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Stefan_W's Great Big Beefy Pepper Adventure: Grow List

Great updates Stefan. The Tabasco sauce look super tasty. I bet is it hotter than you know what. Those overwinters should do fine . Just give them a little sunlight and like Greg said easy on the ferts. Keep us posted and I will blow some warmth your way this winter.
 
PIC 1 said:
Stefan, Good luck with the overwintering process. Its exciting to watch the new growth appear......all at once. Just one thing to mention, don't fertilize unless you're intending to continue on with the grow. Letting the OW's go semi-dormant for a short period is not a bad idea at all...especially for the Northern growers
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I would love to see it go dormant. The issue for me is that I can control the water and light, but I can't drop the temp low enough because they are staying in the main area of the house. So I guess I will see how it all plays out. Thanks for stopping in!

romy6 said:
Great updates Stefan. The Tabasco sauce look super tasty. I bet is it hotter than you know what. Those overwinters should do fine . Just give them a little sunlight and like Greg said easy on the ferts. Keep us posted and I will blow some warmth your way this winter.
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The tabasco sauce is definitely tasty! Everyone who has had a taste has raved about how good it is, even though it is quite hot because I doubled the amount of peppers in it. I have about 50 or ripened pods left to make another partial batch down the road. Thank you for stopping by!
 
If anyone wants some tabasco and/or atomic starfish seeds please PM me. I am making some sauce this weekend and I will be drying the seeds out rather than just turfing them. A warning though, these plants were next to a couple of bhuts so there is no telling whether some sort of insane hybrid will spring out when you plant them.
 
Stefan_W said:
If anyone wants some tabasco and/or atomic starfish seeds please PM me. I am making some sauce this weekend and I will be drying the seeds out rather than just turfing them. A warning though, these plants were next to a couple of bhuts so there is no telling whether some sort of insane hybrid will spring out when you plant them.
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The next great hybrid: the Atomic Bhut. ;)
 
So I ordered some rocoto seeds, and I am planning on getting a very early start on them indoors. I am already overwintering two plants, and rather than overwintering more I decided it was a better idea to let one or two rocotos grow huge indoors. Apparently they are only good in long seasons, and tend to really start producing in the second year.

Any thoughts from people who have grown rocoto peppers are welcome!
 
That is a great choice in peppers Stefan. The Rocotto is one tasty juicy pepper. I have never grown them and living in Florida I may never try again( tried several times unsuccesfully) but I have been fortunate enough to sample a few from various members here. Good luck and keep us posted on the outcome.
 
romy6 said:
That is a great choice in peppers Stefan. The Rocotto is one tasty juicy pepper. I have never grown them and living in Florida I may never try again( tried several times unsuccesfully) but I have been fortunate enough to sample a few from various members here. Good luck and keep us posted on the outcome.
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I picked the rocoto because the only area out back that can house another pot is shaded for most of the day. That is usually a disadvantage, but if what I read is correct rocotos can thrive with less direct light than most peppers require. I got got brave after being able to grow ghost peppers this summer after being told that I am too far north to get any kind of harvest from them. I am going into it this thinking of rocotos as a two year project, where I have to overwinter them a year from now to have a great harvest in 2014.
 
I have been working on my grow list for next year. The list contains descriptions of where everything goes which is mostly for me. Here is where it stands right now:

Large [font="Times New Roman""]Individual Pots[/font]

[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 1: 2nd year ghost[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 2: 2nd year tabasco[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 3: tabasco or 7 pod Congo SR Gigantic[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 4: fatali[/font]

[font="Times New Roman""]New individual pot 1 (side of house): [/font][font="Times New Roman""]rocoto[/font]

[font="Times New Roman""]New individual pot 2: [/font][font="Times New Roman""]kung pao[/font]

[font="Times New Roman""]Hot[/font]

[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 1: 3 Firecracker Chili[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 2: 4 Cayenne[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 3: 4 Atomic Starfish[/font]
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[font="Times New Roman""]Medium[/font]

