JAB Farms to attempt GLOG for first time!

I've been told for years that my craziness should be documented somewhere. Well, I'm going to attempt it. Each year I like to start at least 3 times what I am planning for myself. I do fill 3 other (neighbors and family) gardens as well but even so have tons of plants. And on average I have 500 hot pepper plants in our garden, with 35-50 superhots in buckets on deck. (along with 75 tomatoes, okra, tons of cucs in garden) This year I started 42 types of HOT peppers, 12 types of sweet (not for me!). I'll attach photo's later - so in some kind of order) as I have several in my 30+ trays of 48 as I am starting transplanting and putting back under lights until they are ready for greenhouse. There are 3 - 5 shelf shelving units inside with lights across and 3 shelving units of 4 shelves in garage as backup.

What's the crazy guy growing this year? In HOT category (for most of us)
Carolina Reaper, White Moruga Scorpion, Trinidad Scorpion, Apocalypse Scorpion, White Trinidad Scorpion, Caribbean Red, Datil, Red Savina, Helios, Scotch Bonnet Freeport Orange, Thai Culinary, Thai Dragon (2 types), Prik Chi Faa, Bottle Rocket, Kung Pao, Aji Amarillo, Aji Pineapple, Sugar Rush Peach, thunder Mountain Longhorn, Long Red Slim Cayenne, Long Thick Cayenne, Lemon Drop, Devil Serrano, Hot Rod Serrano, Santo Domingo Serrano, Antiplano Serrano, Joe Cayenne, Atomic (Brazilian) Starfish, Big Thai, Orange Spice, Biker Billy, Jalapeno Early, Jedi Jalapeno, Dante Jalapeno, Everman Jalapeno, Inferno Hot Banana, Gochujang King, Cucumber Pepper, Numex Big Jim and JAB Superhot (usually a cross between all my superhots from previous year)

Hope someone can at least laugh at my craziness!

More to come.

 

[JAB Farms]

Great stuff on this thread! Glad you liked that Sugar Rush Peach jelly! Let me know how you like that Cienfuegos red? I saw the three from the Cienfuegos series offered on Tomatogrowers.com and I was curious about them.

Absolutely will! I will say I was looking for a better producing Red Habanero type. I have always grown the Caribbean Red and Red Savina's and over the last few years they are so hit or miss. I did get a gallon+ bag Caribbean Red's total (in freezer) and 2 Red Savina gallon bags (that I have since dried for spice), but compared to my Orange Habanero (and many other types of peppers I grow) - that is REALLY low production when you figure I had 20+ Caribbean Red and 16 Red Savina plants in my garden. My Orange Habanero's produce so much that even while I have made 4 huge batches of jelly, dried and smoked gallon's of bags of them... I STILL have about 6 gallon bags of them in the freezer and more still coming. So that is why I was trying the Cienfuegos Red. Also adding multiple Scotch Bonnet's (just added Yellow as mentioned above and now a Chocolate too). By fertilizing and making my own soil mixture, those all went crazy. So want to expand on those.

The Aji Pineapple, Aji Amarillo, Datil, Habanero, Sugar Rush Peach, Kung Pao (Joe Cayenne) are my big hits as far as Jellies and strongly recommend others make if they haven't tried!

 

[NJChilehead]

Absolutely will! I will say I was looking for a better producing Red Habanero type. I have always grown the Caribbean Red and Red Savina's and over the last few years they are so hit or miss. I did get a gallon+ bag Caribbean Red's total (in freezer) and 2 Red Savina gallon bags (that I have since dried for spice), but compared to my Orange Habanero (and many other types of peppers I grow) - that is REALLY low production when you figure I had 20+ Caribbean Red and 16 Red Savina plants in my garden. My Orange Habanero's produce so much that even while I have made 4 huge batches of jelly, dried and smoked gallon's of bags of them... I STILL have about 6 gallon bags of them in the freezer and more still coming. So that is why I was trying the Cienfuegos Red. Also adding multiple Scotch Bonnet's (just added Yellow as mentioned above and now a Chocolate too). By fertilizing and making my own soil mixture, those all went crazy. So want to expand on those.

The Aji Pineapple, Aji Amarillo, Datil, Habanero, Sugar Rush Peach, Kung Pao (Joe Cayenne) are my big hits as far as Jellies and strongly recommend others make if they haven't tried!

If looking for productivity, my experience with Jamaican Hot Chocolate has been really good! My Antillais Caribbean cranked out LOADS of red fruit but they had terrible issues with cracking, so that makes them a no-go for what you're doing. @Marturo grew Aji Chombo last year and raved about the flavor and IIRC commented on the productivity as well.

 

[JAB Farms]

If looking for productivity, my experience with Jamaican Hot Chocolate has been really good! My Antillais Caribbean cranked out LOADS of red fruit but they had terrible issues with cracking, so that makes them a no-go for what you're doing. @Marturo grew Aji Chombo last year and raved about the flavor and IIRC commented on the productivity as well.

I'm going to go look those up now. I know its hard to believe when I say I have picked on avg 16k peppers a year - that I'm worried about production - lol - but if I take the time to baby these sometimes/often times finicky bastards for months, I'd like most for my little garden that I can get. Seriously guessing that this year due to change in fert/grow process I picked over 20k this year, but only guessing. Wife agrees. I'm always removing things from previous years and trying something new. Helios, that most say is a lower heat level habanero, has been one of my heaviest producers that I will ALWAYS grow a lot of, and I'm here to say with the right soil (I have major acidic soil) they are not low end. And of course produce like crazy. I will take a picture of those plants tomorrow to prove how well they are STILL looking - AND producing while most of the garden is out/dead or dying due to over 36 days of no rain. We got inch yesterday... first in forever! Since I've changed how I start/fertilize over the year and had the amazing success, I just might have to try some of those I've tried so many and removed from the list in past... there of course were several that I liked, just didn't produce enough in my eyes that might have to get second chance in future. My list is already so long now but always willing to try something new What else do you grow? @Marturo too? Aji Chombo I'm not even sure this old pepper dude has seen...

 

[JAB Farms]

So the Jamaican Hot Chocolate are pretty interesting from what I'm reading. I loved the Chocolate Habanero (or Brown Congo depending where you pick up your seeds). I like that the description says more flavor than the Chocolate Hab. Interesting find there @NJChilihead ! Of course, Brown Congo, while I loved were not a good producer in my sun. However, I might have corrected that with the fertilizing routine this year so those and the Jamaican Hot Chocolate might have to be added to my list Looks like Aji Chombo might be in same category - as I'm just going to have to try them. Damn it. (just kidding)

 

[NJChilehead]

So the Jamaican Hot Chocolate are pretty interesting from what I'm reading. I loved the Chocolate Habanero (or Brown Congo depending where you pick up your seeds). I like that the description says more flavor than the Chocolate Hab. Interesting find there @NJChilihead ! Of course, Brown Congo, while I loved were not a good producer in my sun. However, I might have corrected that with the fertilizing routine this year so those and the Jamaican Hot Chocolate might have to be added to my list Looks like Aji Chombo might be in same category - as I'm just going to have to try them. Damn it. (just kidding)

@JAB Farms The Jamaican Hot Chocolate is a real winner!

BTW I wanted to ask you: what is your best baccatum for the pepper jellies? I wasn't planning on growing any baccatums next year, but that sugar rush peach jelly was so darn good, and your other jellies have me curious. Was there one baccatum that really stood out for the best jelly?