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Post by glen on Jan 12, 2020 14:55:44 GMT -6
Happy New year!!! Here in Panama we are in the beginning of dry season and its windy here. The news says there are 110 kph wind gusts reported today for example. That windy! Its hot with mostly clear sky's. Its time to grow tomato's and peppers here in Panama. I sewed my seed in December. I could have sewed earlier but I didn't have seed until the middle of December. I planted many variety's this time including some new experimental variety's of Bhut Jalokia. I started them even later-about 2 weeks ago. They are just now germinating. Photo's will come later. I just took some foto's of a few of the plants. They are about a month old. They look pretty much the same at this stage of the game. Paper Lantern Habenero-C Chinense Paper lantern - spicey peppers that supposed to be quite hot. Plants are more vigorous than Aji Chombo. From my reading it is believed that this variety comes from Peru. Aji Chombo-Rojo-C Chinense Aji Chombo-Rojo-slower growing spicey Jamaican style bonnet pepper. Plants can get very large. Production is insane. Thin walled-excellent flavor-good for drying or making your favorite chili pepper recipes. Biker Billy-F1-hybrid Tobasco-Cayenne Ahicito Producing plants-Aji Chombo-left-Ajicito-right-notice the difference in size of the plants. Ajicito is a dwarf plant that makes nice sized sweet red peppers. Aji Chombo is a much larger plant that produces spicey peppers.
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Post by rdback on Jan 12, 2020 21:32:39 GMT -6
Plants are looking good and healthy Glen. You're off to a great start!
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Post by glen on Jan 12, 2020 23:12:51 GMT -6
Thanx. I wish I had a better quality camera. The Biker Billy plant looks lighter in the foto than it does in real life. Its actually got a purple tint to it. I am really enamored by peppers that have a purple tint to them. I also have some super hots called Purple thunder. Those are going to be real purple in color. Photo's will come later as they are just an inch tall now but already purple in color. Oh, all these plants were topped. Topping does set plants back some. Well, some more than others. I learned that it is always better for me to top my seedlings. Otherwise they get leggy. Every one has their own way of doing things I guess. During the dry season there is much less virus and bacterial desease. I have only seen a few mites so far. No aphids yet. Sometimes we have white fly's as well. Its been few years since I have had that issue. In a week or so I will post foto's of some of the other variety's. I have about 11 varietys in all this year and that doesn't even count the new Purple Thunder variety's I am trialing either. As far as I can tell right now, those are slow growers.
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Post by macmex on Jan 13, 2020 5:45:32 GMT -6
Yesterday I got some Ajicito seed from Ron, which came from you. Looking forward to growing it! Good luck on your peppers, Glen. Looking good!
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Post by glen on Jan 13, 2020 14:14:34 GMT -6
George, you can see on the last foto some ajicito plants. There are 4 there-they are in the front of some chombo peppers. You can plant those Ajicito plants kind of tight since they are dwarfs. The plants in the foto are not young plants and they are quite small and cute looking. If you wanted you could plant a few of these in very small pots also for the patio. Very ornamental looking. I think they are kind of unique. I haven't seen dwarf peppers like this for sale yet online either. The actual peppers the seed came from came from a super-market. I thought the peppers looked so cool I bought a lot of them and saved the seed from all of them. There has been seed sent to Oregon and Virginia also. I hope everyone that got some of this seed enjoys it. And wait until you taste the peppers!!! So peppery sweet!!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jan 13, 2020 16:59:00 GMT -6
Glen,
My camera takes photos that are way lighter than they look in person also, so I have to fake the camera out by pointing the lens to a brighter location, then pushing the button halfway down, to lock in that lighting condition, then point the lens back to the subject I want to photograph and push the button the rest of the way down until it 'clicks'.
That way, the camera thinks there is too much light and automatically compensates for it by narrowing the aperture. Otherwise, all my pictures turn out over-exposed looking and my plants all look pale, yellowish, green and sick. It took me a long time to figure out how to fix the problem, by faking out the camera's faulty light sensor.
I miss the old 35mm cameras that didn't try to 'think for themselves' My old photos used to turn out a lot better that way.
Also, I thought your, Biker Billy Pepper plant looked awesome! Even if it looks better in real life. Anything green, looks great after so many weeks of looking at winter killed brush and mud every day ... Keep the photos coming. We enjoy the opportunity to take a virtual 'walk' through your garden.
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Post by glen on Jan 13, 2020 19:30:40 GMT -6
Billy Biker is a hybrid. Rick sent me a few of the seeds. Rick has posted a foto also in the other foto thread of a plant that is completely covered over in pods. The pods are spicey and look to me sort of like serrano peppers. I believe that Billy Biker is a Burpee offering. Have to double check that. I am not into hybrids. However, this one looks like it could be special. We will keep an eye on it. If I like it I will probably save seed from it and try growing it even though its an f1. Anything to piss off Burpee seeds.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jan 13, 2020 22:31:44 GMT -6
You have a pretty good line up of peppers this year. By Autumn, there should be some pretty good pepper sauce recipes floating around. No more having to ask for the good stuff at a restaurant, just pack your own.
