Had a rough time figure out how to post pictures at first, but that was corrected (see pod porn below).
Stefan_W's Great Big Beefy Pepper Adventure: Grow List
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My overwintered bhut is starting to flower. I am amazing at how well it is doing considering I only give it a cup of water once per week, and it is in an area that does not have all that much direct light. The tabasco plant is also doing very well, but it is not putting out buds yet.
Aside from this there is not much new to report. I am still going back and forth on parts of my grow list for next year. I really wanted to plant a gigantic 7 pod congo, but there was simply no room for it. Then I decided it may be worth setting out an extra pot for it. When in doubt, just add more pots.
Aside from this there is not much new to report. I am still going back and forth on parts of my grow list for next year. I really wanted to plant a gigantic 7 pod congo, but there was simply no room for it. Then I decided it may be worth setting out an extra pot for it. When in doubt, just add more pots.
You can never have too many chili plants. There is always room for one more. Or six
That's what I figure too. I guess time will tell if the wife agrees, or notices that I snuck some extra pots out back.
Nice looking grow you had last year Stefan! I'm glad to see you could grow Bhuts as far north as you are... it makes me hopeful about the Chinense varieties I'm planning on growing next year. I'm planning on growing Orange Manzanos, so we'll have to compare notes on growing Pubiscens chiles. Food too! Good luck with your overwintering project and next year's grow!
Thanks for stopping by! We definitely have to compare notes on growing the Pubiscens, especially since they can be pretty finicky. I am looking at it as though it is a two year project before I have much happen. And I'm sure you'll have no trouble with Chinense considering how much care you put into your garden.
Thanks for stopping in, Paul! I'll keep poking my head in to your photos to see how your overwinters are coming along. My own goal is to have some bhuts ready for picking in the New Year, which is about the point where the ones I have frozen will probably run out. This whole growing all year long thing is new to me too, and hopefully it all works out.
I realized that I probably have room in my back yard for a couple of smaller pots, so rather than sticking with seeds I already have I decided to put in an order for seeds that I currently covet from Judy at Pepper Lover. I swear buying seeds is like an addiction.
My latest order:
Orange 7 Pod
Trinidad 7 Pod Jonah
Malasian Large Tabasco
The large tabasco was a no-brainer because I was looking for it for ages (I hate de-seeding the little guys). But seeing as I already have the gigantic 7 pod variety that I ordered from her earlier, and growing three types of 7 pods would be overkill, so I will have some tough choices to make on the 7 pod front. Recommendations welcome
My latest order:
Orange 7 Pod
Trinidad 7 Pod Jonah
Malasian Large Tabasco
The large tabasco was a no-brainer because I was looking for it for ages (I hate de-seeding the little guys). But seeing as I already have the gigantic 7 pod variety that I ordered from her earlier, and growing three types of 7 pods would be overkill, so I will have some tough choices to make on the 7 pod front. Recommendations welcome
Well, I just got done surfing your glog. Man you've got a ton of stuff going on! All the plants did so good and no infestations or disease. Your creativity with all the pods is wonderful. So many nice sauces and that jam looked amazing! This hobby is very addictive, I have 100+ variety of seeds and nowhere to grow it all, while wanting to keep adding and adding. It's a great addiction to have and healthy for you! Sorry to here about your daughter, I hope everything is better now. I'll be watching from now on. Keep it up!
Thanks for taking a look, David! I have to admit that I was hitting the refresh as you were liking different pics, so I was reading through the glog with you. I can still tate kaung pao chicken, which I ended up making 5 times in a three week span. My wife put an end to that dish for a while, but I dried some of those peppers for later on in the winter.
My daughter is doing much better, but brain tumours are horrible because the damage they do is usually permanent. I will do everything I can to make every day as wonderful as it possibly can be for her.
You make me feel better about all of the different types of seeds I have collected. I wish we had more space so that I could grow even half of the different types, but until we move to a place with a larger yard I will always have tough choices to make when I'm selecting seeds to plant. But half the fun is dreaming and planning, isn't it?
