tsurrie's 2015 glog

Essegi · May 27, 2015

Hope illness is well over! That sauce stuff looks really cool!
Lots of plants, looks great!

tsurrie · May 27, 2015

Essegi said:
Hope illness is well over! That sauce stuff looks really cool!
Lots of plants, looks great!

Yup, healthy again... I feel almost as strong as before... maybe a couple more days and I can start running and cycling again

I was too busy these days to even think about it, but it's already late for planting out so there was no other way.
Sauce is going to be good, I'm finishing the last jar of previous Bhut sauce, and it's kicking ass -- I just hope that store bought tomato sauce won't ruin the taste much, naaah, it should be great

Thank you. Plants are piling up somehow, but that's about it.... a few more on the garden and that should suffice for this season. Let me put it this way - if things are going to go well, I don't know who is going to can, pickle, dry, freeze and cook 'em. But if it's going to rain much, like last year, then there will not be any work to do :confused:

tsurrie · Jun 11, 2015

It's been two weeks and today I actually found some time to take a few pics of the current situation around the house.
Plants are getting bigger... some of them are having more problems with the aphids than the others, but they'll probably all survive. It's a good year for aphids it seems, they're everywhere. Damn little buggers.

Balcony's twenty - they got used to the heat and strong sun and are growing well

The most progress was made by Aji Amarillo - since this was the last plant sowed and was the littlest not so long ago. It has some big leaves and branches in the making.

Aji Brazilian Starfish

Goat's weed

Goat's weed a little closer

Orange lantern - this one was stunted for awhile, but recently started to grow again

even Reaper is doing well

Off the balcony to the onground pots...
Lemon drop

Golden Cayenne is going to give me a nice one to try soon

Thai - getting full of pods but as you can see.. was also full of aphids not so long ago :evil:

Got pepperoncinos planted on the outside windowsill, two in a pot ... going to be used for decoration and when they're ripe for a nice salsa maybe...

Need to post this one... I'm not a big roses fan (except for original GN'R of course) - these are my mothers and they're quite nice looking - growing from the ground well over the first floor balcony.
Oh, can you see in the background... cherries are starting to ripen

That's it for today... maybe in a few days I can take a pic or two from that 'ol garden of mine... thanks for watching.

tsurrie · Jun 19, 2015

Been rainy for a few days now and my pepper plants are soaking in the long awaited humidity. If the rain continues tomorrow, I'll put the pots under the balcony because I wouldn't want to over water much... The balcony plants have grown significantly over the last week, but will post some pics of them in my next update... probably before I leave on the 25th and take my family to the sea for a week.

In the meantime ... tomatoes in the greenhouse are doing well and are flowering and also growing some pods.

Also, the most prolific basil plants I have are positioned in between those tomatoes in the greenhouse.

tsurrie · Jun 23, 2015

Still raining, but tomorrow it's going to stop and longer period of sunny weather is supposed to hit in. I won't post any of the garden pics, because peppers there are a catastrophy :rolleyes:

--- will try to make some photos when we come back from vacation by the end of next weekend. Maybe this rain will make them grow a little more, who knows.

In the meantime, back at home, the plants in the pots are doing well.
The balcony...

7pot Brain Strain Red

Aji Amarillo

Bhut Jolokia

Bonda ma Jacques

Devil's Tounge - plenty of flowers in the making

Habanero Chocolate - this one was topped, of course half of the work was done by aphids.
If this one is going to grow any similar than the Fatalii last year (also topped), then I have nothing to worry about.

Brazilian Red Pumpkin

Brazilian Starfish

Goats weed

moving to the on ground pots/plants

Lemon Drop

Serrano

Serrano is getting big and setting flowers

I'm gonna finish this one with a Lemontree's flower, it's a beauty... and the smell... spectacular

tsurrie · Jul 4, 2015

Came back from the sea yesterday... slight improvement on the garden peppers (got just a few ripe pods - see below), great progress on potted peppers - devils tounge is pushing out a lot of pods, so are some of the others. Tomatoes are doing great, picked a few quite big zucchini's. Will post some pics by the end of the weekend if I find the time. The older son is celebrating these days, 5 years.
:cheers:

First "harvest" this season - three Thai's and one Golden Cayenne

Wife and I each tried one Thai about 15 minutes ago. It has a lovely taste and quite a decent burn. Good first impression. Gonna try the Golden Cayenne later on.

tsurrie · Jul 6, 2015

That Golden Cayenne from the upper post was one nasty Cayenne... The burn comes in about 20 secs and lasts almost 10 minutes. I won't comment on the taste, because this one was not as ripe as I would liked it to be, let's just say I will def. eat another one as soon as it ripens.

Let me start with my embarrassing pepper patch in the old garden... it's like I planted them and then just let them dry out ... I'll just let them be and if they'll grow, they'll grow. Maybe I should stuck with pots exclusively in the future.

