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

 

[Sawyer]

So much great stuff going on in this glog, Ramon.  I've got my fingers crossed on my MoAs.  Unless I get an early frost here, I should get some ripe ones.  And as I peeked under the one in-ground today, I think I saw some "A" pods.

 

[gourdmaster]

What a beast this glog is! Im definitely going to be borrowing some of these tips and recipes. Also really excited to see what you send along with the MoA scotch bonnets, i cant wait

 

[Devv]

I have to agree, awesome glog. Most every time I visit I want to cook!

 

[PeriPeri]

Ditto that, this is chilli central for me... plants, pods and food - awesome!

 

[Jamison]

You bet I am. I have then three down in TN that are all by themselves. Gonna have tons of seeds for whoever hasn't gotten them yet.

 

[WalkGood]

So much great stuff going on in this glog, Ramon.  I've got my fingers crossed on my MoAs.  Unless I get an early frost here, I should get some ripe ones.  And as I peeked under the one in-ground today, I think I saw some "A" pods.

 
Thanks for kudos John and back at ya mon, your MoA pod I saw in the other thread looks A+ to me … great job and I hope you OW her for sure. Take mas pictures, I think everyone will love dem, great MoA job along with everything else!!!
 
 

What a beast this glog is! Im definitely going to be borrowing some of these tips and recipes. Also really excited to see what you send along with the MoA scotch bonnets, i cant wait

 
Thanks Kyle for kudos, hope you grow some monsters from the seed I sent, take pleanty "O" pic mon ^_^
 
 

I have to agree, awesome glog. Most every time I visit I want to cook!

 
Too kind brethren Scott, thanks mon and I love your glog too, it's awesome!
 
 

Ditto that, this is chilli central for me... plants, pods and food - awesome!

 
Tanks Lourens, did the birthday card ever get thru or does it take longer? IIRC date was 9/17/13 … Can't wait to see your progress when the plants take off. Did you finalize the greenhouse?
 
 

You bet I am. I have then three down in TN that are all by themselves. Gonna have tons of seeds for whoever hasn't gotten them yet.

 
Perfection and no cross for sure, you have an awesome grow going mon and I can’t wait to see what’s going to be selected to OW thru winter …
 
 
 
Thanks everyone for stopping in, hope you have a great hump day! I'll try to take lots of pics to update over the weekend, too busy at work these days to stay on top of it :/ Now I'm counting on the benificials more that ever -_-

 

[Al-from-Chile]

Ditto that, this is chilli central for me... plants, pods and food - awesome!

 
'mon definitely needs to bring out some more hifi-related aspects ...
 
so whattya got, bro
 
cheers,
Al

 

[PeriPeri]

Eh Pana - dat guagua be full 'mon...

 

[Devv]

Sorry you're so busy, life comes first my friend!

 

[RocketMan]

Ramon, looks like things are going really well down south of here. Gardens giving you some love, got your International Pirate talk down and your still posting up food shots that are making all the pepper heads hungry! Hope the Missus is doing well. Up here we're still unpacking boxes,honestly I think some of them hooked up in storage and head some little boxes
 
Happy Friday Eve Brethren!

 

[annie57]

Eh Pana - dat guagua be full 'mon...

 
Good one, Lourens.
 
Ramon, just finished getting hungry from here and from first thing this morning. Is a bummer about dried pods losing sweetness. Maybe some salt--am thinking aloud--well, on your glog: would some sea salt, lightly tossed, very very little, help maintain some sweet when dehydrating some peppers? I have pint of JA Hab powder, dried on low, tried a TOUCH of salt, maybe teaspoon for 5 trays, tossed juicy peppers in it; seems to help keep sweet. Wondering if fluke, because JA Hab is so sweet and juicy anyhow. But cannot detect salt in powder. Just thoughts. I don't think it would work with a really dry fresh pepper. Again, just in "enemy territory:" my mind!

 

[PeriPeri]

Thanks Annie - balsamic vinegar is meant to bring out the sweetness in strawberries... not sure how this translates into a dried pod equation?

 

[WalkGood]

'mon definitely needs to bring out some more hifi-related aspects ... so whattya got, bro
 
cheers,
Al

Hifi you say, read my latest IEM review about the MEE M-Duo’s here, they're "hifi" related, hehehe
 

Eh Pana - dat guagua be full 'mon...

What no space on de bus mon
 

Sorry you're so busy, life comes first my friend!

Always good to be busy mon, idle hands and I’d have a jungle like yours
 
Love dat look mon, can’t wait to see how big next one gets. Hab a great day!
 

