PaulG 2014

Sawyer · Sep 20, 2014

A little late, but bump. The Yellow Naga Brain is an impressive pepper. How are the flavor and heat on that one?

stickman · Sep 20, 2014

Yeesh! I do believe 25+ pounds of pods... killer output Paul! Beautiful-looking pods as well. From the pics, it looks like they almost all came in at once... did they?

Keep up the good work my friend!

PaulG · Sep 20, 2014

Sawyer said:
A little late, but bump. The Yellow Naga Brain is an impressive pepper. How are the flavor and heat on that one?

Thanks, John! I haven't given it a fair trial yet. I'll try to get to a sample today.
It was a beautiful plant (taken down today since all pods ripened up).

stickman said:
Yeesh! I do believe 25+ pounds of pods... killer output Paul! Beautiful-looking pods as well. From the pics, it looks like they almost all came in at once... did they?

Keep up the good work my friend!

Thanks, Rick. I was pretty amazed, but you are right; some of them ripened
up a lot of pods all at once. I probably have one more decent harvest ahead.

A few awesome Douglahs - Alfanerdz via Stickman:

Peach Funky "Arkansas" Reapers - Sawyer:

Ripe for the taking. Not White Giant Habanero - Spankycolts. I think it should be called a Cardi Scorpion since that it really what it
looks like:

Nice Trinidad Scorpion - US HotStuff, getting close:

A funny little external pod on the outside of the Douglah:

Goat's Weed Cross - Stc3248:

Goat's Weed and Bird's Eye, HTM ristas:

The Bird's Eye and Goat's Weed pods are very similar. The GW are a little fatter, and the BE a little more orange:

I still have a bunch of dryer and harvest photos. Thanks for the looks and patience!

Devv · Sep 20, 2014

Simply awesome Paul!

PaulG · Sep 20, 2014

Devv said:
Simply awesome Paul!

Thanks, Scott. I guess I'm pretty pleased for a PNW grow. I'm discovering which varieties like it here,
and will start focusing on those next season. Anything with a 7 in the name will be on the list for sure,
and a bunch of medium hot smaller pods. A few habs and a variety of bhut colors will make the cut as
well. It will be hard limiting to 30-35 plants, but 50 is too much for my space and energy/time since only
30 are on the drip system. I will add a couple of new stations next season.

A few harvest and pod pics.

A superior plant. Definitely on the list for next year:

Forgot to label the red ones. They are either 7 Pot Burgundy or Primos!

A small Charapita harvest. wish I knew the latin name - difficult to track via google. Any suggestions?:

And a small one of Wild Brazil. Wish I knew the latin names of these, as swell. Can't seem to find to via google:

Some of these are sun-dried. I'm not going to do it with these anymore, as it bleaches the pods:

Another more ample harvest of the little buggers. I harvested by knocking the plants around and picking the pods up :oops:

. You can make
a good comparison of the two when they are in a mass like this.:

Just one more set of these older pics, then I can process and upload
yesterday's pics, and the thread will be up to date.

What a long-winded project! thanks for being patient!

Devv · Sep 20, 2014

Bump!

PaulG · Sep 21, 2014

Devv said:
Bump!

Thanks, Scott. Just got back to the computer.

Just a few pics of pods in the dryer this weekend.

Fatali x Savina - Spankycolts and JA Red Habanero - Devv:

Clockwise, Yellow Bhuts - Sawyer, Douglahs - Stickman, BrainStrains - Romy6, a couple of
random pods, some NagaBrains, I think :think:

:

Yellow Datil - romy6, Sepia Serpent - GaGrowhead, Peach 'Arkansas" Reaper, Reapers:

Brown Eggs - GaGrowhead, Inca Lost, Charapita - Stc3248, Cheiro Recife - Stickman:

? Red, Douglahs, Peach "Arkansas" Reapers

Okay that does it for catch up. Now to process and upload the pics from yesterday…

MeatHead1313 · Sep 21, 2014

I've been seriously slacking on glog updates lately. Your pulls look outstanding Paul! Got gifted a few pods of the Bonda/yellow 7 cross from windchicken last night while he was in town. Outstanding pepper!

stickman · Sep 21, 2014

Wow! You've certainly been a busy guy Paul! Glad to see everything looking so good.

I take it your Hernia surgery went well and you're feeling more your old self now?

Devv · Sep 21, 2014

I see you're a busy man!

Congrats on the great pulls!

PeriPeri · Sep 21, 2014

Paul buddy - lost you there for a while. For some reason your glog was not coming up for me on the glog search. I could only see your 2013 glog. Anyway, I have spent an awesome time catching up on your season. Buddy, what amazing season thus far. Amazing selection... super fine grow Paul. You are blessed with some truly amazing chillies this season. Your plants are just loving it... very happy and healthy looking plants. Really incredible job! Wow, wow, wow. You must be very pleased with the season so far

Ouch on the surgery... I hope you get better soon!

