stc3248, 2013 Grow log, Season's Greetings and Season's End

BrooklynXpat · Aug 6, 2013

Shane - All i have to say is WOW!

Your harvests look amazing as usual and those sauces look very interesting to say the least, love the charapita vinegar -thats a greats idea. Always a pleasure seeing your updates.

JoynersHotPeppers · Aug 6, 2013

HOLY

MGOLD86 · Aug 6, 2013

O....M....G......Charparita vinegar! GENIUS!

wahlee76 · Aug 6, 2013

Looking good again. I just sown (?) 4 primo seeds again for next season. All came up. I hope to get my hands on some yellow primos and reapers as well and try to get some decent shape pods.
Last time I had Primo's, I had mostly little, pointless pods becuase of the cold weather. So next year I hope mine will look as good as yours

cone9 · Aug 7, 2013

Shane,

I just visited your Glog for the first time. I've thumbed through it and it's humbling how much you manage to accomplish.

In the chilihead world you are a one man fire team!

romy6 · Aug 7, 2013

Shane my man. What can I say that has not already been done

Your Harvest are out of this world. The ferments and powders are dazzling. :party:

Your attention to detail is second to none. :fireball:

When I grow up and become an expert Chilihead I want to be molded by yours truly. :dance:

Only thing new I can add is this mystery pepper. Texture and color is spot on yellow cardi scorp. Pod shape is much like a trinidad congo. So I am going with yellow congoscoprianage.

GnomeGrown · Aug 7, 2013

stc3248 said:
Lightly crushed/bruised Charapitas. In a dill based vinegar, Mmmmmm....gonna be perfect on some greens! Left it home on purpose to make sure it mingles at least a week before I drain it!!!

Ok, ok...I really gotta go!!! Dang...first the emoticon police...then the quote police...really???
Shane

Oh, man how I want this bottle. :woohoo:

Only four pods left of the charapitas you sent me... :mope:

stc3248 · Aug 8, 2013

BrooklynXpat said:
Shane - All i have to say is WOW!

Your harvests look amazing as usual and those sauces look very interesting to say the least, love the charapita vinegar -thats a greats idea. Always a pleasure seeing your updates.

Thanks! I made a rare trip home last night and sampled it and the bottle I made with Birgits Locotos and they're both really good!

JoynersHotPeppers said:
HOLY

Haha...I say that too when I first lay them out! Then...I look again and start thinking about all the processing and say Aww :censored:

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MGOLD86 said:
O....M....G......Charparita vinegar! GENIUS!

Thanks Brudda!!!

wahlee76 said:
Looking good again. I just sown (?) 4 primo seeds again for next season. All came up. I hope to get my hands on some yellow primos and reapers as well and try to get some decent shape pods.
Last time I had Primo's, I had mostly little, pointless pods becuase of the cold weather. So next year I hope mine will look as good as yours

Wow...already sowing fo rnext season??? You're gonna have a great jump start! I would like to try some Yellow Primos also, but I have more "Like to try" varieties then room! Not all the Primos on my plants have long tails...only maybe half. I think that's pretty standard. Good luck with them!

cone9 said:
Shane,

I just visited your Glog for the first time. I've thumbed through it and it's humbling how much you manage to accomplish.

In the chilihead world you are a one man fire team!

Welcome to my saga cone! Haha...I have a hard time keeping up with the plants this time of year with my schedule, more just treading water if you know what I mean.

romy6 said:
Shane my man. What can I say that has not already been done

Your Harvest are out of this world. The ferments and powders are dazzling.

Your attention to detail is second to none.

When I grow up and become an expert Chilihead I want to be molded by yours truly.

Only thing new I can add is this mystery pepper. Texture and color is spot on yellow cardi scorp. Pod shape is much like a trinidad congo. So I am going with yellow congoscoprianage.

Haha...you're an all growed up chilihead in your own right man! Can't wait to retire and do this full time with some real room. 150 acres of prime NE Texas property...7 lakes for irrigation...about half wooded for some real deal Forest Floor compost...Chicken Farms and Dairies on both sides for some free sheet....two tractors with all the attachments...Dad's been running cattle on the land for years, growing clover and the cattle have been putting it back down. Should be epic!!! I want to start off with a farm loan for a nice greenhouse, pumps and a dedicated processing shed outfitted with industrial dehydrators. Only problems will be Deer, Hogs and Storms. Cattle panel for the hogs, electric fence and my .308 for the deer, and well the storms, we'll just have to cross our fingers! Best part is...I'll be halfway to your house!!!

