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Nice, I live in Corpus! I fly over you all the time!

Wind is a constant here, so when it gets cold all of a sudden it shocks plants with windchill. Temps in the upper 40's and 30mph wind shocked most of my plants. They dropped all of their leaves and flowers. So with the actual "winter" coming, it was too little time to grow flowers and have them...

Today it's raining peppers!   6 bowls!     Front L-R: Golden ghost with some green ones from a fallen branch, and my biggest haul of Morugas. Back L-R:  Reapers, mix of chocolate bhutlas and naglahs, and bhuts.       Still a LOT left on the plants, and most are still flowering and setting!

Thanks! It's been a learning experience for sure. I learned that:  bigger air pots grow bigger plants 100%, that Morugas don't produce too much(at least year 1), that reapers WILL produce a lot, shade cloth is vital here, there is no such thing as too much water when it's hot, June to July no...

Rocoto will be one of the most difficult, a real challenge for sure. 

Anybody want to try some to see if they're the "right" kind?  :party:   If you break the stems and they turn blue/purple..... :high:   Well....from what I remember from college a few decades ago  :shh:

Not going to happen today, it's raining sideways. All the peppers are ripe though, a couple hundred I guess. Should be enough to have powder for the next year :party:   Blurry pic:  

Thanks, tomorrow should be the biggest harvest so far!

Smoked for an hour and a half, didn't want tooooo much smoke. Now in the dehydrator.  Ribs were KILLER!!!!  

Chopped and in the smoker next to my 3-2-1 ribs :drooling:  

Hopefully less rain for you too! Today I'm going to smoke a gallon bag of the chocolates, naglahs and bhutlahs, to turn into powder. I'm almost out of powder!

Good day today, first big haul of the season!   Wind damaged side where the chocolates are:   Good side:   Some are flowering again since the weather warmed up:   Haul was 4 bowls this time:   Gallon bag of just the chocolates:     Pretty happy with the plants, my season has really just...

Better! I'm going to give them a few days before next harvest, there are a ton that are just about ripe!  

The sun is back!! Warm weather and plenty of sunshine, as normal.    Garden with wind, hornworm damage   Getting better every time!     

Not sure, but more than in a normal year for sure.  It's cold and wet today, it should be hot and dry. Tomorrow should be the start of a warming period, but will still be cooler than normal for this time of year.

Not overwintering much, trying new ones.    BBG pumkin Aribibi guisano 2 phenos of the peppers that my buddy has been open pollen growing harvesting and re-planting for the last 10yrs.  Red rocoto, already have them growing   Overwinters: My most productive reaper Most productive red bhut Most...

Starting to harvest the ones I've been growing this year just to see what they are like:   First, the plant grows really well, it's at least 7-8 feet tall and medium bushy. Loads of flowers that should give me tons of fruit in the future.  The pods are about 3-4 inches long, smooth, with...

Despite the cool weather I had a decent pull, then 2 days later had a little bigger one. I'm hoping that the trend continues! Warmer weather is on the horizon!   Ok pull   A little bit bigger

And temps in the low 60's for the next week with rain  :mope:

WIND!!!! Just got home last night, this morning is a huge howling wind storm. 2 plants blew over so I had to rig up some temporary lines to hold them until it stops blowing. I may have to keep them held in place for the rest of the season...