Ramon, looks like things are going really well down south of here. Gardens giving you some love, got your International Pirate talk down and your still posting up food shots that are making all the pepper heads hungry! Hope the Missus is doing well. Up here we're still unpacking boxes,honestly I think some of them hooked up in storage and head some little boxes
 
Happy Friday Eve Brethren!

Thanks Bill but if it wasn’t for the benificials my plants would be dead as I stopped all war’in with da bugs long ago. My better half is much better now, thanks for asking and da prayers. Also thank you for da food kudos, so how’s your new garden coming?
 
Hope the un-boxing doesn’t drive you nuts … Hab a great day!
 

 
Good one, Lourens.
 
Ramon, just finished getting hungry from here and from first thing this morning. Is a bummer about dried pods losing sweetness. Maybe some salt--am thinking aloud--well, on your glog: would some sea salt, lightly tossed, very very little, help maintain some sweet when dehydrating some peppers? I have pint of JA Hab powder, dried on low, tried a TOUCH of salt, maybe teaspoon for 5 trays, tossed juicy peppers in it; seems to help keep sweet. Wondering if fluke, because JA Hab is so sweet and juicy anyhow. But cannot detect salt in powder. Just thoughts. I don't think it would work with a really dry fresh pepper. Again, just in "enemy territory:" my mind!

I will test a little to see how it affects the powder. Normally I don’t alter powder till I process it further but I’ve been experimenting with some other fruits and veggies too, hope to have a use for da Reaper and the Trinidad Scorp powders soon but the way I’ve been so busy it could be a few months.
 
Hab an awesome day muchacha
 
 

Thanks Annie - balsamic vinegar is meant to bring out the sweetness in strawberries... not sure how this translates into a dried pod equation?

 
Interesting, I’ve never tried that either …. Hab a great day Lournes!
 
 
A few fresh but very small Whites for a breakfast omelet, sorry no omelet pics cause I thought you’d be sick of dem by now and it was very similar to the last one I shot of gallo pinto inside an omelet.
 

 
I’ll try to shoot some pics of the seedlings a little later as I have some running around to do before transplant surgery, hehehe … Have a great day everyone and thank you for looking ^_^

 

[Devv]

Maybe small but still pretty!
 
My pods are small right now, due to the heat, but the new ones seem to be growing nicely.
 
Have a great weekend!

 

[stickman]

Geez Ramon... funny looking radishes you got there... Just pulling your chain mon ... looks like your pods are getting smaller as the light gets less intense. How much longer do you have to the season do you think?

 

[WalkGood]

Maybe small but still pretty!

Tanks
 

My pods are small right now, due to the heat, but the new ones seem to be growing nicely.

 Most of the summer pulls for me have all but a few pods been extremely small but the green ones on da bushes now are looking like they’ll be bigger. That said there are still some small ones still, I figure I need the next setting before they start getting as big as before all da summer heat.
 

Have a great weekend!

Back at ya ^_^
 

Geez Ramon... funny looking radishes you got there... Just pulling your chain mon ... looks like your pods are getting smaller as the light gets less intense. How much longer do you have to the season do you think?

 lol on radishes Rick, wish I had some white ones. Most all my summer pods are small, the hotter it gets the smaller :/ Now that it’s less light (hardly noticeable) the next pull should be back to business as usual. We have a year round season here, you can pull pods all year round but just before winter and just before summer are the largest size pods. Only thing that you can’t do well outside is new starts in the winter, that’s where I went wrong last January when I had poor germ percentages but the ones that do pop are the best cause they turn out to be very strong girls plants, lol.
 
 
 
Finally here’s some that have hatched, lol
 
Only Naga King that popped from 10 seeds so far, not good odds but I’m hoping a few others pop up. All da way from South Africa from Lourens (PeriPeri)

 
All my White Bhut’s popped (2nd generation) original seed from Greg (Pic1)

 
White 7-Pot seed from Stefan (meatfreak)

 
White Fatalli seed from Stefan (meatfreak)

 
Peach Bhut from Annie, gracias muchacha ^_^

 
I have a few others that have popped, mas funky seed JA Habs (my seed from the bell shaped pods and trying to get other variegated to grow) … Scott, no Reaper yet but soon come I hope ...
 
 
Tanks for looking, everyone have a great Sunday ^_^

 

[Devv]

Congrats on the new babies!
 
Hopefully a few Reapers will show.

 

[WalkGood]

Congrats on the new babies!   Hopefully a few Reapers will show.

Thanks for the good wishes for the new baby girls Reapers were the last little ones into the eggs so they should pop in the next week or so I hope ^_^
 
 
I haven’t shown da yard in a while, some peppers and others too …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Mas for a bump, hehe

 

[Sawyer]

Beautiful pictures.

 

[WalkGood]

Beautiful pictures.

Thanks John ^_^
 
Another White 7-pot popped \o/