JCW's 2015 Glog

Well, here's to another year. I wanted to downsize from last year, and ended up practically doubling everything.  Started germinating on Jan 22 using paper towel method.  Tried 2 ways, one in cups with the seeds on top, other the way I have always done with the seeds in paper towel in ziploc.  Both have worked, but the paper towel in ziploc seems faster, maybe better temp control there.  So far have about 55 seeds in dirt after 11 days with many of them already popped up and looking happy.
 

 
Almost an embarrassing setup compared to many I see on here, but it worked great 10 years ago, and still worked fine last year so I figure no need to change yet.

Will need another rack of lights this year for the increase in volume I have.
 
Grow list as of today (updated 3/17 hopefully for the last time).  I tried to keep track of the sources, so hopefully I have given proper credit here.
 

1. 007 Orange                                 (mpicante)
2. 7 Pot Barrackpore                          (mpicante)
3. 7 Pot Barrackpore Chocolate                (Sawyer)
4. 7 Pot Brain Strain Yellow                  (Saved from 2014)
5. 7 Pot Bubblegum                            (Scorched)
6. 7 Pot Bubblegum Chocolate                  (mpicante)
7. 7 Pot Bubblegum Large                      (Pepperlover)
8. 7 Pot Burgundy                             (PSM)
9. 7 Pot Burgundy                             (Transient Exuberance)
10. 7 Pot Caramel                              (mpicante)
11. 7 Pot Chaguanas                            (Wicked Mike)
12. 7 Pot Douglah                              (HellHotPeppers)
13. 7 Pot Infinity                             (PSM)
14. 7 Pot Lava                                 (PSM)
15. 7 Pot Orange                               (PSM)
16. 7 Pot Peach                                (Sawyer)
17. 7 Pot Primo Yellow                         (Pepperlover)
18. 7 Pot Rennie                               (Wicked Mike)
19. 7 Pot SR Gigantic Chocolate                (Wicked Mike)
20. 7 Pot Yellow x Bhut Carbon                 (Wicked Mike)
21. 7JPN                                       (Wicked Mike)
22. Aji Ahuachapan                             (Wicked Mike)
23. Aji Cito                                   (Wicked Mike)
24. Aji Lemon Drop                             (Wicked Mike)
25. Aji Omnicolor                              (D3monic)
26. Aji Peruvian                               (Wicked Mike)
27. Aji Pineapple                              (Wicked Mike)
28. Aribibi Gusano                             (PSM)
29. Arkansas Peach                             (Sawyer)
30. Armageddon                                 (Wicked Mike)
31. Barbados                                   (CCN)
32. Beni Highlands                             (PSM)
33. Bhut Caramel                               (PSM)
34. Bhut Dulac                                 (Wicked Mike)
35. Bhut Orange                                (Pepperlover)
36. Bhut Orange Copenhagen                     (PSM)
37. Bhut White                                 (PSM)
38. Bhut Yellow                                (Unknown)
39. Bhutlah Brown                              (PSM)
40. Bhutlah Red                                (Wicked Mike)
41. Billy Boy Douglah Red                      (Wicked Mike)
42. Billy Boy Douglah Yellow                   (PSM)
43. Billy Goat                                 (PSM)
44. Bishops Crown                              (inolan22)
45. Black Cayman                               (CCN)
46. Black Hungarian                            (Wicked Mike)
47. Black Scorpions Tongue                     (inolan22)
48. Bolsa De Dulce                             (D3monic)
49. Bombay Morich                              (mpicante)
50. Bonda Ma Jacques X                         (HillBilly Jeff)
51. Brazilian Ghost                            (PSM)
52. Burkina Yellow                             (PSM)
53. Carmine                                    (Saved from 2014)
54. Carolina Reaper                            (Buckeye)
55. CGN 21500                                  (Transient Exuberance)
56. Cheiro Roxa                                (chilinoob)
57. Chile De Arbol                             (Wicked Mike)
58. Clavo Red                                  (Wicked Mike)
59. Cleo's Dragon                              (CCN)
60. Congo Orange                               (Buckeye)
61. Congo Peach                                (Pepperlover)
62. Daisy Cutter MA Yellow                     (Buckeye)
63. Defcon 7                                   (PSM)
64. Devil's Brain                              (Pepperlover)
65. Devil's Horn                               (Wicked Mike)
66. Devils Tongue Chocolate                    (Saved from 2014)
67. Devil's Tongue White                       (Wicked Mike)
68. Elysium Oxide Scotch Bonnet                (Sawyer/Mike/capsidadburn)
69. Fatalii Black                              (Pepperlover)
70. Fatalii Gormet Jigsaw                      (PSM)
71. Fatalii White                              (Pepperlover)
72. Fatalli Chocolate                          (Saved from 2014)
73. Giant Orange Thai                          (romy6/Prodigal Son)
74. Goats Weed                                 (Wicked Mike)
75. Habanaero Harolds St. Barts                (HillBilly Jeff)
76. Habanero Black Stinger                     (chilinoob)
77. Habanero Capuchino                         (SLP)
