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

Did you say MoA?

• Click Here

Black light night shots & horn worms

• Click Here

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

 

[annie57]

Where's Ramon these days?

 
Good question. Miss the guy a lot. Peace, Chewi! 

 

[PeriPeri]

Ramon buddy, we need a visit

 

[annie57]

Lourens, let's hire a PI--Pepper Investigator. Also, it's been time: we can report him as a missing and missed chili head.

 

[PeriPeri]

Lourens, let's hire a PI--Pepper Investigator. Also, it's been time: we can report him as a missing and missed chili head.

 
Annie, I'm with you on that! We can send a rogue extraction team to hijack him and bring him to THP central. We will leave no stone un-turned
 

 

[Devv]

He's still out there, He popped into my glog last year to say hey.

 

[cone9]

 
Annie, I'm with you on that! We can send a rogue extraction team to hijack him and bring him to THP central. We will leave no stone un-turned
 

 
Maybe you'll find Silver_Surfer as well.

 

[PeriPeri]

He's still out there, He popped into my glog last year to say hey.

 
 

 
Maybe you'll find Silver_Surfer as well.

Oh man, those were the days for sure!

 

[annie57]

 
Annie, I'm with you on that! We can send a rogue extraction team to hijack him and bring him to THP central. We will leave no stone un-turned
 

 
Yeah, man 'cause stones make our chili roots run crooked. Yah.
 

He's still out there, He popped into my glog last year to say hey.

 
Cool, Scotty! I see your grow or the beginning page of it, is filled with lots of "tasty" as much as  . I'm selling lots of ultra plants and ultra pods at big farmers market here since we moved and greenhouse pad finally finished last weekend (rain and freeze-thaw: ugh)--everybody likes anything with the Reaper "name" in it. Or how's this: "Ghost." WTH! I mean how many versions of "Ghost" but now that Pop Eyes has it . . . smh.
 
How have you been??? Want to me to fly you up to help erect a greenhouse? NC pulled pork (Eastern style) and all the beer you want on me.  I miss you, sweetie. 

 
Maybe you'll find Silver_Surfer as well.

 
Allen, Allen Allen. No lo se! Man, that dude's a legend.

 
 
Oh man, those were the days for sure!

 
Lourens, now I can't get that song that went across the world in a gazillion languages out of my head. "We'd fight and never lose/when Ramon was here oh yes those were the days!" Or to the young guns on here who I love dearly: "And I don wanna be learned and I don wanna be tamed."--Ramone ON. 

 

[PeriPeri]

 
Lourens, now I can't get that song that went across the world in a gazillion languages out of my head. "We'd fight and never lose/when Ramon was here oh yes those were the days!" Or to the young guns on here who I love dearly: "And I don wanna be learned and I don wanna be tamed."--Ramone ON. 

 

lol We need Ramon to come online so he can distract and get those tunes out of your head. Man, I hate it when that happens lol

 

[MikeUSMC]

we can report him as a missing and missed chili head.

Annie, I wasn't sure which post to quote to get your attention, lol. We've never "spoken" to each other or had any interaction here, but I just wanted to let you know that a lot of your older sauce making and fermenting posts really inspired me to start making my own, a while ago, especially when I was just a lurker at THP. Great to see you posting again! Hoping you resurrect those old threads and show us all what you've got going on. Lots of great info/recipes in there!

(Sorry for the quick hijack )

 

[annie57]

 
lol We need Ramon to come online so he can distract and get those tunes out of your head. Man, I hate it when that happens lol

 
Man, we just need "mi hermanito" Ramon back! I still grow that JA Red Hab. Doing the "Master Gardener" thing and yesterday's class, some fool students started to plant plain ole habs. Ya know the orange things taste like a hot rusted door knob? (Can overwinter lots there with many greenhouses and high tunnels.) I had a "conniption fit!" Stopped them; came and got JA Red Hab seed and couldn't stand myself, some MOA out of seed-store, for them to plant. I explained the story behind the seed that Ramon's  grandparents and parents had taken the seed with them when they fled (when Castro took Cuba in '59). Sadly, most of my students had no clue about Castro and '59. Jesus God, education s*ks in the States. Whew!
 
WE WANT RAMON! 
 

Annie, I wasn't sure which post to quote to get your attention, lol. We've never "spoken" to each other or had any interaction here, but I just wanted to let you know that a lot of your older sauce making and fermenting posts really inspired me to start making my own, a while ago, especially when I was just a lurker at THP. Great to see you posting again! Hoping you resurrect those old threads and show us all what you've got going on. Lots of great info/recipes in there!

(Sorry for the quick hijack )

 
Aww! Mike, glad my screw-ups and fails and some final persistent successes could be helpful!! We have a greenhouse now, and more land, doing single stem tomato grafted heirloom toms--grafting toms is a PIA but worth it and several, like Amish paste make a KILLER smoked Reaper with Douglah, Jamie's "Not Red Bhutlah" and lots of Tabasco for that ferment. If you go back to my meat or red meat ferments, I use a lot of paste tomato in the processing of hat particular sauce to balance or give it a middle note. Am gonna try to post more stuff because I miss you guys. Thanks, hon! You have a great day now!--Annie

 

[MikeUSMC]

Am gonna try to post more stuff because I miss you guys. Thanks, hon! You have a great day now!--Annie

I bet ya if you revived this thread, nobody would complain.....