That's being one of the great fathers. Sound like she will be just fine and happy. Yeah, more room...isn't that a wonderful thing to imagine...I'm the same way, I made this dish out of a bunch of leftovers and it was so amazing, I made it for dinner and then breakfast the next day. As for the topic of space, check out how Melissa did up the front of her house (her glog is in the glog section, she has some numbers after her name but hell if I can remember) maybe you can show your wife and then convince her to let you "make some changes" lol. I've decided to start a bunch of seeds and just see what happens, even if they stay in half gallon containers. That way I,ll get a handful of pods off of them and be able to sample a bunch of different pods out. Then if I like them, I can dedicate more space later on. Just keep working at it little by little. Half the fun is dreaming and planning....without that life would lose it's wonder.
Yeah I definitely agree with all of this. When I realized that I could put a couple of different plants in small containers for samples I decided I could fit more in, and that is when I went to Judy again. Doing things half way is against my nature so I want huge pots that let them grow to their fullest, but with that frame of mind I get less. I want more More MORE!! LOL.
I took a few pictures this morning of my overwintered Bhut and Tabasco plants. Things are still going well more than a month in to my overwintering experiment.
The first picture shows both of them together. As you can see, part of the deal I made with my wife about having them indoors involves sharing the table with random house flowers that she is growing. I don't think you can eat the flowers, and they are probably not hot anyway.
The bhut is flowering like crazy right now, and I am trying to pollinate using a q-tip. Sort of like how my daughter was created. Just kidding. Anyway, when this plant was outside it started off dropping flowers like crazy so I am taking the fact that it dropped the first two flowers in stride.
Another shot of the bhut flowering.
The new growth coming on to the bhut is quite nice.
Even though the tabasco has not flowered yet, it is putting on loads of new growth. I'm not concerned about the lack of flowers at all, because it was the last plant to flower in my garden this past summer. The fact that it takes so long is the main reason I selected it as one of my overwinters this year.
Thanks for taking a look, and please stay safe if you are anywhere near the path of the hurricane. It is supposed to actually hit us, but was are so far inland that it will just bring loads of rain and high wnids without doing too much damage.
The first picture shows both of them together. As you can see, part of the deal I made with my wife about having them indoors involves sharing the table with random house flowers that she is growing. I don't think you can eat the flowers, and they are probably not hot anyway.
The bhut is flowering like crazy right now, and I am trying to pollinate using a q-tip. Sort of like how my daughter was created. Just kidding. Anyway, when this plant was outside it started off dropping flowers like crazy so I am taking the fact that it dropped the first two flowers in stride.
Another shot of the bhut flowering.
The new growth coming on to the bhut is quite nice.
Even though the tabasco has not flowered yet, it is putting on loads of new growth. I'm not concerned about the lack of flowers at all, because it was the last plant to flower in my garden this past summer. The fact that it takes so long is the main reason I selected it as one of my overwinters this year.
Thanks for taking a look, and please stay safe if you are anywhere near the path of the hurricane. It is supposed to actually hit us, but was are so far inland that it will just bring loads of rain and high wnids without doing too much damage.
I came across a cool video a while back and I wanted to share. Even though this has a religoius theme to it you definitely do not have to be religious to appreciate the approach to gardening you see here. Is is quite remarkable, and has many lessons for all of us. The video runs over an hour and a half, so sit back with a cup of coffee and enjoy!
http://backtoedenfilm.com/
http://backtoedenfilm.com/
I received a sample of powders on Friday from Judy at Pepper Lover. As always, they were pretty amazing. I sat down with my wife and stepdaughter to sample them, and the one we all liked the absolute best was the Maruga. Of course this meant that I sat down a few minutes ago to order some maruga seeds for next year as well as a few onces of the powder. And there is no point to keeping the order so small, so I put in some chocalate hab and trinidad 7 pod primo seeds as well.
One interesting thing is that none of us enjoyed the taste of the brain strain so much. To me it was a lot like the fatalii that I had last month. The end result was pulling fatalii off of my grow list again to make room for the maruga scorpian. I love how these things continue to evolve over time, and are always a work in progress. The thing that I can't predict is whether all of the types of seeds will germinate and survive to be planted.
Shown here is the powders and my previous seed order from Judy.
Her note answers my question about whether the malasian giant tabasco tastes the same as traditional tabasco. I hate de-seeding all of those little pods, so the malasian variety has a lot of appeal to me.
