Coach's 2015 Overwhelming Grow

OCD Chilehead · Jul 11, 2015

Very nice pods Coach. Hope you feel better. Could be panic or anxiety. Hope it's just the body saying take it easy. You don't sound like the take it easy guy. I'm the same way. Always on the go.

Anyways thanks for sharing rest up this weekend.

coachspencerxc · Jul 14, 2015

tctenten said:
Feel better Coach. Peppers look great.

Thanks!

OCD Chilehead said:
Very nice pods Coach. Hope you feel better. Could be panic or anxiety. Hope it's just the body saying take it easy. You don't sound like the take it easy guy. I'm the same way. Always on the go.

Anyways thanks for sharing rest up this weekend.

Thanks. Haha. I'm not... and as a teacher with summers off, I should be pretty relaxed, you'd think. Now they're thinking it's a parasite I picked up in Morocco or Spain. I left out the GI part of the equation in my original post. I've lost 9 pounds in between doctors visits in 5 days. I ran 12 miles yesterday & 11 today at a snail's pace but felt like I was going to keel over. I'll live, I'm pretty sure, but thanks.

Some pictures... picked maybe 2% of the ripe pods I have today.

This is the pepper I thought about for months when I went to bed. I can't tell you how eager I was to get ripe ones. CARDI Yellow:

Goronong & what's supposed to be Bhut Jolokia India Carbon:

Scotch Bonnet x Naga Morich from HotToddy, Yellow Brain Strain, Caramel 7 Pot, & Black Naga:

Bolivian Bumpy Habanero, Peach Wasp, Carolina Yellow Habanero, 7 Pot Chaguanas:

7 Pot Yellow x Bhut Jolokia, Red Moruga, Tepin x Aji Lemon Drop, Black Fatalii:

OCD Chilehead · Jul 15, 2015

Nice looking pods. Great pics as well. Congrats on Cardi Yellow. That SBxNM looks great too.

23 miles in two days isn't bad for a guy that runs 100......and sick too. Your like the energizer bunny on RedBull. LOL

I do hope you feel better and the docs can figure out what's ailing you.

Thanks for sharing.

SteelHeat · Jul 15, 2015

Thnx for posting the pix! Take it easy too bro.

Peter S · Jul 15, 2015

Those are some really nice looking pods! Yesterday I tried the first ripe Aji Pineapple, grown from the seeds you gave me. Instantly became one of my favorite peppers.

coachspencerxc · Jul 16, 2015

OCD Chilehead said:
Nice looking pods. Great pics as well. Congrats on Cardi Yellow. That SBxNM looks great too.

23 miles in two days isn't bad for a guy that runs 100......and sick too. Your like the energizer bunny on RedBull. LOL

I do hope you feel better and the docs can figure out what's ailing you.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. I'm kinda dumb. I'm at 43 miles for the past 4 days & will hit 70 for the week but that's almost all I've done. Good think I'm a teacher with nothing to do but coach kids for 2 hours in the morning. The peppers are taking care of themselves (except for more bug holes than I'd like), but the rest of the garden could use some help. I figure I could feel so so & not get the running in or feel lousy & run. I'm choosing the running.

SteelHeat said:
Thnx for posting the pix! Take it easy too bro.

Thanks. The colors & shapes are probably equally appealing to me as the heat & taste.

Peter S said:
Those are some really nice looking pods! Yesterday I tried the first ripe Aji Pineapple, grown from the seeds you gave me. Instantly became one of my favorite peppers.

Glad you liked it! They are pretty good and the plants are pretty prolific. I'm growing what was labeled Aji Pineapple, Aji Lemon Drop & Aji Amarillo and notice very very little difference. I'm pretty sure the Amarillo isn't right. I think it should be more orange. Headed up sort of near your way (Brevard) for running camp with my team in a week. Looking forward to just a few degrees cooler. Think I'll head up near Grandfather Mountain this weekend.
Every couple of days I pick 6-8 different peppers that I want to be sure to try in addition to any others I may eat. I've been eating 2 superhots a day & then sweets, jalapenos, serranos, fataliis... Here are those I have lined up to try in the next couple of days. The Bad Brains didn't make it 5 minutes inside before I ate it in some food. Best superhot I've tried. Shout out to Wes Lane.

