alkhall 2016

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).

 

[Bhuter]

I love Chocolate Habaneros. Unfortunately my Black Congo ripened Red. I guess I'll have to try again next year. Your Brown Scorpion Cross is so gnarly! I love the texture. Everything looks great!

-Adam

 

[alkhall]

I love Chocolate Habaneros. Unfortunately my Black Congo ripened Red. I guess I'll have to try again next year. Your Brown Scorpion Cross is so gnarly! I love the texture. Everything looks great!

-Adam

 
Thanks.
 
As the BLS cross is only F2, probably five to seven years before it will be fully stable.

 

[alkhall]

Jigsaw:
 

 

[alkhall]

Jigsaw:
 

 
Yellow 7-Pot cross #2:
 

 
Wide shot of both:
 

 

[alkhall]

Been awhile since I posted, the Jigsaw is about six and a half feet tall now.
 
Anyway, I have not done a real harvest yet this year, so, I picked about 500 pods after work, (Red Bhut, two different B.O.C., and Jigsaw) and the old lady takes about 100-150 to give to the neighbors!
 
Yes, I do still have probably a couple thousand pods to pick, and the frost is coming soon, but it pisses me off she just decides to give them away. A couple dozen, sure, fine. But, a gross? At least try to get a couple bucks, right?
 
OK, rant over.
 

 

[alkhall]

Yellow 7-Pot crosses, 186 pods:
 

 

[alkhall]

A few 1 gallon buckets of pods:
 

 

[alkhall]

Picked a few (hundred, maybe five or six) today:
 
Rectangular containers;
 
Top Left: Jigsaw
Top Right: Bhut Orange Copenhagen
Bottom Left: Yellow 7-Pot/King Naga cross. These are from seeds from a Brown Large Scorpion cross (see below) pod from last season. A recessive gene, obviously.
Bottom Right: Red and Chocolate Bhut Jolokia
 
 
One gallon buckets;
 
Top Left: Big Black Mama.
Middle Left: Peach Bhut Jolokia
Bottom Left: Chocolate Jay's Ghost/Scorpion
Top Right: Chocolate NagaBrain
Bottom Right: The aforementioned Brown Large Scorpion cross
 
 

 
 
 
A few of the Brown Large Scorpion cross:
 

 

[karoo]

Wow , great harvest!

 

[alkhall]

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Wow , great harvest!

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Thanks.

Not bad for 9 plants.

Now, for the other 60+ plants.

 

[alkhall]

Jigsaw.
 
I was hoping for 7 feet.
 
6 feet, 8 inches but I doubt it will make it before the killing frost.
 

 

[alkhall]

Ecudoran Hot Lemon Cayenne:
 

 

 
 
 
1,181 pods. Yes, I counted them.
 
Probably at least 500 green pods left on the two plants.

 

[Devv]

Dang! pods you got
 
Nice grow! I'm impressed

 

[alkhall]

Dang! pods you got
 
Nice grow! I'm impressed

Thanks.
 
It has been a good year.
 
Actually, I have only posted pics of portion of all I have picked. I gave away over 500 various pods earlier in the season.
 
And, I several hundred on my other plants yet to pick.
 
This year, I have not been very diligent about harvesting, and would guess I have let hundreds more rot on the plant.

 

[alkhall]

CPRs, very tiny, but so cute!
 

 
 
 
 
 
A couple more CPRs (right), normal size, I suppose, alongside some pods off a Caramel Madballz (left) (This plant made red pods, instead of caramel. Must have crossed with something???, probably the VV7 Scorpion it was growing near last season. Both plants were volunteers, by the way):
 

 

[alkhall]

Harvesting a few seeds.
 
Not Caramel Madballz:
 

 

 
 
 
CPR:
 

 

 
Four or five peppers growing inside the one on the right.
 
 
I know better, but you just have to lick the knife, right?
 
Those Not Madballz were just wee bit spicy, so much so that, although I could taste the CPR, there was no sense of heat.
 
 
 

 

[alkhall]

31°F tonight, 29°F tomorrow night.
 
If they survive, no frost for at least another week after that.
 
I am fond of quoting Jim Stafford: 'All good things must come to an end...'
 
Picked about a hundred, no pics, sorry, went right into the Excalibur.
 
Next up; flaking the dried pods, stay tuned.

 

[alkhall]

Flakes/powders from this season:
 
Quart Mason jars, back row, left to right: Chocolate NagaBrain, Ecudoran Hot Lemon Cayenne, Jigsaw, Yellow 7-Pot Cross, Bhut Orange Copenhagen.
 
Pint Mason jars, middle row, left-to-right: Chocolate Bhut Jolokia, Red Bhut Jolokia, Peach Bhut Jolokia, Yellow 7-Pot/King Naga Cross (Powdered).
 
Pint Mason jars, front row, left-to-right: Chocolate Jay's Ghost/Scorpion, Big Black Mama, Brown Large Scorpion Cross.
 

 

[PaulG]

Well done this season!  great pod pix and a nice stash of powder/flakes!
 
Will try to be a better follower next season!
Enjoy the holidays!

 

[alkhall]

Well done this season!  great pod pix and a nice stash of powder/flakes!
 
Will try to be a better follower next season!
Enjoy the holidays!

 

Thank you!

 
I still have literally pounds of dried pods from 2015 to process, probably need another couple cases of Mason jars.
 
 
 
Here is wishing you and yours all best for the Holidays.