WalkGood 2013, 2014 and Beyond

STEVE954 · Jan 25, 2013

Rrrhh! looking good bredren!

WalkGood · Jan 26, 2013

Stefan_W said:
That is awesome corking on the jalapenos!

Dem Jalapeños say tank you mon!

Stefan_W said:
Have you tried any of them yet?

Yes, a few times now but the plants are small so I only get 4 to 5 per harvest as I showed back on post #39. There is a link there to a wonderful tomato salad from the Philippines I highly recommend. I also mix them with hotter JA peppers to make the Spanish Garbanzo dip I posted at the bottom of post #170 which gives it a very distinctive flavor.

STEVE954 said:
Rrrhh! looking good bredren!

Thanks for dem kind words Steve! I see dat you’re kicking some serious azz with dem Jamaican Scotch Bonnet MOA’s, they really look great … once dem pod mon, save me one or two brah

STEVE954 · Jan 26, 2013

A mi fi tell yu! big tings a comin! Absolutley, I will personally hand them to you! likkle muore

stc3248 · Jan 26, 2013

Ramon...Awsome winter pod porn brotha! FYI, last year I started them all under lights, but I was only using T8s. I moved some out into a makeshift greenhouse. Once I added CFLs to my indoor starts they grew much faster than the ones outside. The constant 75-80 degree temps and 12hr light cycle beat ma-nature until around mid May here. Then Mr. Sun was the way to go. Hope you get some of the ones you're missing to pop soon!

DocNrock · Jan 27, 2013

Those pod shots look great, Ramon! Keep it up in the Florida sunshine. Those oranges they advertise have nothing on your pods!

Jamison · Jan 27, 2013

Walkgood.... you are livin the life brotha! Dem likkle seedlins will be a sproutin mon. No worries mon, everyting irie!

WalkGood · Jan 28, 2013

STEVE954 said:
A mi fi tell yu! big tings a comin! Absolutley, I will personally hand them to you! likkle muore

Thank you Steve!!! I am looking forward to trying another one of your pods and also to trying to get together again, talking peppers, shooting pics and seeing your grow ... possibly tip a coconut or two, hehe

stc3248 said:
Ramon...Awsome winter pod porn brotha! FYI, last year I started them all under lights, but I was only using T8s. I moved some out into a makeshift greenhouse. Once I added CFLs to my indoor starts they grew much faster than the ones outside. The constant 75-80 degree temps and 12hr light cycle beat ma-nature until around mid May here. Then Mr. Sun was the way to go. Hope you get some of the ones you're missing to pop soon!

Shane you're beating mother nature and winning mon, that's not fair

On my end our plants are grown outside year round, although I have been bringing in the egg carton on cold nights. Hope they all spring up but read below, another one has cometh ^_^

DocNrock said:
Those pod shots look great, Ramon! Keep it up in the Florida sunshine. Those oranges they advertise have nothing on your pods!

As always, thanks for the kind words of encouragement Brent & back at ya, you have a killer grow going, as all others that have posted here on my glog and even some who haven't

Jamison said:
Walkgood.... you are livin the life brotha! Dem likkle seedlins will be a sproutin mon. No worries mon, everyting irie!

Jamison, Wow you pegged it mon! Another one breaks ~~bad~~ ground dis morning \o/ (read update below)

Today was the day in my mind that I was going to crack open the eggs I had planted back on January 1 that had not sprouted to check out the condition of the seeds and hopefully learn something from any of my mistakes. I popped open the egg holder crate and to my surprise #1 is hooking (picture below)

#1 is the Yellow Bonnet Jamaican, wow after 27 days! Now I have reevaluated opening up the rest and will allow the eggs to continue, just to see what happens. Fortunately I live in FL and have great weather for growing peppers but unfortunately at this rate it could be weeks/months before more hatch

Thanks Greg, it's your Yellow Bonnet Jamaican on my list below (#1)

Updated list (as stated in a previous post the updated list here will also be updated on 1[sup]st[/sup] post but none of the others).

