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Today launches The Pacific Northwest GLOG 2017, geared towards growers from the following regions:  Oregon Washington Alaska Northern California Idaho Montana Wyoming British Columbia Lets hope for a great grow season up here!     Feel free to post any info about peppers growing (or not) in the...

State of the Garden Address (2015 / 2016) In 2015 I decided to experiment with a bunch of new peppers I’d never tried before.  Some I liked and some I won’t be growing again.  About half the plants I grew were staple ones that I grow every year.  Here is a breakdown of my thoughts on each from...

Our local Asian grocery had these on sale this week and were labeled chocolate habanero.  What do you think?   

I don't usually start collecting seeds for the next season so early, but this guy seems to be pretty rare.  Does anyone have seeds, or could refer me to someone who does?  Willing to pay or trade for seeds, though I'm assuming if you have C.flexuosum, I probably don't have anything interesting...

Ok, this is going to sound odd, but here goes.   I picked up a 4x6 t5 light fixture and it wont fit where I need to install it.  Because it was a special order the store's policy is that they can't take back unless its broken.  The guy at the store actually told me to find a way to make it "not...

I've been procrastinating a bit this year, and just got around to starting my seed germination.  Last year, I picked just a few varieties and grew 4-6 plants of each variety.  I realized that if a plant does well, one plant would give me more than enough peppers, so this year I decided to go the...

This is a topic that frustrates me.  I've been making hot sauce for myself for about 5 years.  I love heat and I love great flavor, and I'm always trying to find the right balance of a good level of heat with wonderful flavor. My friends and family are always asking to try my sauces.  But when...

I'm saw that Facebook released a new iPhone app today called Rooms (may be on Android as well, not sure), so I figured I'd give play with it.  I created a new Room called Pepper Madness.  I kind of figured it could be a "room" for pepper picture porn.  Post your picks, your favorite peppers...

I pulled this Reaper from my garden and potted it for an over-winter.  Its been pretty happy for about a month, but recently I noticed a lot of the leaves have these loose white granules all over them.  They aren't stuck to the leaf, they'll just roll off if you tilt the leaf or blow on it.  I...

So I've been playing around with simple home cheese making, and one of the side products is a LOT of whey.   My question is, when using whey to help kick off a fermentation, is this whey as good as, better than, worse than the whey you would get by draining yogurt?  Is whey just whey, no matter...

Ran across a vendor at our local farmers market that had a bin of random fun looking peppers.  I asked her what kinds they were and all she said "Very scary peppers...too hot".  So I dug through the bin and pulled out the ones that looked the most ripe.  Here is a picture of the bunch.  I tried...

I love aji lemon and aji pineapple peppers and in thinking about what to grow next year wondered what other peppers that people thought were similar in flavor.  Anything else that you guys can think of?

Instead of having a different for each sauce I want to share with folks, I decided to make a Slog...a Hot Sauce Log with a silent H.   Roasted peppers with strawberry and mango ferment (take 1)   Haven't made any hot sauce all year because I've been going through last year's surplus.  So for my...

I've noticed that many (most) hot sauce recipes have carrots in them.  I'm curious why?  Is it a taste thing?  Texture thing?  Chemical composition thing?  Because the other guy puts them in there thing?   This isn't a criticism of carrots.  I'm just curious why so much carrots.

Howdy folks, do you know if its possible to change a thread's Topic Title once its been posted?   Thanks, John

I'm one of the (very) few around here that likes vinegar and vinegar based sauces.  I've played around with a lot of different vinegars in hot sauce, but haven't heard of lime vinegar until I ran across this article.  Most of my sauces have salt and lime juice, so using a lime vinegar sounds...

I've got a habanero plant that I started last spring and am over wintering.     As you can see, it has no main stem above the soil (pretty sure I planted it too deep when I first got it), but instead has 15 or so stems coming out of the soil, and some of them are fairly weak.   I've been...

Just wondering if this was a normal growth pattern for manzanos or is mine just "special"   This guy was planted last March.  During the year his main stem only grew about 4" long, but his branches are pushing 12" long.  Its really odd to see a pepper plant thats amost two feed wide, but so...

2014 season came to an end...planning for 2015 grow season   I'm trying to work out my final list of peppers for the 2015 season.  I keep adding and removing peppers from the list weekly.   In 2014 I planted 16 pepper plants in my one  8' x 3' bed, and by Sep the plants are pretty full, I think...

Satan's Circus I found this recipe over the holidays and gave it a go.  I replaced the chili infused Aperol with habanero infused vodka.  It was really good, but I did find the habanero over powered the cherry liqueur and the lemon.  It was basically rye whiskey and habanero heat, which isn't...