WalkGood 2013, 2014 and Beyond

annie57 · May 23, 2013

Ramon, don't look like de rain hurtin' the pods none, hermano!

"Grandes y rojas" that would be "rojos" no? I thought about it the minute typed it.

+1 gazillion on tortilla soup.

Mex-American friend who was chef in Austin got me good with tortilla soup. Yeah. Was this guy I was dating's fav, so I asked the chef-friend for his best recipe. I'd had it all over town, out of town. The as*-hat thought he have some fun with me, told me to put about 4 cups cilantro in it. He even brought me the cilantro--really strong stuff they used in restaurant--so; I did what he said. He LIED, LIED, LIED! I tasted it, trusting the as*-tard and called him at work, ticked to gills, because ya can't GET IT OUT! And can't add enough to it, either. About that time, date shows up, from outside San Antonio; he really knows what tortilla soup supposed to taste like. But he guessed the culprit: our buddy! We went out to Hernandez Cafe and had real tortilla soup. But the ingredients I wasted . . . I could have added 10 more lbs. stuff but no way to amend it but to toss it. Ah, good friends messing up the import to Tejas!

WalkGood · May 23, 2013

annie57 said:
Ramon, don't look like de rain hurtin' the pods none, hermano!

Not the pods that have set, they’re doing fine but the leaves and flowers are showing signs of over watering for sure. I sit here expecting more today but for now it’s partly sunny, now if dat would stick, hehehe.

annie57 said:
"Grandes y rojas" that would be "rojos" no? I thought about it the minute typed it.

My girls are rojas and your boys are rojos, lolz …

annie57 said:
+1 gazillion on tortilla soup.

Thank you muchacha I certainly appreciate the compliment

I hope you have a great extended weekend and what’s on your menu?

PS Great story! I couldn't do that to anyone ever it kills me to throw food away with all the starving in the world, so I try to get creative with any leftovers. While I know it's not in your nature, I would have been crossed at him to say it mildly =_=

stickman · May 23, 2013

WalkGood said:
Thanks Rick ^_^ ... dam haven't put together a menu yet, maybe smoked ribs, wish I had enough pods to smoke for power but still building inventory, hehe. Thanks for popping in and what's on your menu for da weekend?

I'm thinking Korean BBQ...Beef Bulgogi... thin-sliced strips of marinated beef. I'll serve it up picnic style with rice and seasoning sauce, wrapped in lettuce leaves, with a variety of sides like cubed radish kimchi (Kakduki), seasoned spinach salad (Sigumchi Namul) and spicy Korean dumplings made with a filling of garlic chives, seasonings and ground pork (Mandu)

WalkGood · May 23, 2013

stickman said:
I'm thinking Korean BBQ...Beef Bulgogi... thin-sliced strips of marinated beef. I'll serve it up picnic style with rice and seasoning sauce, wrapped in lettuce leaves, with a variety of sides like cubed radish kimchi (Kakduki), seasoned spinach salad (Sigumchi Namul) and spicy Korean dumplings made with a filling of garlic chives, seasonings and ground pork (Mandu)

Whoa you got space for four more, lolz! Sounds awesome Rick!!! You thought this one out, I guess I'm sticking with ribs, now I have to come up with a few sides ...

romy6 · May 23, 2013

Nice action Ray! Plants and food look spicy for sure :hot:

koskorgul · May 23, 2013

stickman said:
I'm thinking Korean BBQ...Beef Bulgogi... thin-sliced strips of marinated beef. I'll serve it up picnic style with rice and seasoning sauce, wrapped in lettuce leaves, with a variety of sides like cubed radish kimchi (Kakduki), seasoned spinach salad (Sigumchi Namul) and spicy Korean dumplings made with a filling of garlic chives, seasonings and ground pork (Mandu)

Damn that sounds good and here I was thinking I was doing good with grilled chicken LOL

Might be changing my menu for the weekend

Devv · May 23, 2013

Raymon, nice update, the poddage is wonderful!