PIC 1 · Sep 22, 2014

Paul you've certainly been busy in the garden, more than enough heat to keep the family warm through the winter.
What are your plans with the dryed Charapita's ?

PaulG · Sep 22, 2014

MeatHead1313 said:
I've been seriously slacking on glog updates lately. Your pulls look outstanding Paul! Got gifted a few pods of the Bonda/yellow 7 cross from windchicken last night while he was in town. Outstanding pepper!

Thanks, Chris, we've been fortunate this season. Cool that you got to see Gary!
The Bonda cross is an awesome plant; Typical big 7 Pot loaded with pods!

stickman said:
Wow! You've certainly been a busy guy Paul! Glad to see everything looking so good. I take it your Hernia surgery went well and you're feeling more your old self now?

You're keeping pretty busy yourself, my friend! Starting to feel Fall in the air though,
so time to think about cleaning up the grow and getting ready for a few OWs.

The 'calf implant' as MGold called his hernia surgery went great. This one was a
regular incision rather than a laparoscopy so the recovery has been totally different
than the first. However, I plan to get back to my walking routing today! Woot! Thanks
for asking, bro!

Devv said:
I see you're a busy man!

Congrats on the great pulls!

Thanks, Scott. I think I'm busy because it just takes me longer to do stuff now than it used to :rofl:

PeriPeri said:
Paul buddy - lost you there for a while. For some reason your glog was not coming up for me on the glog search. I could only see your 2013 glog. Anyway, I have spent an awesome time catching up on your season. Buddy, what amazing season thus far. Amazing selection... super fine grow Paul. You are blessed with some truly amazing chillies this season. Your plants are just loving it... very happy and healthy looking plants. Really incredible job! Wow, wow, wow. You must be very pleased with the season so far Ouch on the surgery... I hope you get better soon!

Good to hear from you Lourens! I have been flying under the radar myself this season.

Forum members sent me some awesome seeds this season, so my grow is really
thanks to them! I'm happy with the results; we have had a near record-breaking
summer this year, lots and lots of sunny hot days to really pack on the pods and
get things ripening up. I guess you must be gearing up for a new season, now.

PIC 1 said:
Paul you've certainly been busy in the garden, more than enough heat to keep the family warm through the winter.
What are your plans with the dryed Charapita's ?

Hey, Greg! I didn't really expect this season to produce a bumper crop, but it sure did!

I thought the dried Charapitas would make a nice powder blend with some red super hots.
What are your thoughts?

I've been working my way through the awesome sauces you sent, bro! We used the
Pizza Spike in the Bloody Marys at the NWCF - perfect!

Okay, now back to processing the latest round of pix!

PaulG · Sep 23, 2014

The latest harvest was the major pull of the season. Probably another 10 pounds
on the plants waiting to ripen. Now it's just the race against the Fall weather.

30 pounds of pods. Photo courtesy my spouse :cool:

:

Some nice, chunky Datils and beautiful, red Reapers:

The chocolates are awesome pods, and some of the TFMs are
starting to show some more bonnet characteristics:

NuMex Twiwlight, 3rd year. Photo by my spouse:

A couple of more sets, and then we are up to date!

PaulG · Sep 23, 2014

~~lkjbghv~~ Geez, where did this come from? :rofl:

ribbedturtleneck said:
Ah, the fruits of your labor. Very nice.

Thanks. The weather gods were very helpful this season

This 7 cranked out some great pods. Still more on the plant:

The most awesome pod on the plant:

ribbedturtleneck · Sep 23, 2014

Ah, the fruits of your labor. Very nice.

PaulG · Sep 23, 2014

Another series of harvest pics:

Devv · Sep 23, 2014

Wow Paul! Impressive!

Seems they all came in during a short period of time, a busy time now!

You look good in the pic too! You're in good shape

Must be all that yard and garden work....

Glad the hernia surgery is better, that just can't be fun! Never been though that, but had my Appendix burst 15 years ago. I thought I was having a baby! They do more cutting after a burst and rough you up some cleaning you out. My guess is they roll you on your side and stick a garden hose in there...LOL. I don't bruise, not even after having nose broken twice. But I was bruised after that.

Like Greg said, you have enough for a hot winter there and then some!

stickman · Sep 23, 2014

Beautiful pull Mr. G! You've obviously gotten attuned to your local growing conditions to pull off getting ripe pods from all those varieties. Good on ya!

KiNGDeNNiZ · Sep 24, 2014

romy6 said:
Well I will give you a bump and patiently wait for pics . You are lucky to get that rhombodium I have had no luck germinating the few seeds I had .

Not even in the cheater box
Good work paul.. looks like a 40 lbs of victory