Started seed today, 2011 here we come!

[carolyn137]

I'm not sure yet, but think Sandhill Preservation will have Bhut seed listed for 2011.

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Well, it's up to you from your end as I see it.

Glenn called me last night about some other issues and I mentioned The Buht one and his fingers are crossed as well.

My worst experience with a hot pepper was a pack with the variety called Elephant Ears that someone brought back from India for me. There was nothing that said it was a hot pepper ( the pack had info in English) so when it was large and green I picked one and took a huge bite out of it as I stood next to my row of hot peppers. I gagged, I sweated, the tears started flowing and I hightailed it back to the old farmhouse ASAP and grabbed some bread an milk.

I lived.

I used to list quite a few hot peppers in the SSE YEarbook but b'c the X pollination is so high as compared with tomatoes I gave up b'c I wasn't going to build isolation cages for them. But a few of them have done well. Several are at Southern Exposure, Joe's Round isoneof them althoughsomeone chqanged the name to Amazzo and I got them to change it back to what the name was when I sent it to Jeff McCormick, the former owner of SASE, and Joe's Long Cayenne at Johnny's and they added the Cayenne part.

Both are now in the SSE Public catalog as well.

And while the Joe's Round one is kind of unique as to fruit formation, neither of those are as HOT as that darn Elephant Ear one and Ihave grown habs,especially a nice one brought back from Cameroon for me by Heidi Iyok who was at that time a student of mine.

And yes, she's the same Heidi that I named that great paste one for that she also brought to me from Cameroon/

Bama J and Darrel, how far apart are you two in Alabama?

[Bama mater]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Bama J and Darrel, how far apart are you two in Alabama?

I'm on the north side approx 30 miles from the Tenn line right in the center. I believe Darrel is a bit southwest of me closer to the Miss line.
I would guess about 2-3hrs apart.

[b54red]

Darn it you guys just had to go and talk about starting tomatoes this early and now I have gone and put a few seed in trays. No way if they even germinate that I will be able to plant them out this spring unless I keep moving them into larger and larger pots. See what you have done. I have no will power. This is a sickness. I wonder what varieties I should start in the next week or two?

[KLorentz]

Gee I am not even thinking of starting my maters till about March 15. Peppers a little earlier. I am like every year hoping for a mid May set out date but you never know how the weather will be


Kevin

[Fusion_power]

I have several hundred seedlings as of today. No peppers yet, but some of them are pushing the soil up so it won't be long.

DarJones

[Fusion_power]

My sons helped me pot up seedlings into cell trays today. We got 20 trays done and filled another 16 trays with seed start mix so we can do more tomorrow. The plants were between 1 and 3 inches tall, just about right. The sun was shining, temp in the greenhouse was about 70F. We had to open the door to cool things down.

The rough part is that we are forecast for 3 or more inches of snow starting tomorrow evening. I went to the grocery store yesterday evening. Big mistake. No bread, no milk, too many people shopping, all getting ahead of the 'blizzard of 2011'. You would think they had never seen snow before. Fortunately, I didn't need much so I got it and left.

DarJones

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by Fusion_power

My sons helped me pot up seedlings into cell trays today. We got 20 trays done and filled another 16 trays with seed start mix so we can do more tomorrow. The plants were between 1 and 3 inches tall, just about right. The sun was shining, temp in the greenhouse was about 70F. We had to open the door to cool things down.

The rough part is that we are forecast for 3 or more inches of snow starting tomorrow evening. I went to the grocery store yesterday evening. Big mistake. No bread, no milk, too many people shopping, all getting ahead of the 'blizzard of 2011'. You would think they had never seen snow before. Fortunately, I didn't need much so I got it and left.

DarJones

No bread, no milk.

In the south, it's the same as up north. When a storm is due (blizzard, hurricane, etc...), does everyone decide to make French toast?

Trmat