78. Habanero Carolina Yellow                   (Wicked Mike)
79. Habanero Chocolate                         (Buckeye)
80. Habanero Chocolate Hand Grenade            (HillBilly Jeff)
81. Habanero Chocolate x Mystery Scorpion      (Saved from 2014)
82. Habanero Ebony Giant                       (SLP)
83. Habanero Hot Paper Lantern                 (D3monic)
84. Habanero Large Red Jamaican                (ChinaWhite)
85. Habanero Long Chocolate                    (PSM)
86. Habanero Magnum Orange                     (duston2008)
87. Habanero Martinique                        (Buckeye)
88. Habanero Niranja Picante                   (SLP)
89. Habanero Orange Apple                      (SLP)
90. Habanero Peruvian White                    (Unknown)
91. Habanero Roatan                            (HillBilly Jeff)
92. Ice Scream                                 (PSM)
93. Jamaican Hot Chocolate                     (Transient Exuberance)
94. Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion                 (Moruga Welder)
95. Jay's Red Ghost Scorpion                   (Scorched)
96. Jonah's Yellow Brain                       (Pepperlover)
97. King Naga Orange                           (Sawyer)
98. Kumasi                                     (PSM)
99. Madballz 7                                 (PSM)
100. Madballz 7 x 7 Pot Jonah                   (Wicked Mike)
101. Madballz Chocolate                         (Wicked Mike)
102. Madballz Scorpion                          (PSM)
103. Mako Kokoo                                 (Wicked Mike)
104. MOA                                        (Pepperlover)
105. MOA Red                                    (East Texas Heat)
106. Morovas                                    (PSM)
107. Naga Black                                 (Saved from 2014)
108. Naga Monster                               (Unknown)
109. Naga Peach                                 (Pepperlover)
110. Naga Viper                                 (PSM)
111. Naga X Congo Choc                          (Wicked Mike)
112. Nagabrains Chocolate                       (PSM)
113. Nagabrains Red                             (Wicked Mike)
114. Orange Primo                               (Nearday)
115. Orange Primo                               (Wicked Mike)
116. Orange Teapot                              (PSM)
117. Pickersgills Orange                        (SLP)
118. Pimenta De Neyde                           (SLP)
119. Purple Cayenne                             (inolan22)
120. Purple Jalapeno                            (CCN)
121. Red CARDI                                  (PSM)
122. Red Dog                                    (PSM)
123. Royal Gold                                 (Saved from 2014)
124. Safi Red                                   (Meathead1313)
125. SB7J                                       (PSM)
126. SB7J                                       (chilinoob)
127. Scorpanero                                 (PSM)
128. Stuffing Scotch Bonnet                     (Meathead1313)
129. SuperDatil                                 (PSM)
130. Tepin x Lemon Drop                         (inolan22)
131. Tiger Teeth                                (PSM)
132. Trini Mystery                              (Wicked Mike)
133. Trinidad Scorpion Butch T                  (Unknown)
134. Trinidad Scorpion ButchT Yellow            (Pepperlover)
135. Trinidad Scorpion Chocolate                (PSM)
136. Trinidad Scorpion Lemon Lime               (PSM)
137. Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Brown             (Saved from 2014)
138. Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Caramel           (PSM)
139. Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Chocolate         (PSM)
140. Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Red               (Unknown)
141. Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Yellow            (Saved from 2014)
142. Trinidad Scorpion Orange                   (PSM)
143. Trinidad Scorpion Sunrise                  (PSM)
144. Trinidad Scorpion Yellow                   (Pepperlover)
145. UBSC                                       (PSM)
146. Urfa Biber                                 (Buckeye)
147. Yaki Brown                                 (D3monic)
148. Purple Habanero                     (Wicked Mike)
149. Black Habanero                       (Wicked Mike)
150. Habalokia Peach Lavalamp       (Wicked Mike)
151. 7 Pot Merlot                            (Wicked Mike)
152. Choc BBG7                            (smileyguy697)
153. Orange Primo x BOC               (smileyguy697)
154. Kraken Scorpion                      (smileyguy697)
155. SR Trinidad Scorpion Long       (smileyguy697)

Sweet/Bell Peppers
 

1. Golden Cal Wonder                          (PSM)
2. Purple Beauty                              (PSM)
3. Sheepnose Pimento                          (PSM)
4. Golden Marconi                             (PSM)
5. Sweet Banana                               (PSM)
6. Jimmy Nardello                             (PSM)
7. Orange Marconi                             (PSM)
8. Red Marconi                                (PSM)
9. Chocolate Beauty                           (PSM)
10. Cubanelle                                  (PSM)
11. Shishito                                   (PSM)
12. Poivrons Pointus Mexico                    (ChinaWhite)
13. Chinese Giant                              (Burpee)

