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Sawyer '16 - Memorial Day update

Okay, time to get started.  Last year was not such a good pepper-growing year for me, but it was great in terms of getting a pepper condiment business off the ground.  My only two resolutions for 2016 are to keep better condiment production records and follow through on growing large quantities of peppers.  To that end, here's the list of varieties I have.  I won't grow everything on the list, but plan to grow most of these.  Some will only be a plant or two (for fresh seed production), some will be many, many more (for sauces and/or plant sales).  The ones marked with a leading (x), I'm out of stock, but am keeping them in the list to remind me I need to replace them (by trade mayhap, hint, hint).  Others, I think my stock is no good, either due to age or pantry moth infestation.  For the most part, those will be the first I start.  I tried to format this in multiple columns, but couldn't figure out how, so without further ado, here's the list:
 
7 Pods*:
Barrackpore(21)
Barrackpore Chocolate(3)
Brain Strain Yellow(1,11, 13)
Brain Strain Yelow (superior)(28)
Brain Strain Red(21)
Brown Standard(1,11)
Brown Standard G3
Brown Long
Brown Long G3
Burgundy
Caramel F2
Congo SR Gigantic
Douglah(1,11, 15)
Jonah(24)
Jonah G2
Large Red
Lava(13)
Mustard F2
"not Red" (a serrano-/Inca Red Drop-shaped "not")
Orange(13)
Original Red(11)
Peach F2
Primo(1,11)
Primo Yellow(24)
Red(1,12)
Red Long(9)
Yellow(12)
Yellow Large(21)
Yellow Long(9)
Yellow x Douglah(24)
White(1,3,11)

Trinidad Scorpions:
Butch T
CARDI(24)
Chocolate(6)
Moruga Brown(1,11)
Moruga Caramel(11)
Moruga Chocolate(15)
Moruga Red
Moruga Yellow(1,5,11)
Moruga/Moruga Blend Yellow(12)
Red(12)
Sweet(3)
Yellow(1(iso),11)
Yellow Original G2

Superhot Crosses/Mutations:
Arkansas Peach F2
Arkansas Reaper F3
Brown Bhutlah(15)
Bubblegum(3)
Carolina Reaper(1,6,7,14,16)
(x)D'Bhut (7P Douglah x BJ)
Devil’s Brain(11,13)
Elysium Oxide Bonnet(1,4,13)
Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion(1,3)
Jay's Red Ghost Scorpion
FG Jigsaw(28)
Funky Reaper(7)
Madballz(1,3)
Nagabrain Chocolate F3 (9)
Nagabrain Red (13)
Peach Pheno(3)
PDN x Bhut Peach (24)
Pimenta Lisa F3(9)
Red Bhutlah(15)
SBJ7(24)
Sepia Serpent(21)
Trin SB x Trin 7P(24)
Long Smooth Red (spicy banana)
 
Jolokias/Nagas:
Assam(12)
Banana Bhut F2(1,26, 30)
BJ Brown G3
BJ Giant(8)
BJ Orange(1)
BJ Peach(11)
BJ Red(1,11)
BJ White(11)
BJ Yellow(11,12)
BJ Yellow G3
Black Naga(13)
BOC(3)
Monster Naga(13)
Naga King Orange(15, 13)
Naga Morich(12)
"not white" Yellow Bhut
Peach Ghost SS(24)

Bonnets/Habaneros:
Bahamian Goat(1,3, 24)
Bonda Ma Jacques(1,3)
Brown SB(1, 24)
Brown Congo
Caribbean Mix Hab(15)
Chocolate Congo(24)
Farmers Market SB(24)
Galapagos(24)
Giant White Hab(1, 11, 15)
JA Hot Choc Hab(21)
Large Yellow-orange Hab (not GWH)
(x)Lemon Habanero
Long Brown
MoA SB G2 (1,18, 24)
MoA SB Peach(24)
Orange Hab(15)
Papa Dreadie SB Select(29)
Papa Joe Market SB(24)
Paper Lantern Hab(15)
Peach Hab(15)
Red Hab(11,15)
Schneider Farms SB(23)
(x)Snow White
Stuffing SB(24)
Trinidad Congo Red(11)
Tobago Sweet SB(24)
Yellow Congo(24)
(x)White Bullet Hab
Other C. chinenses:
Brown Egg(3)
CGN 21500(24)
Charapita
Datil(28)
Fatalii Black(13)
Fatalii Cream(15)
Fatalii White(8,13)
Fatalii Yellow(21)
Flaming Icicle(15)
Georgia Black(3)
Grenada Seasoning Yellow(15)
Mako Akokasrade
Malaysian Goronong(15)
Murupi Amarela(9)
Pimenta de Neyde(1,11)
Santa Rosa Biance(15)
Star of Turkey(11)
Tobago Treasure Red(1,3)
Tobago Treasure Yellow(11)
Tobago Treasure White(9)
Trinidad Cherry(3)
Trinidad Seasoning
White Devil's Tongue (1,3)