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/35380-5-sauces-recipes-pic-of-sauces/?hl=annie%26%2339%3Bs#entry854391

Just sayin'.....

 

[Devv]

I'm sure Ramon's email is getting flooded with all this banter, if he still uses the same addie.
 
Annie, 21 months until I retire, I start the greenhouse next late fall. Just a 12x12 with a swamp cooler and temp controlled ventilation for the warmer days. Gonna build it from scratch, I know what I want and how to do it. Those kits cost way too much, and can't handle the winds we get. I can't wait

 

[PeriPeri]

I'm sure Ramon's email is getting flooded with all this banter, if he still uses the same addie.
 
Annie, 21 months until I retire, I start the greenhouse next late fall. Just a 12x12 with a swamp cooler and temp controlled ventilation for the warmer days. Gonna build it from scratch, I know what I want and how to do it. Those kits cost way too much, and can't handle the winds we get. I can't wait

 
We will fill up his mail and them Ramon will have to come say howdie
 
Well I will be looking forward to that glog for sure - sounds awesome!
 

 

[annie57]

I'm sure Ramon's email is getting flooded with all this banter, if he still uses the same addie.
 
Annie, 21 months until I retire, I start the greenhouse next late fall. Just a 12x12 with a swamp cooler and temp controlled ventilation for the warmer days. Gonna build it from scratch, I know what I want and how to do it. Those kits cost way too much, and can't handle the winds we get. I can't wait

 
Hiya Scottie!!
 
Yes!! Greenhouse is groovy. Now should ya live in this climate, talk your wife into 6 4 x 8 foot growstands (on hardwoods--150 yr old hardwoods, ahem), and save money by germ indoors, under lights already heated by office, dining room, extra upstairs bedroom uh . . . and then stick them out in ghouse!! We got snow coming in and Funky Reaper    (goes commercial) got potted up last night and is in new shoes in warmth, BUT calling for snow Mon morning.   
 
Swamp cooler could double for ya as a "greens" holder, "cool room," since y'all are positively profligate in the lettuce and kale seed ya'll throw around!!!    Riiiiight . . . Much peace, my brother!
 
Up for peaceful coffee and to order more 1020 trays and stuff--the word is always "more" on a greenhouse. Hopefully, "more" $ happens as well. Love ya, guy!---Annie

 

[stc3248]

 
Hiya Scottie!!
 
Yes!! Greenhouse is groovy. Now should ya live in this climate, talk your wife into 6 4 x 8 foot growstands (on hardwoods--150 yr old hardwoods, ahem), and save money by germ indoors, under lights already heated by office, dining room, extra upstairs bedroom uh . . . and then stick them out in ghouse!! We got snow coming in and Funky Reaper    (goes commercial) got potted up last night and is in new shoes in warmth, BUT calling for snow Mon morning. 
 
Swamp cooler could double for ya as a "greens" holder, "cool room," since y'all are positively profligate in the lettuce and kale seed ya'll throw around!!!    Riiiiight . . . Much peace, my brother!
 
Up for peaceful coffee and to order more 1020 trays and stuff--the word is always "more" on a greenhouse. Hopefully, "more" $ happens as well. Love ya, guy!---Annie

Wow! Annie!!! I don't get on as much as I should...great to see you are up and running! Where you at NC? I think I'm 'bout to be your neighbor...

 

[annie57]

Wow! Annie!!! I don't get on as much as I should...great to see you are up and running! Where you at NC? I think I'm 'bout to be your neighbor...

 
"SHANE! COME BACK, SHANE!" (Killer Batman ep from late 1960's that ends with parody of that old western with kid yelling for bad guy named "Shame." "Shame! Come back . . ." Ingenious stuff, that.)
 
Where ya gittin' moved to? 
 
Shane, if you're remaining in the military, I find it difficult to believe that you'll wind up in Asheville, man.   (Of course, I'm not in Asheville, either but I have lived there and I sell lots of peppers there, but wow, pacifist stoners fer real . . .  )
 
So would you like to tell me, neighbor, where ya gonna be my neighbor, would you be mine? Would you be mine? ♫♫ ♪♫
 
Much peace & etc sweet man: where will y'all be living?
Annie

 

[stc3248]

Where gonna be down the road in Charleston, SC! Can't wait to get off the left coast!

 

[annie57]

"Chalstan." Learn to pronounce it!    Sometimes they drop the "t." But then you know that! Be fun to make a trip to see you in that sandy soil or come up here with amended and amended clay!! Peace! Sweetie!  
 
Here are some pics of new greenhouse and "the tent" with peppers and maters and zinnias and . . . coreopsis and echinacea and shasta daisy, dianthus, etc and etc. Oh some hollyhock and poppies. And yeah, hard to get all of that in a 10 x 10 space and looking forward to this greenhouse!! We're skinning it today. Hopefully. My bro is wiring the electric; we trenched in water from house, both in pic after this
 

 
Water and fire: gd photobucket (I rotated to no avail)

 
Me in camos and old friend putting endwalls on:
 

 
 
And lots and lots of peppers and stuff in tent . . . that 3rd party hosting in freakin photobucket . . . got full day, friends coming over to skin. Geez photobucket! Love ya Shane! Ramon! Te quiero mi hermano? Donde estas, cabron? 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

[Sawyer]

Wow, lots of old names in this thread. Saw the glog title in the first page of posts and came in to welcome Ramon back. Guess I'll join the search party instead.