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Post by glen on May 13, 2019 14:21:34 GMT -6
On April 24 I planted Thai Hot, Cayenne, Sweet Habenero,and tabasco peppers. I also have some wild bird peppers and Tam Jalepeno planted. Peppers finally all germinated. Many seeds did not germinate though. However, I did get enough to have a sample of each variety. The seedlings are almost 21 days old and they are growing very slowly. I just sewed the seed in my normal dirt mixed with compost. Nothing special like you read about online where folks use fancy methods. Most of my seedlings are less than an inch tall after 21 days of patiently waiting. Or, impatiently waiting would be more honest. I am not sure what I will do with all these peppers! But, they will be beautiful. I will get photo's up later.
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Post by john on May 14, 2019 5:38:15 GMT -6
Tabasco peppers are a lot of fun. The plants start out slow but by the end of the season they will be a 3-4' bush! Taller than all the rest of the peppers in the garden. I am growing them again this year mostly because I love to see the plants grow so big.
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Post by glen on May 14, 2019 22:02:36 GMT -6
John, I am not sure if I have ever grown tabasco peppers before. I have grown thai peppers before. At any rate I think peppers are quite ornamental so even if you don't eat them much they are absolutely beautiful. I want to try putting tabasco peppers in vinegar this season if I am lucky with them. I plan to dry the cayenne peppers. Cayenne peppers are the biggest seedlings right now. I have read that they are about the easiest hot peppers to grow. Its been many years since I grew them. You can't even find Cayenne pepper in the supermarkets here since the people really don't eat much spicy food in Panama. I have wild bird peppers going as well. They look like they should be hot like Thai hot peppers but they are quite mild. Kind of spicy but no where near hot. I tried soaking em in vinegar and they just aren't hot enough. The tabasco's should take up the slack and make the best peppa sauce around. I have a bird pepper plant outside now that is over 4 feet tall and over a year old. Still looks great and is putting on nice new leaves. I have read that some bird pepper plants can live for a few years. I found mine growing in a cow pasture and picked a couple of red peppers to get the seed.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jun 25, 2019 18:28:06 GMT -6
I've got some of the best looking Jalapenos I've ever grown, this year. I just harvested my first four ripe tomatoes and am looking forward to making a batch of Pico de Gallo.
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Post by glen on Jun 25, 2019 22:18:13 GMT -6
Ron, my plants are of mixed age. I have some 2 month old jalepeno plants that still have not put on any peppers. All my peppers plants are small. Not enough sun. I also have sick pepper plants. As far as the pots go, at least 20% of my plants have a desease that causes the leaf to wither and fall off the plant. Its really bothering my wild bird peppers too. I have about 16 jalepeno plants outside, some are only about a month old. As far as desease goes, the jalepeno's are holding up real good. But, nothing is really growing much. Hardly any blooms either. Its hard to have patience. But, I have hot chile's outside, like cayenne and tobasco and they grow slow anyways. But, super slow in my miserable weather. I have not pulled up any of my sick plants yet. I am afraid I will be losing some though. Looks like you got some bruiser jalepeno's coming in. Good work.
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Post by macmex on Jun 26, 2019 5:57:13 GMT -6
I agree with John's assessment of the Tabasco pepper. They are spectacular. As far as heat goes, they're unique. All the c. chinese types tend to start sweet/mild, at first taste, and then turn hotter as the moments go by. They have a wonderful after taste, which is why they have so many adherents. C. annum's (like JalapeƱo) bite immediately, their flavor is noticed immediately too. Their heat dies down fairly quickly, for a pepper. The Tabasco, which is c. frutecens BITES IMMEDIATELY. Its flavor seems immediately noticeable, if you can get past the blast of heat. I don't notice much aftertaste. I do love them for hot sauce, but I would never be tempted to nibble on them, like I do the habanero types.
All my peppers got out late this year. They're still quite small and without fruit or flowers. Murupi Amarela has languished due to our crazy weather. Chile Rayado, true to form, just chugs along. Seems like that pepper handles heat, coolness, too much moisture and drought. It's the most dependable pepper I've ever grown.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jun 27, 2019 15:01:49 GMT -6
We finally got a break in the weather this week and are enjoying our first sunshine in a long time. The plants are really doing well now, after so much rain. I harvested my first jumbo jalapenos today for making pepper boats. I had them sorted as I was harvesting them because Some are hot peppers and others are mild "Coolapenos". Then, I got in the truck and set them in a basket to drive home. When I got to the house, I realized I had put them all into the same basket, so tonight's pepper boats will be 'diner beware'.
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Post by glen on Jun 27, 2019 22:21:29 GMT -6
George, I am having the same luck with my peppers. The jalepeno's are doing the best. Jalepeno's can tolerate a lot of abuse I think. Mine do have a little bit of desease but nothing serious. I have 16 jalepeno plants outside at least. All Tam jalepeno. It will be my last year of Tam jalepeno cause this year they will cross with the other variety's. I also have a variety called Aroz con Pollo which is a sweet Ahi. I only have 4 plants. They are small but very healthy at 2 months old. Super pretty plants. No desease. Nothing has touched them. Not a bit of desease. Looks like they will take another 2 months or more to start having Peppers. They are supposed to be red and have the bonnet look to em and be rich in flavor. They are a Baker Creek seed offering. If I am lucky some of those plants will live over a year.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 17, 2019 19:11:41 GMT -6
Sriracha time again! Wow! This year, I had 5 pounds of red jalapenos from only 4 plants! I had so many peppers they would not all fit into one mixing bowl. So, I made two batches, about 2 quarts each. Last year, I hardly had enough hot peppers to make a quart jar of this stuff. This year, I'm gonna be in pepper sauce Heaven!!!
