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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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Last year THP member cmpman1974 sent me seeds from a plant he had grown out from seeds he got from Brazilian THP member Brito. Labelled Britos's Mystery Peach, I got 4 plants from the seeds, two of which grew out the expected lovely-colored pods. However, the other two plants grew out these cool, spicy red pods, which Chris tells me are a cross between Mystery Peach and Congo Trinidad. I want to call it the "Chris Cross," but he can decide on the name...

I snapped this shot last Sunday, December 16. I thought it would make a nice THP Christmas shot. Merry Christmas all you chile heads! May you and yours be fragrant and spicy...

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armac said:
You going to stick around this year Gary? Last year you disappeared for a couple of months.....
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I'm think finally going to use grow lights this year. I would really rather go low-tech, but I want to get in the game earlier than I normally do...

So yeah, I'll be here all year, but look for a way smaller grow, with far fewer, less nuclear varieties—mostly bird peppers and mild-to-medium Mexican chiles. Just a few super hots go a real long way, and there's plenty of super hot specialists here already...

Trippa said:
Mary Christmas to you too bro. Loving the shot of "Chris Cross" ;) :D. But does it make you jump , jump?
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Thanks Trippa! Dude, yeah, it's that good, and it makes wear your clothes backwards, too!
 
Wonderful picture! That's the entire reason behind me getting into the hobby--looks. Mom had a neighbor that grew an orange Habanero plant that was beautiful. Biggest, thickest, full of pods plant I've ever seen. About three feet tall and four feet across it must of had 500 bright orange peppers on it. They didn't eat them, she grew them for the looks. She preferred them over flowers. The next year I grew three plants, following year six or seven, don't recall exactly. Third year I had 77 make it. Been pretty crazy ever since.

Thanks for pic and Merry Christmas to you and yours windchicken.
 
Oh wow, I love your story, because my first grow was also intended to be ornamental...In 2008 I built 3 "flower beds" in the front of my house and planted them with Thai Chile. So pretty...and tasty...After that I was off to the races! I still grow 12 or so bushes of Thai Chile every year....And there's nothing prettier than a leafy green Habanero bush loaded with bright orange pods...

My wife worries about my obsession with the chiles. And she probably needs to worry....because my garden is not the work of a sane person!

Thanks, and Merry Christmas Patrick!
 
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