Worth's 2017 Accidental Garden.

[Worth1]

More like population control you eat.
When you can shine a light out in the yard and fields and see the whole place covered in them it is time to reduce the population.

Worth

[AlittleSalt]

We have more rabbits than our share this year.

[Worth1]

Here are some pictures before the sun sets.
one of the tubs is full of basil as you can see.
Worth
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[Gardeneer]

I have two Ghost peppers ( Bhut Jalokia ) They are just flowering. I bought and planted them late.
I have read rave reviews on them ( Red Bhut ), in terms of flavor. I will make powder if/when I get some. Add a bit to my paprika power, some Cayenne. That should do it.
For fresh eating I have mini sweets, Pepperocini, Shesheeto, Fresno, ans Jalpeneno. The plants are loaded . I have never grown pepper this well. Never before.
And these : Chinese 5 color, Numex Sunrise, and black pearl.
I like hem as ornamental but of course they are edible. I will jar some for decoration.

[AlittleSalt]

That's looking good Worth

[dmforcier]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I have a ghost pepper turned orange and suppose red soon.
I am scared to death of it and not for sure what to do with it.

Eat it. The buggers are hot but not that hot. You'll cry, you'll sneeze, you'll hiccup, you'll appeal to your ancestors for having been borne. You'll run for the nearest cold liquids and they won't help. Then at last you will find yourself calm on the edge of a wine dark sea, all your troubles forgotten. Your body and Smokie's plaintive meows will be a mere annoyance.

Seek then for the third eye, and know that nirvana is your eventual destiny, one pod at a time.






Or not.

[Worth1]

Possibly 10 times hotter than a habanero.
The thing is looking at me.
Worth

[AlittleSalt]

Ghost Peppers make me think of that Simpsons episode where Homer eats the chili with "The Merciless Peppers of Quetzalacatenango … grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum." http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Guate...nsanity_Pepper

[GrowingCoastal]

Originally Posted by dmforcier

Eat it. The buggers are hot but not that hot. You'll cry, you'll sneeze, you'll hiccup, you'll appeal to your ancestors for having been borne. You'll run for the nearest cold liquids and they won't help. Then at last you will find yourself calm on the edge of a wine dark sea, all your troubles forgotten. Your body and Smokie's plaintive meows will be a mere annoyance.

Seek then for the third eye, and know that nirvana is your eventual destiny, one pod at a time.





Or not.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Possibly 10 times hotter than a habanero.
The thing is looking at me.
Worth

From the net :

The Heat. The habanero is a very hot pepper with a Scoville heat rating ranging from 100,000 – 350,000. The ghost pepper (also known as Bhut Jolokia) is significantly hotter at 855,000 to 1,041, 427 Scoville heat units. The ghost chili can be 2 to 10 times hotter, so it's a significant uptick in heat.

Taking averages of both , perhaps Bhut is 5 time hotter than Habanero. Thats still darn hot. (950 k on Scoville scale, avg. )
They say it has a good flavor. How the heck can you tell flavor with so much fire ?

[dmforcier]

The Scoville scale is logarithmic. But it is also based on subjective experience. So no "times" comparison is valid. An "a lot" comparison, otoh, is very valid.

How the heck can you tell flavor with so much fire ?

Well, I was gonna say something about "during your time on the edge of that wine dark sea, you can select the sensations from your body that you want to pay attention to."


But the truth is more like this: You will get a few seconds to savor the flavor, then your soft palate will melt and run down over your lower teeth, and you will forget that dainty flavor, distracted by the sound of someone screaming.


Edit: There's a better way to describe the scale. See below.

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by dmforcier

The Scoville scale is logarithmic. But it is also based on subjective experience. So no "times" comparison is valid. An "a lot" comparison, otoh, is very valid.



Well, I was gonna say something about "during your time on the edge of that wine dark sea, you can select the sensations from your body that you want to pay attention to."


But the truth is more like this: You will get a few seconds to savor the flavor, then your soft palate will melt and run down over your lower teeth, and you will forget that dainty flavor, distracted by the sound of someone screaming.

We will see I made the attempt again to grow one and it is growing. But years past I never did get any actual hot peppers from them.

[Jonnyhat]

Carolina reapers are pure evil.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by dmforcier

The Scoville scale is logarithmic. But it is also based on subjective experience. So no "times" comparison is valid. An "a lot" comparison, otoh, is very valid.



Well, I was gonna say something about "during your time on the edge of that wine dark sea, you can select the sensations from your body that you want to pay attention to."


But the truth is more like this: You will get a few seconds to savor the flavor, then your soft palate will melt and run down over your lower teeth, and you will forget that dainty flavor, distracted by the sound of someone screaming.

I don't think that Scoville scale is logarithmic, but it is linear. If it were logarithmic Habanero (150,000) will be zillion times hotter than Jalapeno (6000?).
I know, for example, pH is exponential/logarithmic. This means that pH 3 is about/more than 1000 times more acidic than pH of 6.
I could be wrong.

[AlittleSalt]

Neutral PH is 7.0. The soil in my garden varies between 6.5 and 6.7 meaning it is slightly acidic. I would imagine Worth's garden is near 7.4 which happens to be what a healthy human body's' PH is. It also means his garden is around 7-9x more alkaline than mine.

Or a simple scale:

6.0 is 10x more acidic than 7.0
7.0 is neutral
8.0 is 10x more alkaline than 7.0

The scale goes from 0 to 14.