Megamoo's 2012/2013 Glog

stickman · Mar 9, 2013

You may be sharing a good proportion of your harvest with the "creepy crawlies", but fortunately you've got the numbers such that it's not too much of a bummer. What you're showing looks d@#*ed good!

PeriPeri · Mar 9, 2013

Great looking pods man! Loving them White Cheiro's... I so wanted white chillies this season, but my White Devil's and Angkor Sunrise's are just taking their sweet time

patrick · Mar 9, 2013

Camera looks like it has some potential. Some nice pics Mooman.

DocNrock · Mar 10, 2013

Those are picture perfect pods, MM.

STEVE954 · Mar 10, 2013

stellar consistant shape on those yellow sevens!

megamoo · Mar 17, 2013

WalkGood said:
Great pics as always ...
I gotta tell ya, your dish was right up there (tied) with Greg’s in my book. Love that soy dipping sauce, I keep one in da fridge year round and always add more peppers when the heat level comes down. Great job mon!!!!

Edit 1:On another note, I'm out of my share of "like this," thanks THP , so I've made a note to come back and push that button 5 times
Edit 2: back and done dat ... great job and now off to eat something as I'm starving

Thanks.

That dipping sauce was very simple to make and it tastes exactly like what you'd get in an Asian restaurant, with added chillies of course

The fame hungry rockstar part of me appreciates the likes, but also knows they are all deserved

Blue Flames said:
Yeah I had a night on hot sake didn't end well u can't drink it like beer

I will have to make a time when I can see how drunk it can make me.

WalkGood said:
Per the edit in my post #598 I came back and hit “Like This” like 50 times, oh well now to wait another day to get my next allotment Great job Moo!!!

Thanks dude, that's awesome

stickman said:
You may be sharing a good proportion of your harvest with the "creepy crawlies", but fortunately you've got the numbers such that it's not too much of a bummer. What you're showing looks d@#*ed good!

It hasn't been an overwhelming plague wiping everything out. It has ebbed and flowed and the bad bugs have been balanced out by good bugs. With so many plants even when it is bad I'm still getting some pods.

PeriPeri said:
Great looking pods man! Loving them White Cheiro's... I so wanted white chillies this season, but my White Devil's and Angkor Sunrise's are just taking their sweet time

I planted some Blondie seeds but they didn't germinate. I've got one very small Habanero White plant that spat out a few runt pods but isn't doing anything now, and another big one that withered up and died for no apparent reason whilst packed close all around it were healthy plants. I've had bad luck with that particular species- Peruvian White Habanero / Habanero White - for years. Seeds from two different sources on opposite sides of the globe. It's becoming my bogey variety!

patrick said:
Camera looks like it has some potential. Some nice pics Mooman.

Thanks I'm getting better using the settings, now I want a big zoom lens. That stuff is expensive tho. The hard part is optimising the photo on the computer without messing it up.

DocNrock said:
Those are picture perfect pods, MM.

Thanks Doc.

STEVE954 said:
stellar consistant shape on those yellow sevens!

I know! They have impressed me enough to make it onto the A list for next season. I'll be doing less overall variety, and a select few A grade species getting six or more plants in prime position.

Been offline for a while but the garden has been chugging along. A few days ago we had a whole day of rain which was the first real downpour since September and the plants look happier for it. Ok in this picture they don't look great, but they were looking much worse.

I finally took care of the the grass problem but I suppose its only a matter of time before it creeps back in again. There's a foot of dirt and more of wood chips burying the grass and so the plants look taller cos the pots are raised up.

I had to destroy the web of my friendly neighbourhood spider when I moved all the pots, and then had to break it up again the next day to fix all the retic so he obviously got fed up and moved to a new spot right above the Moruga Red plant.

So I picked every other pod in that section that had colour and left the Moruga Red pods as bait for bugs. Hopefully when the F(*&@#! eggplant caterpillar moth goes on his nightly mission to put maggots in all my chillies mister spider with get a hearty meal.
He's damn eager, today he caught a bee!

To weeks ago every other leaf I turned over was a massive aphid party. Today ladybirds are everywhere and the aphids are nowhere to be seen. Nature at its finest. Saw a baby Praying Mantis today too, couldn't get a picture.

Pimenta De Neyde pod doesn't look like its changed in a few weeks, and there are no new pods. It's a bit of a weak plant not one to save the seed from !

Got more pictures need a bump

stc3248 · Mar 17, 2013

megamoo · Mar 17, 2013

Cumari. Looks like a lil one

Younger and short Yellow 7 Pot plant is loading up.

99% sure this is Congo Trinidad, also loading up pods.

Czech Black

Jonah is trying to get up and out of the jungle.

Jamaica Scotch Bonnet is producing a lot but most are undersize. It is sprawling sideways to find space.

These are at the back and it can be hard to follow the branches down to where their tag is but I think these are Indian Carbon. Look a bit fat and short though. We'll see.

A few weeks ago I was upset that Lavatung's mystery pepper plant only had one pod on it. It must have heard me because its gone insane!