Jalapeños:
Ciclón, Colima, Tajin (mixed, 1)
Cracked(11)
Early(1,11,15)
Farmer's(11, 24)
Jaloro(15)
M(15)
NuMex Jalamundo(24)
NuMex Vaquero(24)
Orange(15)
Pinata(1,10)
Purple(15)
TAM(15)
Tormenta(9)

New Mexico:
64L(15)
(x)Chimayo
Joe E. Parker(15)
Fresno(24)
Heritage Big Jim(25)
Heritage 6-4(25)
Negro de Valle(15)
Sandia(15)
Santa Fe Grande(15)
 
Sweet annuums:
Bell of Göllü(24)
Bull's Heart(11)
Chocolate Beauty(15)
Corno di Toro(15)
Corno di Toro, Orange(15)
Corno di Toro, Yellow(15)
Garden Sunshine(15)
Jimmy Nardello(15)
Keystone Giant(15)
Kurtovska Kapija(20)
Marconi Golden(6)
Marconi Red(6)
Paprika, Feher Ozon(15)
Paradicsom Alaku Sarga Szentes(6)
Sheepnose(15)
Sulu Adana(11)
Syrian Three Sided(6)
Sweet Pickles(11)
Tekne Dolmasi(11)
Yellow Monster(15)

Other C. annuums:
Albanian Red Hot
Alma Paprika
(x)Amarillo Chiltepin
Black Hungarian(6)
Caloro(15)
Cayenne, Long Slim(24)
Cayenne, Mix (15)
Costeno Rojo(15)
Çumra Cherry(11, 24)
Devil Serrano(9)
Ethiopian Brown Berbere(24)
Fish(15)
Goat's Weed(11)
Harbiye(24)
Hungarian Hot Cherry(3)
Large Red Hot Cherry(1,11)
Long Red Slim(16)
Mulato Isleno(15)
Padron(15, 19)
Paprika(15)
Pasilla Bajio(6)
Pimiento de Padron(6)
Poblano(25)
Puya(15)
Shattah(24)
Takanotsume/Hawk Claw(16,17)
Tepin
Urfa Biber(20)
 
Ornamentals:
Aurora(15)
Bellingrath Gardens(15)
Black Pearl(15)
Chinese Five-Color(15)
Explosive Ember(15)
Filius Blue(15)
Golden Nugget(15)
Marbles(15)
NuMex Twilight(19)
Prairie Fire(15)
Purple Flash(15)
Shu(15)
Tricolor Variegata(15)
 
C. baccatums:
Ají Amarillo(15, 24)
Aji Cereza(24)
Ají Citó(24)
Ají Habanero(24)
Aji Lemon Drop(15)
Ají Mango(11)
Ají Melocotón(24)
Ají Panca(24)
Ají White Fantasy(24)
Birgit's Locoto(15)
Bishop's Crown (3)
(x)Blonde(3)
Brazilian Starfish(11)
El Oro de Ecuador(24)
Orchid(11)
Red Pumpkin(11)
Sugar Rush Cream(28)

C. chacoense:
Most Prolific(24)

C. pubescens:
Manzano Amarillo(27)
(x)Orange Manzano (2 types)
(x)Orange Locoto
(x)Red Manzano
Yellow Manzano(15)
Giant Mexican Rocoto(11)
 
Special Projects:
MFPJ3
MFPJ15
MFPJ28
MFPJ30
MFPJ28 F2 #2
MFPJ3 F2
MFPJ29 F2
MFPJ18 F2
MFPJ32 F3 #1
MFPJ32 F2 #3
MFPJ30 F2
 
Sources:
(1) - Self-saved
(2) - PaulG
(3) - GA. Growhead
(4) - capsidadburn
(5) - PepperLover
(6) - Baker Creek
(7) - Devv
(8) - gnslngr
(9) - meatfreak
(10) - CPI
(11) - PL
(12) - MGOLD86
(13) - jcw10tc
(14) - RFC
(15) - TWF
(16) - Pepper Joe
(17) - DesertChris
(18) - Steve954
(19) - JSS
(20) - stickman
(21) - mpicante
(22) - FL Born
(23) - Pulpiteer
(24) - Plantguy76
(25) - Sandia Seeds
(26) - HillBilly Jeff
(27) - CheriL
(28) - Joe Fish
(29) - Windcicken
(30) - Solem22
 