Bad Brains, SB7J, Bhut Orange Copenhagen, Peach Fatalii cross, Black Fatalii, off pheno Reaper, unknown peach (lost the tag & doesn't match with anything I meant to grow. Plant is loaded with these), Yellow 7 Pot x Bhut, Hair:

I'll definitely save seeds from this Peach Fatalii cross. The photos aren't showing it's color very well. Definitely peach.

Trident chilli · Jul 17, 2015

Rick phenominal photography on a great back drop personally my favourite has to be SB x NM but the others have some great shapes especially the CARDI ..... Grandfather Mountain love the name

Pulpiteer · Jul 20, 2015

Man, those pods pics are awesome! Very well done!

coachspencerxc · Jul 22, 2015

Trident chilli said:
Rick phenominal photography on a great back drop personally my favourite has to be SB x NM but the others have some great shapes especially the CARDI ..... Grandfather Mountain love the name

Thanks! I grew up coming to the Grandfather Mountain area a couple of times a year & as an adult, go up every month or two. I'd always been told the name came from the face seen as the grandfather was on his back. As it turns out, its an upright profile on one of the small peaks. Oh well.

Pulpiteer said:
Man, those pods pics are awesome! Very well done!

Thanks!

Not the greatest pictures but thought I'd mix things up rather than just post pods.
First picture: longer purple pods are Buena Mulatta I got from Juanitos. Didn't plant it at first but did late & am happy I did, Dilly Street Tamwork are the small purples, one on the right is the ever popular Goats Weed:

Impossible to get a good picture of the garden as a whole. Here are maybe 125 of the 280 pepper plants with some other stuff in the background:

And at the risk of double posting, here are some peppers I picked today & posted to sell for $14/box:

Top Row: Black Naga, MoA Yellow Scotch Bonnet, MoA Red Scotch Bonnet, Yellow Billy Boy Douglah, Brown Moruga cross, Bhut Orange Copenhagen, Bahamian Goat, St. Bart's Habanero, Brown Fatalii, CARDI Yellow Scorpion, Large Orange Thai; Middle Row: Hair, Peach Wasp, Peruvian Serlano, SB7J, Mustard Lightning Hab, CARDI Red Scorpion, Datil, Galapagos Island-Isabella Habanero, Yellow Moruga, Serrano ripe & a little corked, Yellow Brain Strain, Paper Lantern Hab, Jamaican Yellow Hot; Bottom Row: CGN 21500, supposed to be 7 Pot Burgundy, Tepin x Lemon Drop, supposed to be Bhut Indian Carbon, Ring of Fire Cayenne

In other news, I got a couple of Red Rocotos to finally pod up. No easy task in this heat. One plant may have had 50 blossoms that did nothing.

muskymojo · Jul 22, 2015

Very impressive garden! :clap:

Let's see the rest of it!

Nice pods too.

coachspencerxc · Jul 26, 2015

muskymojo said:
Very impressive garden!

Let's see the rest of it!

Nice pods too.

I wish. Most of it has really had a hard time with the heat we've had this summer. I gave the tomatoes some extra care today, weeding, fertilizing & mulching. We'll see if they perk up a bit. Worst tomato crop I've ever had & I grew about 5x more than I ever have. I'll post more garden pictures soon.
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Being a novice & having so many varieties in the garden, I'm trying a new pepper about every other day. Seems like I have a new favorite pepper about twice a week- Yellow Brain Strain, Bad Brains, BOC, and now Yellow 7 Pot x Bonda Ma Jacques. I ate this one for the first time today. Really really good. Also at my first Queen Laurie & the first Burkina Yellow I've grown (though I had the one I got seeds from last fall). Both of them were exceptionally good too. But that Yellow 7 Pot x Bonda Ma Jacques... mmm... I guess it makes sense your favorite pepper is the last one you ate.

Truth be told, I can tell if I like something or not but it's difficult to judge between peppers just using memory. I remember when I got into (& dove head first) this pepper nonsense last October I wished there was a list of the 20 or 40 or 60 peppers you just "had to have." Now I'm seeing why there's not. I have identified a few I won't grow next year, but finding favorites that I have to grow will be tough if I plan on narrowing down the list. When I look at all of the seeds that have found their way to me in the past few months, I know there may be different peppers in the garden next year, but maybe not fewer. sigh...

