WalkGood 2013, 2014 and Beyond

This is my first Glog so excuse what ever mess I may create, lol. Took way to many pictures today (31), so Ill post the first 9 and add more in subsiquent posts but didn't think it a good idea to start out doube or triple posting just for additional pics. I will also be updating the thread over time to show growth, pods and such ... but the first few pics of are of the young ones. While Ive been growing my favorite peppers for around 17 years (guess, lol), I always limited myself to 3 varieties or less. Jamaican peppers/Hab, Jalapeño and Cayenne. When things got too tuff Id milk them till they died off and stop growing for a while and start fresh. Most years I only grew the Jamaicans which are my favorite for cooking, home made sauce and the occasional powder to rub meats with or put into certain recipes.

Current inventory:

• 5 Jalapeño
• 1 Cayenne
• 1 Serrano
• 7 Datil
• 15 Jamaican Habs (3 large around 3 years old and 12 less than year old)
• 12 more to be determined

The young ones below are not that old with the oldest being the JA Habs which are around 3 years old now. I happen to find THP site while looking for advice/knowledge to cure one of my Jalapeños, thanks for all the good info guys/girls! In 2012 I added Datil, Thai hot, Cayenne, Jalapeño and Serrano to the mix, totaling around 41 plants now. Hats off \o_ to those of you who grow many more, dont know how you find the time and patients when things go off. That said, Ive done my fair share of battling aphids, nematodes, snails and white fly to no end over the last 3 years. Fortunately I believe to have things under control for now so Ive decided to add 12 new peppers to the mix from the listed seeds shown below.

Ill select 12 to start near end of December or first week in January from the seeds below and give credit once I get some new ones going

Need to start clearing our yard to grow more & more & more peppers (*WG rollseyes*)

Top left to right: two Thai Hot and one Cayenne. Bottom row all Datil. BTW I don't grow everything in clay pots, just happen to get a good deal on a bunch in yard sale for a few bucks.

Huge live Oak in background, there's 5 of them in front yard so the shades hard to avoid in first few hours of sun rise.

8 Jamaican Habs in ground and cherry tomatoe in the pot, I need to find a good place to plant the tomatoe soon.

Top left Serrano and more Datil, I'm probably going to gift a few Datils for xmass and some of the other peppers

Serrano's first fower

Serrano's different angle

Edit: final list copied to first post from post #40. These seeds were soaked in water on 12/31/12 and planted 1/1/13 \o/

Edit: This list is constantly being updated as new hooks pop. Even though I lost #5 :/ I will not give up as there are 2 other seeds in dat egg mon ....

A few links to some of my better posts

• Ramons Spiked Cooking Sherry & Rum in cooking with fire!
• Green Mango Salsa in cooking with fire!
• Sofrito Starter in cooking with fire!
• Philippine Tomato Salad in cooking with fire!
• Caribbean Island Soy in cooking with fire!
• Adventure before you read the Tres Alarmas Sauce recipe, Click Here
• WalkGood Tres Alarmas Caribbean MoA Sauce (Salsa Picante) a must try IMHO
• White Bhut Jolokia Jerk Sauce

Did you say powder?

• Click Here
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• Caribbean Mellow Yellow
• Click Here
• 
  Strawberry Hill Salt
• Click Here
• Peach MoA Pixie Dust
• 
  Tally Mon Powder (MoA & Nana powder)

Did you say MoA?

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Black light night shots & horn worms

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Reviews and taste impressions in no order

• Jamisons Pecan Smoked Scotch Bonnet Powder Review
• SETEV954 TFM Scotch Bonnet Powder Review
• romy6 Pepper Powder Blend Review
• Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture Scotch Bonnet Review (MoA)
• Chocolate Scorpion Review
• Red Lantern Infused Salt Review
• Trinidad Scorpion Review
• White Bhut taste
• Red Bhut taste impression, possibly a "Not"
• Yellow 7 taste impressions
• Peach Bhut Jolokia Review

 

[WalkGood]

Nice looking plants. Mine are only about 1/2 that size right now. Gahhhhh come on warmer weather I can get mine outside also. You all in the warmer weather areas make me jealous.

Thanks for positive vibes ^_^ I just looked in your glog, where are the pics you were going to up … I’ll have to see them mañana as I soon be off the net till tomorrow ...

or even worse - they could insult you when you are late with their morning brew

cheers - and glad to see things are smoothing out

al

lol

 

[Devv]

Ramon,

Those MoA's are beautiful! Can't wait to see how they turn out.!

Nice update, and keep it up!

 

[WalkGood]

Ramon, Those MoA's are beautiful! Can't wait to see how they turn out.!

Thanks Scott, Click Here to see STEVE954’s first Jamaican MoA pod pictures and review, simply awesome job Steve!

Nice update, and keep it up!

You say keep it up, hehe well based on what you just said … I can’t miss this perfect opportunity, I should never have sowed seeds in January but hey a few of them made it and dey be boomin mon. So I have just started soaking: Bahamian Goat, I will not be denied , Red Congo 7-Pot, Hawaiian Waialua and a 7-Pot Primo. I’ll put them in their respective eggs tomorrow, take some pics to post and provide another update or two. Thanks for the suggestion Scott

 

[Al-from-Chile]

hmmmm ... more egg photos











j/k

sl2, Alfred

 

[JJJessee]

The MoAs are stunning! Gorgeous plant's all of 'em. They've been soaking up that seaweed

 

[Devv]

Thanks Scott, Click Here to see STEVE954’s first Jamaican MoA pod pictures and review, simply awesome job Steve!


