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]

They pupate in the dirt.... we were planting the maters out in ground today, and one of the kids dug one up right in the tomato area from last year!!... the pupa are freaky looking!!
One of the other kids went crazy and chopped it up with a spade...hahaha
One less Sphinx Moth to lay eggs

Yes I know, the one’s I killed were coming up out of the dirt and trying to work their way over to the stalk,

If you have an old tennis raquet, those are great for knocking them out of the sky!
Then stomp on em till they become fertilizer

lol, they didn’t even get close to the stalk before Mr. Garden Shear chopped dem up, hehe. I hate dem horny worms.

Haha...looks like were in a life or death situation at Ramon's place! Death it is! Those hornworms are voracious and can strip a plant down to parade rest overnight once they get big...the leaves are one thing, but those damn things eat pods!

You said it brethren, dem dead now and I’m keeping a close eye for any mas. I’m lucky in one respect they only hit once or twice around this time of year, so I keep an eye pealed on dem and now equipped with black light (soon come) they don’t have a chance, hehe.

True. And resist pure Sevin liquid. Had bad infestation one year, dropping them by blacklight, pluck, drop in pure Sevin in 3 gal bucket. Didn't kill them: they sorta SWAM. Fished them out and squished by hand. Geez.

Never had a need to buy Sevin yet and I like to keep it organic but I agree with you on squishing dem, chopping dem, burning them and feeding them to the fish in our river, lols.

Nice plants & flowers

Buca, thanks for checking and commenting (^_^)

Thanks everyone for checking, posting and providing me feedback/opinions that is always helpful me ^_^

I did harvest one Jamaican Habanero for dinner but too lazy after working all morning to take a picture and it's only one pepper but big enough for dinner. I should have a harvest soon and I'll take some pics then unless there's plant pic updates needed. The plants are doing fine so far and I've not seen any more worms but did see mama Sphinx. She got away, could be the mama's day luck on her side, lolz. Hope everyone has a great Mama's day!

 

[Sanarda]

Beautiful looking stuff you have there Ramon. Good going!!! You are going to be absolutely swimming in pods soon.

 

[DesertChris]

hahaha, I meant to use the tennis raquet to knock the momma moth out of the sky easier!!
I'm on a mission to take those out!!

And Happy Mother's Day to your gal

 

[WalkGood]

Beautiful looking stuff you have there Ramon. Good going!!! You are going to be absolutely swimming in pods soon.

Thanks Pia, I’m hoping the Pepper Jah will send pool full harvest to all of us \o/

hahaha, I meant to use the tennis raquet to knock the momma moth out of the sky easier!!
I'm on a mission to take those out!!

And Happy Mother's Day to your gal

Yes the racket idea works great for that but why go with an old one, first blood makes your racket a winner so use the one you play with most. Not only will it make for some funny court side conversation but it will throw off your opponent and you’ll be putting another notch on the shaft (throat), lolz. Mama says thank you and back at your better half too

 

[stickman]

There have to be at least a few things good about living here in New England... one is that sphynx moths and their larvae are uncommon. Perhaps because it kills the pupas when the ground freezes. It's supposed to get down to 30 degrees here tonight... wanna trade?

 

[WalkGood]

stickman, on 13 May 2013 - 8:20 PM, said:
There have to be at least a few things good about living here in New England... one is that sphynx moths and their larvae are uncommon. Perhaps because it kills the pupas when the ground freezes. It's supposed to get down to 30 degrees here tonight... wanna trade?

No trade but thank you for the offer I’m sure we’re both happy where we live and while I’ve visited snow on many occasion I prefer the tropical belt year round.
 
Nice that you don’t have to deal with the Sphinx moth as it can be a pita. I’ve rarely had issue with them or their horny worm off spring. I killed two worms this time without a bite on a pepper or plant yet and the last time they struck was either last year around the same time or the year before where I killed 3 of them & mama. Although last time they did get a taste of one Jalapeño pepper plant (no pods) but I caught them in time before the damage was bad. Unfortunately mama got away this time as I didn't see her but I am still being ever vigilant.
 