Anyway, here's the beautiful & tasty Yellow 7 Pot x Bonda Ma Jacques.

coachspencerxc · Jul 26, 2015

Reposted picture from SB7J Community Grow thread. Planted 3 plants from the same seed source. Labeled as "SB7J Red Mushroom pheno." Got 2 green plants with green pods that ripened to dull red & 1 purple stemmed plant that has purple pods that have ripened to pale yellow. No heat on one of the red podded plants & the yellow one, but high pungency & great taste on the other red one. To further complicate things, I have one labeled as "supposed to be SB7J red but mine were yellow" that I planted much later & those haven't ripened yet. Interesting that all plants have uniform pod shape with so much other variation.

Trident chilli · Jul 26, 2015

Rick what did you think of the SB x Naga Morich in regards to heat and flavour .... Is it a variety you would consider growing again

coachspencerxc · Jul 27, 2015

Trident chilli said:
Rick what did you think of the SB x Naga Morich in regards to heat and flavour .... Is it a variety you would consider growing again

It was good. What you'd expect in heat & flavor. Certainly a keeper.

coachspencerxc · Aug 4, 2015

Picked about half of the ripe ones today. Easily 1,000. Will pick the other half tomorrow. Now I have a wheelbarrow of peppers in my kitchen. That's normal, right? Someone's going to be busy in the next few days.

jcw10tc · Aug 4, 2015

coachspencerxc said:
Picked about half of the ripe ones today. Easily 1,000. Will pick the other half tomorrow. Now I have a wheelbarrow of peppers in my kitchen. That's normal, right? Someone's going to be busy in the next few days.

What will you do with all those? Good luck with whatever you do. One hell of a pull. I suspect I will have a similar pull in a few weeks or a month. I been over eager and pulling a lot a little early, got about 100 tonight but left on at least 2 or 3 hundred I could have picked but convinced myself to let them ripen a bit more.

I missed your post from back in July, how was that Yellow CARDI, looks awesome. The more I see of that one the more I am convince mine last year was not true. It was similar but not much of a tail and really mild for a scorpion, more like a mild habanero even.

Genetikx · Aug 4, 2015

coachspencerxc said:
Picked about half of the ripe ones today. Easily 1,000. Will pick the other half tomorrow. Now I have a wheelbarrow of peppers in my kitchen. That's normal, right? Someone's going to be busy in the next few days.

I can see you're at the point where you don't even care what variety is what lol. It can escalate quickly

coachspencerxc · Aug 4, 2015

Genetikx said:
I can see you're at the point where you don't even care what variety is what lol. It can escalate quickly

jcw10tc said:
What will you do with all those? Good luck with whatever you do. One hell of a pull. I suspect I will have a similar pull in a few weeks or a month. I been over eager and pulling a lot a little early, got about 100 tonight but left on at least 2 or 3 hundred I could have picked but convinced myself to let them ripen a bit more.

I missed your post from back in July, how was that Yellow CARDI, looks awesome. The more I see of that one the more I am convince mine last year was not true. It was similar but not much of a tail and really mild for a scorpion, more like a mild habanero even.

I'll separate them tomorrow by color & heat level, but not really variety. I'll freeze some for sauces later. I'll also smoke, dehydrate & grind most them. How much powder will that be though?? ...pickle jalapenos & serranos... ...give some away to friends... any other ideas?

Genetikx · Aug 5, 2015

With that many, I'd run them through a food mill to separate the seeds and harvest the pulp. I'd then put the pulp in mason jars with a top layer of salt and pressure cook. Come back a year later and you've got the best base for sauce imaginable.

coachspencerxc · Aug 5, 2015

Genetikx said:
With that many, I'd run them through a food mill to separate the seeds and harvest the pulp. I'd then put the pulp in mason jars with a top layer of salt and pressure cook. Come back a year later and you've got the best base for sauce imaginable.

Yeah? How much salt?

Brown Scorpion:

Seeds said "Orange Primo." Not sure I'd call this orange & the walls are much thicker than other Primos:

Getting a few watermelons a week. This is my favorite so far... dare I say the best I've ever eaten? Orange Tendersweet. REALLY good. Really sweet.

There's probably a reason I've never seen anyone growing this one. Shape is neat but very little taste or heat. Got seeds from GRIN. PI 281424.