I got a bonus this morning, when I went pepper picking and also found a few yellow bell peppers that I had forgotten about planting. I also had two full heads of sunflowers ready to harvest, three ripe Pawpaws, a bucket load of Bartlett Pears, and a wagon load of ripe persimmons. I love this time of year!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 25, 2019 12:02:24 GMT -6
I harvested 3 more pounds of red jalapenos this morning ... That makes 8 pounds of red jalapenos I've harvested since September 17th, from only 4 plants (not counting all the green ones that are still out there) or all the green ones that I harvested for Pico De Gallo in July, or all the green ones that I harvested for the 25 jars of salsa that we canned in August. Those are some highly prolific pepper plants!
I strained so much Sriracha this morning, I don't know where I'm gonna put it all. I wore latex gloves and my hands are still on fire! I may have accidentally invented organic Icy-Hot. I'm headed to get some of that ice right now!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Oct 7, 2019 21:02:28 GMT -6
So far, I've got 12 bottles of homemade Sriracha. I didn't run out of sauce, I just ran out of bottles. Hopefully, some more bottles will arrive in the mail this week.
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Post by rdback on Oct 10, 2019 7:27:15 GMT -6
LOVE Sriracha! All my pepper plants went in late this year, so my first (and only) harvest will be this week. Your recipe looks really good Ron. I need to compare it to mine.
Glen, how's that Aroz con Pollo coming along? I have that as a "maybe" on my grow-list for 2020.
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Post by glen on Oct 10, 2019 16:41:57 GMT -6
Rdback-Arroz con Pollo is a Cuban pepper according to Baker Creek Seed, who offers this pepper. Its part of the Capsicum Chinense family of peppers, where the habenero comes from as well. Can you grow habenero's? If so, you can grow Arroz con Pollo. Start it indoors if you have a fairly short season because this pepper is a tropical pepper and needs probably 4 months at least, maybe more to ripen up the peppers. They grow easy for me since I live in Panama. A very nice lady sent me 12 seeds along with some other types. She lives in Oklahoma. I have access to various variety's of these types of peppers since I live in the tropics. They call them Ahi Criollo here in Panama. Which according to Bercy means pepper, common. They don't name them in Panama. When I see a pepper like this in the supermarket I buy a couple of red ones and save the seed. This year, I am sending Ron a variety of pepper seeds which will include a couple of these Ahi Criollo types. They are just little peppers. They have good peppery taste without the heat. Sometimes they have that floral after taste also. Plants will perform nicely if grown in good organic rich soil. I got a very nice crop out of my Arroz con Pollo plants but I also got root rot issues and nematode issues with them as well. There is only 2 plants left now and they are trying to put on peppers again. They are worth trying. They also taste better than basic bell peppers however they are small.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Oct 25, 2019 19:46:50 GMT -6
Believe it or not, Today is October 25th and I'm making another batch of Sriracha right now. My recipe calls for 1.5 pounds of red peppers. I have 1.90 pounds of peppers chopped up. This will be my last batch of the year though. My plants were killed by frost, so I pulled them up and brought them home to harvest.
The vapors off of this last batch choked me up so bad, I had to go get a painter's mask out of the barn, in order to open the blender (good stuff !)
This year has been exceptionally productive all around, despite getting such a late start, due to heavy rains that lasted until the first week in June.Geese swimming in belly deep water, in my garden on May 26th, 2019. My raised beds are all that saved my plants from certain destruction. According to Oklahoma's Mesonet, we've had 62.3" inches of rain so far his year. With only 67 days left in this year, that's probably not quite on par with 2015's record setting 82.5" inches of rain for the wettest year I ever remember having, but it's close enough for me. I suppose the upside of all this rain, is that is our underground aquifers must surely have been replenished by now, after the severe, back to back droughts of 2006, 2011, and 2012.
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Post by macmex on Oct 26, 2019 8:46:56 GMT -6
Murupi Amarela did great for me, though it was a bear to get started with our cool, wet spring. I nearly lost my Chile Rayado planting this year. It great well in cool conditions, as I've noted in the past, but the planting was hit with some kind of fungal root infection. Most of my plants died, one by one, through the summer. One day they'd be fine, and the next day they'd be wilted and die. I could pull them up easily, as the root had white fungus on them, and they would rot off. Murupi Amarela, on the other hand, seemed immune to this fungus. In fact, the only Rayado plant to survive in the affected area, was snugged right up against a Murupi Amarela plant. This makes me wonder if the one variety's resistance somehow protected the other. Who knows?
Ron gave me a good batch of Chile Rayado, so I will process a good amount of seed anyway. No matter what, this is the pepper I must grow every year, "wife's orders." Jerreth would be very sad if I didn't grow it.
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