PaulG 2014

PaulG · Aug 1, 2014

Devv said:
Cool looking pods on the Giant not White Habanero, I love to see how they progress.

So how long can you go before the cold arrives?

Every year the plant has produced different pods. It will be interesting to see how it does this year.

We should be good until October, maybe even into November if we're lucky.
the weather will moderate a lot, but the really cold nights shouldn't be a concern until Oct.

GA Growhead said:
My not GWHs from you are making perfect stinger pods too. Will have to get a shot up on my glog.
Thanks again Paul, they are awesome plants!

Glad to hear that, Jason! It's an awesome strain.

Trippa · Aug 1, 2014

Let me know how the taste testing goes Paul.

jedisushi06 · Aug 2, 2014

How's it going Paul?

PaulG · Aug 3, 2014

Trippa said:
Let me know how the taste testing goes Paul.

Will do, Tristen. Just haven't been able to get to it yet.
I left the pods on the plant for safe keeping. Both Mystery F's
are coloring up rapidly. How do you suggest using those pods?

jedisushi06 said:
How's it going Paul?

Things are good Mikey! Lots of sun and pods setting!

Another bright spot - the c. galapagoense is finally starting to set pods. There are about 6-10 like these:

Hope everyone had a great weekend. More sun on the way here, forecasts in the
mid 80's to low 90's for the next 7-10 days :party:

, with lows in mid 50's to mid 60's.
Can't do much better than that!

The plants are really starting to set some gnarl.

KiNGDeNNiZ · Aug 4, 2014

the brown eggs are yummy.. sowed a few more of those

poddage looks great... as always.. ive learned my lessons again this year.. but i am thankful.. as y ou mentioned.. EVERY POD a VICTORY

PaulG · Aug 4, 2014

KiNGDeNNiZ said:
the brown eggs are yummy.. sowed a few more of those

poddage looks great... as always.. ive learned my lessons again this year.. but i am thankful.. as y ou mentioned.. EVERY POD a VICTORY

Denniz, my friend! Thanks for stopping by!

I tried one of the Brown Eggs a couple of days ago - what a trip.
Great chili taste with only a hint of heat. My wife might even like these.

PIC 1 · Aug 4, 2014

Lot's of dedication here !
Paul this has been a great season for you so far. The plants look healthy with dense foliage. I can see the plants receive plenty of light, it does help by not overcrowding the plants........like I do.........

It seems that some of the plants receive shade throughout the day. Do your plants respond better with partial shade or full sun?
Nice photography and write-ups of the individual plants !

Pulpiteer · Aug 4, 2014

PaulG said:
My 3rd year Giant not White Habanero - Spankycolts, 3rd generation, has put out stinger-type pods earlier each season, after throwing
some out late in the first season. They made a really early appearance this season:

The seed you sent me produced some stinger pods right away too. I should have some coming in at some point - which is a good thing for me in an otherwise lackluster gardening season.

Your stuff is looking great though! Well done!

romy6 · Aug 4, 2014

Wow wow wubzy some awesome stuff is a happening here . Lions , tigers , 9 foot tall Goat cross and perfect pubes . Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

keep on keeping on mi amigo !!!

PaulG · Aug 10, 2014

PIC 1 said:
Lot's of dedication here ! I seem to remember a guy in Chicago I could say the same thing about in Spades!
Paul this has been a great season for you so far. The plants look healthy with dense foliage. I can see the plants receive plenty of light, it does help by not overcrowding the plants........like I do.........
It seems that some of the plants receive shade throughout the day. Do your plants respond better with partial shade or full sun?
Nice photography and write-ups of the individual plants ! Thanks, buddy. High praise from the master himself!

Hey, Greg! So far so good, brother. We have lost a lot of leaves lately with the
hot weather, but what's left looks pretty good. We hit 100˚F in the back yard today,
with 98-100 predicted for tomorrow, so our back yard could well hit 105,
so some of the plants look pretty sad. Almost all of the plants receive some shade
during the day. The back yard plants get the most sun with total exposure from
about noon on. I need shade cloth on some of those. The plants by the deck just
have to deal with it.

As for sun exposure, I don't know how my experience translates to different climes and zones,
but these are my informal observations. When I'm hardening off in the Spring, I make a note of
which plants seem to be less sun tolerant, and try to find shadier spots for them.