Tomatoes
 

1. Carbon Copy                                (fiogga)
2. Eva Purple Ball                            (fiogga)
3. Dancing with Smurfs                        (fiogga)
4. Indian Stripe                              (fiogga)
5. Danko                                      (fiogga)
6. Big Cheef                                  (fiogga)
7. Maylor Roths Orange                        (fiogga)
8. Serdste Binvola                            (fiogga)
9. SunSugar                                   (fiogga)
10. Paul Robeson                               (Wicked Mike)
11. Juliet                                     (CCN)
12. Marglobe                                   (Burpee)
13. Steak Sandwich                             (Burpee)
14. Physalis Peruviana                         (Wicked Mike)

 
Thank you to all who donated or traded seeds with me this winter to help with this list.  My chiropractor thanks you as well.
 
Thanks for viewing.  
 

 

[jcw10tc]

Chocolate Bubblegums

 
7 Pot Caramel

 
King Naga Orange

 
7 Pot Yellow X Bhut Indian Carbon

 
Habanero Orange Apple

 
BOC x Orange Primo

 
7 Pot Infinity

 
Jonah's Yellow Brain

 

[mpicante]

These pics look great!

 

[jcw10tc]

These pics look great!

Thanks.  The first two up there are thanks to you.  That 7 Pot caramel has my attention, looks really good.  Really looking forward to those yellow ones also.  Hadn't been able to fight my way back to that corner of the garden in a while and made it tonight and found those 2 just waiting to be picked.

 

[Bhuter]

Absolutely beautiful! Great color on the chocolate BBG7! How are the heat & flavor on the BOC x Orange Primo? I love the shape on those.

-Adam

 

[jcw10tc]

Absolutely beautiful! Great color on the chocolate BBG7! How are the heat & flavor on the BOC x Orange Primo? I love the shape on those.

-Adam

Yeah, those choc bbg7 are really good.  Probably my favorite chocolate superhot I have had so far.   Didn't have the bitter taste a lot of them have.  The BOC x Orange Primo taste kinda like caribbean red or some type of habanero to me.  It wasn't superhot at all.  The first few pods I had were also shaped like habs, now I have these and there's a third shape of pods on the plant that have some stingers like a primo or scorpion.  I wouldn't expect them to taste any different than the early pods but have yet to try any of this shape one yet.

 

[KiNGDeNNiZ]

Great plants and great looking pods... shapes om the daisy cutter seem t9 be on point. Judging by the color those are red DC...they are yummy peppers. I've had the yellow and orange..the red. I can't recall... keep it up

 

[jcw10tc]

Awesome pods Justin ... great cross section of varieties .... what has impressed you and what has disappointed you in heat and flavour so far

Thanks John,
Biggest disappointments so far are some pods are are lacking heat and some that seem to be lacking color.  First off the Trinidad Morovas which I believe from reading should be habanero level heat at least has none.   I know some people like the non hot chinense peppers, but theres just something I can get my head wrapped around with that flavor without the heat to go with it.  So thats my biggest dud by far I think.  The orange primo that looks good by the shape but has turned out more yellow is also  extremely mild.  Flavor is pretty good, just wish it was orange and had at least half of red primo heat which was my hopes for this one.  Something that tasted like red primo with just a bit less bite to it.  It can be much more than 100,00 scoville.  Maybe I am just not patient enough, which happens early on with me, but a lot of my orange peppers seem to be ripening more yellow.  Except BOC which went the otherway and is probably closer to red.  Maybe I got crosses, maye its the 2 feet of rain in a month and a half.  Oh well, I still have probably 100 varities yet to ripen or so.
 
3 favorites so far are Chocolate BBG7 - nice heat without the overpowering sometimes bitterness that can come with the chocolate superhots.  Very smooth.  Looking to make a smoked powder if I get enough.  
Yellow Brain Strain - not new but doing good again - this year they seem even more pungent than last, not hotter just stronger in flavor.  Took a bit to get used to, have the first batch on the dehydrator now for a new stock of yellow dust.
Billy Goat - its not really too hot but the flavor is good and love the pod shape.  Its a little small but also solid as a rock, so nice and crunchy and easy to cut and deseed.  Hoping these will make a nice mild smoked powder for pizza - ran out of my antillais caribbean and bonda ma jacques powder from last year a while back which I was using for this.
 

Looking splendid Justin . Really digging that jigsaw pod. Keep em coming !!!

