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Did some potting on this morning: Loads of plants of Aji dedo de mocha De la selva arequipa rocoto Mini olive rocoto Yellow traveller rocoto And a couple of pico mucho rocoto I’ve got a few others up that don’t need potting on just yet: Cap 500 x usda cardenasii Bahamas goat f2 ex. Exumas...

Went through my seedbank today and fired in the first batch for 2025. These are mostly things I tried and failed with last year, I usually hold some seed back from each packet even if just a couple. I’m not too optimistic about germinating some of this stuff given its weak performance last year...

Florida wild bird producing some nice little pods now and showing no sign of slowing for winter

Just realised I never came back on this. It never set any pods at all - guess I need to grow some new seed out and get it a dance partner for next year.

Fell off updating this thread a little. Harvest is done for the year I reckon Chupetinho black peach. Got cold shocked a couple of weeks back. Stripeys De la selva Arequipa. Monster pods and sooooo hot.

So the red rocopica I grew this year is not in fact red. I had hoped to produce a yellow rocopica through crossing and ultimately a mustard form. It would appear the first step is already complete. It also seems this one is deciduous once ripe. Second pic shows it with mini olive and de la selva...

Mini olive doing its thing……. And a first sugar rush stripey…. In other spice news i harvested the Szechuan pepper last week:

Quick update- In the quadgrow, biquinho black peach is over head height. Really wanna overwinter this one at size, it’s gorgeous! Meanwhile the one surviving flex is flowering And in the big greenhouse pepper harvests continue and some stuff is happening in the overstorey…… Pea aubergine...

My first flexuosum flower. I’ve only one plant so hoping it will still set fruit….

Finally have flowers open on my Florida Wild Bird, it’s two and a half years old but to be fair has had a rough life! Also have flowers on my one flex plant and fruit on the rocopica red

Ludicrous amount of this made with those rocotos. Honestly wasn’t sure about them fresh from the brine very sour and garlicy (there were a couple of cloves in with them) on the front before the heat and rocoto flavour kicked back in. Made a hot sauce with ginger and lime juice which has...

Big chocolate rocoto ferment set…. My overwintered Florida Wild Bird is getting huge (almost as big as the weeds after 10 days of weeding neglect). The passionflower behind it is a Florida seedbank accession of p. Incarnata so I like to think of this little bit as my little patch of Florida -...

It’s set! As ever, once in the jar with weights on everything looks far less than there really is 🤷‍♂️😂 wine bottle for scale of the crock

Thanks for the thoughts. this is a great idea - in terms of running it through the processor to freeze down in batches would you suggest blending the fermented rocotos dry or including some of the brine?

I have a lot of chocolate rocoto pods at the moment and a big fermenting crock. My plan is to ferment the rocotos in a brine with a little garlic and then once the ferment is progressing use the fermented rocotos in a few different sauce experiments. Is this workable do people think? I’ve only...