There is more to this plant that I couldn't get in the picture too.

Scarlet Lantern that is in full sun is doing well. Great looking pods on this one.

Compare to this Scarlet Lantern that has a thick canopy and lots of shade.

few more pics

DocNrock · Mar 17, 2013

Wow man, your plants are going for the HooRaa! Bump!

Dot Com · Mar 17, 2013

wow megamoo!!! :shocked:

you must be doing something right. Individual plants producing many pods. Is that Yellow-7 (2nd pic) a brain strain? I ask because of all the dimpling. Looks real hot.

megamoo · Mar 18, 2013

DocNrock said:
Wow man, your plants are going for the HooRaa! Bump!

Still a month of good pods left too

Dot Com said:
wow megamoo!!! you must be doing something right. Individual plants producing many pods. Is that Yellow-7 (2nd pic) a brain strain? I ask because of all the dimpling. Looks real hot.

I'm not actually sure. I got some brain strain seeds from cappy and a bonus was a packet simply labelled "Yellow 7 Pot". My other Yellow 7 plants and pods are from a different source. That plant is the first one from cappy to start producing pods. I sent him a message through his site to ask if they were brainy or regular but didn't get a response, so hopefully they are the brain ones. They look awesome at the moment. Some of my other Yellow 7 pods are wrinkly.

Bhut Jolokia harvest

I really want to leave the pods on the plant until they are fully ripened but the longer they hang out there the higher chance the bugs will get them in the night. So I usually pick everything that is coloured and keep them on the bench in the kitchen next to some bananas.

Others

Got my first Datil pod, but the plant doesn't look like it will produce anymore. Also got a Barrackpore pod but it was bugged, there is only one more pod I can see on the plant. Both these plants are next to each other in the back row and its obviously not a good spot because they have been sickly and short since day one.
Got some Chocolate Bhut Pods about to ripen too. Lots ready to ripen very soon.

stc3248 · Mar 18, 2013

Nice pull Mega. Hard to tell, but your mystery looks like a 7 Pot Congo???

Blue Flames · Mar 18, 2013

Hey mr moo I'm back how woz the festival

megamoo · Mar 18, 2013

stc3248 said:
Nice pull Mega. Hard to tell, but your mystery looks like a 7 Pot Congo???

It was a traded seed from Lavatung. It is possibly some sort of hybrid, but we're not sure what. This is the plant the pods came from.

Blue Flames said:
Hey mr moo I'm back how woz the festival

It was ok but nothing I hadn't seen before. All the stalls were pretty much the same and its too late in the season to buy seedlings so I didn't even bother looking at them. (plus I have enough of my own

) They had one selection of the usual crappy seedlings you see at bunnings etc and then Wildfire Chilli's stall had massive plants that look awesome! They really stood out and showed the others up. Candice runs a very professional business. You can tell the plants were grown by someone who wants them to survive more than a week after purchase and produce pods the plant is able to support. I thought they might have some more music or entertainment but there was less than previous years. I only saw one band and it was crap. Tons more people there. Had some sauces for you Kev but you weren't there

You can still drop by my house if you want and grab them.

PeriPeri · Mar 19, 2013

Awesome... just awesome! Love the pics and love the plants and pods... great achievement Megamoo!

megamoo · Mar 20, 2013

PeriPeri said:
Awesome... just awesome! Love the pics and love the plants and pods... great achievement Megamoo!

Thanks

I'm well into planning next seasons garden and seed list. I've picked out 4 varieties that have grown well in the garden and I've saved seeds from.

Yellow 7 Pot
Bhut Jolokia
Trinidad 7 Pot Jonah
Dorset Naga

I'll fill the whole red brick wall garden with just these four varieties and spread them out some more. The other section will have small raised beds for everything else. Plus better and more shadecloth cover for everything. Hopefully everything will do better and do it sooner because the vast majority of the trial and error has been done.

:dance:

WalkGood · Mar 20, 2013

Great update & pics! Did you pick next seasons pepper list because they're your favorite to eat or other reasons?

megamoo · Mar 20, 2013

WalkGood said:
Great update & pics! Did you pick next seasons pepper list because they're your favorite to eat or other reasons?

It was because I saved seeds from healthy plants and pods so I know they grow well in my conditions, they grew true to type, a lot of my superhots didn't look like they should have. Also I can make custom sauces from the pods if I get enough. I would like to add Douglah to that list but the one plant I got pods from only produced a handful all season. I'll definitely grow them but not on the large scale.

DocNrock · Mar 20, 2013

Great idea in planning next year's grow. That's kind of why I grew one plant each of a lot of varieties. To see what I really like, what grows well, and what is prolific. Happy to see the Yellow 7 at the top of your list. All of your pods look great, but those Yellow 7's look killer!

nee · Mar 25, 2013

Hi Moo! Quick Q..... My Pimenta De Neyde has a few pods on it now, but i was wondering how you tell when they are ripe? Do they change colour at all?