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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:

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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
 
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As a baby this Congo Trinidad plant had a seed helmet for several months. I kept expecting him to wither, but instead he just stayed a little baby with but a pair of cotyledons, never growing but still alive. So finally around April I carefully pulled off the helmet and the little guy went ahead and grew to the size you see here. As a result of being several months behind the his mates, he is just now setting his first pods, a full 10 months after germination. Maybe this is my reward for removing the helmet:

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windchicken said:
As a baby this Congo Trinidad plant had a seed helmet for several months. I kept expecting him to wither, but instead he just stayed a little baby with but a pair of cotyledons, never growing but still alive. So finally around April I carefully pulled off the helmet and the little guy went ahead and grew to the size you see here. As a result of being several months behind the his mates, he is just now setting his first pods, a full 10 months after germination. Maybe this is my reward for removing the helmet:

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That's great. You sound like a proud father seeing your little guy grow up...
 
Hey, Gary, looks like you will have your work cut out for
you when those plants start pumping out ripe pods by the
bushel! Your yard/garden is awesome. Great to have
room to grow a number of each variety.

Nice pods on the Congo Trinidad. that's a great pepper,
and those are a great size! It was one of my best producers
this season.

Have a great roll going into the winter season, my friend.
 
Gary that Aji Umba is such a cool looking pepper, I planted it last yr but somehow neglected to find room for it this yr. Is the heat level of your pods just shy of the Congo's/ Caribbeans...
 
KiNGDeNNiZ said:
mini bump.... nice pod porn.... =D sadly my plants are done
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Thanks Dennis!

Sanarda said:
Love the pod porn. Made my mouth water and I had to go eat a tiny piece of a bhut. :dance:
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Haha! Thanks Pia! You are a true chilehead...

PaulG said:
Hey, Gary, looks like you will have your work cut out for
you when those plants start pumping out ripe pods by the
bushel! Your yard/garden is awesome. Great to have
room to grow a number of each variety.

Nice pods on the Congo Trinidad. that's a great pepper,
and those are a great size! It was one of my best producers
this season.

Have a great roll going into the winter season, my friend.
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Thanks Paul! Yes, the Congo is one of the best in terms of "bang for your buck." It seems to always give baskets full of huge, spicy, flavorful pods.

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Gary that Aji Umba is such a cool looking pepper, I planted it last yr but somehow neglected to find room for it this yr. Is the heat level of your pods just shy of the Congo's/ Caribbeans...
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Hi Greg! Yes, I would say about that heat level for Aji Umba. Beyond that, the flavor and aroma are a little more refined than the Congo, and the plants are crazy vigorous and productive, growing more at the speed of an annuum than a chinense. I can't really say that I like one better than the other...
 
The Bahamian Goat Pepper is fast becoming one of my favorite Caribbean yellows, maybe even beating out Scotch Bonnet and Bonda ma Jacques. The flavor and aroma are outstanding, the heat level is formidable, the plants are quite robust and productive, and the pods are enigmatic, because I can't tell what color they are. Depending on the light, they are either orange, yellow, or peach, and the insides have a "frosty" layer that I've not seen in other chiles. Seeds for these plants came from capsidadburn:

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In some light they look orange:

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In other light they look yellow:

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On the inside they look peachy, with a nice thick layer of spicy "frosting:"

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With the flash on you can see yellow and clear drops of chile love on the inside:

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Thanks bra! I don't know, really. These Goat plants are really easy to grow. Aside from that, the nursery containers have definitely made a huge difference.

You are going to love to see the the Nagabrain plant, as soon as I take some pix...It's big and bushy and loaded with big, shiny, bumpy pods. Just starting to turn from green to red.

Gary
 
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