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Post by woodeye on Aug 15, 2022 0:30:11 GMT -6
Very nice peppers for sure, hedgeapple! They are tasty, but I have to use habs in extreme moderation. It seems that my age and the Scoville Scale are inversely proportional. The higher my age number goes, the lower the heat number I can tolerate on the scale. Nothing wrong with making a little bit go a long ways though. Anyhow, great job growing those beauties...
moose, I thought when your story started that it would end with you growing peppers in the bed of your chevy p/u. If you still have the old p/u, it might be a good place for some...
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Post by rdback on Aug 15, 2022 8:15:00 GMT -6
Decided to take a swing at habaneros this year. They are just now ripening.
Nice looking peppers there hedgeapple. They look like there might be some Scotch Bonnet genes in there. How do they taste?
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Post by spike on Aug 15, 2022 9:49:34 GMT -6
hedgeapple Those are beauties! I grow them, dehydrate them and bake them in ginger snap cookies!! SO yummy.
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Post by woodeye on Aug 15, 2022 12:47:07 GMT -6
hedgeapple Those are beauties! I grow them, dehydrate them and bake them in ginger snap cookies!! SO yummy. spike Now you got me wondering what you grow up there to put in your brownies...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 15, 2022 14:34:35 GMT -6
Be sure to wash your hands good after handling those habaneros, you don't want to get a nasty surprise later in the day. My son called me from his house one time after stopping by here to pick some peppers.
He said, "Dad, what were those little Chinese-Lantern-looking peppers?"
I said, "Habaneros. Why?"
He said, I got home and fried those up with some steak strips and made a sandwich, now my gut is about to explode and it feels like I put a cigarette out in my eye!"
I said, "Why were you eating a sandwich with your eye?"
He said, "I wasn't eating it with my eye. I was eating it with my mouth and it made me cry. Then when I wiped my tears I got pepper juice in my eye!"
He paused for a second, while I was laughing and said, "No more Chinese Lantern peppers Dad!"
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Post by woodeye on Aug 15, 2022 14:51:37 GMT -6
Lesson definitely learned there...
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Post by spike on Aug 15, 2022 16:13:47 GMT -6
"No more Chinese Lantern peppers Dad!" That made me laugh! A few years ago, my little boys across the street (11 and 12 at the time) heard about the Carolina Reaper challenge. They LOVE peppers so I had them over picking peppers to take home. They saw my Habaneros and each held onto a pepper. Wouldn't pick them but begged me to let them do the challenge. After 10 minutes of fighting with them I gave in and told them to go ahead but to get out of my yard and take those peppers home. Seconds after they took off running with their prize peppers, I knew I had to go talk to the parents.
Those 2 idiots ran across the road, took huge bites out of the peppers and were instantly on fire. When asked what I gave them and I explained, their dad laughed his bum off. Said they got what they deserved and that they would listen next time.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 15, 2022 21:31:03 GMT -6
Spike, that story cracked me up!
I used to grow habaneros for a hamburger joint in Tahlequah. The owner there had a Hot burger challenge. He fried up burgers with the habaneros I brought him and when the High School kids came in after school, the challenge was this, "If you can eat the whole burger, you can have it for free." That was our entertainment many an evening there. I traded him burgers without peppers for the habaneros that I brought him every week.
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Post by rdback on Oct 9, 2022 10:09:12 GMT -6
Here's what a freeze warning made me do. My back is killing me now.
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Post by woodeye on Oct 9, 2022 10:56:51 GMT -6
Nice haul of beautiful peppers, rdback. Sorry your back is killing you, but you will have a cane from Oklahoma in your hand for support next season. I hope it will help you...
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 9, 2022 12:29:21 GMT -6
Here's what a freeze warning made me do. My back is killing me now. @rdback, that is just gorgeous. You even ran out of baskets for all your peppers! I zoomed in to try to see some of the names, but I couldn’t make them all out. Can you give us a “tour” of that display and tells us a bit about the peppers you grew, please? I’m wondering how many different types of plant you had and how many of each of those different types, too. I’m just so impressed by the beauty of that harvest. How will you preserve these: drying, freezing, pickling? It must have been a job to pick them, but the work doesn’t end there. It is a very rewarding kind of work, though.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Oct 11, 2022 12:02:18 GMT -6
I zoomed in on that photo, just to enjoy the Fall colors. That was beautiful, Rdback! Thanks, for posting that.
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