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SANARDA'S GLOG UPDATE 9/8/2013

Here is the list so far:

7 pot Jonah (Mgold/Matt pod)
7 pot mystery (Mgold/Matt pod)
7 pot Red (Jamie/Romy pod)
7 pot yellow (Mgold/Matt pod)
Aji Lemon (Romy pod)
Assam (Mgold/Matt pod)
Barrackpore (Pepperlover)
Bhut Giant Red (Matt/Mgold pod)
Bhut Peach (Matt/Mgold pod)
Bhut Chocolate (Matt/Mgold pod)
Bhut Hybrid (Jamie/Romy pod)
Brain Strain Yellow (DVFSTR/Dave pod)
ButchT (Dvfstr/Dave pod) and Mgold's (Pod)
CARDI Scorp Yellow (Jamie/Romy pod)
Choc Hab (PaulG pod) (Romy) (Matt/Mgold)
Datil (Jamie/Romy pod)
Dorset Naga (Jamie/Romy)
Douglah Red (Dfstr/Dave pod)
Douglah Hybrid (Jamie/Romy Pod)
Fatalli x Red Savina (Matt/Mgold pod)
Goats Weed (PaulG pod)
Habanero BLK (Matt/Mgold pod)
Moruga Red (Matt/Mgold pod)
Naga Morich (Matt/Mgold pod)(DVFSTR/Dave pod) (Paul G I think)
Suave Red (NMSU) two seeds
Trinidad Scorp Yellow (Matt/Mgold pod)
Trinidad Perfume (Matt/Mgold pod)
Uba Tuba (NMSU) I only have two seeds
Zavory (Burpee) Two seeds

Seeds yet to purchase:

7 pot infinity
7 pot Primo
7 pot Brown
Barbados
Black Cayman
Black Naga
Black Stinger
Cleo's Dragon
Fish
Malaysian Goronong
Moruga Scorp Yellow
Naga Viper
Red Savina
Safi Red
West Indian Red

Wish list:
Billy Boy Douglah
Sepia Serpent
 
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Poblano's, you would think here in Tejas where they're eaten by everyone that we could find seed and plants, uh no.... I finally bought some peppers and germed the seeds I harvested, then by chance we were at Home Depot and the Bonnie truck was delivering, we scored I bought them right off the truck!
 
Scott around here I can barely get a Bhut. It's crazy. I had to Internet purchase the few things my good friends on here didn't give me.

On another note, my 14 year old, Emani, sent this picture text of an onion that I believe was in the onion keeper

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I want to plant it for some reason but. The onion is already there. Aahahhaaaaa
 
Devv said:
Really? I have to try that, we go through Onions like crazy here. I just wish we had a way to store all the ones we grow...
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I say two, because there are two new tops growing. It might make another one or two given the chance, depends on the strain.

STEVE954 said:
I would cut the top off, leave about an inch or so, plant the top, and eat the onion!
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That won't work. The new onions are beginning to form in the center of the old one and the new ones will grow roots from the bottom of the old. Cut the top off, and you've just got some green onions to chop up in your omelet. :)

There's always the (pretty good) chance that as the old onion decays it will take the new ones with it, which is why this is not the usual way of growing regular onions. I have seen it work occasionally. Of course, this is how garlic and shallots are propagated, as well as potato onions. I'm trying to find a strain of potato onion that will thrive here. The way the story goes, once you get a start of potato onions, you never have to buy onions again. Use the stored harvest through the winter and plant the best storing ones in late winter/early spring.
 
Sawyer said:
I say two, because there are two new tops growing. It might make another one or two given the chance, depends on the strain.



That won't work. The new onions are beginning to form in the center of the old one and the new ones will grow roots from the bottom of the old. Cut the top off, and you've just got some green onions to chop up in your omelet. :)

There's always the (pretty good) chance that as the old onion decays it will take the new ones with it, which is why this is not the usual way of growing regular onions. I have seen it work occasionally. Of course, this is how garlic and shallots are propagated, as well as potato onions. I'm trying to find a strain of potato onion that will thrive here. The way the story goes, once you get a start of potato onions, you never have to buy onions again. Use the stored harvest through the winter and plant the best storing ones in late winter/early spring.
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Cutting the top off will work for chives.

Cutting the bottom off will work for creating a new onion bulb.

This works with any onion...not just a potato onion.
 
STEVE954 said:
Cutting the top off will work for chives.

Cutting the bottom off will work for creating a new onion bulb.

This works with any onion...not just a potato onion.
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I only grow garlic chives and they are perennials. They're so easy to propagate from rhizomes, there's no need to doing any cutting. Get a piece of rhizome and soon you'll have a never-ending supply of garlic chives. I'll take your word for it on regular chives. I agree the most important part for growing a new onion is the basal plate, but you need some of the embryonic flower stalk, too. In any case, your best chance is not to cut at all. That's what I like about potato onions (and garlic and shallots), plant one bulb and get several in return. (My favorite shallot routinely produces a dozen cloves for each one planted.)
 