You say keep it up, hehe well based on what you just said … I can’t miss this perfect opportunity, I should never have sowed seeds in January but hey a few of them made it and dey be boomin mon. So I have just started soaking: Bahamian Goat, I will not be denied , Red Congo 7-Pot, Hawaiian Waialua and a 7-Pot Primo. I’ll put them in their respective eggs tomorrow, take some pics to post and provide another update or two. Thanks for the suggestion Scott

Hey I'm germing all over again, what the heck?

The way I see it is we do have the warmer climate and can get away with it..

 

[WalkGood]

hmmmm ... more egg photos

Hmm, da egg … isn’t that where is all begins, ha …

The MoAs are stunning! Gorgeous plant's all of 'em. They've been soaking up that seaweed

Thanks Carl, I hope my next starts grow the same … my next seaweed batch should be done just when they’ll be needing it.

Hey I'm germing all over again, what the heck?

You too, what will be you sowing?

The way I see it is we do have the warmer climate and can get away with it..

How true and I do love dat about where we live, tropical ^_^

 

[PeriPeri]

Ramon, I'm loving the plants man... they is looking super. But my keyboard is dry and cracked - I think it needs drooling on! Where's the food maistro? lol

 

[annie57]

Dang, Ramon! Can't leave you alone for a second! Come back and the JA Habs have 9" leaves . . . and tomorrow 12" . . . will read/look at Steve's work tomorrow night when both eyes will remain open. Seaweed brew is magical . . . don't plant like a bean-stalk ner nuttin . Seriously: look like banana leaves . . . sweet!

 

[Devv]

You too, what will be you sowing?

Hmmmm...that would be the famous JA's my friend

 

[WalkGood]

Ramon, I'm loving the plants man... they is looking super. But my keyboard is dry and cracked - I think it needs drooling on! Where's the food maistro? lol

Thanks for commenting on the young ones but no new foodie shots lately, soon come. Let your imagination run wild, close your eyes and picture a burger infused with Scotch Bonnet, Jamaican Habanero, Onions and virgin olive oil grilled to perfection and comfortably housed in a sour dough bun. That was dinner, hope it did the trick for ya, hehe

Dang, Ramon! Can't leave you alone for a second! Come back and the JA Habs have 9" leaves . . . and tomorrow 12" . . . will read/look at Steve's work tomorrow night when both eyes will remain open. Seaweed brew is magical . . . don't plant like a bean-stalk ner nuttin . Seriously: look like banana leaves . . . sweet!

I think it’s in the strain of the seed, MoAs grow super lush … little seaweed spray and your off to da beach

Hmmmm...that would be the famous JA's my friend

lolz I had forgotten and I have 7 young JA Hab’s going as well. Well I soaked the seeds and should put into eggs tomorrow.


Cayenne Chili pepper mini harvest earlier today:

 

[DocNrock]

MoA's and the others all look superb, Ramon! Huge leaves! And nice little Cayenne harvest there. Need to crush those up on some pizza!

 

[WalkGood]

MoA's and the others all look superb, Ramon! Huge leaves! And nice little Cayenne harvest there. Need to crush those up on some pizza!

Thanks Doc, now I need to find a pizza as nice as the one your wife made and I’ll be set \o/ Have a great weekend!

 

[Devv]

Nice harvest, and talking pizza! I haven't even had breakfast yet, hmmmm pizza for breakfast isn't bad is it?

 

[WalkGood]

Nice harvest, and talking pizza! I haven't even had breakfast yet, hmmmm pizza for breakfast isn't bad is it?

No pizza for breakfast is not at all! Pizza is awesome for breakfast. While I’ve never posted our breakfast pizza pictures, we make one specifically for breakfast with our kids a few times a year and they love being involved in da kitchen. Since I haven’t posted pictures and we’re chatting about pizza in da morning, I can certainly tell you about it.

Here’s the gist of it, we make dough (any way you like), give dough the pizza shape (we do rectangular for breakfast, don’t ask me why, hehe). Cover it with a variation of our own huevos rancheros (needs a tomato sauce, lots of egg too), onions, peppers, cheese and top off with breakfast sausage sliced like pepperoni but a little thicker. Toss into oven and bake ...

PS the trick to keeping the dough from getting soggy is to lightly bake it a little first so when you add the moist huevos rancheros the dough doesn't absorb all the liquid portion, enjoy!

Edit: the sausage needs to be a little precooked

 

[DocNrock]

Another great trick my wife came up with for pizza is to put a thin layer of cheese down first. Keeps the juices from the other toppings from running into the crust and making it soggy.

 

[Jamison]

What beautiful photos Ramon! You sure got the touch. Them MoA leaves are insanely big. I noticed they are pretty big on all of mine as well. Cayennes lookin delicious brotha!

 

[WalkGood]

Another great trick my wife came up with for pizza is to put a thin layer of cheese down first. Keeps the juices from the other toppings from running into the crust and making it soggy.

Thanks Doc, that does sound like a great trick …

What beautiful photos Ramon! You sure got the touch. Them MoA leaves are insanely big. I noticed they are pretty big on all of mine as well. Cayennes lookin delicious brotha!

Thanks Jamison, do your MoAs also have super thick stalks in relation to how tall they are? I was thinking of taking a picture next to a pencil as the stalks are much thicker. I assume that with such large leaves acting like little sails when the wind is blowing 30+ knots (mine do act like that outside) they need that strong stalk for support or something would go snafu. That said, it’s as thick as some of my larger older plants I have with much smaller leaves.

 

[Devv]

Another recipe....yum!

Do you use a pizza stone?

 

[WalkGood]

... Do you use a pizza stone?

I've yet to try one but peeps that do swear by them, do you have one?