Anyone here grow their own?
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About two weeks ago we picked a bunch of peanuts and Jessica dried them in her room on a table. Tonight, she took a few and roasted them in the oven to see how that works before we commit to the rest. They were exceptionally good so tomorrow night we will do the rest. I picked the final two plants tonight and now have twice as much so in a few weeks we will feast on a few more. Next year we will do things differently and I am hoping we will have a ton of them.
Guy
Guy
Lets see how many remember that incident!
Wow, I don't remember that at all. Just looked it up on Google. A "swamp rabbit"? Pretty amazing...
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We have struggled this year with the peanuts. The chipmunk keeps digging them up as they did last year. We have been trying for a month to get them to start growing, and have resorted to putting window screen across the ground to protect the peanuts in the ground. Tonight, three plants are growing and we cut holes into plastic containers and placed them on top of the plants to keep the chipmunk away from them. Hopefully, this works. We need 4 solid months of growth to get decent results, and we lost all of May.
Guy
Guy
Get a cat or a pellet gun
If you go the pellet gun route, like peanuts, you need a lot of them for a meal
Last time I grew them, Our only bandits Were bluejays.We Hung them to drying in the garage and the jays just flew in and help themselves.
you get it at the same place you get your annual flatulence permit.
What? Are you saying that states like PA and DE allow people to just walk into a store and purchase a lethal weapon like a BB gun without the proper paperwork? And then a sneaky criminal could smuggle it across the bridge into Our Fair State? I'm shocked!
When the legislature finishes the important task raising the fines and taking away the drivers licenses of evil people who talk on cell phones while driving, maybe they can do something about that.
Oh man, do I ever grow my own. I haven't done it for a few years because we live in a townhome and I was using the plot of land where my parents lived. Once the deer got into it, nothing would keep them out, so I decided to wait until we got our own townhome.
Also, I have an interesting story about the Trinidad Scorpion, which might seem like a bit of a stretch, but it's true. About 7 or 8 years ago I did a seed trade with a guy in Maryland. I've been a chilehead for a long time and do grow my own, and I save and isolate seed. I've got a seed bank with about 200 different types of habaneros, scotch bonnets, etc. I favor the capsicum chinense, which is one of the 5 species of peppers. Anyway, this guy wanted to do a seed trade for some seed that I had, chocolate habaneros I believe. He e-mailed me and told me that he has got seed for a pepper that he believes is the world's hottest pepper, and that he picked it up from a small mom-and-pop type of nursery in Maryland. I didn't believe him, because I had gotten seed before that people had hailed as growing the world's most brutal peppers, and they turned out to be Biker Billy jalapenos or something.
Anyway, I sent him his seed and got an actual pod back from him. I was hesitant to eat some random pepper pod, so I dried the seed, saved it for next year, and grew it. I was happy when I first saw that it was ripe, and in my excitement I took a nibble right there in the garden. What happened next was unbelievable. I really thought that someone had shot me.
I tried to get back in touch with the guy who sent me the seed, but couldn't. No one else that I talked to had heard of this pepper at the time.
I immediately started pulling some pods to save seeds. I was involved with a group of people called the coast-to-coast pepper company, one of whom was a guy named Chris who lived in Michigan. I wrote up a review of the pepper, along with everything else that I grew, and the link is here: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/pepper/msg1101073022916.html
When I started raving about the pepper, Chris was probably the only person who initially took it seriously. I sent it to him, and he grew it the following year and immediately shared my excitement about it. I sent it to a bunch of folks, one of whom is named Butch Taylor. 'Butch T' is the guy who grew out the strain that was sent in and confirmed as the world's hottest. There were several substrains, one of them was called the Mouruga strain that Chris isolated. I believe Chris also isolated a yellow one, along with one called a Douglah strain. Another guy got a chocolate variant in his garden, I believe. My finger hasn't been on the pulse for a few years, since having no garden and two kids. About a year ago, someone contacted me and told me that the T.S. came in as the hottest.
Anyway, something interesting about the T.S.: I know that Trinidad and India have had trade for ages, and the T.S. has a very similar morphology to the Bhut Jolokia and Bih Jolokia, and they have all come in as the world's hottest with over a million scoville units. There is another Trinidad pepper called the Trinidad 7-pod, that is absolutely brutal, like the T.S. These all seem to be a strain of the pepper called Naga Jolokia. Before these jolokias and the T.S., the Devil's Tongue was the hottest, but IIRC it came in under a million scovies. Actually, I believe that these tests are all done with HPLC now, not the traditional dilution test.
I could go on and on, but one thing that I think was interesting; there was another pepper that I sent around at the same time, and I thought that it was going to become popular but it didn't, was a pepper that I called the Scotch Bonnet, TFM. There were two things that were exciting about the TFM, but then again I'm a pepper nerd. The first, was that the TFM had a very correct morphology for a Scotch Bonnet (so named because it looked like a head with a 'Scot's bonnet' on it). The next thing, was that it was probably the best tasting pepper that I have ever had to that point. I have to say that there are plenty of great tasting hot peppers, and the yellow chinenses seem to be the best tasting, but this one had a really sweet, hot and fruity flavor.
If there is ever a planned meet-up or a hike or something, and you know that I'll run into you, let me know if you'd like to try seed for any of these, or if you would like me to hook you up with good seed suppliers. The seeds don't always grow true for some suppliers, I never got a Red Savina hab that grew true. Good luck growing this year!!
Chile, I mailed ordered the seeds from the Hippy Seed Company. This year I am not growing anything insanely hot, just Tabascos and Hungarian Hot Wax. I can't enjoy the heat from the hotter chili peppers like I use to, my stomach bothers me to much. Sometimes, I will have heartburn all day from a scorcher. It isn't fun. Even though I still think and act like I am eighteen, my body keeps me in check with reality.
I was just reading about another variety of the Trinidad that is suppose to be two million scoville - the Moruga Brain Strain. Crazy!
I was just reading about another variety of the Trinidad that is suppose to be two million scoville - the Moruga Brain Strain. Crazy!
Update: Again this year we lost most of our peanut plants to the chipmunk. However, we again have 3 or 4 of them and they are doing well. The flowers look so much like bladderwort I thought you would want to see one.
The few plants left.
Guy
The few plants left.
Guy