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    news Pepper X Officially takes the title

    I don't want to start any trouble but I don't think Ed would go public with this if it wasn't true. It doesn't make any sense to put something out this totally fake. It would ruin his company instantly if he did that. My point being there was no reason for him to fake anything imho.
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    food Wanted to show off the final goods of the season...

    Just like the title suggests, I wanted to show off my final products. Everything turned out pretty much exactly like how I envisioned it. Right down to the cute (IMHO) little jars I got off of Amazon. (2 oz jars) ...roughly $20. I don't remember if I got 20 jars or if it was 16 jars but either...
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    soil Dormant potting soil and re-energizing it for spring (??)

    I got that Miracle Grow potting soil - the good stuff and now it's time for me to store away the pots I put the soil in for winter time. Here's what I'm thinking - leave the soil in the pots and leave the pots outside in the elements but add dried fall leaves to the top of the soil and use some...
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    pics Another batch of Habaneros and (White spots?)

    Ok. So, can I still use those peppers by cutting out the spots before dehydrating or should I toss the whole pod in the trash?
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    pics Another batch of Habaneros and (White spots?)

    Picked another batch of habs and ....... what are the white looking spots???
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    pics Some of my habaneros I picked yesterday

    How many you want? I would call this my first semi-serious growing pepper season so I have no idea how many it takes / amounts , etc. I have 4 or (5??) Hab plants. I honestly can't remember and they're so bushy now it's hard for me to see in there. (I crowded them and learned I only need 3 to...
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    pics Some of my habaneros I picked yesterday

    I don't think I'll have that much excess but I'd be happy to send you some seeds if you want. No charge of course. I'm going to leave a few on the stalks for seed purposes. Gonna make sure they're good and ripe before harvesting.
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    pics Some of my habaneros I picked yesterday

    I don't really know how to describe the taste. I'm not really a pepperhead, I just like to grow em' and use some for dried spice on my chili in the winter. They are juicy and they definitely have the heat of a normal habanero, imho. I can actually describe my Reapers better : they have a nice...
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    pics Some of my habaneros I picked yesterday

    Lol, I do have somewhat small hands, but thems are still whoppers. :cool::D
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    pics Some of my habaneros I picked yesterday

    The plants in the ground have a ton more pods on them. The amount of dried spice I will have will be insane. A lady up the road said she makes salsa out of them. I may give her some.
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    dried Dehydrating problems due to humidity (?)

    How do you "toast them for a minute?" ~ exactly? Thank you all btw.
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    dried Dehydrating problems due to humidity (?)

    I recently dried some of my habanero's and reapers and made sure they were nice and crispy. I then put them in a zip lock bag and sort of hand crushed them until I was satisfied. That was fine for about 1 week but I noticed some of the larger pieces had become somewhat pliable and soft again...
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    yield Why does 1 plant have 40+ peppers and the one next to it 0?

    Just throwing this out there ~ I talked to "Mike" at Puckerbutt (Home of the Reaper) and he explained one year he got a bunch of flowers but few, if any, pods. He said he happened to mention it to Ed and Ed told him to use "Tomato Set" fertilizer. He said he took the advice and it's made all the...
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    yield Why does 1 plant have 40+ peppers and the one next to it 0?

    Well, at least I'm not the only one. The thing that drives me crazy is that I anticipated a few plant "losses" so I compensated by planting 5 in each row. 1st row nearest to the sun with no other shade interruption = 5x sweet banana plants and not one of them ever looked healthy the entire...
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    hydroponic What went wrong ! ?

    Seems pretty obvious to me. That is clearly a female plant and you clearly pissed it off. <sarcasm - ish>
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    harvesting ? About when you harvest and some pictures.

    Hello again. I wanted to ask when you guys harvest your peppers, do you wait until they are all ripe before harvesting? For instance, in the one picture where I have a small reaper, there are about 9 other reapers on that same plant that are still green. So do I pick the ripe one or let it hang...
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    yield Why does 1 plant have 40+ peppers and the one next to it 0?

    I totally feel you here. I laid down 4 railroad ties in a square in the yard. (Full sun spot) I then proceeded to fill the square with about 70% topsoil and 30% cow manure. (I did this to save cost. Cow manure is expensive - the topsoil was not) Anyway, I mixed it all together. Raked it back...
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    seeds Yet another seed question....

    On my "Jalapenos" thread, you guys said the pepper needed to be red in order for the seed to be viable. My question > I am growing *HUGE* Habaneros and I believe I have been making a mistake re: seeds. When the habs are turning from green to yellow to a dark orange / not red..... I pick them...
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    Hello from Hickory. (Burke County)
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    kitchenware My Reaper Plant, My smokers and a question about blended spice storage

    The "little" green egg on the left is actually the the Large Big Green Egg. The monster smoker / grill to the right ~ I call it "Kong." I can smoke approximately 10 pork butts in 1 overnight session which = about 80 lbs of meat. Give or take. The walls are nearly 2 inches thick and it weighs...
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