The rest of the garden looks a lot better

Zucchini's are growing fine

So are tomatoes and cucumbers by the house wall

Beefsteak's

Suntream's

and others...

Even the potted Habanero Chocolate is showing some progress lately

I'm having some vole problems, they seem to eat the roots... it chose a few of my peppers and two cucumber plants until now... Dammit! I planted traps but nothing yet... maybe they're smart. It's a beautiful animal, but it can make you hate it's guts for sure.
:flamethrower:

tsurrie · Jul 9, 2015

A batch of pics from the balcony... it's a nice progress in the last 14 days

Aji Amarillo - still a bit thirsty in this picture, but it got really big - waiting for flowers

Brazilian Starfish - also waiting for flowers (that's a Baccatum thing right? late flowering stage and longer seasons)

Goats Weed - plenty of pods in the making and a lot of flowers

Moruga Red TS

Reaper

Bhut Jolokia - it started slowly but now it's picking it's pace

Bonda ma Jacques

Caribbean Red Hab. - it's so much smaller than the others

Devil's Tounge - now this is how I like 'em

Dorset Naga

Habanero White - small but bushy

Orange Lantern

... the Serrano from the on-ground pot has a lot of flowers... I wish that was the case with the Serranos from the garden, but sadly they're way behind

Essegi · Jul 10, 2015

Lots of green! Lots of pods incoming!

tsurrie · Jul 27, 2015

The heat is over (over 35°C a few times) and we're having a rainy week at the moment. Peppers really took off, even in the garden. But the garden update will come later. I'm just showing a few pod pictures for now.

Goats weed (white) - bigger pods, not entirely black

Goats weed (purple) - classic shaped upright growing pods, but more purple foliage

This is supposed to be a Reaper

Orange lantern

Lemon drop

Devil's tounge - by far has the most pods in the making

Chupetinho

Cherry bomb

Bonda ma Jacques

Bhut Jolokia

As chili

Aji Umba - this one's early pods are looking like it got crossed with a Bhut but we'll see how it turns out

I took a photo of the balcony from the upper floor.... it's a weird angle, but it shows how much they've grown. So far so good.

Essegi · Jul 28, 2015

tsurrie said:
This is supposed to be a Reaper

Cheap observation: guess it isn't...:p
Really beautiful photos!
I wonder if Goat's Weed pods from different flower color plants will have difference in heat/taste.

tsurrie · Jul 28, 2015

Essegi said:
Cheap observation: guess it isn't...
Really beautiful photos!
I wonder if Goat's Weed pods from different flower color plants will have difference in heat/taste.

It doesn't look like it does it ?

Well, whatever it is, a cross or another plant, it will be interesting to try it.
Goat's weed plants are very interesting ... the bright one is having much larger pods than they should be, but more "real" foliage. The purple one is having more "real" pods, but ... I think I should not call them Goat's weed anymore -> they're not even having as fuzzy stems and leaves as their predecessors.

Thanks for looking.

Plantguy76 · Jul 28, 2015

Great looking plants & pods love your pics

tsurrie · Jul 28, 2015

Plantguy76 said:
Great looking plants & pods love your pics

Thank you. As always I'm hoping for the best - healthy plants and enough pods to eat, pickle, freeze and sauce 'em.

tsurrie · Jul 30, 2015

The garden update. Everything looks a lot better than three weeks ago. I just hope there will be some ripe pods by the end of the season, because most plants just started producing pods - some are still just flowering. They were stunted for so long.. well, what the hell. It's still nice to see 'em grow.

The pepper area

from the other side

been eating tomatoes for a while now... they're delicious.. will post pics of a huge beefsteak from home when I pick it

Habanero Chocolate is kickin' azz in the big pot

Habanero Chocolate pods

Cucumbers (growing strong) and tomatoes by the wall

Brazilian Starfish

Serrano

this is supposed to be Caribbean Red Habanero

cucumbers are just hangin' around

Kapija

picked a zucc n' cucs today, but no peppers

JoynersHotPeppers · Jul 30, 2015

Very nice photos and garden!

tsurrie · Jul 30, 2015

JoynersHotPeppers said:
Very nice photos and garden!

Thank you!

az1000 · Jul 31, 2015

Very nice plants and pods .

tsurrie · Jul 31, 2015

az1000 said:
Very nice plants and pods .

thanks

tsurrie · Aug 1, 2015

Picked this beefsteak from the greenhouse today.. actually thought it's going to be over 1 kilo... but it looked bigger on the plant I guess
This is the "Pink variety" that kouts5 sent me seeds for from Greece... On the sunlight it actually shows some pink/purple coloration that is not really visible on this photo

also decided to pick a few Jalapenos and two Fresnos from the garden
It was pizza day so they came handy... they were delicious

The small Jalapeno with stretch marks was tested first, and it was flavorful with a nice mellow heat.