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

 

[highalt]

Wow, that Birgit's Locoto is amazing! Kind of looks like the Lemon Drop I grew last year.

I'm a little puzzled by the shape on your Chilhuacle Rojo. Mine were more shaped like a top.

Is that the first pod? I'm wondering if the rest will be shaped more typical. Mine was prolific and made a great mild to medium heat powder.

 

[Melissa77754]

Very nice grow, beautiful plants! Glad I took a look because I have a Birgits in the ground and am now looking forward to them even more!

Melissa

 

[indoChilli]

Love seeing those foliage of green gary, just awesome, going to make myself plenty of that, but not until the rain stops, just traumatize by the flood. Also have finished all those dried pepper you sent me, i munch it everyday and now is gone, lol. Be mailing your seed at monday, hope you like it.

 

[windchicken]

Your babies are looking wonderful Gary!!
Nice to see that you are growing the Yellow Bouquet!
I love that pepper,and regretfully didnt plant any this year!

Your Birgit is going nuts man!
Very cool how you have it tied in the pot!


Kevin

Thanks, Kevin! I've got 4 of the Bouquet plants growing alongside the Aji Amarillo, and the Bouquets are way more robust—I can't wait for them to set fruit! I've also got 10 or 12 Coral Reef plants growing from your seeds—Wow! What a cool plant! Pix soon! I'm glad you like my "guy wires." I've tried several different ways to support container plants, and that's the one that finally seems to work...

Gary

Great looking Birgits' Gary! I had one in the ground a couple years ago and it did real well. I liked the taste of these but my pods had a tough skin that I found displeasing. Maybe I will try them again.

Lots of rain so far this season, things look very promising. How's your rainfall?

Good day Mike

Thanks Mike! I'm loving the crazy huge production on the Birgit plant, especially so early in the season. And I can't wait to taste one of those big pods....We had quite a bit of rain in March and early April, then a few dry weeks before a nice rain Sunday night...I sure hope this summer is wetter than the last one!

Gary

Wow, that Birgit's Locoto is amazing! Kind of looks like the Lemon Drop I grew last year.

I'm a little puzzled by the shape on your Chilhuacle Rojo. Mine were more shaped like a top.

Is that the first pod? I'm wondering if the rest will be shaped more typical. Mine was prolific and made a great mild to medium heat powder.

Thanks HA, and thanks for the photo of your Chilhuacles. This is my first year growing this plant, so I don't really know what to expect. The finished product you described is exactly what I'm looking for, however...From what I've read, there seems to be two different sub-varieties of Chilhuacle Rojo: 1) a longer, tapered pod, and 2) a snubbier, more Ancho-shaped pod. My seeds came from Peppermania (Beth Boyd)—from the photo on Beth's Picasa page, I suspect her Chilhuacles may be the longer ones:

There is a discussion of the various Chilhuacle varieties and sub-varieties on Dave Dewitt's site. There is, I believe, another article on the different shapes of this variety, but I didn't take the time to look for it:

http://www.fiery-foo...ods-test-garden

Gary

Very nice grow, beautiful plants! Glad I took a look because I have a Birgits in the ground and am now looking forward to them even more!

Melissa

Thanks for looking Melissa! I think you will be real happy with it...Fruity, crunchy, aromatic, nice orangy-red color, a happy rain forest type chile...

Gary

Love seeing those foliage of green gary, just awesome, going to make myself plenty of that, but not until the rain stops, just traumatize by the flood. Also have finished all those dried pepper you sent me, i munch it everyday and now is gone, lol. Be mailing your seed at monday, hope you like it.

Thanks Firditra! Sorry about the rain...I expect that once your soil dries out a little you will have an amazing garden. I'll be looking forward to my exotic Indonesian chile seeds!

Wait...you just eat those dried Devil's Tongue?!!! Sweet Jesus. That would put me in First Care! You da man!

Gary

 

[windchicken]

More update-age, today, May 10, 2012...

Wayright's Coral Reef:

Trinidad Scorpion:

Peppermania's Aji Umba, a.k.a. Adjuma (Dutch spelling), from Suriname. This is far and away the most vigorous chinense I have seen yet:

Peppermania's Congo Black:

Third year Black Prince. I cut this plant down last fall, and it came bustin' out right back again:

Trinidad Scorpions on the pipe rack. I started these plants for a new young grower here in DeSoto Parish. The kids today seem to like the spicy chiles :

 

[PaulG]

Your grow is looking stupendous, Windy! Chiles all looking great in your wonderful grow climate!
Here's to a great summer season!

