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TheGreenChileMonster 2018

I'm focusing this year on peppers I eat every day, and peppers I use for my sauces. Usually I grow a good 20+ varieties, but this year I am sticking to only 6. I am growing 8+ plants of many of these varieties, so it will still be a pretty packed garden. One omission that might be noticed is aji amarillo. I absolutely love aji amarillo, but I still have 4 full gallon bags of aji amarillo pods from last year in my freezer. That will last me through 2019.

My list is as follows:

Peruvian Red Rocoto-These are great for stuffing, fresh sauces, fermented sauces, kebabs, etc. A classic Peruvian pepper, that is very productive in my area. So many of my South American friends ask me if I have any for sale or trade in the Summer, that I doubled the plants this year. 8 plants will be going in 10 gallon pots.

Aji Limo-I cook with this Capsicum Chinense almost every day. It is in my opinion, the ultimate pepper to provide flavor and heat to any fish/seafood dish, plus it's amazing with chicken. This is THE pepper used in Peruvian ceviche, which is my all time favorite food. I use this for just about everything. I'm growing out some seeds from the aji limo plants I grow every single year, but also growing out some seeds from a pack a friend of mine brought me from Peru this January. 9 plants will be going in 7 gallon pots next week.

Peach Bhut Jolokia-Great building heat, great non floral flavor. This is the one pepper in the 800K SHU+ category that I really enjoy cooking with. I am growing out extra plants this year for my passion fruit and guava ghost sauce. Super prolific plant, and an early bloomer, compared to many of the other peppers in it's category. 8 plants going in 7 gallon pots next week.

Aji Largo-Based on taste tests with many seasoned chile heads in my area, out of about 15 different Pubescens cultivars last year, Aji Largo was universally chosen as the best for flavor. The plants get absolutely massive, even for a Pubescens, and need to be staked well to support all of the pods. The pods aren't ideal for stuffing, but are insanely juicy, and have a sweet almost persimmon like flavor. One healthy plant usually gives me a good 80+ pods in a season. Since I am using most of these aji largo pods for bottled sauce, I will be putting 5 plants in 7 gallon pots next week.

P. Dreadie Scotch Bonnet-This will be my second year growing this variety, and I was really pleased with the heat and flavor of the pods I grew last year. I plan on tinkering wih these pods in the kitchen with dishes, and in sauces this Summer. 2 plants going in 10 gallon pots next week.

Mini Red Rocoto-There isn't much to say here except, "wouldn't it be nice to have the same flavor and heat of a rocoto, without it being the size of an apple?". This is a great variety to quickly kick up the heat on a salad, pickle, and generally snack on. It's a bite sized rocoto for pete's sake! 2 plants going in 10 gallon pots next week.

I'm also growing some veggies as always:

Ping Tung Eggplant
Japanese Eggplant
Rosa Bianca Eggplant
Black Egg Eggplant
Black Beauty Eggplant
Tomatillo
Okra
San Marzano Tomato
Costeluno Gemovese Tomato
Beefsteak Tomato
Mortgage Lifter Tomato
Brandywine Tomato

Herbs:
Quilquiña
Huacatay
Culantro/Shado Beni
Oregano
Sweet Basil
Lemon Thyme
Rosemary

Pics coming next week while transplanting outside.
 
karoo said:
Great pics, Peach Bhuts my only Chinense for the season.

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Good call! They have great flavor and heat, plus they are very productive, and you can't beat the look of those nice peach colored pods! This plant is starting to get pretty loaded with pods already.
 

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Gorgeous shot!  What's the variety on the baby eggplants?  Looks like they did well in containers.  It appears I'm headed in the container direction for future gardens and am scouting out the best varieties for container growing.
That one is called a patio baby. All eggplants seem to realy thrive in big pots. I'm growing 6 different varieties of eggplant this year.
 
Aji charapita.

I'm not looking forward to/I am looking forward to picking all of these pods. I got about 300 ripe pods in one go a few years ago from one pull on an aji charapita plant. Let's see how many I ripe ones I get on the first flush of this plant.

Actually, you know what?

I'll do a GLog contest!

The person that guesses the right amount of ripe pods from this plant on the first picking, wins a prize box of sauces, jellies, powders, seeds, and other pepper stuff.

THP himself won the last contest, so tragically this contest will need a new winner. Sorry boss

US only!

Let's go!!!
 

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stettoman said:
Dale, you should know that I don't compete to win, but for the thousands of likes I get for looking so foolish.

That being...uh......said,

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Good guess!

I doubt it will hit 300 pods this year, since it is shaded by a giant tomato plant, and a giant rocoto plant. We'll see, though. The aji charapita is a ridiculously prolific plant!

There is a fat box of goodies going towards the winner

Who else has a good guess?
 
185.

I'll be happy to see you pick them all. Last year, after each harvest from the rest of my plants, I would walk by the Aji Charapita and just pretend like I didn't see it. So, now I'm growing it again from all the volunteers that popped up.
 
Sorry to interrupt the contest feed...
Hey Dale whats the heat like on your arnaucho's. They look like they might be the perfect size for popper stuffing?
 
p.s. My Aji Limo Amarillos from you and terry are turning a beautiful bright yellow. So now I have nice red and yellow limos!
 
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