I don't know what to call those perdy yeller pods...for now I think just DELICIOUS!!!

GnomeGrown said:
Oh, man how I want this bottle.
Only four pods left of the charapitas you sent me...

I hope you saved some seeds Gnomey!!! Once I get these vinegar sauces tweaked a bit...I may make some extra!!! Stay tuned! :cheers:

Ok...I got to check the garden yesterday, still got some sick ones, but I see signs that they're starting to pull out of their funk. Nice green new growth on most and we've had a cool spell which has most of them setting flowers and pods again. Here are a few more pics from last weekend...

First off the Bubblegum 7 Pot seed from Denniz...I had just pulled a bunch so most of the ones on the plant aren't bleeding up the stem yet...or very little.

Here's the harvest...cool plant and really cool pods.

Here are some good ones...like Morugas with Annuum caps...

Here are the Yellow Ajis from PaulG...big dang pods!!!

Did I say big...I mean't freakin HUGE!!! Haven't eating one yet...will this weekend and let y'all know what's up!!!

Brain Strain 7 Pot from Vincent...really great plant! Strong grower...a little slow on the production side though. Most nodes setting single pods.

This pod got tied in a knot and caught in a fork and is trapped!!! Don't worry y'all, I'll save it! Not the best pic, but the pod is all distorted due to its predicament.

Finally...some shots of the Naga-Like Reapers.

Very sweet with a nice burn, but not a record breaker. Production on this plant is freaking crazy though and the flavor is as good as any red pod...and better than most. I know it's not the real deal, but I would sooner grow this one again than the real deal. Plant is more vigorous and production on the true plant is not very good. Pods look cool though...so it's got that going for it! Once I finally man up and taste the real deal I will give my own personal verdict on weather it gets to grow in my garden again...but the Naga-Like...is IN!!!

If for now...gotta get to work!!! Hope everyone has a great day and thanks for visiting!
Shane

GnomeGrown · Aug 8, 2013

stc3248 wrote: "hope you saved some seeds Gnomey!!!"

---I sure did.
Some are even in the dirt already.

Thanks again!

compmodder26 · Aug 8, 2013

I'm SO jealous Shane! Your grow is off the hook brother! Whatever you are doing, I hope you're keeping notes because you need to just keep on doing it year after year. Fantastic season your having my friend!

wahlee76 · Aug 8, 2013

wahlee76, on 06 Aug 2013 - 5:29 PM, said:

wahlee76 said:
Looking good again. I just sown (?) 4 primo seeds again for next season. All came up. I hope to get my hands on some yellow primos and reapers as well and try to get some decent shape pods.
Last time I had Primo's, I had mostly little, pointless pods becuase of the cold weather. So next year I hope mine will look as good as yours

Wow...already sowing fo rnext season??? You're gonna have a great jump start! I would like to try some Yellow Primos also, but I have more "Like to try" varieties then room! Not all the Primos on my plants have long tails...only maybe half. I think that's pretty standard. Good luck with them!

Last year I started with Jonah's in october, and that worked well. With the cold spring over here, they were still strong and producing quite well. So now I started even earlier and gonna start with Reapers this weekend. Gonna try to get them to be strong and big plants and compare them.

But back to your update; Those pods look great! And naga-like or not, your Reapers look Vicious :fireball:

. And still enjoyable, which makes it a good pepper to me

RocketMan · Aug 8, 2013

Dang Shane, now those are some pulls brother and your ferments are looking really good. Congrats

Devv · Aug 8, 2013

Nice update!

I just can't keep up with all these glogs anymore!

Glad you liked the Funky Reaper, I knew you would...it has great taste. Yours are a little wider than mine, but taste the same as you described.

And the rest...do I really need to tell you how damned good your grow is? LOL

Fantastic work there my friend!

WalkGood · Aug 10, 2013

Shane, I enjoyed the stinger Barrackpore review, sounds very tasty and they look smexy mon.
Interesting compare of your Reaper VS Primo … I can’t wait to read or view your taste comparison
As usual your pictures are spot on and all look great, I really like the cut Barrackpore ones
I also enjoyed reading your retirement plans but if you’re a closet slacker and xbox junkie I’m a monkeys uncle, hahaha
Awesome job on the ferments and I love the look of the Charapitas in da vinegar bottle, that should be awesome tasting. I do the cooking sherry and rum ting with our pods but never tried the vinegar, I’ll have to give that a go … tanks mon!
Wishing ya and yours an awesome weekend brethren!

stickman · Aug 10, 2013

Great pods and projects ya got going Chief! I agree with Ramon... you may eventually let go of your paying gigs, but you ain't ever gonna retire! Cheers!