Maybe it's time for the seaweed on the head thang again, you're huting from too much and we the oposite.

Just finished a mexican plate at the hole in the wall, and yall got me droooling over BBQ. I hadn't even thought that far ahead yet...

KingLeerUK · May 23, 2013

Beautiful pods! Very impressive output so far, and so early in the year too given our cooler weather compared to prior years.

stc3248 · May 23, 2013

There they are! Great looking pods as always, I gotta add some more island to next year's grow fo-sho.

WalkGood · May 23, 2013

romy6 said:
Nice action Ray! Plants and food look spicy for sure

Thank you Sir James from the romy6 Estate of excellent powders & pods FTW!

koskorgul said:
Damn that sounds good and here I was thinking I was doing good with grilled chicken LOL

Might be changing my menu for the weekend

Well you got time, just don’t forget the pics Sir Rob … even if I do ribs there will be a few chickens plucked, hahaha …

Devv said:
Raymon, nice update, the poddage is wonderful!

Maybe it's time for the seaweed on the head thang again, you're huting from too much and we the oposite.

Just finished a mexican plate at the hole in the wall, and yall got me droooling over BBQ. I hadn't even thought that far ahead yet...

Thanks Sir Scott, your wish is my command I’ll do the seaweed ting if I can get some. Long story short, I’ve been looking to start a new seaweed tea batch with special water that has miraculously fallen from da sky and for 3 weeks now none has washed up

But I know it’s out there … just gotta keep looking, this Saturday I’ll be beach side so I’ll do the dance there

Foodie sounds good brethren, some hole in the walls have awesome food … there’s one near me and they feature home made Bimini Bread with all food orders ^_^

KingLeerUK said:
Beautiful pods! Very impressive output so far, and so early in the year too given our cooler weather compared to prior years.

Thank you Sir Will, you have an awesome grow going yourself. In Ft. Lauderdale we grow year round although the winter pods are smaller and less quantities, but just as tasty ^_^

stc3248 said:
There they are! Great looking pods as always, I gotta add some more island to next year's grow fo-sho.

Thank you General Shane Sir from da stc3248 Vintage Pepper Estates

Hope you have a killa weekend brethren!

Thanks all for looking, have a great holiday weekend!

PaulG · May 23, 2013

Lovin' the nasty pod shots, brother!

Al-from-Chile · May 23, 2013

WalkGood said:
MMM … smoked powder, sounds awesome Rob!

Paul thanks for da positive vibrations mon ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ … By all means, as soon as I have JA MoA SB seeds I will be making little gift packs and you my brethren are on my list ^_^

Thank you but I hope no one actually dies from eating it, lol

Now for a little pod porn in da making.
MoA’s smallest, loads of pods now forming and hope to have the first ripe one in less than a month \o/

Chocolate Scorpion. Only 2 of these on da bush but loads of flowers, so I'm thinking mas will come ^_^ Seeds courtesy from Greg (Pic1)

Chocolate Habanero. Only one and a few flowers ... this plant was gift from thegreenman, thanks Chris and still waiting to hear back from you brethren. There's a gift pack here with your name on it ...

Jamaican Habanero

Mas JA Hab \o/

Thanks para looking, have a memorial weekend!!!

really nice going there!!!!

JJJessee · May 23, 2013

Awesome poddage and the those JAs are are rockstars!

That chow looks like my kinda eatin'.

Keep up the good work.

DesertChris · May 24, 2013

Oh, the pretty pretty pods!!

Ramone you are rockin' it!!

WalkGood · May 24, 2013

PaulG said:
Lovin' the nasty pod shots, brother!

Thanks Paul ^_^ you gotz awesome stuff going ons too mi brethren!

Al-from-Chile said:
really nice going there!!!!

Thanks Al ^_^ … sorry I haven’t stopped into your glog lately, I’ll make sure I visit this weekend. Hint: I hope to see some updated pics and continuation of your great humor ^_^

JJJessee said:
Awesome poddage and the those JAs are are rockstars!

