Spicegeist said:
Your Guwahati Bhuts look perfect, I bet they're gonna be
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Thanks Charles, they won't get as big as yours, but I'm happy to have pulled off growing them this far north! I hope they're hotter than the ones I got at a local market last week... they looked perfect for color, shape and texture but were only Hab-hot.
Sawyer said:
"I gave my first Goat's Weed pod to a sick neighbor"
Did it cure him/her?
The Guhawati Bhut is loaded up. What's the story on that? I haven't heard of that one before. (If this is addressed here somewhere already, my apologies.)
Are those watering receptacles I see in some of the plant pictures? How deep do they go?
I guess I should have said injured instead of sick... I only have one neighbor who can keep up with me when it comes to eating chiles, and he had a bad fall from his bicycle a couple weeks ago. We live at the top of a bluff above the Green River, and the road to the top is a steep one. He was riding down the hill and probably going a little too fast when he hit some road construction and went over the handlebars, dislocating his shoulder and giving himself a concussion. Good thing he was wearing a helmet, because he cracked it in half with the impact. I've been sending him chiles on the theory that it'll help with the pain in the long run.
You're seeing half-liter water bottles. Before I got my soaker hose, I used them to water the plants I set out in the black plastic mulch. That way none of the water runs off the plastic where it does the plants no good and the plants get it next to the roots. I uncap the empty bottles, cut off the bottom and bury them next to the plants with an inch of the bottom showing. As I say, I use the soaker hose underneath the plastic mulch now, but I still use the "funnels" when I give the plants a shot of liquid nutes.
OCD Chilehead said:
So that's what the elusive ripe Goat Pepper looks like. I ordered some of those seeds from Judy. Can't wait to grow them next year. Then they won't be so elusive in my garden. I see a lot of people making powder and flake out of it. Great looking Serranos as well. Do they have some heat to them? I too like that Naga/Tabasco cross. Looking forward to the review in the future. What color does the Guwahati Bhuts turn? Forgive me, I've never heard of them before.
The garden is looking great. Thanks for sharing Rick.
Thanks for the good vibe Chuck! The Goat's Weed is definitely a striking plant. Good luck with yours.
The Serranos are a little better than Jalapeno hot... I use them in curries, fresh and cooked salsa, roasted in rice dishes and in Peach jam... which reminds me, the orchard half a mile down the road has ripe Peaches now!
I like Lourens suggestion of "Nabasco" as a name for the Naga-Tabasco cross. As many pods as it's pumping out, I'll definitely have plenty of seeds to share when they ripen. I pulled the pod in the picture this morning and took a bite from the end to see what it tastes like at this point... still a little green, but thin, crunchy flesh, it has the same herbal, floral notes as the Bhut but no sweetness yet. It has the creeping heat of the Bhuts too.... we'll see what they taste like when they fully ripen.
The Guwahati Bhuts are your standard red Bhut Jalokia I think...just closer to the source in India. From what I've read, there are Tea farms in that area of Assam that ripped out their Tea bushes and planted Bhuts since they were more profitable.
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