• Blog your pepper progress. The first image in your first post will be used to represent your Glog.

Windchicken 2013

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

lightstand1.jpg


lightstand2.jpg


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....
 
Click to expand...
DocNrock said:
Those Chilhuacle Rojos look great.  I had to Google the variety.  Sounds like a great chile.  Do you eat them fresh, powder them, fry/cook?
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Doc! I use them both fresh and dried, but mostly dried....The aroma coming from the dehydrator is maddening...I prefer to leave the dried pods whole until right before I use them, then I crush them into flakes and sprinkle them on my food..
 
Scarecrw said:
You make Mole Negro de Oaxaca and pour it over some pork with a side of rice and a Nice cold sol. At least that's what I do. Very nice looking pods. I put my seeds in today. Thanks again.
Click to expand...
 
+1 what Jeff said...Maybe one day I'll learn to make mole, but I'm still waiting for my awesome wife to get interested in making it. If only one of her Food Network gurus would go there....I'm lookin' at you Aaron!
 
KiNGDeNNiZ said:
Sent pinoypride some nagab brains and his are taking more brain shapes. Unfortunately the plant is dying
null_zps346d9e28.jpg


null_zps7287ec39.jpg
Click to expand...
 
Very nice NagaBrain pods there KD. Thanks for the pix!...As you are learning, it's still an unstable variety...I'm getting several different phenotypes from 8 plants (more below).
 
meatfreak said:
Great harvest of Chilhuacle Rojo, Gary! They look very tasty. Can't wait to try them myself :)
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Stefan! You won't be disappointed....
 
 
NagaBrain update. These are all F2 pods. I'm getting at least 3 real interesting phenotypes from 8 plants, one red, one yellow, and, from Plant #2, this:
 
choco_naga1.jpg

 
I've not tasted it yet....but I'm pretty excited about getting a chocolate strain so early in the stabilization process. Here's a pod from Plant #6:
 
nagabrain1.jpg
 
geeezz.. we havent even stabilized the shape yet. and now we're getting more colors left and right... first Mel with her yellow smooth pods.. now a chocolate?? hgmmm
 
romy6 said:
 Amazing poddage G. Crazy not a chocolate for 40 miles  :crazy:
Click to expand...
 
Thanks J! Go figure...
 
KiNGDeNNiZ said:
geeezz.. we havent even stabilized the shape yet. and now we're getting more colors left and right... first Mel with her yellow smooth pods.. now a chocolate?? hgmmm
Click to expand...
 
Kinda like Chilhuacle, KD....  ¡los tres colores!
 
armac said:
Your plants and your pods looks so shiny and perfect, do you wax them?
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Rodney!...I would love to say it's from the RCW soil, but most of my container plants set shiny shiny pods like that, too...
 
 
Here's the yellow NagaBrain (Plant #7):
 
nagabrain4.jpg

 
Ashe County Pimento (kentishman). These pods are sweet like candy:
 
pimento1.jpg

 
Chile Onza (CPI). Another Oaxacan landrace:
 
onza1.jpg
 
That's some great looking pods, Gary. Very interesting to follow up with the nagabrains being in all these colors. So will they actually taste different also or just having a different color/shape? Maybe the color will end up Burgundy or something  :think: How does the Chile Onza taste?
 
Sorry to keep pestering you with questions Gary, but I have one more.  That landscaping center I spoke about previously, also sells what they call "Playground Chips", which consists of 100% virgin hardwood.  Meaning no aging.  I'm thinking that is the best product for me to use since it is more fresh than the bark mulch they sell.  But I wanted your opinion first.  So what do you think?  I'm checking the on the price and composition of it right now to be sure.
 
Edit:  Just heard back, and they said it is made from the trunk of the trees, which doesn't really fall in line with the guidelines of RCW.  Still would like to know your thoughts on it though.
 
meatfreak said:
That's some great looking pods, Gary. Very interesting to follow up with the nagabrains being in all these colors. So will they actually taste different also or just having a different color/shape? Maybe the color will end up Burgundy or something  :think: How does the Chile Onza taste?
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Stefan! We will be years stabilizing all the NagaBrain variations...so much work to do and so little time on this planet!  :P  I'm embarrassed to say I have yet to taste the chocolate version...I'll do it this morning and report back here...
 
Chile Onza is a medium-heat, thin-fleshed, seasoning chile. (I call such chiles "driers.") I've only had a couple pods, and I didn't get a whole lot of complexity of flavor....It's really too early for me to comment on them, however, as I am waiting to get a large enough harvest to dry a batch. (Drying seems to really bring out the flavor in the Mexican seasoning chiles.) I can say that those plants are pumping out the little red pods at a very respectable rate...
 
compmodder26 said:
Sorry to keep pestering you with questions Gary, but I have one more.  That landscaping center I spoke about previously, also sells what they call "Playground Chips", which consists of 100% virgin hardwood.  Meaning no aging.  I'm thinking that is the best product for me to use since it is more fresh than the bark mulch they sell.  But I wanted your opinion first.  So what do you think?  I'm checking the on the price and composition of it right now to be sure.
 
Edit:  Just heard back, and they said it is made from the trunk of the trees, which doesn't really fall in line with the guidelines of RCW.  Still would like to know your thoughts on it though.
Click to expand...
 
Sorry I waited so long to get back to you, Brian...You're right, though, in thinking that you want hardwood with a high bark content.
 
Dot Com said:
nice pod pics. Very healthy-looking
Click to expand...
 
Thanks DC!
 
DocNrock said:
Looking great, Gary.  Love those Ashe County Pimentos.  Might have put those on the list for next year!
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Doc! I've got 3 of the Ashe County plants—I wish I had planted 8 or 10 of them! Right now it's my dessert pepper.
 
Devv said:
Plants look wonderful!
 
The NagaBrain's are impressive!
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Scott!
 
KiNGDeNNiZ said:
NAGA BRAINS f2
So we have this year
Melissa naga Brains
chocolate and more brain. And. Yellow/smooth.



Gary has yellow smooth and chocolate naga.



Pinoy pride Eric has red brainy naga brains


Let the games begin!!
Click to expand...
 
Thanks for the pix KD! The first pik with the brown pods came from NagaBrain seeds?
 
 
Just wanted to post this pik of a Hippy Yellow 7 from my oldest RCW bed. It was spicy and delicious. Definitely on my Compulsory Grow list:
 
hippy7_1.jpg

 
Yesterday morning I attempted to dig out the Bermuda grass that was encroaching on my Caribbean row from an ironstone gravel outcrop on the uphill side of my garden...The hand tools were not making a dent in the gravel (around here they build roads from the stuff), so I enlisted the company excavator, "Lulu." Things were going so well that I decided to build a new terrace level for next year, above the Scotch Bonnet/Goat Pepper/Congo Pepper row...Several egrets joined me, apparently to snack on whatever grubs I was uncovering with Lulu. As long as the machine was running and my hands were on the controls they would come very close, but as soon as I stopped to take a picture they moved way back:
 
egrets1.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top