That chow looks like my kinda eatin'.

Keep up the good work.

“Rockstars” hehehe, thanks Carl … I’m really enjoying reading along and seeing your planting into da ground \o/

DesertChris said:
Oh, the pretty pretty pods!!

Ramone you are rockin' it!!

Thanks Chris, well I was rockin, read update below … hope to be back on track by Saturday. I’m busting it in the yard all day to make sure the plants get back on track. BTW I’m lovin your glog too mon ^_^

Well the rains have stopped for now but the aphids are attacking in mind staggering numbers. I just can’t see where and how so many came the minute the rains ceased to fall

Flash update … the bad: aphid invasion like I’ve never seen before. While I was squishing them on one of the MoAs and quickly check all my crop it became apparent that I would need to spray :/ These are on every single plant, like someone planted them yesterday evening while I was sleeping. The seedlings, the babies and the big mama’s, not one spared … oh the horror!

I did see one wasp and one ladybug doing their ting but there were just too many aphids, I’ve never seen this many at one time and before the rains my plants looked great. Daily inspections did not show signs of any ting. I did skip over the two plants the beneficials were working and I’m keeping a close eye on everything but man the tops of my plants look bad :/

I woke up early did some mas spraying and again didn’t spray the ones being worked by ladybug/s but I’m not sure if they can get to them all, I might have to spay later when shaded. If you are wondering what I used, on the MoA’s I used mineral oil/water, seems to have gotten them for now but I’m sure I’ll have to hit them again. Everything else I used a light soapy water solution … this sucks, just when things were going good again after the late summer broad mite issues =_=

Da Good:
It’s that time of year, mangos \o/ last nights appetizers ^_^ (for full recipe click here)

While I chopped, sliced & diced my better half took some pics

Sautee steak & green mango salsa.

koskorgul · May 24, 2013

Hope you get the aphids under control. Nice to see the lady bugs are doing their thing also. I am still trying to figure out what is eating holes in some of my peppers.

and as always the food pics look awesome

WalkGood · May 24, 2013

koskorgul said:
Hope you get the aphids under control. Nice to see the lady bugs are doing their thing also.

I’ll be busting it today and tomorrow to get dem bad bugs …

koskorgul said:
I am still trying to figure out what is eating holes in some of my peppers.

I’m guessing its happening at night, why not some late night recon missions … I did some here and have stopped a few crickets and loads of snails. If the rains don’t come back its probably a good time for sluggo.

koskorgul said:
and as always the food pics look awesome

Thanks brethren ^_^

PIC 1 · May 24, 2013

Ramon sorry to hear bout the aphid invasion.....I lost my appetite thinking about that until, I saw that wonderful looking steak and green mango salsa.

Keep spraying the plants with forceful water from the garden hose. Any white egg clusters should be visible under the leaves and between the nodes. I smash those using latex gloved hands dipped into a bowl of rubbing alcohol (or Barcardi....ha). The ants won't bother with that mess. Aphids are easier to control outdoors...keep pestering them and they will move elsewhere.

Enjoy the ribs/rum and the Memorial Day weekend !

Devv · May 24, 2013

Ramon, sorry to hear about bugz..but I know you'll kick their azzes and send em packing!

Foodie looks great, another recipe to add into my book!

The seaweed must have worked, we had zero chance of rain and it's now flooding north of us. Been pouring here....now worried, JA's are on the deck, but under window screen...

Al-from-Chile · May 24, 2013

WalkGood said:
Thanks Al ^_^ … sorry I haven’t stopped into your glog lately, I’ll make sure I visit this weekend. Hint: I hope to see some updated pics and continuation of your great humor ^_^

OMG, da bossman is cracking the whip on me ... well I better fess up then!!!

well, being honest ... I havent updated it in quite a while - so your "threat" is a good reason to update :-)

sl2, Al