Coach's 2015 Overwhelming Grow

coachspencerxc · Jun 21, 2015

jcw10tc said:
Nice pods. My 7JPN is dark, no pods yet though.

Thanks. I'm interested to see what each plant does.

OCD Chilehead said:
Very nice pods my friend. Beautiful! I like those Scotch Bonnet x Naga Morich. Gotta love the Fatalii, Brain, ----- heck they all looks very nice. Job well done.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. Your plants are looking good too. I'm still in awe of the octagonal pots you have!

coachspencerxc · Jun 23, 2015

Today's haul:
Black Beauty Zucchini, Straighneck Squash, Black Cherry Tomatoes, Greasy Beans, Aji Pineapple, Aji Omnicolor, Aji Guyana (PI 199506), Aji Colorado, Hungarian Mild, Sukari, Red Savina, Paper Lanterns, Tepin x Lemon Drop. We've had record high days here in North Carolina most of the past 2 weeks. I don't think the high has been under 96. Most days in the 98-101 range in an area that's usually around 86-88 this time of year. It's been rough on the garden & its gardener. Hard to find a balance between keeping plants alive & yellowing leaves/blossom end rot on tomatoes & bell peppers.

I'm leaving the country for 10 days on Sunday with a lot of work left to do before I leave. My dad lives 45 minutes away & keeps saying how well he's going to eat when we go out of town.

juanitos · Jun 23, 2015

let me know what you think of those aji pineapples! and paper lantern one of my favorite.

coachspencerxc · Jun 23, 2015

juanitos said:
let me know what you think of those aji pineapples! and paper lantern one of my favorite.

I've been getting Aji Pineapples for a week or so now. Today marks the first day I can't eat all the peppers I picked for the first time. Many more of those days to come I suspect. Might wait a day or two & see what else ripens & make a small batch of sauce. Ate my first Paper Lantern last night.

coachspencerxc · Jun 24, 2015

Well, I tried my hand at some crosses for the first time this morning. I don't have a ton of confidence they'll take. I didn't collect pollen. I took everything out but the pistil of the "female" flower & touched another flower with it, trying to get the pistil of the first all up in the polleny bits. I have a good feeling that if pods form the cross will take but just not sure I got enough/any pollen in there. I collected some stamens for the next round if this didn't work so I can store up more pollen. I was going to keep everything a secret because of my lack of confidence that it worked out, but what the heck... here's what I tried:

Purple Bhut x Yellow Brain Strain
Goronong x Black Naga
White 7 Pot x Reaper
CGN 21500 x Yellow Brain Strain
(Nuclieye's Chiltepin x Reaper) x CARDI Yellow
Dilly Street Tamwork x CARDI Yellow
Yellow Bhut x Yellow Primo
7JPN x Yellow Primo

I tried to pair things that I thought would give a unique phenotype- either color or shape or both. I had a long list of things I was considering crossing. A lot of the combinations aren't flowering up together, so I'll wait. Looking at a few more small peppers x supers & tasty Scotch Bonnet/Hab/Fatalii level peppers x supers. I'm not holding my breath. I'm growing a lot of crosses now & got about 15 pretty neat ones in the mail this week from a Facebook friend. I'm not sure the world needs every possible combination of cross out there but I wanted to try it out & see if they took & in the process, maybe create something worthwhile in the process. Certainly not in it for $. We'll see.

OCD Chilehead · Jun 24, 2015

Nice harvest. Thanks for sharing the cross project. How was the Lantern? The temps here have been in the upper 90's to over 100. Need a break. Thanks for sharing and I hope your crosses take. Have a good time out of the states.

coachspencerxc · Jun 26, 2015

OCD Chilehead said:
Nice harvest. Thanks for sharing the cross project. How was the Lantern? The temps here have been in the upper 90's to over 100. Need a break. Thanks for sharing and I hope your crosses take. Have a good time out of the states.

I ate the two lanterns cooked in a meal. Felt the heat but didn't pick up the taste much.

Purple Bhut:

Aji Fantasty:

Pimenta Leopard (supposed to be this dark?):

Peach Habanero:

Aji Colorado (love these):

Lilac Bell:

juanitos · Jun 26, 2015

nice brah

PaulS · Jun 27, 2015

Looking really nice dude

moruga welder · Jun 27, 2015

nice grow my friend ! :onfire:

coachspencerxc · Jun 28, 2015

juanitos said:
nice brah

PaulS said:
Looking really nice dude

moruga welder said:
nice grow my friend !