While this is not a recipe below, it does represent a typically quick/easy to make Cuban dinner. Left over black beans, left over rice, mix & heat to make congri, you can easily add pepper or other condiments as we do before mixing. Plantains from the garden double fried to make tostones, if you don’t know what they are click here and grilled chicken breast topped with sofrito starter. This whole thing can be made in less than 30 minutes if you have the leftovers and plantains. Side note, you can make tostones larger and they go great with all kinds of toppings, hot sauce, meat, chicken, peppers, etc., etc. …

I plan on making a harvest of a few Jalapeños and Jamaican Habs later today as I have to do some work first on a floating dock we aquired over the weekend (pics for another day). Wasn’t planning on taking pictures of them, well maybe the Jalapeños but if anyone wants I can also take pictures of the JA Habs. Was just outside again and noted my first Serrano pepper pod already formed, I will take a pic of that \o/ … Oh what the hell, I’ll run out shoot and edit this post, give me a few minutes.

Here's the sucker:

StupidJerk · Jan 28, 2013

Damnit Ramon, every time I start reading your growlog I get hungry and wander off to try to find food. I keep meaning to say keep up the good work and stop teasing us. The egg thing is great also.

WalkGood · Jan 28, 2013

StupidJerk said:
Damnit Ramon, every time I start reading your growlog I get hungry and wander off to try to find food. I keep meaning to say keep up the good work and stop teasing us. The egg thing is great also.

Carson I felt the same when I saw your home made pizza, I’ll try to post less food if you do the same

BTW I got tied up working on the floating dock today and did not get to picking pods. I'd like to have it ready for next weekend to put canoe on it and sit out by the river tipping a few coconuts

By days end I did pick 4 red Jalapeños to make another dip but was in such a rush I didn't take more pics today :/

Edit: I was about to bring the eggs inside and noticed a second White Bhut Jolokia is now hooking, sorry no pics but I’ll shoot one tomorrow.

Stefan_W · Jan 28, 2013

Very fine looking food, Ramon! I especially love the dish being fried in the pan. I can almost hear it sizzling from here

PIC 1 · Jan 28, 2013

Now I'm jealous, plantains right from the garden, lucky you. They are great twice fried...
I'm glad to see one of the Jamaican's sprouting. Even with an overnight soak mine still took 17 to 21 days. The seeds were from June so they are fresh. Maybe it helped that I play "Wailer" music in the grow room.........steel drum mon ?

RocketMan · Jan 29, 2013

Ok, growing in an egg shell, now that's cool. I'll have to take a trip back through your glog and check it out. Nice to see your hooking :rofl:

That chow is looking pretty good but still not Cervesa or ~~Num~~ Rum? Come on Brah, and don't forget the lime

Have a great week Ramon,
Bill

romy6 · Jan 29, 2013

More peppper pics and less food pics. :rofl:

I am fat enough already

WalkGood · Jan 29, 2013

Stefan_W said:
Very fine looking food, Ramon! I especially love the dish being fried in the pan. I can almost hear it sizzling from here ^_^

I think most people love the taste of tostones when they try them, you should give them a go or see if there are any Latin restaurants around you, most sell them. We also make maduros and for the life of me I can’t figure out why I didn’t take a picture of them as well, was probably thinking with my stomach, lol. The maduros look very interesting because we cut them the length of the plantain but often they are very sweat in comparison.

PIC 1 said:
Now I'm jealous, plantains right from the garden, lucky you. They are great twice fried...
I'm glad to see one of the Jamaican's sprouting. Even with an overnight soak mine still took 17 to 21 days. The seeds were from June so they are fresh. Maybe it helped that I play "Wailer" music in the grow room.........steel drum mon ?

