What he said.

I am fairy used to only getting "Sunday" content on the Monday, what with living 7-10 hours ahead of the PTB. Was just hoping to read the episode before Super Bowl.

Well, it's already the 6th here, so...


...where's my content?

As did I... *shudder*

The episode itself filled me to the brim with compassion for the agony Frost keeps herself in, and now it's changed a bit. Not lessened, really, but the water in the pool has turned out rather murkier than I first realised, so to speak.

Withdrawal for lack of extras?

Which reminds me, I made some pretty nice berry pie last week, a spur-of-the-moment bastardized mashup of a classic crumbly berry tarte and a lemon meringue: sweet shortcrust with cinnamon, with blueberries and strawberries cooked into an inch-thick layer of only slightly sweet jam, the whole thing topped with french meringue.

Is it a clicky day, today, perhaps? We have been patient, yes, Precious we have, but we wants it so badly...

Out here in the northern wastes, we just got to the bye-bye-Prentiss episode, and I swear I emitted a proper fanboy squeal (well, too quiet for a proper one, but since the kids are asleep, one has to make allowances...) when the opening quote was by Bear.

1) If you froze them fresh, then they're almost certainly dead. Dried seeds can be frozen and thawed safely.

2) Depends on the length of the growing season as well as the effort you're willing to put into them. I start the slower species (pubes) in early december this year, followed by chinenses around christmas/new year's, baccatums mid-late january and annuums in mid-february. I have to grow them indoors until may/june, because night frosts will slow things down or at worst even kill seedlings.

Edit: damn Finnish autocorrect on the phone...

I've heard Emma's idea before, but remain sceptical. For example Fatalii's plants are certainly never starved for nutrients, yet his Naga Morich tend to be insanely hot. Then again, Naga Morich is always insanely hot...

The biggest differences in my own plants have been between fruit grown outdoors vs. indoors, outdoors being hotter across the board.

I'd imagine Israel would be a great place for chiles, especially Chinenses and Frutescenses as well as most Annuums, as they tend to like it hot. Baccatums tend not to be very particular as long as there's water and nutrients, while Pubescenses seem to fare best with pronounced day-night variation especially in heat and fare very well in half shaded, cooler spots as well.

Looks rather like a "thai" type C. Annuum, but without good macro shots of the blossoms and if possible an overall shot of the plant that bore them, you can't really be sure. There are also one or two C. Chinenses that look quite a bit like that, Rawit comes first to mind. Could even be Goat's Weed (or as some friends call it, Goatse Weed, because it's approximately as enjoyable) if it's an Annuum.

I think this calls for another "Oh, *Chaz*..."

I guess it's high time I write a little update on the little old chile farm I've had. Things have gone much better than I ever dared even dream, despite the tarnished plant bugs that ate my first plants. Last saturday I cleaned out the outdoor plants for a harvest of about 3500 grams, taking the total so far to approximately 5 kilos of various peppers. There's a second crop coming in a few plants at the workshop, about 130 Habaneros and several dozen rocotos. I'm expecting them to push the total harvest to over 6 kg.

Last night I made some orange-ginger-habanero jam, and plan to cook up a small batch of lemon & Lemon Drop (a zesty, fresh C. Baccatum - ripens to bright yellow of course) jam or marmalade sometime soon, too. Most of the outdoor harvest is now chopped up and drying in the boiler room at the in-laws' house.

Just a few late season highlights:

The outdoor harvest - unripe rocotos in the foreground.


C. Lanceolatum has finally blossomed (although I missed seeing it open due to new job's hours). Rocoto Red Peruvian is growing quite a handsome pod, plans to finish the season on a high note I guess.


Second crop of Habaneros maturing:                                                                                                                        Starfish (C. Baccatum) a few weeks ago:


Cheiro Roxa harvest (weight includes the bowl, 65 g)                          The first Homera to ripen


Rocoto Peru a few weeks ago, the beginnings of the second crop:


And finally two that I've cut down some time ago in preparation for overwintering, Pink Habanero and Cajamarca:


Next season planning and preparations are well underway already. I've sourced most of the varieties I want to grow and am already germinating the wild species. This month is going to be super hectic though: I've got a new full-time job, still have a bunch of old work to finish, and we bought a house last week which means we'll also be moving both our home and my workshop by the end of the month...

So if any of you guys want seeds, I'll probably only get around to sending them out in November. Just PM me with your contact details.

That was much too good. Heartbreakingly good. And therefore has me terrified about the episode-to-be where someone actually got hurt.

Oh, but that was wonderful! So worth the extra late late night working that I'm facing. BTW, it's 23.24 o-clock here and I've only got about 15 hours of work left that was due to ship by 4 pm today...