Once again, beautiful pictures and pods buddy! Those Congos are immense!!! 
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Gary,
What an amazing little farm you have there. Really inspiring. Plants and pods look amazing.
The Congo Trinidad photos I can not stop looking at! Bravo Job!
Question, in the photo below.. what plants are in the front line?
If they are all different, can you let me know what the two with the red marks are?
I am looking to grow a tree like pepper, and those stems/bases look quite thick.
Thanks!
What an amazing little farm you have there. Really inspiring. Plants and pods look amazing.
The Congo Trinidad photos I can not stop looking at! Bravo Job!
Question, in the photo below.. what plants are in the front line?
If they are all different, can you let me know what the two with the red marks are?
I am looking to grow a tree like pepper, and those stems/bases look quite thick.
Thanks!
Thanks Smiter! The Congos did far better than I had hoped for...
The plants you highlighted in the photo are Habanero de Arbol, all 6 in that row. The 2 with red dots are shorter and bushier, with larger pods. Popular consensus is that it's a chinense x baccatum cross, but to me all signs point to Capsicum annuum. It is, nonetheless, a quite potent and tasty chile. Besides that, it performed very well in the extreme heat of the summer of 2011. PM your mailing address and I'll send you some seeds.
The plants you highlighted in the photo are Habanero de Arbol, all 6 in that row. The 2 with red dots are shorter and bushier, with larger pods. Popular consensus is that it's a chinense x baccatum cross, but to me all signs point to Capsicum annuum. It is, nonetheless, a quite potent and tasty chile. Besides that, it performed very well in the extreme heat of the summer of 2011. PM your mailing address and I'll send you some seeds.
Congo Trinidad's look very cool
Thai chili looks great windchicken I love the way thay look upside down 
Last night after the rain stopped I went to check my mail, and found something completely unexpected...
...a box of red peppery goodness!
THANKS Windchicken!!!
This is my first time trying these Red Congos - will see how they taste with spaghetti later tonight!
My pleasure, LG! And thank you for the pod porn! You are always fun to send pods to. How was the spaghetti?
Thai chili looks great windchicken I love the way thay look upside down
Thanks PM. The Thai is one of my longstanding favorites. Actually, that is the way the original chiles grew. It wasn't until man began to cultivate them that the "pendent" varieties developed...
Hi Meat! Thanks! Things are still growing today, and even setting blossoms and new pods. But we are getting very close to the first killing frost—I'm looking for it any day now. There was a very cold night last week that defoliated the upper parts of my plants, but the chiles were unaffected. Photos to follow...
How are things over there? I'm guessing your outdoor season has been done for a while?
We had a pretty good freeze in the country garden last week. It defoliated the upper parts of many of the plants, but the chiles were unaffected. A benefit of the leaf loss was that the pods are now way easier to see and pick...
Garden overview. The red and yellow pods near the center of the garden are Congo Trinidad and Jamaican Scotch Bonnet:
Congo Trinidad:
Congo Trinidad:
Jamaican Scotch Bonnet:
Thai Garden Bird Seed:
Chocolate Habanero. This plant actually came up from the Congo Trinidad seed packet, so it could be any of several brown C. chinense types, but I like the sound of "Chocolate Habanero":
Garden overview. The red and yellow pods near the center of the garden are Congo Trinidad and Jamaican Scotch Bonnet:
Congo Trinidad:
Congo Trinidad:
Jamaican Scotch Bonnet:
Thai Garden Bird Seed:
Chocolate Habanero. This plant actually came up from the Congo Trinidad seed packet, so it could be any of several brown C. chinense types, but I like the sound of "Chocolate Habanero":
You sure have created a beautiful garden Windchicken! I envy your land access.
I finally have some Cumari do Para seeds drying, that I offered you months ago I just need your pm with address.
Mike
I finally have some Cumari do Para seeds drying, that I offered you months ago I just need your pm with address.
