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HillBilly Jeff's 2014 Adventure - Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

HillBilly Jeff said:
 

Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
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Bodeen said:
Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
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Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
 
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PaulG said:
Yeah, the not White Yellow Bhuts are awesome.  
Unusual looking pods on my plant - all smooth and oblong,
but should make a great powder blend.
 
Will try to grow out another or two next season if there is
room in my grow list.
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There is always room for one more :D
 
Starting another batch of Jigsaw Juice tonight.  Hoping I have enough to do 2 gallons of sauce.
 
Smoked 45 jigsaw pods for the sauce project.  Should be good for a gallon and a half.  Hoping I have to add some more as I am shooting for two gallons.
 
 
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Kitchen smells so good.
 
 
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Got the peppers ran through the food mill and it looks like it might be a gallon and a half or slightly more at this stage.  It will increase a little when I process it tomorrow, but I don't think enough that I will have to add more Jigsaw to it.  It has a great consistency right now, and it is looking better than my first run of Juice.  
 
Last batch got warmer as it aged and I got 13 bottles out of 15 peppers, or 65 ounces.  I should be roughly at that same ratio tomorrow when I doctor it up.  Sauce is chilling out in an ice bath.
 
Initial ph test before any doctoring showed 4.36.  It didn't take much to get it where it needed to be.  Has the same sweet start finish hot as the initial Jigsaw Juice I made, but not as much smokey flavor.  Next time I will smoke some of the sweets as well, or smoke the hots longer.  I could add liquid smoke to the sauce, but I am not sure how that would turn out and it would feel too much like cheating to me.  Just under 2 gallons of sauce.
 
Nice-looking sauce.
 
HillBilly Jeff said:
 
 
It was hot.  I put just half of it in an omelet, and it made me pause for 30 seconds half way through the omelet. It was from a not white yellow bhut pepper plant.  I got the seeds from Sawyer looking for banana aroma.  This one doesn't have that aroma, but I think I will grow out a couple of the seeds next season just to see what I get.
 
I got three ferments now in their second month and I don't know if they went correct or not with it being my first time.  Not sure how to check to see if they are good to use or are crap.  I won't be fermenting my manzano pods.
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I didn't realize at first that was one of my NWYBs.  I have, I think, four plants with ripening pods, and they all four look different from one another, but none of them look like that one.  Lots of genetic diversity in those seeds.
 
Interesting that the NWYB's are expressing such great diversity.  
Makes me wish I had grown 2!
 
It looks like I will have over a dozen of these ripened up for me.  Happy Happy.  Now to come up with a sauce and to see how well I like it....might have to give these another go next year if I like it.....or perhaps OW.
 
 
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I guess my total Manzano production this year will be about 8 pods   :rofl:
 
It must be way too sunny'n'dry for these mountain type species, Scott.  Even here,
I have to shade them a bit.
 
Jeff, you're a monster   :dance:
 
PaulG said:
I guess my total Manzano production this year will be about 8 pods   :rofl:
 
It must be way too sunny'n'dry for these mountain type species, Scott.  Even here,
I have to shade them a bit.
 
Jeff, you're a monster   :dance:
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I have them next to my wood pile under some trees.  Very little sun and no west sun.  
 
Fingers are crossed for ya!
 
Paul: I have this one in mainly shade under a huge Live Oak tree. I feel the intense heat and drying winds are the major factor.
 
Things look nicely buttoned up, Jeff; good luck surviving the cool down!
 
@Scott:  You are probably right, buddy, doesn't sound like great pubescens conditions!
 
I too am glad your garden survived, good work there!
 
And a nice Manzano harvest to boot.
 
You're a braver sole than me skinning "ole skunky". The scent reminds me of hunting in the 80's ;)
 
Well, frost is coming in tonight, could be a freeze and I am not covering.  I picked all ripe pods and green pods that were big enough that I thought would ripen.  All going to be going into smoked pepper powder.  Going to be clean, slice, smoke, dry every day or so until finished.
 
 
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My one burgundy had purple tinted leaves on it.  None of the others did.  The pods I got off it was way late and darn near chocolate.  I wonder if this would be a throwback to one of its parents?
 
 
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I was laughing at myself tonight as I was having a pepper conversation.  Like if the plants knew the forecast, knew I was picking them clean, and knew I wasn't going to cover them.  Add in some conversation from the OW waiting to get potted up and hauled inside.  
 
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