G.I.P.'s 2017 "oh HAIL no" Glog

This is currently a placeholder for what i will attempt to piece together as a Glog for this year 
 
I took hardly any pics of my seedlings,  and when the weather was finally warm enough at night for my plants to go outside;  They got shredded by hail, nearly drown in rains for days straight, tore up by winds.
 
Long story shortened, my season has had a rough start and most of my plants don't look so good 
 
So, although my plants are not nearly as nice as many others who have Glogs i have been following.
I will attempt to keep a log of this years grow anyway
 
 
 
Pics to follow soon...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

[MikeUSMC]

I can't wait to see that freakin' emu egg put to use, haha! The suspense is killing me, lol

(And it better not be getting ground up for some calcium additive or some crap )

 

[Jubnat]

Awesome, really interesting list!
Looks like everything is going great

 

[Bicycle808]

Your plants look awesome, especially considering the trauma they've seen.  I'm really jealous of all those pods!
 
PS- I got a few Cream Fataliis growing from seeds i got from Cone9; the one is by far the nicest looking of all my plants; my wife has been treating it like a beloved pet. 

 

[Thegreenchilemonster]

Your garden is looking great GIP! Sorry to hear about the hail storm, that really sucks.

 

[OCD Chilehead]

Its about time! LOL!

Seriously, everything is looking good. Great list. I got use to the hail until this year. Every year hail, blossom drop, new growth and pods in September. Never had pods this early in the game and still don't. I envy you.

I'm glad you through together some pics. I was going to tell you to start posting in my glog. LOL!

Hers to a quick recovery of the plants and a bountiful harvest.

Thanks for sharing!

I like the bunny.

 

[Bhuter]

Beautiful flowers and fantastic glog! I didn't realize how extensive your grow was. Everything from ornamentals to a$$-blasters. I'm bummed that I didn't grow a Peach Wasp again this year. They have a nice, sharp heat and taste a lot better than habs, IMO. I still love the look of the "Frutegum" varieties. Huge calyxes! Great job!

 

[Peter_L]

 
 While my season will be okay,  and i will still get quite a few pods, this was my original growlist for this year;

2017 list ;
Chacoense
Congo Chacoense 
Tovarii 
Lanceolatum
Eximium CGN 19198
Eximium CGN 24332 
Huge Rocopica ? 
Rocopica - Cardenasii cross
sm. Orange Rocoto
 
...
 
There were so many peppers that i only grew one of, that i'll have to remember to grow again next year. or i may forget an never get to try them
 

 
Wow! That was an impressive list. And don't worry, I'll try to remind you to regrow everything 

 
Yes, I feel i got very lucky during that bad hailstorm 
the pics of the damage it did to your peppers was Devastating    my condolences. I would be heartbroken after raising the babies all winter if it whiped me out completely 

 No worries, it's a hobby and the journey is a fair amount of the reward. I won't be completely empty handed. I'll just have to enjoy a slightly less diverse crop. I had a few "runts" that were extras. I got them planted this past week; needless to say, they're the new big kids on the block!

 
Most of my damaged plants are coming back in some way and now it seems like I might have to try my hand at Bonchi growing. If I get lucky on some new lower branch growth, a couple of these will have truly gnarly trunks. 

 

 
 
Hatch (Minnesnowtaheim?   )

Oh hell yes!

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

here's a tiny teaser update...
 
 
just a few pics of some pods i picked already (sure pays to start some early  )
 

Pepperlover  Bonnet-bell
 
 
 
 
and this next one was Tangerine dream  last year, but is clearly not this year (different shape and no longer ripens to orange ) oh well it is still plenty prolific and early, hope they dont taste bad 

 
I'll get some cut pics and taste descriptions up tomorrow
 
 
 
 
 
 
thanks for stopping by
 

 

 

[Bicycle808]

Those look frikkin' delicious.

