Windchicken 2013

Finally got me some lights and a heat mat...

The trays are the self-watering Burpee 32-cell type..Hopefully they will maintain more consistent moisture levels.

This is what I sowed:

C. chinense
MoA Scotch Bonnet (STEVE954), 6
Madame Jeanette (Meatfreak), 6
Bahamian Goat (FadeToBlack), 6
NagaBrain (romy6), 8
Trinidad Scorpion, 4
7 Pot Yellow, 8
Cumari do Para (capsidadburn), 8
Bonda ma Jacques x 7 Pot Yellow (Spicegeist), 4
Chupetinha, 4

C. annuum
Doux Tres Long des Landes (Meatfreak), 6
Poblano, 8
Zapotec Jalapeño, 12
Chiltepin, 8
California Wonder, 4
Chilhuacle Rojo, 8
Thai Garden Birdseed, 4
Ashe County Pimento (kentishman), 4
Kitchen Pepper (Datil), 4

C. baccatum
Aji Amarillo, 8

There are a few spots still open. Probably will sow NuMex 6-4 and some Morouga, because people are asking for it....

 

[meatfreak]

What an monster of a plant, just pure beauty! How many weeks do you have left before you really need to worry about any frost, Gary?

 

[windchicken]

Thanks Stefan! I'm counting on 8 more weeks of growing season, but the killing freeze could arrive in as little as 4 weeks. In 2010 the hard freeze came on November 5, but normally it's a month or so later than that.

 

[romy6]

 Wow G man that plant is just  happy. Must be 300 pods on that bad boy and 250 are ripe. Get to picking. I see some smoked naga brain powder in your near future 

 

[capsidadburn]

Great job Gary!  I agree with Jamie that you need to get picking if you're not already doing it.
 
Have a great weekend!
Mike

 

[Devv]

Very nice plant, and super healthy to have set all those pods during the summer heat.
 
Going to be busy snipping pods this weekend!

 

[ronniedeb]

Nice plant windchicken!

 

[windchicken]

Great job Gary!  I agree with Jamie that you need to get picking if you're not already doing it.
 
Have a great weekend!
Mike

 
Thanks Mike!
 

Very nice plant, and super healthy to have set all those pods during the summer heat.
 
Going to be busy snipping pods this weekend!

 
Lol, thanks Scott!
 

Nice plant windchicken!

 
Thanks RD!

 

[KiNGDeNNiZ]

uh wow.. yes SMOKE nagabrain indeed.. gary.. if it gets blurrry.. simply tape the center on the screen and it should refocus =D

Denniz

 

[windchicken]

Thanks KD...I forgot about the tapping to focus...Now to make a GOOD vid!
 
I've been troubling over whether to post this vid of my new chilehead friend Carlos showing off his new garage grow, but I believe I will. He's just starting out, and his enthusiasm is just wonderful. There are apparently several hundred starts of Texas Pequin (SmiterQ) from air-dried pods I sent him several weeks ago...WARNING: MANY F-BOMBS. If you are at work or your kids are around you may want to use headphones or turn the volume way down:
 
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=524653497616022

 

[Devv]

Well, he's doing well!
 
AND excited about his grow, can't beat that!
 
F-Bombs? I spent 25 years as an auto tech...need I say more?

 

[Roguejim]

Hey Gary.  When your temps creep above say 90F, you don't put up any type of shade cloth, do you?  Any problems with blossom drop? 

 

[windchicken]

Yeah, I'll be watching his grow closely...That's A LOT of plants....

Hey Gary.  When your temps creep above say 90F, you don't put up any type of shade cloth, do you?  Any problems with blossom drop?

Hey RJ....I tried the shade cloth, but it didn't really help. The temps in my big garden get REAL high, like 110°F, even in the shade. I have a lot of blossom drop in the late summer, when temps are at their hottest in my area...Basically I get no to very little production in August and September....

 

[Chewi]

DAMN Carlos can cuss! HAHAHAHAA!!!! Glad your season is going well Gary!

 

[windchicken]

I don't think he even realizes he's doing it...He's a real nice guy, and so funny—He really cracks me up—just a little...um...demonstrative, maybe?
 
Good to hear from ya, Rob! I need to get over to  your glog....

 

[Chewi]

I know, that guy just makes me smile

 

[windchicken]

The hot weather finally broke here in NW Louisiana, and it's been raining almost every day for the last 10 days or so. The poor brutalized plants in my country garden are actually beginning to set flowers and a few pods. A few weeks ago I was unsure whether my Madame Jeanette (meatfreak) plants would survive the summer. Today I was real happy to see these blossoms:
 

 

[Devv]

Good deal!
 
They will certainly load up now for the fall harvest!

 

[meatfreak]

A++ plant, Gary. Let's hope that frost stays away for quite some time

 

[windchicken]

Thanks Stefan! I'm counting on it, too....
 
I picked this anomalous pod from F2 NagaBrain Plant No. 2 this morning, which I have tentatively designated as the seed mother for the F3 generation. There are a couple of notable differences from the other pods I have harvested from this plant: the interesting "wartiness" on the outside, the thicker flesh and bountiful placenta, and an intense sweet aroma of passion fruit or kiwi...The heat level is nice, too, but not noticeably stronger than the other NagaBrain fruit, but maybe that is because it's a smaller pod, and there's a lesser overall volume of capsaicin than the other, larger pods...
 
As you can see, she only yielded 9 seeds—maybe not enough to do the entire F3 grow...Anyone want a special project? Of course the unique nature of this pod could be caused by environmental influences, such as weather, minerals in the soil, whatever, and would not carry though to the F3 generation...thoughts please?
 

 

 

 

[capsidadburn]

The pod looks very nice Gary. 
 
     One thing I've noticed dealing with the crosses is that fewer seeds tends to prevail and that intense elongate crinkled or distorted shape of seeds of an F2 seems to change more toward normalcy in the F3 seeds, which I guess is a step in the direction of stabilazation.   For me the pod size seems to increase on an overwintered plant.  I always assume that the smaller pods from 1st year plants are just my lack of ability or proper in ground place for the plant to prove it's real potential.  Yes, summer stunted, or winter runts are certainly affects of weather.  Your minerals, at least at your plot if not your home plants, have proven well I think most would agree.
 
     Sounds like you are growing out seeds from the #2 plant pods but this unusual pod has peeked your interest.  I understand the gravitational pull of curiosity and I would not be able to ignore the "anomally" myself on any of my own plants.  I do prefer larger pods for ease of cutting up, deseeding, and more mass for making a sauce or ferment or drying.  Thicker flesh pods and the hints of "kiwi" or "passion fruit" aroma, "wartiness", are all very hard traits to ignore for sure.
 
     One special project is hardly enough in my opinion Gary.  The more activly taxed the brain the better off in the long run I believe.  I don't know that I answered any question here but if you want to include any special project with other projects you might have going my way I would give it a go.
 
Have a great weekend!
Mike