Windchicken Grow 2012

Looks like I'm getting a late start again this year...Should be setting seeds to sprout in the next few days....Anyway, here's the order I made from Beth this morning. It's not really my complete grow list, because I'm planting lots of saved seeds (from my 2011 Grow and from trades with my THP friends) for the first time this year. Also, I don't know that I will plant everything from this order, but I am excited about some of the new varieties:

Absent from the above list but going in the ground this year:
Trinidad Scorpion
Congo Trinidad
True Jamaican Scotch Bonnet
Thai Chile (Garden Bird Seed variety)
Nambe Pueblo
Birgit's Locoto

Several bird types from THP friends, including, but not limited to (because I can't remember them all right now):
Texas Chiltepin
Prik Ki Nue
Siling Labuyo
Cumari do Para

Edited 1/9/2012 to add the following:

Last minute order from Hippy, plus some other trades I had forgotten about:
Yellow 7 Pot
Douglah
Malagueta
Pusa Jwala

 

[armac]

Gary I posted some pics of the peppers you sent me on the "care package" thread. Ate 2 bonnets in some pico, had to take a quick trip out of town. Will be eating more pico on Sunday afternoon.

Thanks again and tell Charlie I said hello.......

 

[windchicken]

wow.. wow.. wow.... i think next year all im planting are scotch bonnets....


good work mr gary

Thanks Denniz! How are you for fresh pods right now? You ready for some Trinidad Scorpions?

I'd guess about picking after next!22nd-23rd ish. Depends on what the storms do as well .....i'd say from the pics you have a harvest waitin'!
I can't wait to try the Bondas either. Right now though-its time to get flat,and harvest some "catch up Z's"
Have a good one -
Dave

...and those Bonnets are Huge!

Thanks Dave! By that time there will be a nice Bonda crop I can send you.

You've got an interesting job there...

Gary I posted some pics of the peppers you sent me on the "care package" thread. Ate 2 bonnets in some pico, had to take a quick trip out of town. Will be eating more pico on Sunday afternoon.

Thanks again and tell Charlie I said hello.......

Cool Rodney! Charlie says "rohrf!"

Here's a little pod porn to start the week off--

Romy6 mystery chile. Jamie thinks it may be a Dorset Naga--Brain Strain cross. The Naga aroma and flavor is sweet, fruity and big:

Peppermania mystery chinense. Maybe Cheiro Recife or Inca Drop? They're some tasty little poppers for sure...

Yellow Bouquet, seeds from wayright. Nice flavor and kick, and the plants are crazy robust, even with the neglect I've showered upon them:

Pink Brandywine tomato:

Purple Cherokee tomato:

 

[Dot Com]

very nice!!!

 

[PIC 1]

Nice photos Gary,
The Jamie pepper does have that broad shouldered "Dorsett" look to it................and I bet its ripping HOT!

The Brandy's look ful land round...............red or pink ?
Purple Cherokee are becoming one of my favorites.........suprisingly different flavor than the other purples or blacks.......even the squirrels like them...................

 

[windchicken]

very nice!!!

Thanks DC!

Nice photos Gary,
The Jamie pepper does have that broad shouldered "Dorsett" look to it................and I bet its ripping HOT!

The Brandy's look ful land round...............red or pink ?
Purple Cherokee are becoming one of my favorites.........suprisingly different flavor than the other purples or blacks.......even the squirrels like them...................

Thanks Greg! I know just about nothing about the Indian superhots--So thanks for that observation. And yes, they are pretty dang spicy! I love the aroma--I haven't tasted a nice fresh-brewed ale in a very long time, but that's what they remind me of--that intensely sweet, densely exotic fruitiness....

Those are Pink Brandywines, seeds from Burpee. They set a buttload of fruit, but I'm having trouble with them burning and rotting at the burn site before they get ripe. The Cherokee Purple aren't nearly as productive, but the fruit seem to be more "durable." I love both these tomatoes--Next year I will plant them again, but in a shadier spot. Also I really miss growing the Purple Calabash...Next year I want to set some of them out again.

Gary

 

[KiNGDeNNiZ]

Thanks Denniz! How are you for fresh pods right now? You ready for some Trinidad Scorpions?

fresh pods right now is getting there... i think they are close to getting ripe maybe in 2 weeks or so.. we dont get much rain here in socal... with the exception of the 7pod.. i have a bunch of green ones...... ready.. you betcha i am.. my tolerance has slowly crept up..

curious to see how this "scotch bonnet" turns out

 

[romy6]

Gary my man! Plants are looking stellar per usual.


Nice to see you are able to grow maters in the summer. Too much rain and heat here for much of anything to grow.

