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james terrio said:
\Hotness has nothing to do with the seeds being viable. Almost all store-bought plants/seeds are hybrids, and won't reproduce naturally. Gotta get heirloom seeds and grow 'em, to produce more seeds that will propagate true to their own genetics. :thumbup: (And if you're growing for seed stock, let the fruit from your healthiest plant get a little over-ripe to make sure the seeds are fully mature... that'll mess with your yield this year, but pay off bigtime in the future)

All the pepper plants I have now are hybrids, so I'm trying to keep them alive overwinter so I can get more out of 'em next season. My long-term goal is to switch over to all heirloom varieties.
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Yah I know the hotness of the plant wouldnt mess with the viability of the seeds, it was just a funny thought to me! ;)
 
I'm going to leave all that to growing stuff to the professionals. That stuff at the gathering was over the top.
 
iwouldhurtafly said:
MMMM sounds delicious... Last year the wife and I grew some jalapenos in our garden.... The plant took off like a weed and produced some of the hottest son of beechin jalapenos I have ever had in my life. It was an abnormally hot summer and apparently when the plant gets stressed like that it makes a hotter pepper. but... my god I could have won an award for those guys they were that hot... got some on my hands while cooking, washed them, but they felt like they were on fire. Inadvertently touched my face and felt like I had been dooshed in pepper spray... bad dudes... I harvested the seeds and well... They decided not to grow. Guess they were too hot to have been pollinated or something...
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Nothing like good home-grown peppers... Store bought peppers, fresh or canned just don't cut it afterwards. Oh, and be careful taking a piss after cutting them too. :thumbdn:

NathanJ said:
Made up some habanero sauce a few weeks ago. Added 7 habaneros, 10 thai chillis, mango, onion, garlic, sugar, olive oil and vinegar. Blended her all up, boiled for 20 mins and there we go! I call it "Johnny Cash Sauce". The mango gives it a nice deceiving sweet taste, and then the heat kicks in. Great on burgers, sandwiches and kebabs!
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Sounds delicious - Habanero goes real well with citrus. We used a little lemon, salt and very little garlic in ours. Granted, we didn't mess around when we made ours up... We used about 7 lbs of Habaneros if I remember correctly and made a decent amount of sauce. :D It was an excellent yield that year, there are still peppers in her Mom's deep freeze.

james terrio said:
Ask some of the cats who were at the Fall Gathering about it. It went over pretty well. :) I daresay, it wasn't too bad for my first try.

I just started getting serious about growing hot peppers and making my own sauce/relish this year... man, it's fun and actually pretty easy. I really enjoy tasty stuff that has no preservatives or fake dyes or other nonsense in it... it ends up being pretty cost-efficient, too. :thumbup:
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You're right... No comparison with the majority of store bought sauces. We've only made the one batch, but I know it won't be our last. I showed a friend the bottle and he said, "It doesn't look like no hot sauce I've seen." Well, no shock Sherlit - It just has the good stuff in it without the other crap.

We were inspired by a really good production sauce only available in S. Indiana. A friend's Dad worked with the gentleman who the sauce was named for and was able to get a bottle of his homemade stuff to give me.... It was so good. Unfortunately, the man passed away and the supply of the production sauce dried up. I bought the last two bottles I could find in a local hardware store. We consumed one slowly and the other is still sitting on my shelf unopened and will remain so. After that, we decided if we were going to be able to get a sauce that good again, we were going to have to make it ourselves.

710 said:
Check out this little sheath I made for Psypo, T.M. hunt knife
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That is a sweet little sheath!
 
710 said:
Check out this little sheath I made for Psypo, T.M. hunt knife
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Awesome job as usual JD. Sheath looks nicer than the knife that for sure. That Hornet is a old one. one of the first ones I made to be honest. Suprised Psy still lugs it around.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
Yes! Love it or hate it. I love it.
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such love

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james terrio said:
Hotness has nothing to do with the seeds being viable. Almost all store-bought plants/seeds are hybrids, and won't reproduce naturally. Gotta get heirloom seeds and grow 'em, to produce more seeds that will propagate true to their own genetics. :thumbup: (And if you're growing for seed stock, let the fruit from your healthiest plant get a little over-ripe to make sure the seeds are fully mature... that'll mess with your yield this year, but pay off bigtime in the future)
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You can also make cuttings and produce clones... I worked as a "gardener" for a while and the guy's house that I worked at was amazing, from the front yard it was a traditional yard, but the back yard was like a tropical forest with water falls, ponds, and walkways. I would clean up an area and make cuttings from the plants I removed and then plant all the cuttings. He would sell them at open house events or sell/trade them to a nursery that he was friendly with.. make a cutting, strip the leaves, dip the end in root stimulator and stick it in dirt.. It would make 100's of plants from one..
 
