Flamecycle
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I love your thread PIC 1, and that was yet another beautiful harvest. I hope thats not the last harvest, I want more pictures!!!
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1st Pornage of the Season!......barely
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Hey Flamecycle,
thanks for the nice comment,
I feel pretty encouraged now to keep things rolling as long as possible. There's plenty of partially ripened pods plus loads of green ones.
Any of the unripened peppers always end up in a couple of 3gal containers with vinegar, the liquid gets incorporated into the hot sauce making through the winter
thanks,...Greg
Man your killing it there, what are ya gonna do with um all...?
Thanks man,
Well... for one thing having a variety of hot peppers is worth its "Weight in Gold"
you can always find Jalapenos, Serranos, and Orange Habs in any grocery store, but
having the exotics makes for good trade for other items.
Although most get sauced or dehydrated, as far as eating them right of the plant like
an "apple" that doesen't happen, only with the "Bird" peppers, I can eat those
like "Jellybeans".....Ha
I do like to sliver off pieces of the super-hots to try....but thats as raw as it gets...
I am guessing that you start them indoors before you move them outdoors since you are leaving in Chicago in a cooler climate. With them type of peppers, when do you start indoors?........AND AWESOME LOOKING PLANTS!!!!!! Heck of a job
Thanks Rmardis,
I envy the growers from the South, they have a longer season outdoors with bumper crops and a shorter time needed indoors for startup
But you hit it on the head, Chicago's cold and windy in the spring, I generally startup around Jan. 1st which gives me a good jump on the super hots or longer season varieties,
I,ve started in early Dec. many times before but what happened this year, winter ran into spring and I needed to keep the plants inside longer,
A few were already 2/3 ft tall, I was able to start hardening them off in early May which is pretty late, as a get go
The big problem was the wind not the cold, lost a good doz. plants due to the stems cracking even though they were staked.
This year will be a New Years start, there's always an extra calender lying around, and once I get started I try to date and doc. the plant process and compare that to previous grows...
Now you got me hyped......!
Time to go home and clean off the ballasts and unbox the bulbs.......HAHAHAH
What a great garden! I am using one of your harvest pics as my desktop background, I hope you don't mind! 
Thanks Rmardis,
I envy the growers from the South, they have a longer season outdoors with bumper crops and a shorter time needed indoors for startup
But you hit it on the head, Chicago's cold and windy in the spring, I generally startup around Jan. 1st which gives me a good jump on the super hots or longer season varieties,
I,ve started in early Dec. many times before but what happened this year, winter ran into spring and I needed to keep the plants inside longer,
A few were already 2/3 ft tall, I was able to start hardening them off in early May which is pretty late, as a get go
The big problem was the wind not the cold, lost a good doz. plants due to the stems cracking even though they were staked.
This year will be a New Years start, there's always an extra calender lying around, and once I get started I try to date and doc. the plant process and compare that to previous grows...
Now you got me hyped......!
Time to go home and clean off the ballasts and unbox the bulbs.......HAHAHAH
Another question
I have not got what i will need for starting my grow indoors yet, just the seeds. I plan on starting only around 50 indoors. The rest of my garden can be started when it warms up. Anycow, what do you recommend for my situation, and the cheapest way out?
Another question
I have not got what i will need for starting my grow indoors yet, just the seeds. I plan on starting only around 50 indoors. The rest of my garden can be started when it warms up. Anycow, what do you recommend for my situation, and the cheapest way out?
It would be easy to just tell you to do a search on indoor grows,
but I'll give you a couple of tips: buy yourselve a seed flat with a 72 cell insert, a good bag or two of a good seed starter mix, and some type of cfl or flourescent tube fixture(s),
extras would be a heating mat for the trays, humidity dome for the flat(s)
Heck,.. some people use disposible styro-cups and window lighting!
Good luck......within a month or two this forum will be flooded with questions and info
for this topic...
Good stuff PIC1. Thoroughly impressed. I have a question about the hawaiian sweet hot. I ordered one from C.C. Nurseries and it looked quite different from yours. Pods hung downwards and had a jalapeno shape only the stem end was fatter than the posterior end.
The plants that I'm growing have peppers growing in the upright position, on Maui I've seen those plants in tree form where the branches hang down but the peppers still produce in the upright position, but usually their grown in shrub-like form and used in landscaping, if your interested in Hawaiian pepper seeds, send me a PM, I have a few types...
Greg
Thanks Tim,
Next season there will be some "Jamaican Bonnet " close-ups...........oh yea!
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PIC1..... That is my hawaiian sweet hot from CCN.
Ok......Let me take a look at mine and I'll snap a shot Saturday before the days harvest.
My "Sweet Hot's" were from a HGP bought in a "hardware" store in Maui last October, it was funny but they actually had a Christmas display up next to the packet stand......it was only 80 degrees out......ha
But in our travels back to Maui, M-W-F are the days for the farmers mkt's, and I'm always searching for a different pepper, island grown......sometimes backyard grown, from the locals......very generous people.!