I love that cross. Really no way too well what it is. But nagabrain sound good

You gonna make some powder with all those yellow boquets. Kevin made some last year and it was very tasty

 

[Sanarda]

LOOKING SUPER GREAT!!!! AND SUPER HOT

 

[gnslngr]

HMMM- Loves me the sound of Naga x Brain Strain..."jeetoneyet?"...I think it might be worth a try on my end , if nature is still cooperating, cept I'd use the Yellow Brain....hmmmm

DeNNiZ:....the Bonnet looks suspicious ....not only the pod , but the leaves. Hope it turns out good for ya.....if it tastes good, really doesn't matter anyway.


uh oh that Devil's Tongue Brown is letting me know its bigger than that BREAKFAST BURRITO i'M EATING IT WITH!

 

[windchicken]

fresh pods right now is getting there... i think they are close to getting ripe maybe in 2 weeks or so.. we dont get much rain here in socal... with the exception of the 7pod.. i have a bunch of green ones...... ready.. you betcha i am.. my tolerance has slowly crept up..

curious to see how this "scotch bonnet" turns out

Lookin' good Denniz! Unusual shape for a Scotch Bonnet, but I bet it's gonna be tasty!

Gary my man! Plants are looking stellar per usual.


Nice to see you are able to grow maters in the summer. Too much rain and heat here for much of anything to grow.

I love that cross. Really no way too well what it is. But nagabrain sound good

You gonna make some powder with all those yellow boquets. Kevin made some last year and it was very tasty

Thanks Jamie! I'm afraid the maters are about to play out. Vines are looking kind of weird, and like you said, the combination of too much heat and lots of rain is rotting the fruit something awful!

Nagabrain it is! I like it! That plant is absolutely loaded with pods right now. I'll get pix tomorrow...

I like to make salsa with the yellow baccatums, but powder sounds really good...

LOOKING SUPER GREAT!!!! AND SUPER HOT

Thanks Pia!

HMMM- Loves me the sound of Naga x Brain Strain..."jeetoneyet?"...I think it might be worth a try on my end , if nature is still cooperating, cept I'd use the Yellow Brain....hmmmm

DeNNiZ:....the Bonnet looks suspicious ....not only the pod , but the leaves. Hope it turns out good for ya.....if it tastes good, really doesn't matter anyway.


uh oh that Devil's Tongue Brown is letting me know its bigger than that BREAKFAST BURRITO i'M EATING IT WITH!

Thanks Dave! Yeah, I ate a couple of the Nagabrains, but very carefully, and only a little bit of a pod at one sitting. I love 'em! If you want I'll ship a couple with the others when you get back in...

It's been a while since I posted any porn...I had this XL Caribbean Red Hab (seeds from Tim S.) with dinner tonight. The blossom end wasn't too bad, but the closer I got to the stem end, the more of a chore it got to be...and ice cream followed soon after that!

 

[Sanarda]

Beautiful pics. Post more pleaser. Your grow is incredible. I wish I could just walk through your property to see first hand all them pretty plants and your new buildings. Pics will do. For Now!! Ahahahhhaa

 

[PIC 1]

Wow Gary,
That Caribbean XL is one large bad boy pepper!

 

[armac]

Need some updates sir. At least one of Charlie also.

 

[windchicken]

Beautiful pics. Post more pleaser. Your grow is incredible. I wish I could just walk through your property to see first hand all them pretty plants and your new buildings. Pics will do. For Now!! Ahahahhhaa

Thanks Pia! Pix today...

Wow Gary,
That Caribbean XL is one large bad boy pepper!

Thanks Greg! The taste and heat level are really nice...It's too bad there's so much ambiguity around this variety...

Need some updates sir. At least one of Charlie also.

Coming right up!

Sunday morning porn update--

Yellow 7 Pot, seeds from romy6:

Aji Umba:

Brito's Peach x Congo Trinidad cross, seeds from cmpman1974:

Brito's Mystery Peach, seeds from cmpman1974:

"Nagabrain," seeds from romy6:

XL Caribbean Red Hab, seeds from Tim S:

Aji Cristal, seeds from RedTailForester:

Cumari do Para, seeds from capsidadburn:

Chiltepin, third year overwinter:

Charlie:

 

[armac]

Very good

 

[windchicken]

A parting shot of the Yellow 7 row:

 

[romy6]

Damn Gary you sure know how to grow em. I need to start picking your brain more. Love the yellow 7's all in a row. I see some tatsy powder/ sauce in your near future

 

[windchicken]

Thanks Jamie! Things do seem to be going well, in spite of my dumbass mistakes...The only thing I'm doing different this year, because the big garden in the country is utterly choked with weeds, was to pot up first into #1 nursery containers, and then into the #3 containers you see here. I noticed a huge difference when going from the little tapered Wal-mart pots to the nursery pots--larger stems, larger leaves, and greatly increased productivity. I think it must be the big holes on bottom...

Watch your mailbox!

Gary

 

[windchicken]

Okay, Jamie, I just watched your latest video and saw plenty of nursery containers...That was real entertaining, by the way. I think maybe I'll watch it again!

The only other thing I can think of that I'm doing different this year is to use way more ferts than I ever have before....

Gary

 

[meatfreak]

Great update, Gary. Lot's of pods ready too pick I see Love the Brito's Mystery Peach, looks beautiful. Interested in how it tastes