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Post by Jim on Jul 5, 2009 18:28:28 GMT -5
can't wait to see...my peppers got in too late this year and are tiny plants...hoping that lots of sun and some food help out,
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Post by johno on Jul 7, 2009 22:49:02 GMT -5
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Post by grungy on Jul 8, 2009 0:50:17 GMT -5
Nice looking peppers, Johno. Hope they have heat as well as flavor.
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Post by bunkie on Jul 9, 2009 9:25:27 GMT -5
looking good johno...
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Post by Dan on Aug 11, 2009 21:09:55 GMT -5
How is this project going? I'm curious as the Jalapeno is one of my favorite peppers.
I am willing to participate in any way next for 2010.
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Post by MikeM on Aug 15, 2009 10:12:14 GMT -5
Well, it's too late for your season, but here goes anyway... (I'm in the Southern Hemisphere: the one on top! So planting season is suddenly upon me, and suddenly this is all relevant to me now.) Several-and-a-half years ago, I had read (wrong information) about how Capsicums tend not to cross too readily, and I ended up planting a hell of a lot of Jalapenos in too-close proximity to a hell of a lot of Habaneros. A year later, I had a plant that produced... something decidedly different. About the shape and size of a (long-ish, pointy-ish) Jalapeno, but with the characteristic dimpling of Habaneros -- 3 marked dents in the sides of the pepper -- and a flavour that was out of this world. Something like the heat and flavour of Jalapenos, maybe a bit hotter, but very noticeably that fruity Habanero flavour thing... Being too young in the game, I lost the strain.  This coming Summer, one of my projects is to plant a section of Jalapenos and Habaneros together, and induce some crosses in the hopes of replicating that amazing flavour. After that I'll have to turn to Suzanne Ashworth Carol Deppe for further advice on how to stabilise it all  (The brain gets mislaid at times...  |
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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2009 16:19:03 GMT -5
Nice to see you back, the other Mike  Need any seeds now?? |
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Post by MikeM on Aug 16, 2009 8:00:28 GMT -5
Nice to see you back, the other Mike Need any seeds now?? Hey, Mike #1! Thanks for the welcome back... it's certainly been quite a while. Right now I'm wondering whether I'll have space for everything I've already sown, so thanks for the offer, but I think I need some time to just absorb the lessons from the seeds that I've been sent by so many of the wonderful denizens of this site! Then, too, the drought is far from over, so I'm just planting in the optimistic (but probably vain) hope that we'll get enough water for the plants. |
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Post by canadamike on Aug 16, 2009 19:32:06 GMT -5
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Post by MikeM on Aug 17, 2009 9:50:13 GMT -5
I assure you, not a drop goes wasted!
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Post by johno on Aug 21, 2009 23:32:24 GMT -5
MikeM, your Jalanero project sounds awesome! I hope you are able to duplicate the mild-ish pepper with that fruity Habanero taste, it sounds great. My guess is that you should get exactly the same thing from one or the other parent, since it's an F1. Please update us.
Shouldn't be too long before I have enough seeds to share from a variety of Jalapenos. They are all growing leaf-to-leaf with each other, so chances are good for crosses. On the other hand, I've not experienced much pepper crossing here in the past when the different types were planted at least a few feet apart, so the population of pollinator insets might be weak. My expectation is that some will breed true and there will be some crosses. It will be luck of the draw. It will be interesting to see if one (or more...) variety crosses more frequently than the others.
I'll start a formal list of who wants which seeds soon - don't want to start it until I've got all my ducks in a row.
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Post by Jim on Aug 25, 2009 8:46:03 GMT -5
I didn't get any jalepenos in the ground this year..I'm looking forward to growing some next year.
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Post by johno on Oct 1, 2009 17:34:07 GMT -5
I harvested a LOT of Jalapeno peppers today. Getting out the dishwashing gloves for this - last time, my hands burned for days... I think I'll split them lengthways for pickling and easy access to seed. Hopefully there will be a lot of participants growing out jalapenos next year!
I'll try to do a side by side taste test today as well, but something tells me there might be problems with this... I did get one report back from one of my brother's friends whom I sent a mixture of types: "Tell Johno he can shove those yellow ones up his #@@!" I take that to mean they are hot. But that could have been Jaloro or Numex Pinata?..
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Post by mnjrutherford on Oct 1, 2009 18:21:18 GMT -5
This morning I was processing poblanos to turn into leathers. I cut them open, gut and rinse them, then they go into the food processor with some garlic, salt, and honey. Anyway, I have some arthiritis showing up in my fingers and I must say the slight burn I got was very comforting to the sore finger joints. On the other hand, I wish I had been wearing a gas mask! YIKES!
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Post by MikeM on Oct 3, 2009 5:53:00 GMT -5
last time, my hands burned for days... ROFL... I only experience serious burning hands after seeding Habs. I do remember having to (attempt) sleep with my hands waving in the breeze... even just resting them on the bed made them too hot. Hopefully there will be a lot of participants growing out jalapenos next year! Count me in! Probably a little late for this season... Most of my Chiles for the coming summer are already up, though still in seed-trays. My over-wintering experiment was so successful last winter that I'm planning to repeat it this year. I sowed Chile seed in about March/April so that they were big enough to bag and keep indoors through (our mild) winter, and planted out about a month ago. Some of the plants are already flowering! ;D namely Purple Jalapeno and Tschanad (which was very precocious about flowering early.) |
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