately though, so I haven't taken a shot like this of them.
 
Say, that is pure beauty!
There's a thread around here called Chili Art... I'd say that qualifies.
Nice work! I'm looking forward to your future here.


Welcome!
 
Thanks guys! This year was the first time I discovered that capsaicin can go through latex gloves. I'd never seeded so many peppers at a time before. :onfire:
 
Thanks again everyone! The freezer is getting full and my hands are getting raw from seeding peppers, I'm thinking I may have finally planted too many peppers this year.

Of course the "Have you made any sauce yet?" questions are rolling in, so it's time to shift from farmer mode to chef mode soon.

Great community here!
 
:welcome: from Upper Michigan, very nice harvest. Let me know if you have any pods, and are willing to sell them. I also have seeds available for trade, if you're looking for any, let me know and I can show you what I have available. Good luck with future growing, and with the sauces, as well. I also make my own line of sauces.
 
:welcome: from Upper Michigan, very nice harvest. Let me know if you have any pods, and are willing to sell them. I also have seeds available for trade, if you're looking for any, let me know and I can show you what I have available. Good luck with future growing, and with the sauces, as well. I also make my own line of sauces.


Hi there! Was up in your area this summer, had a cabin in Michigamme and drove over to see pictured rocks. My in-laws dairy farm where I hunt is in Stephenson, MI.

I'm just about done for the season, just stripping plants and cutting them back for overwintering now. Next year I should have several hundred plants and plenty to sell though, this was another prep year getting my growing techniques down for this area. Florida was a lot easier to grow peppers in. :lol:
 
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