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Post by glen on Jan 14, 2020 14:34:52 GMT -6
In Panama its always a good idea to pack your own hot sauce. The worst food in the world is served in Panama. Mercifully, a good bottle of hot sauce can save the day.
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Post by rdback on Jan 14, 2020 19:44:18 GMT -6
Billy Biker is a hybrid. Rick sent me a few of the seeds. Rick has posted a foto also in the other foto thread of a plant that is completely covered over in pods. The pods are spicey and look to me sort of like serrano peppers. I believe that Billy Biker is a Burpee offering. Have to double check that. I am not into hybrids. However, this one looks like it could be special. We will keep an eye on it. If I like it I will probably save seed from it and try growing it even though its an f1. Anything to piss off Burpee seeds.
Yep, Biker Billy is an F1 hybrid and a Burpee product. I'm not into hybrids either. In fact, BB is the only hybrid pepper I grow. I've grown it for probably ten years now, and I haven't found another jalapeno that is as large, flavorful and spicey as BB. I do keep looking. So far, I've grown a dozen or more different varieties, and have three more on the grow list this year.
It's a really good jalapeno. I hope it does well for you.
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Post by macmex on Jan 14, 2020 19:45:55 GMT -6
I remember when a delegation of my Mexican friends went to Guatemala to help in a camping ministry. They were DYING without hot peppers in their food there. Finally they found a store with a small bottle of Tabasco sauce. They bought it and carried it surreptitiously, everywhere they went, passing it between themselves, under the table at meal times!
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Post by glen on Jan 14, 2020 23:52:40 GMT -6
I know exactly what you saying George. Luckily we got plenty of hot peppers and hot sauce here in Panama. Food is horribly bland in Panama in the country side.
Rick, I got 2 hybrid Biker Billy plants going. One is not nearly as vigorous as the other. I had to replant seed to get the second one started. I just had some bad luck with it in the beginning. I hated replanting it knowing that the seed is f1 hybrid and seed is limited. It looks like both plants will make it. Its so hot and windy now though. Sometimes I have to water twice per day. Jalepeno's are just not as hardy as other types of chili's to grow in my climate. I have Rattlesnakes, Vierra Jalepeno, Biker Billy, Giant jalepeno, A mystery jalepeno that is probably an f2 that Ron sent me. Ron calls it Mucho Nacho but he said it was sweet. So we have a variety of jalepeno's going. I never know if they will do well or not. Maybe this year will be the year they do great?
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Post by glen on Jan 15, 2020 0:05:10 GMT -6
Oh, Rick, I had a fairly spicy jalapeno a couple of years ago. I thought it was too spicy at the time!!! Now I don't have any seed from it. I got that jalapeno from a local nursery. I may go back over there to see if I can get another plant from them. Probably no where near as hot as the Biker Billy though. We'll see. I didn't know at the time that jalapeno's are mostly mild. Ron turned me on to the Tam jalapeno's and I just neglected to save seed from the nice spicy jalapeno I had!!! Bercy, loved the Tam jalapeno's. Those are only slightly spicy. Tam Jalapeno didn't germinate this time around. That's another thing. Jalapeno seeds give me all kinds of issues with germination. So, if it's not one thing, its another with jalapeno's. Also, now that I have other variety's of chili's, the only way I really like jalapeno's is sliced up and soaked in vinegar. I like em either cut into rings and/or whole soaked in vinegar with salt and maybe a little carrot. What do you do with yours?
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Post by macmex on Jan 15, 2020 5:36:45 GMT -6
You all need to try Chile Rayado if you'd like something HOT and like a JalapeƱo. I suspect Biker Billy is no hotter.
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Post by glen on Jan 15, 2020 20:51:52 GMT -6
George, I will be glad to bury a few of those Chili Rayado seeds if you send me some. Also, the purple revolution has been born. I have planted the new Purple Thunder cross and have lift off. Germination has been fantastic. A new thread will be started soon. I don't know that much about this new variety except that its an f-4. The new variety is a cross between Pimento De Neyde/Bonda Ma Jacques which is also a cross and a Hybrid Red Bhut Jalokia. I know, thats a mouth full. PaulG in Oregon is the plant breeder. He was very kind to me by sending me some seed. I have three of the variants and I will be trying to isolate seed on these plants. I also have Orange Chocolate Bhuts and also Orange Copenhagen Bhuts. I am growing one pot with each variety in it. There will be 2 plants in each 10 gallon pot. This is just a trial. However, since there will be 5 different types growing if even one plant does well there should be plenty of pods and seed. The plants get good sized and produce a lot of peppers. I will snap some fotos soon of the seedlings and start a thread on this. Should be fun.
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