Some of the plants really like full sun. Romy6's Goat's Weed cross, Wild Brazil, Goat's Weed,
most of the various colored 7's, many annuums, and some of the habs to name a few. It seems
the more exotic plants like a bit more shade; some of the wilds, the Sepia Serpent, NagaBrains,
Reaper, Mountain Pepper (especially), chacoense and galapagoense, Chili Costa Rica come to mind.
They all seem to like a break from the midday sun. The best thing for any of the plants seem to be
dappled shade with lots of sunny spots. The intermittent shading keeps the plants from getting so
hot. Of course when Fall gets here, I'll be scrambling to get them in more sun!

The Ajis and Manzanos prefer much more shade, but like to grow through the canopy like vines.

Sorry, Greg, this was probably more information than you wanted!

Pulpiteer said:
The seed you sent me produced some stinger pods right away too. I should have some coming in at some point - which is a good thing for me in an otherwise lackluster gardening season.

Your stuff is looking great though! Well done! Thanks, my friend!

That's awesome, Andy! I hope you get lots of nice pods off of it.
Your season is just sort of in limbo this year. You will be back on top
next year, for sure, after a winter of amending and prepping that lovely
garden space. We will all be jealous of another Andy jungle grow!

Good luck going forward, buddy - hope you are getting a little bit settled
into your new digs and community.

romy6 said:
Wow wow wubzy some awesome stuff is a happening here . Lions , tigers , 9 foot tall Goat cross and perfect pubes . Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

keep on keeping on mi amigo !!!

Hey, it's the Wizard of Pods! How's it going, Jamie?

No need to be jealous, brother, I have seen your grow log

I guess we all owe thanks to Mother Nature for providing so
well for us.

I just went out and measured the GWcross - 117" (9' 9")!
I'm sure it will be over 10' by the end of the month. Gads,
what did you do to these things?

This GW cross pic is about 4 days old, so it's a couple of inches taller now. It
has about a dozen 1-2" upright pods on it, green with black shading. You can
make out a few on the low branches:

Trippa's crosses are producing some nice pods - red, F1, yellow, F2:

They seem to dry nicely in the hot sun. This pic is after one or two days. They are much farther along now.
Nice flavor, and a pretty good kick on the red ones. Still need to sample a yellow:

The Wild Brazil - Stc3248, is loaded:

The Peruvian Aji Amarillo are podding up like there is no tomorrow. Between the
three plants, there must be over 100 pods growing out, with many times more flowers
and pods setting. If we can get the grow season to last long enough, they should ripen
nicely. The plant from peruvian seed shot up three new branches from the base, each
about 6' tall, overtaking the rest of the plant. The bushy phenotype plant has reached
about 4' or so, and is mostly spreading now, rather than shooting up to the moon:

First ripe Manzano - Stc3248!

Moving out of the baby pods on the not white Yellow Bhut - Sawyer.
This is about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the more mature pods on the plant:

Brown Eggs - GaGrowhead, starting to ripen up more pods. They sun-dry very nicely to a deep burgundy color:

I'll be back with another set in a bit!

onefowl1 · Aug 10, 2014

looking good PaulG, I had a good take in pods this morning myself.

Portuge · Aug 10, 2014

Heres your bump Paul, been awhile since Ive been over to your glog... Looks like i will be playing catch up here one of these days... Pods look great, weve had back to back weeks of over 100 plus. Wishing it was 20 degrees cooler though

PaulG · Aug 10, 2014

onefowl1 said:
looking good PaulG, I had a good take in pods this morning myself.

Awesome, Jacen. I hope we can harvest enough pods for the NWCF this Sept!

Portuge said:
Heres your bump Paul, been awhile since Ive been over to your glog... Looks like i will be playing catch up here one of these days… Save yourself some time, James I have given up on trying to keep up with the grow logs, and visit maybe two or three a week! Pods look great, weve had back to back weeks of over 100 plus. Wishing it was 20 degrees cooler though

I hear that, brother. That is a little warm! We might get one or three days over 100,
but never sustained. We might sustain 95's in an unusual summer like this one, and
for us that seems like h-e-double hockeysticks :cool:

I think 75-80 sounds just about perfect!

Thanks for the bumps, fellas!

Giant White Habanero - Sawyer. Looks like this one will be having white pods - some of the light
green ones are getting lighter in color. I feel like it will be hard to tell when one is ripe. Maybe it
won't. The pods are very uniform in shape and size:

Fatali - 3rd year OW::

The 7 Pot Jonah is still the champion producer so far:

More Jonahs:

Trinidad Scorpion - Uncle Steve's Hot Stuff:

PI441598 - GaGrowhead. Turning out to be a peach color, all right! I'm not sure how much of the purple should be gone to indicate ripeness:

7 Pot Barrakapore - GaGrowhead, finally starting to pod up in serious. Interesting plant. After starting to spread,
the branches all turned and began to grow straight up:

Thanks for bearing with me, folks. I hope everyone had a nice weekend. Grow strong!

onefowl1 · Aug 11, 2014

Just stunning plants you have. I hope between yours and mine and a few others in our part of the world we can encourage others to be as successful growing here. I always believed it was just a matter of learning how to deal with our often wet soggy weather.

