Just ate my first manzano pepper and I can now see what all the hype is about. Great taste and nice heat. I have tried both the red and yellow fresh and now I will have them for dinner brotha. Chopped em up with some taters and garnishes and I am about to get busy. Thank you Shane! They are grilled to perfection.
Looks yummy! I am headed to the farmer's market in a bit to see if they have any today!
Great pics Shane! That Infinity definitely looks like a monster and that Purple Bhut is really impressive.
Tried some CSI about the "Monster" part of the name, but came up empty. gnslngr got them in a trade himself and they were labeled Monster Infinity when he got them. So not sure it "monster" is a strain or if the seeds were just harvested from a monster pod? All that aside, that plant will be a monster when it comes to production! Damn near every one of its first flowers are setting pods!!! It will be loaded down in short order!
Thought I hit the post button, but maybe not... Hey Shane, how's your Pequin doing? I got some seeds in a swap this winter and started a few. Only one hooked, and I didn't have any room for it in my garden, so I gave it to a neighbor. Neither of us has grown this variety and we'd appreciate a picture of one that's happy. Cheers
My pequins were labeled "Pequin Chiapas" and I received them from Griff in my first trade on THP! They were superstars in the hot house...but when planted out they stalled for a bit. Starting to pick up some steam now that things are heating up! I had one pod set before I put them out, and then they dropped everything else and continued the bud, flower...drop routine until last week. They're now just starting to pod up. My tepins are sort of the same story, however one plant did put some pods on and they've been on there a LONG time. The other plant waited and grew instead of podding and is now just starting to set some pods (a lot of pods!) Still a ways out from regular harvests, but I figure by the end of June I will be pulling a handful a day...hopefully. Here are some pics, still early and the marine layer is in, so lighting wasn't great.
Pequin Chiapas #1 (Griff) in one of my converted military containers...Harvested one pod off this guy last weekend...which means its probably 6 pages back
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Pequin Chiapas #2 beside a Chocolate Habanero (Griff)...this guy really stalled out and caught some sort of funk after plant out, but the past couple weeks he's started to figure things out and is really going nuts! Not too impressive from this angle, but...
from the top down you can get a sense of the sprawl...that is a 5# container so 10" diameter guessing the plant is in the order of 2ft at its widest and getting wider every day! Hard to tell against the white pool deck, but there are literally hundreds of flowers and small pods on this guy. Will try to capture some in a future update.
Here are the tepins (seed train 2012) same story with these guys...can really tell they're a HOT weather pepper. Could hardly kill them in South Texas even when the temps were in the 105-110 degree range and dry...so I am certain they really hated the cool California nights we had.
Tepin #1 was my biggest at plant out, but stalled and got the funk as well...but it did put on some MONSTER Tepin pods!
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Here is one of those "monsters"
This guy has maybe a dozen pods on it about this size...this is as big as they'll get. Hoping this one will ripen soon, it set about a month ago...or more!
This in my other Tepin, its sandwiched between a Wild Brazil on the left, a Aji Omnicolor on the right and a Goat's Weed behind in one of my military containers. Trying to train it to cascade down the front of the box. Looks like it might work. If you look closely you will see all the brown faded flowers, each of which has a tiny pod behind it...dozens of little pods on this one, but a long way from a harvest.
Had to throw in at least one Super with this post so here goes!
7 Pot podding up!
Thanks for checking in guys...my usual onslaught of weekend updates to follow!
Shane
Edit...adding the harvest shots here!
So I have been waiting for ages for my largest bell to show some color, still believe it would ripen yellow, but the plant was loading up for a big round of pods and I wanted stuffed peppers for dinner...same story with the purple bell. The Poblanos are still trying to put on a ton of pods so I figured I would give them a little boost by harvesting a few as well...here they are along with the rest of today's harvest!
some small Jals, Cayenne, Thai ornamental and Cherry tomatoes!
And for a better reference...
My 16yo with the Bells...
and my 11yo with the Poblanos...they would have probably grown a bit more, but I got plenty more where they came from!
More to follow!
Bhut Jolokia Chocolate 4/4 7 Pot Red 4/4 7 Pot Lg Yellow 4/4 Fatali 4/4 Chocolate Hab 4/4 Bishops Crown 4/4 Pequine 4/4 Trinidad Scorpion 3/4Established Plants:Caribbean Red x5Black Cobra x6Jalapeno x6Mucho Nacho Jalapeno x8Cayenne x6Bell x4Poblano x3Anaheim x3
My 10 year old is responsible for the artwork on the cups!
More than enough cherry tomatoes for a nice salad and maybe enough green beans for a side as well! 
Maybe some of my overwinters are setting. 