Saturday, August 8, 2009

seeds have arrived

all my fall shipments of seeds have come in now. got a lot of different peppers from new mexico state university's chile pepper institute, including red and orange suave habaneros and sunset, eclipse and sunrise anaheims, which are orange, purple and yellow. i also discovered that they have seeds for the chile guero, which i ordered as well. we looked everywhere to try and find seeds for those chiles last year, and couldnt so we finally resorted to taking one that we bought at the store and we dried it out and saved the seeds from it. some of them survived and one chile is growing right now. most importantly, i got a small packet from them, which was very expensive, the reason being that inside were 15 or so seeds for the bhut jolokia pepper of india. the orange habanero was once considered the hottest of all peppers until the savina habanero came around, which wasnt much hotter but it was hotter. the savina was then outdone with the carribean red habanero with something like 300,000-400,000 shu. the bhut jolokia has been logged in at over 1,000,000 shu, making it roughly 3x hotter than the carribean red habanero. and now im gonna grow them. obviously, theyre the most pointless pepper on earth, but i wanna try and use them for salsa or something. good times.
from seed savers exchange i got tobago seasoning peppers, a mild habanero, as well as several types of lettuce, some cabbage, and a couple other types of peppers. from gourmet seed i got some radishes, carrots, rapunzel, and some giant pumpkins with assorted colors. cool beans.

1 comment:

  1. Hy!
    Javljam se iz Croatie.Jako mi se svidja tvoj blog i artistik uzgoj utvom povrtnjaku. Jako zanimljivo uz puno duhovitosti i virtuoznosti.I ja sew bavim uzgojem povrca za svoje potrebe i nabavljam neke stare sorte preko aukcija koje suu uglavnom iz SAD-a i Russian seeds. Imam preko 20 s0rti rajcica,luda sam za njima.Bilo bi zgodno kada bi napravili koju razmjenu sjemenki ako si zainteresiran za croatian stare sorte.
    do odgovora lijepi pozdrav.
    Wizardica

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