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Here's where it all starts at Sideshow Gardens. The seedling room. Heat and humidity controlled. The trays will only spend a couple days here til they get moved outside. Our daytime temps have been wonderful lately but night time temps are still pretty low so they all get brought back inside at night. Quite the chore since the seedling room is upstairs and I currently have way more trays than what is pictured. I've started tomatoes and peppers so far but that accounts for only a quarter of what I'll be growing. Stay tuned for further updates. Thanks for looking!
 
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ShowMeDaSauce said:
I grow catnip to attract bees and the bad bugs seem to hate it. Growing a few sunflowers this year too.
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Does catnip attract the bees? I grow catnip for the cats (first time doing it as well) and was intrigued by your post but overtaken/overwhelmed by nmlarson post! That purple borage is exhilarating to look at!

And you say bad bugs hate it?! Fungus gnats?! I have other words I call them in private @#&*@# gnats y'know..

Regards,
-Tristan
 
One of my favorite varieties to use in the kitchen. Aleppo grown from seed stock from my pods last year. Seems to be doing pretty well.
 

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Maybe a bit of some over fertilization going on with the new leaves, but it is still alive and kicking.
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They're still adjusting to the recent addition of cal mag into their nutrient schedule. The leaves have been starting out like this then forming normally as they mature. I'm assuming from the flush of nitrogen they got when the calcium hit them. *Assuming*
 
Bhuter said:
Looking pretty good! I've never tried the Aleppo. I've heard I'm missing out.
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They are pretty good. Nothing to really write home about when fresh in my opinion but they're best when dried in flake form. Very nice complex flavor. Kinda fell in love with this variety a couple years back and decided to isolate all my plants for seed stock. This is the true "landrace" variety from Syria. I can send you some seeds if you're interested in growing them for next year.
 
Edmick said:
They are pretty good. Nothing to really write home about when fresh in my opinion but they're best when dried in flake form. Very nice complex flavor. Kinda fell in love with this variety a couple years back and decided to isolate all my plants for seed stock. This is the true "landrace" variety from Syria. I can send you some seeds if you're interested in growing them for next year.
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Wow! That would be great! Thank you very much!!!
 
ShowMeDaSauce said:
I sampled Ed's Aleppo powder. Its SUPER tasty!!! I have 4 of the plants going too. Germination rate was excellent and the plants dont seem overly demanding.
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I'm glad they're working out for you. I was concerned because it was my first time harvesting for seed. My germination rates were really high and fast. They're probably the most vigorous plants I have growing. To be expected from an annum though I guess. They seem to be very heat tolerant too and really took off once the weather got hot. I had days in excess of 100 degrees and didn't have any blossom drop or anything. Very easy and forgiving variety to grow.
 
ShowMeDaSauce said:
Soon as mine hit 2 sets of true leave they took off fast. Didnt take too long to get them either.
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Wow they look great! Thats awesome. I've sent my aleppo seeds to people all over the globe so far and it's cool seeing seed that you produced being grown all over the country and the world. I'm a nerd though and I think that stuff is interesting. Lol
 
I gave up my Korean gochu this year to grow these. Gochugaru is easy for me to get locally. Good Aleppo powder is not. Most of what you can find is grown in Turkey atm. Plus i use way more Korean pepper flakes than i can grow. I would need 20 plants or more and that aint happening.
 
I may mix some of this with another middle eastern pepper powder too. One of the thin wall bell types probably that has just a touch of heat.
 
ShowMeDaSauce said:
I gave up my Korean gochu this year to grow these. Gochugaru is easy for me to get locally. Good Aleppo powder is not. Most of what you can find is grown in Turkey atm. Plus i use way more Korean pepper flakes than i can grow. I would need 20 plants or more and that aint happening.
 
