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Thanks Spicegeist!  Your glog is one of the most interesting ones; you have some very cool crossing going and I like your choices in wild peppers and the bhut varieties.  Hopefully my Jamaican Jolokia is unique and I hope to have a few more wild crosses (including some x galapagoenses of my own)...

Greens:   Looks like maybe two weeks or so before temps get into the lower 30's briefly - hope these pods can ripen or it doesn't reach 32F:    Brain Strain: This is the coolest-looking pod, but actually have a few nice and huge ripe pods on this plant.  Being in a bag really seemed to help - I...

F2 cayenne x goat's weed: Of the 2 fuzziest seedlings I selected, this has the more cayenne-like form and pods - the other is taller and has almost Fresno-like pods.   CXC2, chinense cross:   Galapagos tomato:

  There are others that look "brainier" on the plant, but these are the biggest! - Tick

Thanks Portuge and your Blue Mystery is very nice!  I got free Blue Mystery seeds from PepperLover a few summers ago and had a nice dark-green seedling, but it died over the winter.  Maybe I’ll try growing it again.  I lucked out on the galapagoense, and it’s grown quickly (sprouted April 30 or...

Cumari pollux - in decent sun, seeds started 3/30/14:   galapagoense, seeds started same date:   tepin x wild chinense cross, very hot, flavorful and has 2 fruit on some of the nodes:

Here's the monster naga from last post:   galapagoense:   Cumari Pollux:   wild chinense:   tepin:   tepin X wild chinense: The above is much hotter than its mother tepin and tastes much better than my previous annuum x chinense cross (aji dulce x Bulgarian Carrot). It's juicy and the heat...

Lacewing larva - good guy!

Very nice pictures, especially since their flowers are so small for a chinense!

Nice review as usual Nigel!  Glad you compare them favorably to Cumari do Para.  They are a nice little pepper and the plant is both pretty and surprisingly resilient.  My still very small overwinters recovered after being covered with aphids, then mildew and then my forgetting to water them...

Quick update before running out for a bit - plants are getting big!   Datil; got the idea for the bucket holes from someone's post on THP, forgot who atm:   bhut x Bradley's Bahamian, "bhutamian":   Monster Naga:   One of its pods:   Tepin mom, tepin x wild chinense F1 (agxc1), wild chinense...

The heat is better, not far off from the tepin mother and possibly hotter, I will compare when I have them both ripe,   And now some more hot summer pods:   the brain strain in the bag has a nice little pod developing:   wild chinense x bhut, cxc1, ripening and showing a nice color change:  ...

Most plants are doing better in the warmer weather.  The bigger brain strain is still crinkly and yellow - think I overdid it on the manure/ferts when I potted it as I was excited about growing a monster plant.   2nd brain strain - 1st attempt at growing in a bag.  Got it for $1 and it's bigger...

Hi gaffers1   This sounds possibly like what one of my datil peppers did over the winter.  It grew to a fairly big size in a cool kitchen window (no extra lighting) and it began sticking out it's pistils and then pushing out little pods through unopened flower buds.  They ripened, had no seeds...

I have 3 Bradley's Bahamian (frutescens) x bhut crosses that were suffering in full sun.  The biggest plant would wilt all day and wasn't growing and the 2 smaller ones got very bad sunburn after having seemingly been hardened off for weeks. Now that they are in a mostly shady spot they are...

Thanks about the pods Runescape.  I've moved some plants off the concrete and to the edge of some shade.  Think the warm-up to the 80's and the heat at the side of the house was part of the problem.  The yellowing is actually on many plants, some just slightly but more than any I saw last year...

6-7-14 update - I' m WORRIED -  not liking how the grow is going but there is some cool stuff happening with some plants.   First the bad news:   Many plants are starting to suffer - worst is in below picture and I hope the others won't reach that point.  I'm trying to figure out if I have too...

Cruzzfish,   Are you ordering from Sigma?   It may have been mentioned already but you could buy Surflan or similar if you want to save time.  I bought a bag of it at least 5 years ago.  At the time I think I was going to try it on amaryllis, coleus or possibly peppers.  I never did get around...

Mystery Ghost!   So a nice woman at my work loves very hot peppers.  I've given her some bhut jolokia pods and she’s watched over my plants while I was on vacation; which was already kind of her.  I gave her one of my plants in return.  Anyway, today she brought in a ghost pepper for me to try...

Yes, I did taste the red one today.  It was soft and pulpy inside like the tepin mother plant which was nice.  However, it wasn't that hot (5/10?) and not as flavorful as the tepin.  I think it could be good to quickly mash-up and throw into a soup or stir fry.  Maybe newer pods will get...