Hey all-
A quick week and a half home and then off to the land of secure "cleared" server only data access-read "no external access", and so no surfing THP except by iphone. I don't have the patience for tiny screens and all the fingering you gotta do to cover a single page. Back in Houston, bearing seeds and pods for seeds to harvest and send out....
Brian- Got the powder-thanks man!As to the "Black "-yep, roger the Douglah comment-most likely I will go to Choc Bhuts and a few others(Choc scorps, Kavals...and we'll see how the Armageddon f3 grow out as well. You would not believe the funk that overpowered everything after dumping a bunch of pureed fresh Douglahs , that placenta tastes like ass-and I almost shit canned the batch when I did that.I ended up up doubling up the flavor base portion and going to 7 Pot Browns and powder to get the heat back up. Cooking it back up to temp after that got rid of most of the funk, so I canned it to let it stew for a while.Funny thing is, I filled a jar immediately after adding the puree(for a heat/taste testing)-and forgot to bring it up to temp, and brought it with me to Houston along with the canned stuff. Well it fermented a bit, and when I broke it out it tasted like DOUGLAH ASS.I wouldn't let anyone have any after that(I didn't figure out the uncooked stuff fermenting until I got pressured into giving someone a jar anyway , and the person insisted on paying for it after they tasted it, and even wanted 2 more jars... so I checked out the jar, and it wasn't funky WTF???) and was gonna shit can the project again "till next time". Then I checked out the jar I brought for me in really good light...and saw the tiny bubbles-fermenting!If that friend hadn't insisted on sampling some, that whole bacth woulda gone in the dumpster.You do not want to go with Douglahs for mash-talk about magnified funk!The target with this was BBQ'D(real bbq, not the cooked with bbq sauce stuff )Pork.
The Red X2 ...smoke flavor was from adding the cherry smoked scorp powder you sent with a sauce order I had saved, along with some powder from Jamie.Normally I'll roast/smoke some of the pods lightly before pureeing, but I like the flavor intensity that powder brings versus just using fresh pods-it comes without the high water content of pods
. I don't like liquid smoke.
Paul-yep, both sides are full of shit, but basic accounting/flood of entitlements totally disqualified the Dems here-they basically bought the election with OUR f'kin money.It will always be a lesser of 2 evils- we're talking politics here.Voting for the "lesser" is still very important- and the Dems have just as many "rich guys in suits" as the Rep's, they just "misinform" and "misdirect/redirect" anytime it even gets close to them(Harry and Nancy), and it is okay to be a rich dem pitching themselves as champions of the "poor", and the media backs em up always. I put a rich guy who doesn't lie about it, over rich guys that aren't honest about it.Revenue earned by business performance interests trumps revenue acquired dishonestly through political wheeling and dealing.Nuff said.
As to the drip watering...it saved my year, but with the shortcomings mentioned-so better with then without, but I will be trying to decide as to the mode of improvement for next year.I like the ring or loop with 3 drips or 4, buried say ....4" down, 14-16" diameter loop around plant, tee'd off the main drip line.I am definitely gonna flood irrigate the rows as often as practical-and between the 2 practices, hopefully the amount of roots that come to surface(the heat and the shallowness combine to make for a quick wilter)will be reduced, and a deeper, more uniform root ball will be developed.
Jamie: I slack, therefore I am!
Patrick-PM away!I'm guessing the pic flipping is some minor software incompatibility between ,Iphone/laptop/website-drives me f'kin NUTS!
...got a fridge and wife to receive anything perishable.
