Send me a DM with your email before you order. I can send our master list of succulents. I have way more than what’s listed on the site.
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This is probably the scariest looking calyx on a chile I have ever seen. Looks otherworldly and not like I expected from the breed. Hopefully it bleeds, too! I give you the purple bubblegum:
That flower hasn’t bloomed yet, either, but the other chiles coming in lookin’ good, too.
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Never seen a leaf so large on a pepper; great job! What kind is that?
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The leviathan gnarly scorpion. Haha. I actually have a ton of varieties that are throwing out massive leaves. They all seem to be capsicum Chinese (or at least hybrids involving the family).
I, too, am rather impressed with their size. (And this is before they get that AgTonic!)
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Just pulled these off one plant that I had to dispatch.
@Akoyeh what to do with these. Gonna make some salsa but do you dry yours?
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You can use them fresh like that, or dry the red ones out for whole dried peppers or crushed red peppers. Not sure if the green ones would dry as well. Could always throw em in a bottle of vinegar and add some salt, too.
I like em better dried, but will use them fresh to add heat, but they can be kinda tough n chewy if left in large chunks.
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Totally depends on what you want to do. Haha. You have no shortage of options, and there really is no “wrong” thing to do with them. @BigM suggested some good options. I’ve been getting really into fermenting my peppers (not using vinegar).
If those are cayenne peppers, you could make a Louisiana style hot sauce (plenty of methods and recipes online), but only use the ripe ones for that. You probably don’t want to dry the green ones (as most green peppers don’t taste great when dried), but you could always mix them with and other peppers you want, make a mash, and then have green sauce “concentrate” that’ll last you a good long while.
If they have any spice, they can be used the same way as a Jalapeño or Serrano. Salsas, sauces, roasted, fried, or fresh are all good plans for consumption!
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Cool thanks guys. Just started growing them for fun.
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Open to advice to help this girl be happier. Been watering the last few times with distilled water to flush out accumulated iron from well water. Seems to have helped correct tender yellowing flesh at the base
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Don’t overwater! Let the soil dry completely between waterings or it will start to rot! I learned the hard way not to be too “kind” to my cactus/succulents. BTW what is it??? Very cool, I want one!
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I think we’ve been good about watering; only every month or two. She developed an issue with yellow tender flesh at the base several months ago. I suspect it’s large amounts of iron in our well water causing manganese lockout (had to deal with it in a grow a few years back. Drawing buckets of water in advance, and letting gravity remove the iron, was the solution). One watering with distilled water seems to have made a difference already.
As for what she is, I can’t really say. To my knowledge, she is what she looks like, or is in the family. We inherited her from the guy who sold us the house, and he called her peyote. She bloomed once that we saw, spectacularly, and made a baby on her body. Don’t know if we missed a second bloom but it seems there’s a couple propagations now.
I would very much love to help her reproduce, if possible.
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Never!
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I have no idea what this tree is, but I have never seen a single plant of any size or variety attract more bees (of every variety imaginable)! It is mind boggling, and the pictures do not do it justice. There’s easily over 1000 bees up there right now. I started counting bumble bees but stopped after 100. It smells great and has been blooming for over a month.
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