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

cut pics and taste descriptions:
 
Pepperlover bonnetbell
grown indoors in foxfarm ocean forest, worm castings and added perlite.  fed with kelp tea once just after transplant 
 

I had two plants with distinctly different phenos.  Here they are next to an US quarter
 

and here they are sliced .
 
 
for reference we will call the squat lobed more bonnet shaped one type 1,
and the longer mini bell shaped one type 2
(note: This is not my cross and i am not attempting to rename anything, just keep track and tell them apart in the following description)

 Type 1 had no noticeable heat on the lobes, but once I got to the placental tissues inside it had IMO about a jalapeño level heat (not a HOT jalapeno just an average one). But distinctly different than the annum jalapeño burn.
It actually built a tiny bit, but then never really went anywhere with the heat (it never got  )   the heat lingered a little longer than many annums but gently. The last place to have any remaining heat was on the lips and again it was gentle not anything painful or anywhere close to scotch bonnet level heat even, and only in the placental tissue.
 

  The more bell shaped phenotype we will refer to as type 2, was far more fruity tasting with no noticeable heat, but still distinctly different than just a mini bell. it was: more fruity then any red bell I've had before. I probably should have ate this one first as I could detect no heat in any part of this pepper.
 
The aftertaste of both was that of a bell pepper. 

These were both still early pods (though not the first runty pods) I will do further review later after hopefully I get another flush of peppers from these two plants. since they have been transplanted outdoors now. 
 
 
thank you for listening to me attempt to explain my opinion of how this relatively new cross taste 
 
please ask questions, leave criticism, let me know if you'd like to read more reviews and see cut pics of each of the types that i am growing, etc.
 
 
 

G.I.P.

 

[calchilihead]

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

Aerogarden plants  Black Knight on the left, and Amish Bush on the right 
 
I had started other pepper plants in here along with these but they all quickly outgrew the space, these two however stayed relatively compact (though amish bush is spreading out more now) I might just leave these in here.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Damn, bonnet bell looks great for stuffing

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

updates: i knew i had more pics (some were on wife's phone )
 
We will start with more pics of the damaged, half drown, stripped by wind and hail, wrecked looking plants that are still hangin on. Then move onto some of the nicer looking plants
 

Aji Omnicolor plants 
 

Aji Arnaucho
 

Aji Arnaucho 
 

Dulce Sol  (PL)
 

Grenada Seasoning
 

Maras Biber
 

red Bhut trying to come back 
 

Sweet-Heat 
 

Sugar Rush cream 
 

Serrano x Bulgarian carrot  hangin' in there 
 

Tabasco trying to make a comeback
 

Tangerine dream with what looks like the correct phenotype got nearly killed, it might survive 
 

orange Bbg7 x (PdNxBhut) red  overwintered plant 
 
 
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[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

Bonus daylily bloom
 

Aribibi Gusano plant and pod pic
 

Ecuadorian sweet Rocoto overwintered plant 
 

Reaper
 
 
 

Purple Haze showing various stages of ripening 
 
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[calchilihead]

Nice dude!

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

Chacoense *most prolific (PL) overwintered plant 
 

Sugar rush cream overwintered plant 
 

Yellow Manzano overwintered plant 
 

Peru Bitdumi Rocoto (PL) overwintered plant 
 

Pimenta Puma x Reaper (FFF) light foliage peach pod phenotype overwintered plant 
 

Pimenta Puma x Reaper (FFF) dark foliage red pods overwintered plant 
 
 
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[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

These next pics my wife took while having fun with my phone while i was inspecting the peppers ...
 I think they turned out pretty darn good considering they were taken with my phone like the rest of these pics
 
Bee pics:

Buzz buzz
 

 

 

 
more Pepper plant and even some pod pics coming up 
 
 
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[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

Long yellow Pubescens (yellow sausage pube   @ Hogleg) overwintered plant
 

Pineapple Rocoto (PL)  overwintered plant 
 

Grenada Seasoning overwintered plant
 

Supposed to be Tangerine dream, it is not the right shape or color
 

Peach Trini scorp (TGCM)
 
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[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

Trini Scorp Peach (TGCM)
 

Yaki Blue 
 

Drying Serrano (PL)
 

Carliston Biber 
 

Maras Biber
 

Cumra cherry (PL)
 

 

OrangeGum tiger MAMP overwinter
 
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