I grow my own chilli plants, I would have put a lot more habaneros in the sauce but I only had the 7 left. I've been using them in a lot of other cooking. I always wear gloves and wash my hands with milk after handling them. No horror stories, not yet anyway. I just hope I never have to see a proctologist who enjoys habaneros and is not careful with them! :D
 
Yup i have made lots of clones, great when you have the perfect plant to keep the genetics of that plant.

Keep the dirt moist and its best if they stay humid while rooting.
 
Rolled edge said:
I'm going to leave all that to growing stuff to the professionals. That stuff at the gathering was over the top.
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It's only gonna get better :) Next year I intend to include homegrown garlic...

LeeBower said:
You can also make cuttings and produce clones...
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I have a bit of experience with cloning from a, umm... previous endeavor many years ago. I do understand the benefits ;) The trouble with clones is, they tend to get weak and weird and disease-prone after only a few "generations".
 
Yea id never clone a clone, they do tend to go down hill.... like taking a picture of a picture. only clone the "mother" plant. I havent had any issues. I have cloned herbs, roses, tomatoes ect... never had an issue cloning from a strong healthy plant myself. not that it doesnt happen but i been pretty lucky.

But i also never cloned peppers. so....
 
Started reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and I've got the sequel with Huck Finn waiting on the shelf. Unlike in the US (I'm guessing), Mark Twain isn't obligated reading material in our European (non English-speaking) schools, so I never got to reading it. After going through a lot of my backlog (too many books), I finally got to these two classics. I'm at page 52 of Tom Sawyer and I'm not disappointed... Should've read it earlier. The Barlow mentions are pretty awesome :)
 
If you really want to get serious about cloning peppers and maters, keep in mind that they can be kept alive for several seasons if you bring them indoors. Theoretically, even if they don't produce fruit a person would be able to continue taking cuttings from such a mother, and preserve the exact genetics for a good long time...

Which is all well and good, but I want a stash of viable seeds to set aside for later, just in case my mama's all die and I need to start over from scratch again. There's no shortcut to that.
 
The little country town school i went to didnt make us read any of them books. I still havent read any Mark Twain. I have read quite a few books in my time though, just none of his.
 
worldwood said:
The little country town school i went to didnt make us read any of them books. I still havent read any Mark Twain. I have read quite a few books in my time though, just none of his.
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Do it, only around 150 pages so you'll be done with in one evening. An hour or three max.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
Started reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and I've got the sequel with Huck Finn waiting on the shelf.
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Outstanding! Sadly, they haven't been required reading in the US for decades. I was lucky enough to read them at age 9-10 because my Mom insisted I should (thanks Mom!), along with certain works by Hemingway, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald. That was in the late 70's/early 80's.

I never heard any teacher in public school mention any of those authors until I was well into college-prep courses. That's a damn shame :(
 
Very good point James!!

See i never brought any of them inside, or kept any after the fruiting season. I took my cuttings from someone else's tomato plants and grew them until they produced fruit and let them die off.

But it was all experimenting with me. I also did some grafting as well during the same time.

Man i cant wait to move so i can grow a garden again. I love growing fruits, veggies, and flowers!!!
 
james terrio said:
Outstanding! Sadly, they haven't been required reading in the US for decades. I was lucky enough to read them at age 9-10 because my Mom insisted I should (thanks Mom!), along with certain works by Hemingway, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald. That was in the late 70's/early 80's.

I never heard any teacher in public school mention any of those authors until I was well into college-prep courses. :(
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Thanks! We were mostly pushed to read works of famous Dutch or Flemish writers, as well as some works in English or French, but none of them were from Twain.
On a sidenote, I've started reading lot's of books by English speakers (in English, no Dutch translations) and have loved many of 'em. Personal favourite is Vonnegut though. Damn, he can write. Started in East of Eden by Steinbeck and Catch 22 from Heller but had to put them aside 'cause those books asked a lot of concentration because of the content/number of characters or detailed actions and descriptions. On top of that, the level of English used in them is a bit higher than, say Poe or Twain adding quite a few difficulties for non-native speakers. I'm diverting to a few other authors now, and will be picking EoE and C22 back up on a later date. I hope somewhere in 2014.
 
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