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Cabe “Bali” Pepper- new one to me

I got these seeds from Jim Duffy as a freebie from my last order. All I can say is this plant is on steroids. It has grown 3 times the size of any other plant and has more than a 150 upright pods on it (I stopped counting... lol) and a whole lot more blooms. Supposedly they will ripen from whitish yellow to red. Anyone else grow these? What kind of flavor, good for Sauces?
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I don't grow them and never heard of them, but that is amazing how many peppers it has. please post another pic when they ripen because i would love to see that. If i had a plant that made that many peppers I would try and extract some capsaicin. to do this rad the steps bellow. extracting the sugar out is pointless because you loose a lot of capsaicin and there is little sugar anyways.
  1. Dry your peppers until crisp and grind them up fine
  2. Soak in a glass jar filled with alcohol 7:1 ratio of alcohol and pepper dust
  3. Let sit for a week or so, shaking 2-3 times a day
  4. Filter liquid through a coffee filter and let alcohol evaporate
  5. Filter again once the alcohol is half way evaporated to strain out precipitants and other solids
  6. Now you are left with capsaicin, beta carotene, sugar, flavonoids, and other impurities
  7. You can leave it at this point (already super-hot) but you can go further and make 16 million scoville, capsaicin crystals (hottest you can get)
  8. To get out the sugar, capsaicin is sort of hydrophobic (some may be dissolved). Let the mixture sit in a bath of cold water (below 10 degrees C 4-8 for best results) for a day. The mixture should be shaken well, placed in the fridge or freezer until just over freezing point - then filter (probably keeping the entire filter process in the fridge).The Beta Carotene & other flavonoids would not be separated, but whatever remains on the filter paper can then be washed with 100% Ethanol and then left to evaporate.
  9. The next step for complete purification should be running a silica gel column, since one of the stated impurities is beta carotene.  Carotene is completely nonpolar, so starting with hexanes should flush it out.  Then you can gradually increase the polarity of the solvent to grab the capsaicin, which has several polar functional groups.
Enjoy:)
 
 
I like the color progression that they go through. Never grown them but it certainly seems like it would at least add some nice color to the garden.
 
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