The Congo plants are actually 2 plants to a pot, so it only looks like they've already made nodes...I intended to clip them to one plant per pot, but I reckon I must have forgotten to do it....
Maybe some cloning is in order

 

[windchicken]

Thanks for looking, PG!

I need a clone of me, so I can finally get this garden planted...

 

[Eephus Man]

Thanks for looking, PG!

I need a clone of me, so I can finally get this garden planted...

Lol. Right? I'm sending my clone to work so I can work in the garden!

 

[KiNGDeNNiZ]

Gary.. ill go visit my relatives in 70072 and pick up some plants.. i mean take care of them. also will get some crawduds!

 

[windchicken]

Lol. Right? I'm sending my clone to work so I can work in the garden!

It's easy to see why mostly only old retired dudes have large gardens...I would just go ahead and take a week of vacation to get everything planted, but the garden is located at the company yard.... There's no way they would leave me alone to devote any time to my True Life's Work!

Gary.. ill go visit my relatives in 70072 and pick up some plants.. i mean take care of them. also will get some crawduds!

The West Bank, eh? Cool...give me a hollah if you pass through the Shreveport area....There's a few more weeks of crawdoody season left...Enjoy your trip, and be sure to "pass a good tahm!"

Dude, I've got a hard-core chilehead buddy that lives in Sunland, in north Los Angeles, if you need someone to babysit your plants while you're gone to Louisiana....One night I saw him eat 3 orange habs in one sitting...

Gary

 

[mygrassisblue]

Thanks for the great info ! I'm placing an order with Beth for my Black Congos !

 

[windchicken]

Cool, Grass! So far my Blacks are looking real robust—greener and beefier than the Red Congos, actually...

Thanks for looking, and good luck with your grow this year!

Gary

Yellow 7 Pot babies (10 plants nearest the camera), seeds from romy6. I'm excited about these chilies—

 

[Eephus Man]

What are those giant pots in the background, Gary?

 

[windchicken]

Hi Eric! Those are Trinidad Scorpion. I sprouted those on a whim, from seeds scraped from some of last year's pods I had laying around. (I can't even eat the damnably spicy things). I just love the way the plants look and grow—

 

[Eephus Man]

Lookin' nice an' green an' bushy! KUTGW, Gary!

 

[PaulG]

E-man is right; your plants look just awesome!

 

[romy6]

Plants are looking really sweet Gary. Can't wait to see those yellow 7 's when there 6 feet tall. When do you plan on putting them in the ground?

 

[windchicken]

Lookin' nice an' green an' bushy! KUTGW, Gary!

Thanks, Eric!

E-man is right; your plants look just awesome!

Thanks Paul!

Plants are looking really sweet Gary. Can't wait to see those yellow 7 's when there 6 feet tall. When do you plan on putting them in the ground?

Thanks Jamie! I've been trying to plant out for weeks now, but no one wants to hear me whine about how hectic my life has been this year...Honestly, I don't know when I will get the 7s planted. It could be in early June—Right now I've got lots of rather huge annuums, loaded with fruit, that are in line to get planted before most all the chinenses.

 

[KiNGDeNNiZ]

It's easy to see why mostly only old retired dudes have large gardens...I would just go ahead and take a week of vacation to get everything planted, but the garden is located at the company yard.... There's no way they would leave me alone to devote any time to my True Life's Work!



The West Bank, eh? Cool...give me a hollah if you pass through the Shreveport area....There's a few more weeks of crawdoody season left...Enjoy your trip, and be sure to "pass a good tahm!"

Dude, I've got a hard-core chilehead buddy that lives in Sunland, in north Los Angeles, if you need someone to babysit your plants while you're gone to Louisiana....One night I saw him eat 3 orange habs in one sitting...

Gary

hmm i was checking out this website with variety of peppers and i saw the black congo... i think ill try grpwing that tooo.. you yellow 7s look great. never really went to LA.. just was a thought alhought id love to go again as i miss my creole cajun food. btw i hijacked lucielle's bbq saw and tossed some of the leftover devils power i made ...AWESOME.. hahah cant wait to make my own sauces.... my TS is sitll smaller than your smallest one... im so behind... wish to catch up

 

[windchicken]

I figured out later on that you were joking about coming to Louisiana; but yeah, you do need to come down to Cajun country and have some étouffée and some real gumbo. People just know how to live down there...

The sauce sounds real good—That's one thing I have yet to really learn how to do.

The Scorpions seem to really like it in Louisiana...Have you seen Brian's Grannie plants? Nice!

Thanks for looking!

Gary