MGOLD86 · Aug 10, 2013

I just wanna say..60 freaking pages....that is pretty amazing.

gnslngr · Aug 10, 2013

"I just wanna say..60 freaking pages....that is pretty amazing.".....from the looks of the time stamps, somebodies PT this morning was more like "THP" :dance:

I have to say this keep your cranium from bursting...........

I think you can do better, lets, um, step it up a notch ok? :woohoo:

Those BBG7's.......save me some!

stc3248 · Aug 11, 2013

Haha...another cop out thanks. So freakin busy on the weekends now. Ramon I am a Closet X-Box junkie...Matt, yes my PG count is out of control! Dave...you got it brotha!

I have started to feed more often with a little higher dose and the plants are slowly climbing out of their funk...well most of them anyway. A couple may be done, but no biggie! Have been busy tending to the compost pile this weekend and last...should be able to do some really good amending and next year in the in-ground areas and go for a soil grow again. :pray:

I learned a bunch about how to prep the beds for BIG plants over the past couple seasons and did some tweaking to my soil mix and prep for this years only ingrounds which are the Birgits for the Growdown...I will go ahead and let most of the cats out of that bag...I have done really well so far. I think its a three man race at this point and I am still a contender.

Here is how she looks today...

I dug the hole over 5' deep when prepping this little bed. I back filled with a mixture of the soil I dug out along with compost, worm castings (my own) and cow manure. I also mixed in some osmocote general purpose time release. There is a soaker ring 4' below the surface and another just below the surface. About a month before plant out I started watering the plot with compost/kelp tea. The kelp I gathered from the beach on my Navy base. Initially I trimmed all side shoots leaving only the primary stem to grow. (looking back I think that may have been an error). I also deflowered the tallest plant until I could no longer keep up...no more pruning, just training. It is tied as a bundle every foot or so all the way up...about 10' tall now and hoping for another 4 or 5 feet before Halloween. Hard to see them but there are many thousands of pods on this plant. Almost had a catastrophy while taking this pic...I am having some gopher issues in this area and the ladder punched through into one of the tunnels...toward the plant. Me and the ladder went over. I was quick enough to push the ladder back the other way and land on my feet. Initial reaction was to grab the plant...could've been really bad!!! :rofl:

Speaking of a thousand pods...

Very close to a thousand pods in this pic...there are 100 pods in my hand and over 9 hand fulls total. I started out to count them all, but quickly changed my mind when I got to 100 and still had so many left! Single plant...single pull. Almost a record, the Bird Aji (Wild Brazil) I grew last year produced over 1200 pods in a single pull...I counted as I picked them because I couldn't figure out why that one plant took so freakin long to harvest!!! Mystery solved!!! I couldn't get any of those seeds to pop for this season, but hope I can get one going next year!

I am dubbing the mystery Yellow plant...Yellow 7 Pot Congo. There may be no relation, but they're very congo-like in shape. Very hot for a yellow too!

The lobes are so freaking cool on these pods!

Pulled quite a few ripe ones too!!!

The Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion (Walter Anderson's Nursery) is loading up with some Gnarl...

A couple more...I may have to pot this plant up. In a 7 gallon now...and getting pretty big!

Think this "Primo" is a cross...some have small stingers and are more Primo in shape...but others are long and Bhut-like. Can't wait to sample one of these. Got some ripe ones...

This week's pull...minus a couple dozen Fataliis that got pulled and powdered on Wednesday and...

A nice bunch of Manzanos that are already smoked and drying!!! Next pull I may ferment...I dunno???

That's it for now...got a bunch more to do outside, may post a few more pics later on!!!
Shane

WalkGood · Aug 11, 2013

I still say you are going to need a bigger ladder, lol. Everything looks great brethren, love all da colors, pics, pods & plants! Dam your pulls are 10x mine and even this last small one is larger than the one's I get, congrats and have a great week mon!

Devv · Aug 11, 2013

Very nice Shane!
I agree with the need for a bigger ladder! So when's the contest over? Dug 5' down? Maybe that's one of my issues, 2' and then rock. Got any dynamite?

Have a great week!