Greg my offer still stands, remember my post in Jamie’s glog here, seeing how you drink rum, like plantains and play “Wailer” music you will fit right in

Regarding the plantains, it’s possible that you missed the 3rd picture in my post here (page 2 of glog). While I now only have a few trees because we removed like 25, they keep us supplied. In the past we had so many it was hard to give them all away. Thanks for the seeds again, I am letting them stay in the eggs now as yesterday another White Bhut Jolokia came up or so I believe. I have a question about that below, hopefully you can help identify … Thanks for checking mi glog mon, it’s always great to read your comments ^_^

RocketMan said:
Ok, growing in an egg shell, now that's cool. I'll have to take a trip back through your glog and check it out. Nice to see your hooking

That chow is looking pretty good but still not Cervesa or ~~Num~~ Rum? Come on Brah, and don't forget the lime

Have a great week Ramon,
Bill

Bill, thanks for stopping in & checking … I’m not 100% sure but I believe my egg method is slow this time of year because of the low temps we’ve had, normally I do it in summer when it’s hot all da time. This is the first time I’ve ever tried starting stuff in our winter, even with other plants around the yard I do all germination in summer, but you guys got me all amp’ed out to start ^_^ I guess eggs would work well in one of those heat pad thingies and the beauty is you’re starting them out with calcium as I crack up the egg into tiny bits and plant it too. As far as cervesa or rum, it doesn’t last long around my house, no constant stash. If we buy it, it’s drank within the first day or two

Too bad we can’t grow Añejo rum. Well that’s probably a good thing or I’d be drunk all the time

Thanks for noting our food, its real good …

romy6 said:
More peppper pics and less food pics. I am fat enough already

lol, back at ya … you show off some mighty great food as well brethren. I’d think tostones would be a staple around your shack too ^_^

Ok, now for one picture and serious question to all you pros here on THP. I am 100% sure that I did not mix up any seeds and the packets they were in were clearly marked, I did one egg at a time very meticulously so this is not the issue. Look at the picture below and let me know if both of these seedlings are White Bhut Jolokia? I ask this because the leaves look completely different to me and I’ve never grown a White Bhut Jolokia. I can identify all my plants without tags, this is why I was so careful in tagging each new seed planted. The only thought I have is that the seedling to the right is a weed from my compost :/

List updated both here and first post, added percentages and not looking great but I'm happy that some have sprouted. Now that I've noted many being very late, I'm not going to crack open the eggs to check seeds for a long time, lol.

ROFLMAO, I tried to post this reply and received a msg that says "You have posted a message with more emoticons than this community allows. Please reduce the number of emoticons you've added to the message," so if I deleted your emoticon don't get pissed, lol. I first changed my smiles to ^_^

Lunch today ... French bread, mustard, ham, chicken, salami, cheese & peppers, I ran out of sofrito starter

Once sandwich is made, off to da machine and lunch is ready ^_^

Served with plantain chips ^_^

RocketMan · Jan 29, 2013

I like to have eggs for breakfast once or twice a week and i rinse, dry, crush and save my shells. Then before I mix up my soil i'll run them through the Ninja till they're pulverised and then add it to the soil. Either way they're getting the cal, that's for sure.

Stefan_W · Jan 29, 2013

Very nice sanwich, panini style! Are those home made chips with it?

PIC 1 · Jan 29, 2013

Ramon,
The seedling on the right is not from a pepper seed

PIC 1 said:
Ramon,
The seedling on the right is not from a pepper seed. You should have 3 more popping up, keep the medium moist. Some superhots take a bit longer to sprout

Nice sammy

HillBilly Jeff · Jan 29, 2013

Looking nice.

WalkGood · Jan 29, 2013

RocketMan said:
I like to have eggs for breakfast once or twice a week and i rinse, dry, crush and save my shells. Then before I mix up my soil i'll run them through the Ninja till they're pulverised and then add it to the soil. Either way they're getting the cal, that's for sure.

Yea, I do that too … great minds think alike ^_^

Stefan_W said:
Very nice sanwich, panini style! Are those home made chips with it?

Thanks and panini sandwiches are great tasting all warm inside. No I did not make the chips, they were store bought but do make them occasionally.

PIC 1 said:
Ramon, The seedling on the right is not from a pepper seed

I did not think so but wanted a pro’s opinion as well, so what you say kill it or transplant it and see what comes

PIC 1 said:
Nice sammy

Thanks and ~~toasty~~ tasty too ^_^

Bodeen said:
Looking nice.

Thank you!

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