 
 
 

 

[koskorgul]

Never seen a sphinx moth yet, hope to never see one anytime soon either. From what I am reading here, they are the debil. LOL
Now I have seen a lunar moth and those things are huge.
 
ever had the pleasure of dealing with these things? http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/dobsonfly.htm
 
We used the larvae for fishing, bass love em. We had to use plyers to put the hook in em. The pinchers on those SOB's will tear you up. Had one latch into my toe when i was a kid. Started to wear shoes when we went swimming after that LOL

 

[DesertChris]

Maybe plant a few tomatoes as bait plants...lol

Last year I pulled of a couple thousand hornworms from the tomatoes, and only a couple from the peppers.
They seem to really prefer the maters

But then again, last year I had more mater plants than pepper plants...this year the peppers far outnumber the maters

 

[stickman]

ever had the pleasure of dealing with these things? http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/dobsonfly.htm
 
We used the larvae for fishing, bass love em. We had to use plyers to put the hook in em. The pinchers on those SOB's will tear you up. Had one latch into my toe when i was a kid. Started to wear shoes when we went swimming after that LOL

 
Hell yeah! They make great Trout bait too... BIG Trout. I've tied flies to fish with for quite a few years now, and Hellgrammite flies are big producers in our nearby freestone rivers.

 

[koskorgul]

 
Hell yeah! They make great Trout bait too... BIG Trout. I've tied flies to fish with for quite a few years now, and Hellgrammite flies are big producers in our nearby freestone rivers.

I love to get a boat load of em and take down to the Chesapeake Bay for some stripers

 

[stickman]

I love to get a boat load of em and take down to the Chesapeake Bay for some stripers

Isn't it pretty close to the Cinder worm hatch in Chesapeake Bay? In Rhode Island it's usually in June. I don;t think the freshwater hellgrammites would do well in saltwater. They wouldn't be very lively... better to use Cinder worms or Sand worms that are native to the marine environment...

 

[koskorgul]

Yeah they wouldnt make it in the salt water but I would still bet that the fish would go for it. Also, depends on when you go and where and tides. Where I used to go was close to the Bay bridge, the salt water and fresh water would really start to mix right in that area so the helgimites might last a bit longer in the water

 

[WalkGood]

koskorgul, on 14 May 2013 - 2:09 PM, said: Never seen a sphinx moth yet, hope to never see one anytime soon either. From what I am reading here, they are the debil. LOL
Now I have seen a lunar moth and those things are huge.
 
ever had the pleasure of dealing with these things? http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/dobsonfly.htm
 
We used the larvae for fishing, bass love em. We had to use plyers to put the hook in em. The pinchers on those SOB's will tear you up. Had one latch into my toe when i was a kid. Started to wear shoes when we went swimming after that LOL

According to what Rick said, you probably won’t see any but it’s good to be aware of them. Never seen Eastern Dobsonfly but then again I’m not a freshwater fisherman, it’s all salt life for me …
 

DesertChris, on 14 May 2013 - 2:48 PM, said: Maybe plant a few tomatoes as bait plants...lol

Not a bad idea but as far as matoes I only grow Everglade Wilds and they seem to be resistant to all bugs so far … I wish the peppers were the same.

DesertChris, on 14 May 2013 - 2:48 PM, said: Last year I pulled of a couple thousand hornworms from the tomatoes, and only a couple from the peppers.
They seem to really prefer the maters

But then again, last year I had more mater plants than pepper plants...this year the peppers far outnumber the maters

If I even ran into thousands I think I’d resort to nuking dem all, hehehe
 
 
 
 

 

[Dshlogg]

Thanks http://thehotpepper.com/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/icon_smile.gif Did you see the green iguana in the first shot?

Never noticed it until now but I only use my phone.

 

[WalkGood]

I'm guessing that's an example of broken smily within the quote ... Thanks for popping by Daniel, some of the big one’s here are over 5’ plus.
 
Edit: now my "like this" button isn't working :/

 

[Stefan_W]

The flowers and plants are looking great! I have never had to deal with them personally, but I hear those hornworms are nasty critters. Squish one for me too please.

 

[DesertChris]

hahaha, well it wasn't thousands in one day!!
The most I got was 300 in one night using the uv light.
The couple thousand was the total for the whole growing season.

Speaking of hornjerks...i dug up another pupa today....man even the cocoon's are creepy as heck!

 

[Devv]

I'd like to see a pic if you have one , or come across another.

 

[RocketMan]

Man, nasty looking moth.
 
I have one of those bug lights in the back yard that supposed to cover up to an Acre and I guess it's working up a charm since I haven't swatted a single skeeter this year and haven't seen but maybe 2 love bugs in the back. Plus there's he entertainment of watching he bugs getting zapped in the everning. 
 

 

[koskorgul]

Yes, would love to see what the pupa stage looks like

According to what Rick said, you probably won’t see any but it’s good to be aware of them. Never seen Eastern Dobsonfly but then again I’m not a freshwater fisherman, it’s all salt life for me …
 
 

Wish I could say the same thing for salt water. Unfortunately I live to far inland.