My overwinters are doing all right, but issues have come up.
The ghost pepper plant is looking fine, but it did drop all of its flowers. That is no big deal.
This is a shot of the bhut being watered from below in the kitchen sink. The yellow tinge is from the lighting in that area, which dulls how green the leaves acctually are.
There is a lot of new growth on the bhut, and I am very excited about how well it will do when I put it out next summer.
The tabasco plant is an entirely different story. It is dropping leave like crazy, including leaves that look pretty healthy.
When I moved it I noticed there were tiny black bugs that came up from the soil, so I assume I did not wash off the roots well enough. An infestation of some sort would explain the significant leaf drop. The amount of drop shown in the picture is pretty much daily.
The leaf drop has led to branches becoming pretty bare, and I have been doing a lot of pruning to get rid of the dead stuff.
Any tips or ideas are welcome. I will try a couple of things out with the tabasco plant, but I can't have bugs infesting the house so it may end up having to go.
This is it for my updates today, thanks for having a look!
One interesting thing is that none of us enjoyed the taste of the brain strain so much. To me it was a lot like the fatalii that I had last month. The end result was pulling fatalii off of my grow list again to make room for the maruga scorpian. I love how these things continue to evolve over time, and are always a work in progress. The thing that I can't predict is whether all of the types of seeds will germinate and survive to be planted.
Shown here is the powders and my previous seed order from Judy.
Her note answers my question about whether the malasian giant tabasco tastes the same as traditional tabasco. I hate de-seeding all of those little pods, so the malasian variety has a lot of appeal to me.
My overwinters are doing all right, but issues have come up.
The ghost pepper plant is looking fine, but it did drop all of its flowers. That is no big deal.
This is a shot of the bhut being watered from below in the kitchen sink. The yellow tinge is from the lighting in that area, which dulls how green the leaves acctually are.
There is a lot of new growth on the bhut, and I am very excited about how well it will do when I put it out next summer.
The tabasco plant is an entirely different story. It is dropping leave like crazy, including leaves that look pretty healthy.
When I moved it I noticed there were tiny black bugs that came up from the soil, so I assume I did not wash off the roots well enough. An infestation of some sort would explain the significant leaf drop. The amount of drop shown in the picture is pretty much daily.
The leaf drop has led to branches becoming pretty bare, and I have been doing a lot of pruning to get rid of the dead stuff.
Any tips or ideas are welcome. I will try a couple of things out with the tabasco plant, but I can't have bugs infesting the house so it may end up having to go.
This is it for my updates today, thanks for having a look!
I took a look, and there are some helpful tips there. I decided to start the process by doing a ghetto style trap for the bugs that are already there. I bought the stickiest tap I could find, and wrapped it sticky side out over cardboard that was shaped to fit around the infected plant. The bugs are sticking to it, which is what I wanted. Once they are gone I can take other steps.
I have been working quite a bit on my grow list for next year. This updated list has quite a few changes from the original list I put together. The biggest change is that I found room to grow more varieities of peppers. I decided to take a year off from cucumbers in order to encourage the cucumber beetles to scram. I also planted garlic in between where the peppers will go in those particular boxes just in case the pests don't get the hint. I also found room to add and build a few more containers. The last change is that I tried dried and pureed versions of some things in my previous grow list, and ended up not liking them much. In those cases the plant (e.g. fatalii) was replaced by something I'm liable to like better (e.g. moruga scorpion). It is still a work in progress, but this is much closer to where it will end up.
2nd year Ghost
2nd year Tabasco
Malaysian Large Tabasco
Moruga Scorpion
7 Pod Jonah
7 Pod Orange
7 Pod Congo SR Gigantic
Trinidad 7 Pod Primo
Chili de Arbol
White Habernero
Aji Lemon Drop
Chocolate Habernero
Firecracker Chili X3
Cayenne X4
Atomic Starfish X4
Tobago Treasure X3
Leutschauer Paprika X4
Mako Akokasrade
Early Jalapeno X2
Sofia Sweet X3
Lipstick X3
California Wonder X3
Thanks! I'm curious about the Leutshauer too. I have had issues with bugs attacking the round ones, so I focused on finding a cone shaped paprika again this year. I'm definitely going to be watching how yours turn out this year as well!