stickman said:
Jaysus Scott... we should just declare you a capsaicin world power and be done with it!
Out... freakin'... standing!
Thanks Rick!
Timing caused me to not see this post yesterday, yeah this year is crazy! I guess I figured out the spring timing this year, I'm pleased with production, and kind of glad that only half are running on all 8 cylinders. The next 2-3 weeks are going to be crazy, 2 more parental visits coming up
Essegi said:
Those are bhutiful! Probably next year i'm growing that too.
Amazing harvest!
Thanks Giancarlo!
They sure are pretty pods!
KiNGDeNNiZ said:
Thanks Denniz!
stickman said:
Glad to hear the MoAs are finally starting to pod up for you. Looking at the pod shapes on mine, I'm beginning to think they may have crossed with the JA Habs, but I'll have to wait until they've ripened to find out. Both peppers are tasty, so however it comes out, I'm sure I'll be happy with them.
Cut up half of a Jigsaw into my breakfast egg n' cheese sandwich, and it lit me up good. Half an hour later I'm still sweating and feeling that warm glow.
They have a kind of sour tang to them as far as flavor goes. I would say definitely don't mix these peppers with Hickory wood when smoking unless there's a lot of sugar in there to counter the sour tendencies of both. Cheese and cumin definitely helped. Cheers!
I thought that at first and then they straightened out, even the color seemed off. Glad I have some true pods to save seeds from as I gave away all the others, boy I was nervous!
I have so many peppers to taste, last week with the trip I was reluctant to eat any before traveling. Just the traveling dehydrates me and screws up my system, plus I always get sinus trauma, a retired Air Force doc told me how to prevent it, works great. Neo Synephrine 3 days before flying and treat until 3 days after.
Picked quite a few Jigsaw's today, gonna give one a whirl in the morning. Also want to taste the Datil and Goat Pepper.
outlaw said:
Looking awesome Scott! Very cool to see all of the different varieties you have growing piled up next to each other...every day would be a tough decision on what to cook/eat
Quick question....when you harvest your peppers you mentioned that you put them in paper bags and mark them with their location/color. Just wondering your storing technique - if you put them in the fridge or leave them on the counter?
Thanks Outlaw!
I freeze and dehydrate a lot of them. The paper bags are to keep track of the varieties, I've learned a ton about ID-ing them this season. Ones that we intend to use right away or in the next few days just stay on the table.
OCD Chilehead said:
Pull looks great Scott. I hear you on the heat issues in the garden. I have been struggling with that for awhile now. Just got the hoop bender yesterday. Looking forward to building a structure. Peach Bhuts lookin tasty.
Have a good day.
Chuck
Thanks Chuck!
Now that we're in full swing with summer temps they sag in the afternoon, I'm having to water more, but that's expected.
Hey the knee hung in there!
Spicegeist said:
Nice color on these... were they growing on the same plant?
Yes they were, I've never seen 2 phenos on the same plant before like that.
TrentL said:
The words "vacation" and "day off" are banned at my company for this very reason. We replaced these terms with "field work" and "working from home".
I went 7 years without a vacation when I was building my company up. Finally took one to head to the Outer Banks, and I made it as far as west virginia before I had to stop and work. Got a call at 5 AM (after sleeping 2 hours, drove until 3AM). One of the datacenters we use up north near Chicago went dark. COMPLETELY dark. Every piece of hardware powered off hard. Spent half of a day in the hotel room fixing Exchange servers that wouldn't mount mailboxes, and restoring backups due to corrupt VHD's on virtual servers. Turns out the SAN batteries were dead and write cache got discarded to the arrays.
Get that all sorted out, make it to N.C., and the next day a customer has an on-site SAN blow a drive. Spent a half of a day sitting in the bed & breakfast walking them through a drive swap & babysitting the array rebuild.
For two weeks, I was plagued by this stuff. Get back home and three months went by before I had a high priority ticket thrown at me.
The same applies to our customers. When the IT manager of one of our clients went to Disney with his kids, their mail server SSL certificates expired, knocking off all the company smart phones (200+ people suddenly quit getting mail..). Didn't have his creds to get a new SSL issued, finally got a hold of him and he sat outside the magic castle getting a new SSL cert issued for the damn thing.
No one EVER needs you until it's a "bad time."
Over the last 20 years that's how it's been rolling, at least this time all the crap happened before I left... I think I've been called in every city or town I've ever visited..LOL
I keep a hot spare on any raid5 server and 2 on the SANS, one cool thing is the newer ones rebuild the arrays and set the original hot spare back to a hot spare once the failed drive has been replaced. Gotta love that.
maximumcapsicum said:
This is crazy! Amazing pulls, amazing pods! Tons of heat there, I imagine in pod and in weather form.
What are some signs of heat stress you look for? The Funky Reaper just looked a little thirsty to me. Am I misreading the plant?
I read that plants will curl their leaves in high heat. I've seen some of that, but nute issues can also cause that.
Happy growin'!
Thanks Adam!
Well for one thing this time of year I slack up on the nutes, I'm going to hit them in the morning because they really need it, but I'm not nearly as aggressive once summer hits.
You would be surprised how bad a plant can look and recover from the heat, I have one JA Hab OW that looks horrible today. I soaked it yesterday, so it's going to have to wait. In the morning it will look fine. The worst looking plants are the few in full sun, but I ran out of room..
beerbreath81 said:
Good Lord that's one hellva "partial" harvest nice work. I can feel the heat htrough the monitor
Thanks Andrew!
I'm amazed at how well they did so far, rain, a rarity here really made the difference this season.
Well the posting popo's have gotten me. A bump would be appreciated
) Yeah, nice MoAs there! 
(Dang. 
) Loving tall-boy-Jal and nice oddity on peach bhut plant. (Have white bhut with that going on.) Green Hornet looks mean, indeed! F-Reaps too! And to think, packin' all that heat, you've only begun: NICE! What a difference a year and lots more work/love makes! Really rockin' it, Scott! 
