Recent content by stettoman

Yup, they smelled awesome, all three baskets! That year was really good to me, pepper-wise!

Dog, remember my little 8th acre of heaven back when I lived in MN? It was all quackgrass and hornet nests when I started it. My rear-tine tiller would even break that sod, so I talked a local farmer into coming by with his Ford 8N and cut it with a three blade plow. I spent that first summer...

Yeah, I plumb forgot how amazingly viable my seeds have always been, and 10+ years old had me go overboard grabbing seeds out of the bag. But not to worry, the bag is still full enough to repeat this stunt 4 or 5 more times😉... And yeah, I am so gonna take you up on Serrano seeds. I started...

I should have taken a pic this morning before continuing, the photo above is two days old, and the hooks tripled in those two days. It breaks my heart to cull seedlings, physically hurts. But the mountain of hooks coming up was insane, so I removed 37 seedlings this morning. I'm not down to one...

Hey Dragon, nice to see you're at it again! My buddy in Edmonton had a lousy season a few years back, gave up altogether. Wasn't a pepper guy anyway. Hope yours is great, man!

Luck on your grow, Tsurrie! I'll be watching 👀

Well, it looks like a Stettoglog will be back for my first grow in Texas next year. As a viability "experiment" I threw a bunch LOThai seeds that were sent me almost 10 years ago by (I think) PaulG into some Miracle-Gro medium last week. I'll be dammed. I have bags upon bags of labeled seeds...

You HAVE had my Rocoto infused chokecherry jelly/glaze/ice cream topping, yeh? Also, cut a fresh one in half, remove seeds drop into a pot of Chilli or soup, ANY soup.

My my, Mr Dog, it certainly has been some time! You have grown much since last we chatted, far beyond any wisdom I could impart. But I now know who to beg for seeds! 😁

HAW! You guys rawk my fleepeen day! I can honestly tell y'all that pepper growing is not why we're moving to TX, though I look forward to a hopeful reconnection with plants that will behave prolifically like they did for me in MN. We're moving there for the dumbest of reasons: money. We've...

Funny. I have an Arequipeño (mistakenly thought it to be DeSeda) that refuses to wither away in winter. It's back for its fourth season and is more robust than last year at this time. My procedure? I cut the limbs down to three or four inches and kick it into a corner of my unheated garage...

Wow, it's been a minute, eyuh? Since moving to Colorado Springs in 2021 I've been pretty busy failing at growing my pepper bliss. Oh, stuff will grow, but my Serranos are stunted and not prolific. Colorado is supposed to be great for peppers, but been a bust for me. Except for one stubborn...

Season over, and then this It's a wacky world, Colorado. There are four of these now. Should be ripe right around plant out for next season...

What can I say, it was a rough season. The Serranos never grew any taller than my last pic, but they did try...This is my entire harvest for '23. They aren't very hot either. We had our first hard freeze last night, so the season ends. Not. One. Rocoto. I did choose to extend the season for...

Those who know, know whats coming... The peppers are from the freezer. The Aji Oro from last season, De Seda from previous. I have a pound of Rocoto Rojo still in the freezer, but these will be a good start...