Flavours of the Caribbean (Mainly)

Thought it was about time I put on blog on here as requested by a good friend Gary (wind chicken).
I got to know Gary having done a seed trade over 2 years ago via fb, and have always admired his growing.
As title says most of my grow will be bonnets as I love Caribbean cuisine especially Jerk chicken, curry goat etc.

I started some rocotos quite early as I know they take forever to ripen..

First time I've ever grown rocoto and pleased with progress so far.

The rocoto,s are red rocoto, tropical orange f3, and De seda.

Will make a proper grow list when I receive the p.dreadie select seeds kindly sent by Gary and one I'm pleased to have as a memory to Erin.

Another one already up and waiting to be potted on is Carrot Jolokia which I was kindly sent by Ben (bpiela), took ages to sprout a hook, but got one in the end.

Just waiting on a few stubborn bonnets to show hooks before finalizing what's a keeper.
 
Know quite a few of the british growers on here as there active members of a forum we all share
 
Trident
Dennish
Snagglepuss
Heefy Si Borg
Jay
and also Plantguy 76 Jason who is active here and a couple of other forums.

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[Superhot Sim]

So cool to see CGN21500 growing. Hadn't seen too many folks this year with those. Can't believe I left it off the list. One of the best tasting peppers on the planet! Good time reading over your blog man. Cheers!

Cheers Chewi, great looking plants foliage wise as well, awesome flavour and pods are stunning peach /purple when ripe. Underrated pepper for sure.

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[Superhot Sim]

CGN21500 look like my Roxas, just mine are purple pink.

Great family pepper and a great tasting one. Great plant to grow.
Soon as I tasted a pod last season I had to grow it..

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[Superhot Sim]

With little ripening in the poly tunnel seeing these rocotos coloring up cheered me up this morning.

De Seda rocoto.

Tropical Orange rocoto. Cannot wait to taste this.

Bonds Mahala pure pod factory this plant.

Getting some nice twisted phenos on my Aji Mango, still enough time for these to ripen up.

Thanks for looking.


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[qandeel]

nice looking pods hanging down. how do they taste?

 

[Superhot Sim]

nice looking pods hanging down. how do they taste?

 

Which ones ?

 

[qandeel]

De Seda rocoto & Bonds Mahala.
 
ooh the tropical orange too   
 

 
Which ones ?

 

 

[Superhot Sim]

De Seda rocoto & Bonds Mahala.
 
ooh the tropical orange too   
 
 

Bonds mahala is a cross of bonda ma jaques and 7 pot yellow, fruity and hot. Beautiful to cook with.

De seda is a nice fruity fairly hot rocoto,
The tropical orange is one iv never tested, but looking forward to trying when it's ripe. [emoji41] [emoji106]

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[Superhot Sim]

Nice little haul of rocotos bonnets Chocolate bhutlah, and Gary's Bonda. Mahala.
All destined for the smoker over some cherry dust, then into a Apricot & Ginger jam.

Top row De Seda rocoto. Tropical Orange rocoto, Chocolate Bhutlah,

Middle row Beth Boyd Scotch Bonnets.

Bottom 2 rows Bonda Mahala.

A mix of superhots already been smoked.

My dehydrators on overtime at the moment but all good fun.

Thanks for looking.

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[Devv]

Ohh that looks good!
 
Congrats Sim!

 

[stickman]

Nice pulls Sim! Ginger-apricot-chile jam sounds tasty!

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[Superhot Sim]

Nice pulls Sim! Ginger-apricot-chile jam sounds tasty!

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They you go Rick, rocotos we're smoked over night and straight in for jam this morning.
Great flavour the Ginger is a nice mellow flavour and the rocoto makes a warming heat, not over powering. [emoji106]

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[Trident chilli]

Smells good Simmy ....

 

[Superhot Sim]

Smells good Simmy .... [emoji106][emoji4]

Could be a Christmas jam John. It's warming lol [emoji6]

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[Superhot Sim]

With Autumn kicking in fast iv been slow on updates as not much ripening.
Been waiting on these Aji Mango for weeks.

Nice little haul, these will be smoked then used in a mango jelly.

Couple of good seed saving pods there as well.
I think it's crossed somewhere cos there seriously hot for a Baccatum. Lol [emoji23][emoji23].

Nice flavour though.

Will get one more decent harvest in the tunnel.

Thanks for looking.

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[stickman]

With Autumn kicking in fast iv been slow on updates as not much ripening.
Been waiting on these Aji Mango for weeks.

Nice little haul, these will be smoked then used in a mango jelly.

Couple of good seed saving pods there as well.
I think it's crossed somewhere cos there seriously hot for a Baccatum. Lol [emoji23][emoji23].

Nice flavour though.

Will get one more decent harvest in the tunnel.

Thanks for looking.

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Maybe they're not crosses Sim... Some of those Baccatums have a fair amount of heat. Things are looking good out your way despite slowing down. Are the Gochus still producing for you?

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[Superhot Sim]

Maybe they're not crosses Sim... Some of those Baccatums have a fair amount of heat. Things are looking good out your way despite slowing down. Are the Gochus still producing for you?

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I just picked the last few Gochus Rick, been good producing plant, the Aji mango I received from Dennis last season we're no where near as hot, and not twisted distorted phenos at all.

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[stickman]

I just picked the last few Gochus Rick, been good producing plant, the Aji mango I received from Dennis last season we're no where near as hot, and not twisted distorted phenos at all.

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Were you expecting the twisted phenos from the Ajis? They look OK for Baccatum shape to me.

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[Superhot Sim]

Were you expecting the twisted phenos from the Ajis? They look OK for Baccatum shape to me.

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There we're straight elongated pods last season, nice flavour and sweet heat.
These are hot [emoji23][emoji23][emoji6]

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[stickman]

There we're straight elongated pods last season, nice flavour and sweet heat.
These are hot [emoji23][emoji23][emoji6]

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Yeah, that's the rub sure enough... The fruit this year is last year's genetics so we've got to wait 'til the following season to find out what we've got now. Is the flavor much different from last year?

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[Superhot Sim]

Yeah, that's the rub sure enough... The fruit this year is last year's genetics so we've got to wait 'til the following season to find out what we've got now. Is the flavor much different from last year?

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Not as sweet a flavour still nice but way hotter, surprised me actually Rick, I'm happy cost there awesome phenos,
Will be ace in jams /jellies. Going to smoke these over cherry dust. [emoji6]

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