I will have a good many pods to bring for sure unless the pepper monsters raid my plants before then. lol...

I would love to get some seed from a few of your peppers to grow out myself, as we get closer to the party we can exchange lists of what we have.

Grow on my friend.

PaulG · Aug 11, 2014

onefowl1 said:
Just stunning plants you have. I hope between yours and mine and a few others in our part of the world we can encourage others to be as successful growing here. I always believed it was just a matter of learning how to deal with our often wet soggy weather. Thanks, bro. It is a matter of finding which varieties do well here, and then focusing on those, I think.

I will have a good many pods to bring for sure unless the pepper monsters raid my plants before then. lol…

I would love to get some seed from a few of your peppers to grow out myself, as we get closer to the party we can exchange lists of what we have.

Grow on my friend.

Absolutely, bud! Sounds like a good plan. We def need to get a little list going.

I am really looking forward to NWCF.

Have you perused the PNW grow log? Jim has some good stuff going, and
some of the other PNWers. Maybe there is a growing cadre of growers in
this region. That would be very good.

onefowl1 · Aug 11, 2014

I have not but will check it out. Between being busier than planned at the nursery, fighting our hot summer keeping everything hydrated, moving to smartphone and tablet for most of my online time. Still trying to find a way to post pics from my tablet as I got it for that purpose as it goes with me everywhere.

stickman · Aug 11, 2014

I see there's been lots happening out your way Paul... you seem to be as busy as I am, lol! Lots of color too... the hot weather may be hard on the foliage but at least it seems to help the pods ripen. With the exception of the MoA I'm still waiting for my Chinense varieties to ripen in the cooler weather we've had here. No complaints though, we still have time!

Keep 'em green buddy!

PIC 1 · Aug 11, 2014

Paul thanks for the info.....

Nice job keeping the 3rd yr Fatali around, it looks densely plush.
Seems like you're getting mid summer temperatures for the final run through autumn. Hope you get harvest(s) into November !
Have a great week !

PaulG · Aug 11, 2014

onefowl1 said:
I have not but will check it out. Between being busier than planned at the nursery, fighting our hot summer keeping everything hydrated, moving to smartphone and tablet for most of my online time. Still trying to find a way to post pics from my tablet as I got it for that purpose as it goes with me everywhere.

I've toyed with the idea of using my wife's iPad, but use the 'point and shoot'
because it's so convenient, even if the pics aren't as great.

Keep up the good work, Jacen! Looking forward to more pics!

stickman said:
I see there's been lots happening out your way Paul... you seem to be as busy as I am, lol! I do a pretty good job of making it look like I'm busy! Lots of color too... the hot weather may be hard on the foliage but at least it seems to help the pods ripen. With the exception of the MoA I'm still waiting for my Chinense varieties to ripen in the cooler weather we've had here. No complaints though, we still have time!

Keep 'em green buddy!

Right on about the heat effect, Rick. Interesting that the JA Red Habanero and the 7 Pot Jonah
have been ripening up at a fast clip, while many of the other chinenses have only ripened up a
few baby pods.

About this time of the summer, I start fretting about the cool Fall weather ahead
and the number of green pods on the plants! It would be great if we could have three or four
months of 75-85 degree weather instead of the wider extremes for a shorter time. We've been
lucky the past two years with a pretty extended grow season.

Keep that grow rollin' in high gear, buddy!

PIC 1 said:
Paul thanks for the info….. Sure thing!

Nice job keeping the 3rd yr Fatali around, it looks densely plush.
Seems like you're getting mid summer temperatures for the final run through autumn. Hope you get harvest(s) into November !
Have a great week !

That is my hope, as well! The only downside is that the cooler temps will not produce pod heat so much.
Another thing I've noticed this season is the number of really bumpy pods on a lot of the plants rather than
the smooth surfaces the pods usually have. I know some of the varieties like Romy's BrainStrain are super
bumpy to start with, but even some of the ones I've grown before are putting out some bumpy critters. I'm
wondering if it is due to the high temperatures we've been having this season.

JoynersHotPeppers · Aug 11, 2014

Are your Jonah's yellow? Everything is looking great. I learned after one season to NEVER grow the wild Brazil again. They produce like mad and one can easily spit out over 1000 pods.