The first ones I start will probably be Datil, Giant Mexican Rocoto, and whatever other seeds I have of suspect viability.
(*I've decided to switch camps from the 7 Pot crowd to the 7 Pod crowd.  If CARDI calls them "Seven Pod", who am I to say differently.  Here's a link to a pdf of their 2008 variety catalog.  I really like the 7 Pot origin story, i.e., hot enough for 7 pots of stew, but whatever.  As for "pod" vs. "berry", likewise, whatever.  A tomato is a botanical berry but also a culinary vegetable.  I would like to know the origin story of "seven pod", though.  Maybe it's due to seven peppers per node or something.  I think I've seen as many as eleven per node on my 7P Peach.) 
 
Anyone wishing to see my past glogs can find them here:
 
2013 Glog:  http://thehotpepper.com/topic/37468-sawyers-2013-glog-last-harvestfirst-sauce/
2014 Glog:  http://thehotpepper.com/topic/44370-sawyer-14-seed-offer/
2015 Glog:  http://thehotpepper.com/topic/52864-sawyer-15-killing-frost-1122-pics/
 
If anyone sees any varieties they'd like to try, send me a PM.  I'm open to trade, SASBE, or paypal contribution to cover postage.  Not everything is available, but ask and I'll check my stock.
 
1/17/16 edit:  Added Schneider Farms SB from Pulpiteer, updated source citations.
1/24/16 edit:  Updated list to reflect seeds received from mpicante.
2/13/16 edit:  Updated list to reflect new seeds acquired from various sources, THPers and commercial vendors alike.
 
Wow! John!
 
I can certainly understand where you're coming from after my health issues last spring. I sure hope these badass bugs that have come around lately are not a continuing problem for us all.
 
Take your time and get well!
 
JoynersHotPeppers said:
Get better man!
Trident chilli said:
+1 on your health ..... looking forward to your pics when your up to it
 Thanks, Chris, John.  I think I'm pretty much over it, whatever "it" was.  It's just going to take some time to get my wind back.
 
OCD Chilehead said:
No worries on the pics. I was just seeing how you were doing.

Glad your on the rebound.

Sorry to here about the plants.

Take care
 Thanks, Chuck.  Yeah, it's always a shame to lose plants, but I over do it so much on seed starting, the losses pale in comparison to what's left.  Out of over 200 varieties I started, I only lost a handful.  I'm going to inventory what's what soon and update the OP to reflect how many plants of each variety I have at this point.
 
Devv said:
Wow! John!
 
I can certainly understand where you're coming from after my health issues last spring. I sure hope these badass bugs that have come around lately are not a continuing problem for us all.
 
Take your time and get well!
Hey, Scott, yeah, I've thought about your troubles last year a few times over the last few weeks.  I never went to the doctor, so I don't know for sure what this was, but "walking pneumonia" came up in more than one conversation.  I guess that's a fairly non-specific term though.  It does seem like forum members have been having more than a fair share of bugs lately.  For myself, I should just learn to say "no" to the annual DC trip.  It comes at the wrong time of year and two of the last three years I've brought back a bug.  Still, I like what I do there and it helps me feel like I'm doing my part, so I'll probably keep going as long as they keep asking.
 
Okay, these aren't pepper pics, but maybe the boss will let me slide on this.  I'm going to start another thread in the "growing other" sub-forum for this sort of thing, other natives, tomatoes (around 70 varieties), hops, and other non-pepper gardening shots.  But for now, this thread is in sore need of some color.  In my last post I mentioned going hiking recently.  There's a place I've known of for years and years, decades really, where I've wanted to hike.  It's along the base of a bluff, maybe 3/4 mile in length (mile and a half round trip), running parallel to the lake shore, but back far enough that it's mostly not visible from the lake.  I can drive to about the mid-point along the ridge above the bluff, park, then just wander along the ridge, eventually dropping down more or less gradually to lake level on a point jutting out into the main body of the lake.  From there I turned back along the base of the bluff and it didn't take long to realize it was going to be a challenge.  No path or trails except for a very faint deer trail I could pick up now and then.  I kept as close to the base of the bluff as possible because the ground is relatively level there.  It quickly drops off to the left to a steep descent down to the lake.  For much of the way, sticking close to the base of the bluff worked, but a couple of times I found myself on a dead-end ledge above ground level and had to back track.  In one place, a tree has fallen away from the bluff leaving behind a very unstable slope.  I think I caused a small landslide scrambling across that.  And for much of the way, I was walking on unstable rubble fallen from the bluff itself.  In a couple of places, the slope comes right up to the bluff and my feet could get no purchase.  There I proceeded on hands and knees, pulling myself up and along by roots and rocks.  But it was worth it to find scenes like the following.  (If you don't look too close you won't notice the photos are all a little blurry.  At this point I was shaking, whether from exertion, worry, fright, or still being sick, I'm not sure.)
Ferns grow in the fissures of the bluff:
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Columbine, too:
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The ferns go on and on:
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I found this patch of Jack-in-the-Pulpit after a particularly strenuous stretch:
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Biggest patch I've ever seen.  In an area maybe 8' x 12' I counted 35 blooms.  I plan to go back when the time is right to get pictures of the seed heads.
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All told I found hundreds and hundreds of plants, if not thousands, but most were not blooming.
 