Sanarda said:
REALLY! How? Do I plant up to the green or plant the entire onion? Sorry if I sound ignorant. I have no clue about planting onions

Oh I posted my comment before reading. My bad. Ill try to plant it and see what happens. If they haven't eaten yet.
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Plant it pretty deep, but leave most of the new green top above ground. If you've ever planted garlic, do it like that. There's a good chance it won't survive, but if it's too far gone to eat, it's better than throwing it away.
 
In other news, I took my better half on a ride trip to beautiful New Hope Pennsy. There is a hot sauce shop there called Suzies. I purchased these goodies.

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I love Melinda's. it's sooo good. And the Rasta Fire is a great barbecue/slightly curried sauce. Excellent to finish some BBQ'ed ribs.

Thanks Sawyer. Surprisingly it wasn't soft at all. Normally it would have been way past eating. But it had all that green and wasn't soft. I couldn't believe it. That's why I posted it. Can't tell by the outer shell but it was firm.
 
Sanarda said:
In other news, I took my better half on a ride trip to beautiful New Hope Pennsy. There is a hot sauce shop there called Suzies. I purchased these goodies.

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I love Melinda's. it's sooo good. And the Rasta Fire is a great barbecue/slightly curried sauce. Excellent to finish some BBQ'ed ribs.
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Okay, that does it: we got to get together and make sauces this fall! :party: Last recipe with thanks to RocketMan, Bill Fatalii Apple Butter needs touch of tweaking and would send you a pint of it, Pia: on ribs, wow; but it's gone: friends just took it . . . want to tweak it and make it more "Carib Mon" maybe with nutmeg, and some of Ramon's PoP's, or red scotch bons. See what you think. The Carib Red, I guarded, and is killer on pork or chicken too. Should we quit our day jobs? :rofl: I LOVE making sauces!

Everything looking begorgemous, sweetie!
 
annie57 said:
Okay, that does it: we got to get together and make sauces this fall! :party: Last recipe with thanks to RocketMan, Bill Fatalii Apple Butter needs touch of tweaking and would send you a pint of it, Pia: on ribs, wow; but it's gone: friends just took it . . . want to tweak it and make it more "Carib Mon" maybe with nutmeg, and some of Ramon's PoP's, or red scotch bons. See what you think. The Carib Red, I guarded, and is killer on pork or chicken too. Should we quit our day jobs? :rofl: I LOVE making sauces!

Everything looking begorgemous, sweetie!
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Annie I will be in Greensboro for two weeks this July. I will let you know the dates. It's on and popping Girlfriend

Abfew pics cuz I'm a slacker. I had to raise the lights despite having seedlings. Ugh. What to do. Seedlings sprouting first true leaves and leggy.

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Jamison said:
Heres my Lolita! Not the greatest pics but it looks exactly like yours eh?
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She needs to be potted up for sure! Hows your Fish peppers doin? Mine aren't showing any variegation for some reason.
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They do look similar. Yours are just slightly more advanced.. Oh and I have buds but the purple leaves are gone.
 
Pia, darlin' "a hot sauce conpny is born!" (I also have good health insurance should I fall near water buckets, hoses, etc. :cool: ) If you're bein' in G-boro, we GOT to meet up. Please PM me on dates, k? Also hon, if you get some phone books to raise the seedlings . . . I've had to raid my stash of old phone books, since the one here is 1/2 inch thick, to do that with big'n little. Just gorgeous plants!!! Not long til pot-out!

Actually, "let us" harden off first :party: . I had an uncle, who drank a lot when he was younger. Grew gazillion maters in his greenhouse one spring, stayed drunk that spring. I said, "Unk, ya not gonna harden 'em off?" He was loaded but making nice amended holes for tomato plants . . . he slurred out, "Survival of the fittest, kid!" Evidently, none of his were too fit. We still kid him about it; he got sober and laughs about it today . . . dang he was mad, esp. at us laughing at him. Poor plants. When I got out of treatment in spring, my mother, since I had to take time off to just learn how to live again, put me to work: she gave me loofah seeds, butternut squash seeds, all soaked, neck pumpkin, acorn squash seeds--A BUNCH of winter squash seeds--different containers labeled, soaked, ready for hills. Be damned if I didn't space-out and planted only the loufah.

I was living in a half-way house for women (so stereotypical :rolleyes: ) She called later that summer, said, "I hope to hell those women up there need bath accessories!" Uh, I messed up :rofl: . Again your babies look wonderful! Mine are getting 20 mins sunshine today!
 
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