Thanks Jamie.  Got a few more of those coming this week, expecting they will probably be over the top of my heat scale, but anxious to see what flavor they have.  I hope they are a smooth heat.   For me the red superhots fall into 2 categories, the smooth heat like reapers and jonahs where the heat is strong but slow building with a good taste or like the sr strain and 7 pot long were last year.   Those hit me right up from with the blast of heat and strong chinense / bitter / capsaicin taste, not even sure what you call it but probably know what I mean.  I usually refer to it as the red taste.  Seems red ones have their unique blast sometimes just like some of the harsh chocolate ones do.

 

[jcw10tc]

Great plants and great looking pods... shapes om the daisy cutter seem t9 be on point. Judging by the color those are red DC...they are yummy peppers. I've had the yellow and orange..the red. I can't recall... keep it up

I didn't know there was orange, but think that's one I would like.  These are supposed to be yellow.  I hope they are yellow.  Should know soon enough. 

 

[jcw10tc]

King Naga Orange

 
Beni Highlands

 
Hot Paper Lantern

 
White Devil's Tongue

 
BOC

 
Habanero Martinique X

 
Carolina Yellow

 
Sunrise Scorpion

 
Bubblegum

 
Not Chocolate Hand Grenade - but huge pods

 

[moruga welder]

nice pods my friend !     

 

[jcw10tc]

One of my favorite things to do with the pods is make powders.  I add them to almost everything.  Since no one else in the house can handle any heat in their food, I rarely cook hot food but add my own spice after.  
 
I told someone a while back about my sub $10 cold smoker.  Here it is.
 
18 gallon storage tote - free I have many extra
Wire rack $3
solder iron $4
aluminum trays for the pods $2
old 28 oz food can with holes in base and lid
ceramic tile to put the can on to keep it from melting the tote
 

 

 

 

 
Plug the hole with a paper towel

 

 
I fill 2 of the trays heaing with pods and set them on top of each other, offset so they are not directly over the can.  It does put out some heat directly over the can but not enough to significantly warm up the entire tote.  The can filled with chips provides 1.5 to 2 hours of smoke.  That was what I smoked most of mine for last year.  Last few batches I decided to try 4 hours by refilling the can and starting again.  Was worried as some people said too much would be badness, but I think it was even better.  
 
Here's first 3 batches dehydrating.  They are just plain so far.  
 
Yellow Brain Strains - I won't ever smoke these again, its too damn good plain.

 
Big Yellow Habs / Not 7 Pot Orange

 
White Fatalii and White Devil's Tongue

 

[jcw10tc]

Some more pods pics.
 
Couple big Red MOAs

 
SuperDatil ???

 
Lava

 
Jamaican Hot Chocolate

 
Chocolate Moruga

 
Probably a not Brazilian Ghost

 
Caramel Moruga

 
Not sure if this is disease or some form of BER or something.
Mainly on this plant and somewhat on one next to it.

 
Never have seen this many blossoms from one node.

 

[D3monic]

How's the beni highlands taste? They are nice looking pods. Same with the carolina yellow

 

[jcw10tc]

How's the beni highlands taste? They are nice looking pods. Same with the carolina yellow

Beni Highlands weren't too bad.  Fairly mild.  Had some sliced lengthwise on a burger the other night.  Carolina Yellow is still on the backlog of stuff I need to try.  Hopefully this week.  Going to process a bunch tomorrow for the smoker and some powdering.

 

[moruga welder]

lookin' great my friend !   

 

[jcw10tc]

lookin' great my friend !   

Thanks.  Its becoming overwhelming really quick.  I spent 2 hours crawling around that damn jungle today.  I got my wish, my plants are smaller than last years, at least for now.   Now all the damn pods are practically on the ground.  I can't even see a lot of them without crawling or pulling branches up.  Getting tired of accidentally breaking branches off.  

 

[moruga welder]

Thanks.  Its becoming overwhelming really quick.  I spent 2 hours crawling around that damn jungle today.  I got my wish, my plants are smaller than last years, at least for now.   Now all the damn pods are practically on the ground.  I can't even see a lot of them without crawling or pulling branches up.  Getting tired of accidentally breaking branches off.  

lol ! i can relate .  and then theres the mosquitos !  

 

[D3monic]

yea let me know how those taste, might hit you up for seeds later... not that I remember what the last seeds I said that about was. 

 

[OCD Chilehead]

Looks like your garden is rewarding you well. Thanks for sharing the smoker. That's bad a$$.

 

[jcw10tc]

Looks like your garden is rewarding you well. Thanks for sharing the smoker. That's bad a$$.

Thanks.  Way past my bedtime, but was determined to smoke some peppers today and one delay after another, didn't get started until way late.  It works well for what I have into it.  Need to check every now and then, it likes to quit smoking and need to stir the chips a bit which is a pain.   I figure in about 3 weeks I will be so overwhelmed with pods I won't know what to do.   Still waiting on about half the varieties to ripen the first one.