Thanks for the positive feedback! I think this year will be Duane's best ever.
Patrick, this is what Duane had to say about the Explosive Embers: "Explosive Embers I believe have the same degree of heat as Serranos, but a fruitier front end. They add a lot of flavour and heat to pickled items if you like that sort of thing. Days to maturity ...I forget ... however I've never not had a bad harvest with that particular plant."
Finally, I have a few photos to share to show you all what's been happening with Duane's pepper plantation.
Here are the three pools on our driveway. I have 7 determinate/dwarf tomato plants in there, but everything else is peppers.
I think the combination of a super early start with seed-sowing plus the intense crowding of the containers has made for a really outstanding year for him despite the weather we've had.
Sorry I haven't posted any harvest photos, but D's been super busy and sometimes is harvesting at weird times without having time to take photos.
Here's a recent one before he made up some of AJ's concentrates, mostly different Habs, Hot Paper Lanterns, and a few Brazilian Starfish for my pickles.
We have a couple children's wading pools that we use for large watering saucers on the driveway. He puts between 3 and 4 plants in each container. They seem to like being crowded.
Duane waters from the bottom. With his hugely busy work schedule, growing the peppers this way is very convenient. Every week or so when he could get to it, he'd take the plants out and inspect, prune, harvest, photograh.