Thanks!

Here's the last 24 hours of junk I grew & then cooked- pizza ingredients, sauce & pickled Hungarian wax peppers, okra... love okra.

Sauce wasn't too great. Leaving the country for Spain & Morocco in a couple of hours & looking for ways to take care of some peppers. This is just Aji Pineapples, Pineapple & too much vinegar. Certainly edible, but not my best work.

Hybrid Mode 01 · Jun 28, 2015

Great ideas for crosses, I hope they take. Awesome variety and even better hauls! Keep it up!

coachspencerxc · Jun 28, 2015

Hybrid Mode 01 said:
Great ideas for crosses, I hope they take. Awesome variety and even better hauls! Keep it up!

Thanks! We'll see. I hate leaving for 10 days just as stuff's starting to come around. Brown Morugas just started hi ting at turning brown a couple of days ago. My Cross Country team is watering for me.

In other news, I got my first ripe superhot yesterday- a tiny (blueberry sized) Yellow 7 x BJIC. Yellow pod. Figured the first pod & a little runt at that (all the others on the plant are nice sized) might not be so hot. Wrong. Hiccup. Something to look forward to.

PaulS · Jun 29, 2015

Beautiful mix of colours from your mini harvest.
Its gonna be really hot in spain this week dude, take care!

Pulpiteer · Jul 4, 2015

I hope things hold up well while you're away. Things are looking pretty good right now. You'll be swimming in pods in a month.

coachspencerxc · Jul 7, 2015

PaulS said:
Beautiful mix of colours from your mini harvest.
Its gonna be really hot in spain this week dude, take care!

Thanks. Yeah, it was 98-106F everywhere we went. Rough but a good trip.

Pulpiteer said:
I hope things hold up well while you're away. Things are looking pretty good right now. You'll be swimming in pods in a month.

Thanks!

Came home this afternoon to lots & lots of ripe pods. I hate I missed seeing some of them ripen up and feel a little overwhelmed not knowing what to do with all of them. By no means are most plants with ripe pods, but a lot do. My phone isn't focusing like it should & I'm too exhausted to spend much time out there tonight trying to make it work. I'll spend most of tomorrow out there sorting everything out.

Here's a highly anticipated Yellow Brain Strain:

Genetikx · Jul 7, 2015

That is picture perfect, well done. Can't wait to see more and hope I get something like that on my yellow brains

jcw10tc · Jul 7, 2015

That brain strain looks just perfect in every way. Love that pepper, one of my favorites. Mine this year are looking big and mean, looking forward to them. I'll be watching for your update tomorrow, probably have a ton of stuff after being gone.

coachspencerxc · Jul 10, 2015

Genetikx said:
That is picture perfect, well done. Can't wait to see more and hope I get something like that on my yellow brains

jcw10tc said:
That brain strain looks just perfect in every way. Love that pepper, one of my favorites. Mine this year are looking big and mean, looking forward to them. I'll be watching for your update tomorrow, probably have a ton of stuff after being gone.

Thanks so much, both of you. I really did enjoy the taste.

I've had some health issues in the past few days. Significant shortness of breath, HR is elevated 20-25 bpm more than normal, chest pain, exhausted... I ended up going to the ER last night but all tests looked OK. They suggested stress. Not sure. I'll be OK. Stayed in bed all day today but this evening got out & watered and picked just a few peppers that I thought looked particularly pretty, including some mysteries...

Left to right: Seeds said Bhut Indian Carbon but hmm... Chocolate Ghost or unknown cross?, #2 is from Brown Moruga seeds I took out of pods myself, so some kind of cross, Yellow Fatalii, unmarked plant but Primo, I guess, Peach Wasp, Caramel 7 Pot

#2- the large red one (and all the pods on the plant are very large) is the only one I tasted. Tasted one of the Fataliis the other day. This red one had a great taste & heat level. I wouldn't call it thick walled but very... substantial whereas some peppers have a paper thin feel. I'm going to isolate future flowers from this one & see what happens in the future. My 11 year old daughter begged for 2 tiny slivers of it, as she did for the Yellow Brain Strain the other day. So funny watching her react after eating grain of rice sized pieces.

Hoping by Monday I'll be able to put in a solid day of garden work & maybe get in a couple of hours Saturday & Sunday. It needs it.

tctenten · Jul 11, 2015

Feel better Coach. Peppers look great.