Bodeen's 2013 Grow _-_ Love at First Sting

Not actually starting this yet. Just trying to get my thoughts together on what and how many I will be planting of everything. There is the possibility that there will be no cows here next year and the pastures will be made into corn fields. This would mean the barn lot will be free and empty. It grows some of the best grass on the farm and the barn does have a well and a pump already there. Could it be garden number 3??? Also contemplating enlarging the back garden again.

Seed list so far

Hot Peppers

7 Pod Yellow: One Plant
7 Pod: One Plant
7 Pod Brain Strain: Three Plants
7 Pod Burgandy: Three Plants
7 Pod Chaguanas: One plant
Aji Amarillo: One Plant
Aji Chinchi Amarillo: One Plant
Assam: Three plants
Bhut Jolokia: Three Plants
Bhut Jolokia, Brown: Three Plants.
Bhut Jolokia, Chocolate: Three Plants
Bhut Jolokia, Peach: Three Plants.
Bhut Jokolia, Yellow: Three plants
Big Bomb Hybrid: Three plants
Biggie Chile Hybrid: One plant
Black Hungarian: One Plant
Budapest Hybrid: Three Plants
Cayenne (Thick): One Plant
Cayenne (Chocolate): Six Plants, with one over winter
Cayenne (Orange): One Plant
Chapeu Du Frade (Bishop's Hat): One Plant.
Chenzo Hybrid: One Plant
Cherry Bomb Hybrid: Three Plants
Czechoslovakian Black: One Plant
Fatalii: Three Plant
Fatalii, Red: One Plant
Fatalii x Savina: Three Plants
Fish: One plant.
Fresno: One Plant
Habanero Chocolate: Three plants
Habanero Orange: One plant
Habanero Peach: One Plant
Habanero Red: One plant
Habanero White: One plant
Habanero Yellow: One Plant
Hawaiian Sweet Hot: One Plant
Jalapeno, Biker Billy: One plant
Jalapeno, Goliath: One plant
Jalapeno, Purple: One plant
Jamaican Yellow: One plant
Lemon Drop: One plant.
Paper Lantern: One plant.
Peter Pepper (Orange): One Plant
Rain Forest: One Plant
Red Savina: One plant
Sante Fe Grande: Three plants.
Serrano Tamp: Two to three plants.
Thai Giant: One Plant
Tobago: One plant
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T: One plant
Trinidad Scorpion Green: Three Plants
Trinidad Moruga: Three plants
Trinidad Red Douglah: Three plants
Trinidad Douglah Chocolate: Three plants
Trinidad Scorpion Yellow: One Plant
White Scorpion Tongue: One Plant
Yellow Thai: One plant

Sweet Peppers

Jimmy Nardello: Six plants
Douce D`Espagne: Six plants
Lipstick: Two plants
Sweet Goliath: Three plants
Atris Hybrid: Three plants
Gypsy Hybrid: Three plants
La Rouge Royale: Three plants
Golden Treasure: Three plants
Mini Bell Red: Two Plants

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

The chocolate cayenne peppers are hotter than the standard cayenne pepper.

 

[PIC 1]

Nice harvest for so early in the season. I haven't grown the Chocolate Cayenne before, that's cool that it packs the Southern heat. When you cut the chili open is it green or red tinged, or chocolate throughout the flesh ?

 

[WalkGood]

Love da look on the Goliath, nice pull and great foodies ... things are looking great!

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Nice harvest for so early in the season. I haven't grown the Chocolate Cayenne before, that's cool that it packs the Southern heat. When you cut the chili open is it green or red tinged, or chocolate throughout the flesh ?

It is chocolate all the way through

 

[highalt]

How do they taste?
 
You are ahead of me!  Nothing ripe here yet ...

 

[MGOLD86]

Nice pull there Jeff and congrats on the Choc Cayenne, it sounds great!

 

[DocNrock]

Very nice, man.  That Chocolate Cayenne looks and sounds like a winner!

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

How do they taste?
 
You are ahead of me!  Nothing ripe here yet ...

 
 

Nice pull there Jeff and congrats on the Choc Cayenne, it sounds great!

 
 

Very nice, man.  That Chocolate Cayenne looks and sounds like a winner!

 
 
I think they have a more mellow or perhaps smoky kind of flavor to them.  Hopefully these will continue to grow true on down the line.  Where I go from there I don't know.

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Got my first perfume peppers today. Unless they are suppose go turn red.

 

[stickman]

Nice that you got your first ripe Chinense pods BD! Your veggie garden is looking great too! Keep 'em green buddy.

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

After taste testing, I like these peppers.  No heat, but an odd flavor.  Not citrus, not smoky, but I think dried and powdered it would really compliment seafood and chicken dishes.
 
Hope my two plants kick out enough to give me some powder to try.
 
I watched a review on these a while back and the reviewer stated there were a ton of seeds in them.  I did not find that to be the case in mine.

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Something is wrong with my pickles. Lower leaves turning brown and some of the upper leaves getting brown spots. Might be a disease or the wet weather. Will have to check into it when I get the internet back.

 

[stickman]

Something is wrong with my pickles. Lower leaves turning brown and some of the upper leaves getting brown spots. Might be a disease or the wet weather. Will have to check into it when I get the internet back.

Ouch! Do you have Striped or Spotted Cucumber Beetles or Squash Bugs on your plants? They infect the plant with a bacterial wilt that sounds like what you describe. What's worse... infected plants call more Cucumber Beetles and they accelerate the spread of the disease.   http://www.highmowingseeds.com/blog/organic-control-measures-for-striped-cucumber-beetles/

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

No bugs on them. I am going to dig into it once my internet resets.

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Today's Harvest.  I think the Black and White Scorpion tongues are not true.  They turn creamy/purple colors and they don't look right.
 
Back row is a cherry bomb and two big bombs,  Cherry has a point???  Two Jimmys and a Dulce Rojo
 
Then a red and orange Habanero
 
Chocolate Cayennes and Lanterns
 
3 Savina and then the tongues.
 

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

To the right of the Dulce is a mini bell.  That Rojo is quite sweet.  Almost like eating candy.  Love it.  Thanks for sending the seeds Bonnie.

Here is one of the Chocolate Cayenne plants.
 

 
And someone asked the color of the pods on the inside.
 

And two fresh pepper omelets.  Paper Lantern on left, Red Savina on Right.  Made my eyes sweat but the heat didn't hang around long at all.  Initial heat was back of the throat, but that soon changed to just my gums.  
 

 
If the weather don't return to normal, I am looking at a bad pepper year with all this rain...not really a bad year, but yields will be lower than last year for sure.

 

[stickman]

Y'know, looking at the inside of those "Chocolate Cayennes"... I wonder if they crossed with your Pasillas last season, 'cause that's what they remind me of.

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Y'know, looking at the inside of those "Chocolate Cayennes"... I wonder if they crossed with your Pasillas last season, 'cause that's what they remind me of.

 
 
They have none of the flavor of the Bajio, and the color isn't quite right either.  Takes a Bajio a long time to turn from that shiny dark green to a dark brown.  
 
The seeds I planted last year I saved from 2011 and I didn't grow any Bajio in 2011.  That would mean the Bajio would have had to pollinated every blossom on my Cayenne in 2012.

 

[stickman]

It was just a guess... you know your chile patch better than I do I hope!