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Time to get started.
 
Ordered some seeds. Buying starter materials this week. I will not get seeds started until February, but thought I would get a jump on planning this year...
 
 
The list so far:
 
 
 
2016 Grow List

(NEW)

Big Black Mama

Chocolate Naga Brain

Ghengis Khans Brain

Peach Bhut Jolokia

Red Bhut Jolokia

Black Bhutlah SLP

Venezuelan Tiger All failed to germinate, and RFC is not selling live plants this year. Bummer!

Buckeye Butchlah

Gourmet Fatalii Jigsaw
 
Chocolate Primo/Reaper <added 12/31
 
Apocalypse Scorpion <added 12/31
 
Bhut Orange Copenhagen <added 12/31
 
Bhutlah Bubblegum 7 Pot <added 12/31
 
Kraken Scorpion <added 1/10
 
NuMex Las Cruces Cayenne < added 1/17
 
For the 2016 competition
NuMex Big Jim               < added 1/17
NuMex Heritage Big Jim < added 1/17
 
Jay's Chocolate Ghost Scorpion <added 1/17
 
Big Red Mama Premium <added 1/17
 
Joes Long Cayenne <added 1/19
 
Ristra Cayenne Hybrid <added 1/19 (Failed to germinate, purchaed live plants.)
 
Brazilian Ghost <added 1/21
 
Carbanero <added 1/21
 
Bhut Orange Copenhagen (another) <added 1/23
 
Chocolate BBG7 <added 1/23
 
Chocolate Butch T <added 1/23
 
Nagareaper <added 1/23
 
Black Naga <added 1/23
 
Bhutlah <added 1/23
 
Not Wartryx <added 1/23
 
SRTSL <added 1/25
 
Lightning Habanero Chocolate <added 1/25
 
Big Guy Jalapeno <added 1/30
 
California Wonder Bell < added 1/30
 
Mustard Bhutlah <added 2/6 (Thanks 96strat)
 
7-Pot Primo <added 2/6
 
Reaper/Naga Morich cross <added 2/7
 
Great Stuff Bell <added 2/7
 
King Naga < added 2/23
 
Trinidad Scorpion Peach <added 3/4
 
 
 
 
(SAVED SEED)

King Naga - long pod All failed to germinate, mold.

King Naga - short pod

Chocolate Bhut Jolokia
 
Brown Large Scorpion cross (F2)

Yellow 7-Pot cross #1 (F2)

Yellow 7-Pot cross #2 (F2)

Caramel Madballz (F2)
 
Mystery volunteer (Red Datil cross?)
 
 
Maybe a few others, have not decided yet.
 
 
 
 
EDIT:
 
I need to add some Jalapeno, Cayenne, and Bells to round out the list.
 
EDIT 2:
 
I purchased the following live plants:
 
Ecuadoran Hot Lemon and Jamaican Hot Chocolate Habanero (because I never have had success germinating these), Cayenne Golden, and Ristra Cayenne Hybrid (which failed to germinate; 0 for 14).
 
I also bought two live plant varieties of sauce tomatoes from Burpee (three each of Roma and SuperSauce Hybrid).

 

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A group of Chocolate Jay's Ghost Scorpion:
 
 

 
 
Chocolate Nagabrain getting ripe:
 
 

 
 
 
Yellow 7-Pot crosses. Two months ago, at plant out, were about 8 inches:
 
 

 

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Carbanero ripening:
 
 

 
 
Brown Large Scorpion cross twins:
 
 

 
 
 
Another Brown Large Scorpion cross making some pods (foreground) that are distinctly different from the others (background) on the plant:
 
 

 

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Plenty of pods getting ripe.
 
Too hot in the afternoon after work to pick, but this weekend, I will get out early and do my first harvest of the year, stay tuned...

 

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First real pick of the season:
 
 
 

 
A couple more:
 
 

 

 

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Joe's Long Cayenne:
 

 
 
Yellow 7-Pot crosses turning color:
 

 

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From third week of July until last Saturday, I only saw a little more than one-quarter inch in my backyard rainguage.
 
Since it began raining just before noon Saturday until I checked around 4:00 P.M. after work today, I had 3.1 inches in my rainguage.
 
Pods have been so-so both size and quantity wise, hopefully this good soaking will set them off.

 

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A few pods from the Yellow 7-Pot cross #1:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tomorrow (Saturday) going to pick a lot.
 
Pics to follow.
 
EDIT:
 
First round:
 
Ghengis Khan's Brain, Choclate BBG7, Carbanero.
 