This is a view in front of me:
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And a look back:
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Here, I'm only about half way to where I need to be, so I put the camera away and got back to my vehicle right at dusk.
 
Pepper plant pics pending, promise.
 
Glad to see you back in the swing John, we'd wondered how you were. Were those hiking pics taken in a karst area? the rock looked like limestone in the pics.  Looking forward to seeing more green from you as you find the time. :)
 
OCD Chilehead said:
Great scenery. Glad everything is good. I post everything on my glog. LoL!

Sounds like you had a great time. I need to get out of the yard and into nature.

Thanks for sharing John
Hey, Chuck, thanks.  I don't get out for a hike nearly as often as I'd like, but any is better than none.  And, yeah, I wouldn't normally worry about posting non-pepper pics, but those are the only pictures in the thread so far.  The orange ghost has adapted to its new shoes and is starting to grow again, so I'll at least get a picture of it posted soon.
 
stickman said:
Glad to see you back in the swing John, we'd wondered how you were. Were those hiking pics taken in a karst area? the rock looked like limestone in the pics.  Looking forward to seeing more green from you as you find the time. :)
Thanks, Rick.  If it ain't one thing, it's another, right?  I had to look it up, but yes, there is a lot of karst topography around here.  The whole (or at least much of the) Ozark Plateau is an ancient seabed.  Everything is underlain with limestone around here.  I think that will provide some buffer here in NW AR when the New Madrid fault cuts loose again over in SE MO/NE AR.  It also makes for some cool fossil hunting.  I have several small slabs of limestone encrusted with small crinoid fossils and back in '03 the world's largest nautiloid fossil was discovered nearby:
 
http://news.uark.edu/articles/11388/shell-shock-three-university-of-arkansas-students-find-world-s-longest-nautiloid-fossil
 
It also produces some prime pepper-growing soils.
 
Glad you got out and around John, the pics are very nice. ;)
 
Just don't rush it! I'm about 1 year out of the hospital and still not where I was "before", I'd say 75%, But I keep pushing forward, and believe me I really work at it. When I lived in Virginia, in the late 80's, I enjoyed hiking in the mountains, the scenery was fantastic. Here I would have to drive to really find something that interested me. I'm doing the retirement countdown...LOL, Then I can break away :shh:
 
Here's to your health!
 
Sawyer said:
Thanks, Rick.  If it ain't one thing, it's another, right?  I had to look it up, but yes, there is a lot of karst topography around here.  The whole (or at least much of the) Ozark Plateau is an ancient seabed.  Everything is underlain with limestone around here.  I think that will provide some buffer here in NW AR when the New Madrid fault cuts loose again over in SE MO/NE AR.  It also makes for some cool fossil hunting.  I have several small slabs of limestone encrusted with small crinoid fossils and back in '03 the world's largest nautiloid fossil was discovered nearby:
 
http://news.uark.edu/articles/11388/shell-shock-three-university-of-arkansas-students-find-world-s-longest-nautiloid-fossil
 
It also produces some prime pepper-growing soils.
 
Very cool story of the fossil find in the drainage ditch! I hear ya 'bout limestone soils being great for peppers as long as you give 'em the right soil pH... my Mom lives in an area in far western Massachusetts that's underlain by Dolomitic Limestone and Blue Shale, and the soil carbonates really make here garden grow well when they're buffered by lots of compost. You should see the stuff she grows there.
 
Great seed listo. Looks like things are on the up and up
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Great shots of the fern...


Wish my seed list was organized as to how old the plants are.
.lol
 
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