Mike
¡El placer es mÃo!
Thanks, Mike! I am truly blessed to have that little patch of wonderful river dirt...
I envy your longer growing season!
PM to follow.
Gary
Wow! great view out there!
What kind of truck is that in the picture with the trinidad Congo.
Looks like it would be a good project truck once you cleaned up the rust.
So what would you say was your most productive this season?
Looks like you have lots of jamaican scotch bonnets.
What kind of truck is that in the picture with the trinidad Congo.
Looks like it would be a good project truck once you cleaned up the rust.
So what would you say was your most productive this season?
Looks like you have lots of jamaican scotch bonnets.
Thanks, RB! It's good to hear from you!
The truck is a burned-out Chevy C80, maybe 1980 or so? There have been a couple of salvage guys come around here to get it, but I always tell them "If you tear up my garden you will not be invited back." So far that comment has discouraged all of them...
Probably the most productive of the C. chinense was the Cajamarca, but I didn't really use those chiles much. Leaving aside the Cajamarca, the best producer of the C. chinense were far and away the Congo Trinidad. The Bonnets have also been real productive for sure. They were some of the last to ripen, so that may be why you see so many in the photos—They have only recently turned yellow, and I haven't picked them yet. As for the C. baccatum, the Aji Limon and Guampinha de Veado are crazy prolific producers...Probably most of them will go to waste simply because there is no one here to pick them. For the C. annuum, the Thai chile blew everything else away, followed by NuMex Jalmundo, which is a real branch-breaker because it makes so many large, heavy pods.
The truck is a burned-out Chevy C80, maybe 1980 or so? There have been a couple of salvage guys come around here to get it, but I always tell them "If you tear up my garden you will not be invited back." So far that comment has discouraged all of them...
Probably the most productive of the C. chinense was the Cajamarca, but I didn't really use those chiles much. Leaving aside the Cajamarca, the best producer of the C. chinense were far and away the Congo Trinidad. The Bonnets have also been real productive for sure. They were some of the last to ripen, so that may be why you see so many in the photos—They have only recently turned yellow, and I haven't picked them yet. As for the C. baccatum, the Aji Limon and Guampinha de Veado are crazy prolific producers...Probably most of them will go to waste simply because there is no one here to pick them. For the C. annuum, the Thai chile blew everything else away, followed by NuMex Jalmundo, which is a real branch-breaker because it makes so many large, heavy pods.
Devil's Tongue, from my garden in suburbia. This is definitely a super hot in my book. The flavor is mostly Habanero, very nice:
Beautiful pods and I agree with you that they are superhot. I took a good bite out of one of these when I first tried one expecting it not to be superhot but soon regretted that, savage burn and cramps. I am not that fond of the taste it somehow tastes a bit chemical to me. How do you compare them to Fatalii are they the same? I will be growing Fatalii next season to see how they compare as so many of the peeps on THP love Fatali.
Hey Gary. I combined most of the Congo Trinidad with Red Habanero and smoked them all day with mesquite lumps in a Weber Kettle grill outside. If you like powders, YOU HAVE GOT TO TRY THIS!!! I have tried many hot and superhot powders the last couple of years, and nothing comes close to this flavor in my experience. Everyone I share this with goes nuts about how amazing it is. I think the key is to smoke them all day around 120-130 degrees. Just thought I would share in case you are wondering what to do with all those Congos still on the plants. Thanks again man.
Yah those Cajamarca have very purty pods.
I sure wish i had my old 86 f150. I love those good old simple engines without wires coming out the ying.
And looks like your ready for anther hog to cook up jerk style.
Have you tryed sausage balls made with wild hog!!! wooWee some good stuff right there.
I sure wish i had my old 86 f150. I love those good old simple engines without wires coming out the ying.
And looks like your ready for anther hog to cook up jerk style.
Have you tryed sausage balls made with wild hog!!! wooWee some good stuff right there.