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glog CaneDog 2025 Indoor/Outdoor Glog

Seems like it's been forever since I made a glog post, but 2025 is right around the corner and as someone once said, it's never too early to get started! Last year was a tough year with aphids getting into my early season starts and generally cool sucky weather, so I'm hoping for better in 2025. I'll kick things off with some pic's of my current indoor grow, which I've taken over the past couple/few weeks.

First up is a Scarlett's Chili x Poblano. They're cool looking plants with great tasting mild peppers. I'm doing a lot of work with Jalapenos and planned maintain this variety going forward while also backcrossing it a bit toward its jalapeno roots.
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Another Jalapano type I have growing inside is Chile Rayado. I like how fuzzy these guys are. In addition to needing more true seeds, I want to cross it with both zapotec and orange spice jalaps.
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Farmers Market Jalapeno. Another fuzzy type. Somehow I've gone forever without growing these before. I'm impressed with how vigorous and robust they are.
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Mayan Cobanero. Another first time growing for me. I've been keeping it in a solo to rein in its growth, as I often do indoors, but shortly after this pic I saw it start to bud/fork so I moved it up into a 5.5" pot to fill out.
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Baccatum Fragilis, with its rather unique mutated look.
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Rhomboidium. After my OW finally died, I had only old-ish seeds to start again so I planted a bunch. I ended up with almost a dozen of these guys so had to cull them back. This guy was one of the lucky few that made it.
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Rocoto Manzano Amarillo Ollantaytambo. Some of the rocotos haven't been too happy being restricted in solo cups, but they're looking good and still staying fairly small after getting upped to 5.5's. This guy still shows a little chlorosis on its lower leaves, but seems happy enough.
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Anyhow, enough for now.
Cheers!
CD
 
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That's so awesome! Glad to know the seeds are still reaping benefits (no pun intended) I'll need to find some space first before I can do anything more than what I've got now. I'll likely have to start selling excess seedlings soon, due to my current lack of space.

I actually still have a few packets of seeds from years back. I'm wondering if they're still viable...
 
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I potted up 4 of my 5 OW rocotos recently, ranging from about 1 to almost 3 weeks ago. They sat still for a while as they were rooting in, but for the most part they've started growing again. Hopefully they'll pick up the pace as the weather keeps getting warmer. It seems they usually do by about the 3 week mark after pot up.

Giant Red Arequipa
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Puno Amarillo
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Aji Oro - I have another Aji Oro, but it's still in its smaller OW pot. I'm uncertain whether I'll pot it up, but if I do I'd better do it soon.
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De Seda
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All three of the early-set pods on the SLP Giant Yellow Rocoto have ripened. I plan to harvest them this week. They set indoors so their main purpose is for isolated seeds stock, but the pods are heavy enough that even 3 of them can be put to good use.
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And just for grins, this is a Texas Tepin from wild-collected seeds Heatmiser sent me a few years back. My OW tepin always try to grow from a million places at once, which seems to slow their early development coming out of OW.
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The rebirth of the Texas tepin is really beautiful, it almost looks like a bonsai!
You have a lot of peppers that intrigue me (p.s. I think next year I'll try some mexican and native american heirlooms too! At the end of the season I'll ask you and ahayastani for some advice)

CaneDog said:
All three of the early-set pods on the SLP Giant Yellow Rocoto have ripened. I plan to harvest them this week. They set indoors so their main purpose is for isolated seeds stock, but the pods are heavy enough that even 3 of them can be put to good use.
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How do you like to eat them?
 
SatanicFlatIron said:
The rebirth of the Texas tepin is really beautiful, it almost looks like a bonsai!
You have a lot of peppers that intrigue me (p.s. I think next year I'll try some mexican and native american heirlooms too! At the end of the season I'll ask you and ahayastani for some advice)


How do you like to eat them?
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I think the mexican and southwestern heirloom types are worth exploring. Especially the mexican types as there's so much variety to them. A good number of the ones I'm growing this season I haven't grown before so I'm looking forward to finding some new ones I really like.

The most common way I've eaten rocotos is probably sautéing them, especially with onions, and using them as a topping on things. I've stuffed them too - never a true rocoto relleno - but along those lines. Some of them have been surprisingly hot when prepared that way. I've made some sauces, fermented and not. I've even made dried powders that turned out quite good.
 
stettoman said:
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.
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Yes I have. Those were the bomb! The chili idea sounds good. I haven't had any for a while, not since my slow cooker gave up the ghost.
 
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Rocoto infused chokecherry jelly/glaze/ice cream topping
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Whoa! :shock: That sounds good!

Just to add to the uses that I've found for them, I have added them fresh (deseeded and sliced) in salads and they're dynamite. Not all dressings work with the flavor of the Rocotos, but Pfeiffer Caesar and Ken's tableside Caesar, as well as regular old oil and vinegar seem to be the best complements for them.
 
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This little guy is an ancho durango. I had bad luck with the seeds, with only two from a full bag of 20+ popping and both stunted and wouldn't grow roots normally. I managed to salvage the first one (this was several months ago) and it's producing now. This one I planted more recently and despite it germinating on April 1st, it simply hadn't developed. So, 3 or 4 days ago I pulled it out of its container, rinsed it off, then moved it into a kratky shot glass with a little water. It had no roots and the based looked pretty brown and dead, but it's already bouncing back and has some nice root development. I figure it should be rooted out well in 7-10 days and I'll get it back into dirt again. With a little luck I should still be able to get a batch of pods from it this season.

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A few other varieties I haven't posted yet

Mazateco, seeds courtesy of Ahayastani. These guys produce some really solid and sneaky-hot pods.
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Mucho Nacho F1. I haven't grown these before, but my understanding is they produce a lot of big pods, which would be great.
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And a Banana Pepper
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It looks like plant-out is shaping up to be next weekend if I can get the community garden plots weeded and ready by then. I'm getting pretty psyched to plant, but there's an awful lot of weeds waiting for me out there 😟
 
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ahayastani said:
Here they just burn down the fields 🙄.
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Best I can do is to skin it with a string trimmer first, but I still have to dig all the roots and such out and break it up. The grass is the worst.

The Mazateco's definitely a good one. It's odd sometimes how one thing will get popular on a broader scale when others that are better, or also good, just different, won't. That's a big part of what I enjoy about trying so many of the different, less well known, and regional varieties.
 
CaneDog said:
Best I can do is to skin it with a string trimmer first, but I still have to dig all the roots and such out and break it up. The grass is the worst.
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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 turning it with my tiller twice a day just to get it conditioned for planting. Yup, the grass is the worst, every micrometer of broken root becomes an entire new plant.

Man was it all worth it!
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stettoman said:
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 turning it with my tiller twice a day just to get it conditioned for planting. Yup, the grass is the worst, every micrometer of broken root becomes an entire new plant.

Man was it all worth it!
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Nice haul!!
 
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