 
Six inch ruler at bottom for scale.
 
 
Round two:
 
Chocolate NagaBrain, Big Red Mama Premium, Mustard Bhutlah.
 

 
 
Round three:
 
Bhut Orange Copenhagen (top 3 - 96strat, bottom 4 - RFC), Jigsaw, Chocolate Jay's Ghost Scorpion,
 
Yellow 7-Pot cross #2,
 
(NOT) Black Bhutlah SLP.
 

 
 
Fourth round (a little more ambitious):
 
Kraken Scorpion
 
Black Naga
 
Bhutlah BBG 7-Pot
 
Not Wartryx
 
King Naga
 
Lightning Chocolate Habanero
 
Apocolypse Scorpion
 

 

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Updated.

 

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Sunday morning, back at it:
 
Joe's Long Cayenne, NuMex Las Cruces Cayenne, Ristra Cayenne.
 

 
 
Joe's Long Cayenne are aptly named:
 

 
 
Next up;
 
Mystery Red (seeds saved from unknown volunteer from last year, but these pods are much larger)
 
Big Black Mama
 
Red Habanero
 
7-Pot Primo, off-pheno (bought the seeds from Primo's Peppers)
 
 

 
 
Really nice BBM:
 
 

 

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Had a few branches drooping down to the ground, bought some plant stakes to prop them up before they broke:
 
 
Red Bhut Jolokia:
 

 
Jay's Chocolate Ghost Scorpion:
 

 
Jigsaw:
 

 
 
Most of the rest seem to be so intertwined now, that they are supporting each other:
 
 

 

[Spicegeist]

Wow, those Red Bhuts look great!

 

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Red Bhut Jolokia:
 

 

 
 

 

[karoo]

wow , great plants.
It will be my first time growing red bhuts this year.
inspirational.

 

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Wow, those Red Bhuts look great!

Thanks.
 
There is a Chocolate Bhut plant behind that one, and a Peach Bhut next to the Chocolate, but it is difficult to get pics.
 
I will post pics of ripe pods when I pick them..

wow , great plants.
It will be my first time growing red bhuts this year.
inspirational.

 
Thanks.
 
Bhut Jolokia are really easy, in my opinion, to grow sucessfully. Plant them, give them water when they need it, maybe a little fertilizer on occasion, but otherwise, just let them do their thing.
 
Good luck with your grow.

 

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I posted this pic:
 

 
 
about different shape/color pods on one of my Brown Large Scorpion cross plants.
 
 
 
One of the pods has turned color, and it is yellow and looks exactly like the original 'King Naga' (which it was not, obviously) from three years ago:
 

 
Two generations of crossing, and the original re-appears.
 
The brown pods in the background are the Brown Large Scorpion and, yes, they are on the same plant as the yellow pod.

 

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Bhut Orange Copenhagen (RFC), Peach Bhut Jolokia, Bhut Orange Copenhagen (96strat):
 
 

 
 
Ecudoran Hot Lemon Cayenne, Trinidad Scorpion Peach:
 
 

 
 
 
Brown Large Scorpion cross:
 

 

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Took most of the pods I harvested the last two weekends to work today to give to my co-workers.
 
Not sure how many pods, a couple hundred maybe, a couple of pounds anyway.
 
Most of the guys were curious, but only had three or four takers.

 

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So...Many...Pods...
 
Trying to motivate myself to pick probably more than 500 pods, not having much success convincing myself to do so.
 
Anyway, a few pics.
 
Bhut Orange Copenhagen is going berserk:
 

 
 
Jigsaw is not far behind:
 

 
 
Red Bhut Jolokia also exploding with pods:
 

 
 
Some Chocolate Jay's Ghost Scorpions are seriously gnarly:
 
 

 
The 'twins', my Brown Large Scorpion cross plants in the clay pot:
 

 
 
Lastly, this is two Apocalypse Kraken Scorpion plants. When I transplanted, I am sure there was only one plant, but as I always start two seeds in my coir plugs, the second, smaller plant must have germinated way late. It is hard to see the difference, but the smaller plant (on the left) is making chocolate colored pods, while the larger is making normal red pods:
 
 
EDIT:
OK, so I mistakenly listed this as an Apocolypse.
 
After going back and reviewing the Kraken, it is supposed to be chocolate, so the larger plant with the red pods is the anomaly.
 

 

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Jamaican Hot Chocolate Habanero:
 

 
72 pods, threw out another 32 that were getting soft, dozens of green pods still on the two plants.