I may mix some of this with another middle eastern pepper powder too. One of the thin wall bell types probably that has just a touch of heat.
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A lot of what you see in stores that's labeled "Aleppo" isn't true Aleppo either. Like you said, a lot of it comes from turkey which may or may not be Aleppo but more than likely it's urfa biber or something similar. A dead giveaway is if you see Aleppo with different heat levels. Like hot Aleppo, medium Aleppo, mild Aleppo.. True Aleppo from Syria has a pretty consistent heat level because it is a landrace with very little genetic variation but because of it's popularity in the culinary world and the limited export coming from Syria, people are trying to capitalize on the name by selling other varieties under the Aleppo name. I guess when there's no real governing body keeping track of this stuff, it's easy to do and very profitable.
 
So after a long talk between her mother and I, we decided to let our official mascot of Sideshow Gardens (baby duck) get the mohawk she's been hounding us over for quite some time. Just couldn't say no to those little blue eyes.. Daddy's little angel.
 

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Took a little break from plants to take the 9 to the range. Pretty solid grouping at 15 yards. Always fun slinging lead down range.
 

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So as you guys probably already know, i'm pretty obsessed with allepo peppers and I think I wanna try crossing them with some hotter varieties this year to see what kind of cool stuff I can come up with. What do you guys think it would be cool to cross it with? I don't have a ton of hot varieties going but what I do have I, reapers, ghosts, p dreadie scotch bonnets, swamp thing, giant white habaneros, purple habaneros, dragons claw and maybe a couple others that I don't remember. But based on these listed, what do you guys think would create a cool pheno with good heat and flavor? I'll probably use the Aleppo plant as the parent plant to see if I can keep a similar pheno. Not sure if that's really how it works but i'm just experimenting. Thoughts?
 
Walchit said:
Those aren't headshots! You would have put the mofo down though lol
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I can't do headshots at the indoor range cuz it's too close to the clips that hold the target and the range doesn't want you shooting them on accident. I can put a whole clip into the head at 15 yards though with maybe 1 miss out of 10. He wouldn't be walking away from the situation I tell you that haha
 
Edmick said:
So as you guys probably already know, i'm pretty obsessed with allepo peppers and I think I wanna try crossing them with some hotter varieties this year to see what kind of cool stuff I can come up with. What do you guys think it would be cool to cross it with? I don't have a ton of hot varieties going but what I do have I, reapers, ghosts, p dreadie scotch bonnets, swamp thing, giant white habaneros, purple habaneros, dragons claw and maybe a couple others that I don't remember. But based on these listed, what do you guys think would create a cool pheno with good heat and flavor? I'll probably use the Aleppo plant as the parent plant to see if I can keep a similar pheno. Not sure if that's really how it works but i'm just experimenting. Thoughts?
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I'd choose the P. Dreadie. My first thought was Antep Aci Dolma...just because I have seeds coming from somebody and I'm excited about those, too. But you're probably not growing that.

The "Parent" plant would be the Mother plant if the pod is grown on there. This is because you've emasculated that flower and collected pollen from a Father plant. Does that make sense? Maybe you already knew that and I'm answering the wrong thing. I'm not really sure of the key to keeping a certain pheno. Is it all just luck?
 
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I'd choose the P. Dreadie. My first thought was Antep Aci Dolma...just because I have seeds coming from somebody and I'm excited about those, too. But you're probably not growing that.

The "Parent" plant would be the Mother plant if the pod is grown on there. This is because you've emasculated that flower and collected pollen from a Father plant. Does that make sense? Maybe you already knew that and I'm answering the wrong thing. I'm not really sure of the key to keeping a certain pheno. Is it all just luck?
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Yes of course I already knew that! Do I look stupid Bhuter?! LOL i'm kidding buddy! I've never crossed anything before (on purpose). It's all new to me. Been growing for a long time though and think it would be interesting to actually start experimenting more and come up with some stuff of my own instead of growing everyone elses crosses  I have a dedicated grow room and tons of space outdoors so no better time than now I guess. But yes, I was kinda leaning towards the p dreadie too. Or maybe the giant white habanero.. or both..
 
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