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  1. Avon Barksdale

    Anyone growing naranjilla (Solanum quitoense)?

    Another edible nightshade, naranjilla means little orange in Spanish, their juice supposedly makes a nice drink. Apparently they are very susceptible to root-knot nematodes and are difficult to fruit in temperate climates, but they look really cool so I'm trying anyway. A poster on gardenweb...
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    seeds Germinating seeds from commercial dried pods

    A lot of people wonder if seeds from dried pods bought from the grocery store are viable, so I tested a bunch this year. I had tried a few in the past and got mixed results, but that was outside in the summer and I didn't watch them too closely, didn't water very much, and didn't keep track of...
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    Making your own vinegar

    Who here makes their own vinegar? I make pineapple vinegar and banana vinegar, which are commonly used in Mexico and often made at home. It's great for marinades, pickling jalapeños, salad dressings, salsas, hot sauces, etc. and it's really easy to make. And it's made mostly with the...
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    2012 hardiness zone map

    The hardiness zone map has been updated for 2012, the first update since 1990. I went from 5B to 6A. :party: Anyone else change zones? http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/
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    First hook of the year is...

    a pequin that came from a store bought dried pod that I really didn't expect to germinate at all, I just threw some in the seed starting mix at the last minute on a whim. In fact I ordered some pequin seeds after I sowed these. I know some seeds from commercial dried pods germinate because I...
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    wanted wanted: aji panca (baccatum) seeds

    can buy or trade, I have seeds for the great majority of what's in my grow list in my profile.
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    overwintering Somes of my overwintered peppers and citrus

    edit: sorry for the title, meant to write "some pictures of my overwintered peppers and citrus". Had a few beers. :oops: I can't really get pictures of the whole area, because it's a closet with a door that only allows easy access to 1/2 of it, but here are some pictures of my overwintering...
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    Avon Barksdale's red chicken enchliadas

    Just made these and they were pretty much perfect, so I thought I would share. Ingredients: 4 chicken breasts 2 small white onions 5 cloves of garlic tablespoon chicken bouillon teaspoon marjoram teaspoon thyme salt pepper 3 large plum type tomatoes 3 bay leaves coriander (seed) dried red...
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    chinense Butch T Scorpion- 1, Tough guy at work- 0

    This guy at work has been telling everyone that hot peppers don't phase him, and that he has eaten 3 or 4 "ghost peppers" at a time and they weren't that hot. I seriously doubt he actually ate 3 or 4 bhuts or nagas, at least not real ones, but that's what he claimed. He ate a tepin a few days...
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    preservation Smell of dehydrated peppers

    I've been drying my peppers in a Nesco FD80 at 95F and after smelling a lot of the dehydrated pods in ziplock bags they seem to have sort of a cheese smell rather than a typical dehydrated pepper smell. The peppers look perfect, perfect color, very dry and crunchy, no sign of any mold or...
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    favorite What are you favorite non-superhot chinenses to grow?

    For the purpose of this thread, I'll define superhots as all the various varieties of Nagas/bhuts, 7 Pods, and Scorpions. I'm doing some tentative thinking and planning of what I want to grow next year, and the hardest part of the list to narrow down is the non-superhot chinenses. There is a...
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    Bhut jolokias with stingers

    I know it's not particularly strange or rare for bhut jolokias to have stingers, but I have a plant that seems to uniformly produce pods with pretty marked stingers. Has anyone had this before? There are about ~15 full sized pods on the plant and every one has a nice little stinger on it as...
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    The back ah mah throat!

    Does anyone else never get throat burn? The only parts of my mouth that ever burn are my tongue and lips, but mostly just tongue. I always see people talking about back of the throat burn but I've never had it, and I've eaten almost everything...bhut jolokia, Butch T, Scorpion, 7 Pod, Douglah...
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    scovilles Cumari scoville rating?

    I keep seeing these listed at 30-50k (yellow chinense one), not sure what the source is but that's what every site says. I can't seem to find where they were actually tested. They have them grouped with chiltepin, tobasco, and cayenne. Does anyone else think that these are far hotter than all...
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    This drives me nuts

    HabaƱero. On a nationally distributed product that is for sale all over the country, they probably produce millions of bags of these. :banghead: I just emailed them about their spelling mistake. Let's see what they have to say. :lol: These chips are pretty tasty though. :oops:
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    A little pepper pron

    The big harvests are starting to come in now. :D Here's what I picked this afternoon. Should have about 1/2 this much to pick tomorrow and the next day. Time to start figuring out what I'm going to do with them all. :D I picked a lot of them with a little green still on them, going to let...
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    A little pepper pron

    oops, double post, could a mod delete this please? :oops:
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    How are everyone's plants doing in this heat?

    Mine are getting roughed up right now. It's still 94F here at 7:30 PM. :eek: At first it was just the ones in the buckets, but now the ones in the ground are taking a beating too. They look half dead during the day and don't start to perk up until about sundown. Growth and pod set has come...
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    What kind of eggs are these?

    Just found these on the bottom of a trinidad scorpion leaf. I almost killed them right when I saw them but figured I better find out what they are first. I have a lot of assassin bugs on my plants, I don't want to kill them if they're assassin bug eggs. I've seen a lot of lightning bugs...
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    breeding ideas for crosses

    I think I'm going to try to do some crosses either today or sometime soon. I was thinking cumari (yellow chinense one) x yellow 7, and cumari (red praetermissum one) x bhut jolokia or bih jolokia, or possibly a scorpion (regular or Butch T). As I understand it the praetermissum and (mostly)...
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