[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 4: 3 Chile de Arbol[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 5: 3 Tobago Treasure[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 6: Mako Akokasrade [/font]


[font="Times New Roman""]Sweet [/font]

[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 7: 3 Sofia sweet[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 8: 3 Lipstick[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 9: 3 California Wonder[/font]


[font="Times New Roman""]Medium Sized Pots at Bottom of Steps[/font][font="Times New Roman""][/font]

[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 1: Early Jalapeno[/font]
[font="Times New Roman""]Pot 2: Biker Billy Jalapeno[/font]
 
DocNrock said:
Nice diversity. I had never heard of the Mako Akokasrade, so I Google'd it. Sounds like a great one to grow!
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Thanks! I was going for diverse flavours to use in different ways, and I also love having peppers from different areas. That one is from Ghana, and I have others from the Americas and Asia. Thanks for checking in!
 
I found a cool chili store nearby, and bought a bottle each of fatalii puree and serrano puree. I figured this was a good way of trying them out before I commit to growing these types next year.

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My wife and I both thought the serrano puree was pretty good. It was mild, but the taste was nice which is the main thing. The serranos are definitely going to be added to my grow list for next season. We both thought the fatalii was blistering hot, which was good. I ate almost all of my share of the chicken wings with this stuff on top. Even though the heat was nice, the taste did not blow me away. I already have a ghost pepper plant that I am overwintering, so I may switch out fatalii for something else next season. My ghost pepper sauce (bottom) was nice. I used ten giant ghosts for two jars, so the heat was pretty good. My wife refused to eat my ghost pepper sauce, but that is mostly a reputation thing because it was about level with fatalii heat right now or even slightly below.

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I have learned from experience that ghost salsas and sauces heat up considerably if you leave them for a couple of months, so these jars should be ripe to open by about Christmas time.
 
DocNrock said:
Ripe to open for Christmas, awesome "gift." Very cool you were able to find a local store that has sauces made from eclectic pepper.
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The store is called chili chilis, and apparently it is quite well known. We used to have to make a 40 minute drive to get to it, but the original owners sold it off to retire and the buyer moved it to a location that is only 10 minutes from our doorstep. We'll see whether the quality of the store stays the same though, because sometimes new owners don't get the original charm of the store.

I tried the ghost pepper sauce again this morning and it already heated up. It may not last until Christmas. :onfire:
 
Luckily I've got about 60-70 ghost pods left in the freezer, so I can make a few more batches of the ghost pepper sauce over the winter. It tastes great, so I doubt it will last too long.
 
The first step in dealing with an addiction is admitting you have one, and I fully admit that I have a serious problem when it comes to collecting pepper seeds. I have bought at least 5 times as many varieties of peppers as I could possibly fit in my garden, and there is still months to go before I start growing for next year.

Anyway, I have started to make modifications to my grow list for next year. I found I did not like the taste of a fatalii puree that I bought as much as I thought I would, so the fatalii was replaced by an aji lemondrop. King Denniz offered to send me the Biker Billies that I have been lusting after for a year now, so of course I will make room for that.

With all of the shifting and changing, it gave me an excuse to put in another order with Judy at PepperLover. Although I have bought seeds from pretty much all of the main sellers, and a few smaller ones, she has quickly become my go-to person because of the well thought out seed selection and because she is a lovely person. I have to admit that I was looking forward to seeing what freebie she put in my order this time, because the hab varieties she included with my last order looked so good that they made me think twice about my grow list selections. This time around Judy threw me a wonderful curve ball and sent over a sampling of some powder made from Trinidad peppers.

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I had a small taste straight up, and it was very good. It actually felt like it burned a tiny hole in my tongue where the powder was sitting. The rest will make it into some chili in the next while. It was so tasty that I went to her web page to see if I missed a section where she offered powders for sale. She does not, so I will just have to savour what I have. I just had to ask her what type of peppers went in to this powder, so I guess my seed collection will grow and my grow list will be tweaked once again in the next while. Well done, Judy!
 
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