Orange cheiro and the scorpion - final harvest

Good evening!

It's been a while since the last update. The reason is that not much has happened with the chiles. I brought them in earlier this autumn, and then I moved them out again. They got lots of aphids, and it became a mess inside...

On the other hand, it's been a fairly warm autumn. At least in comparison with the summer. The coldest days, it was 5C in early June, and it has not been colder than that.

But this weekend, I did the final harvest. Just a couple of varieties with mature pods. Most of them are green. A weird chile pepper year...

This is how my aji norteño looked like. Not a pretty sight. But it had lots of peppers, and they taste great even immature. So that's good :-)

Here are acouple of mature orange cheiro. I really enjoy the heat, taste and smell. Absolutely fantastic. Though, I think they are hotter than I expected.

More pictures here: http://petterssononline.com/habanero/peppers.php?action=variety&id=204

And this year's surprise. The Trinidad Scorpion. Definitely too hot for me. And it's the second best yielding variety. Isn't that funny. The pepper that I am almost unable to eat....

A handful of snacks :-)

More pictures here: http://petterssononline.com/habanero/peppers.php?action=variety&id=1253

What wold life be without assistance. Here are some guys that are busy clearing out the jungle. With a little help from Carl :-)

I have some more pictures, but I will share them with you later. Wishing you all a great week to come!

Hot regards,
   Mats

New try in my Zengrow

Hi!


Today I took some cuttings of my Black Cayman, Porta da rua and my basil. I have fired up my Zengrow again, so that's where I put them. The Zengrow is fantastic when it comes to cuttings.

We'll see how this works. At least they don't have to suffer from the strong winds and weird weather out on the balcony. With the timer, "weather" will be very predictable. Sunrise and sunset on exactly the same time each day :-)

Wishing you all a great week!

Hot regards,
  Mats

Late ...

Hi!

All plants are late out on the balcony. There are lots of flowers and some pods are still developing. Climate and weather is very different compared to last year. We are experiencing a quite warm September. That's good for the development of the pods.

My canario is in full flower. Something I'm not used to at this time of year. It's a beautiful plant!

Wishing you all a great week!
   Mats

Sapore calabrese

I have not samples this one yet, but I really enjoy the package :-)

More of this please :-)

Hot regards,
   Mats

Douglah update

Except for the microorganisms in the kitchen, there are not many things going on here related to gardening. But at least there is one plant that is doing fine. It's my Douglah. It's not a super hot one, but I think it's quite hard to handle. It's easy to make the food a little too hot when using it.

I've had a busy week at work, so this picture is a week old. (Please note, there is sunshine on this picture. This weekend has been quite grey.... :-)

Anyway, here is a picture from today. Not a chile pepper but a submarine. Quite cool :-)

Take care,
   Mats

Effective Microorganisms

Hi!

Three weeks ago, we started our bokashi experiment. http://chilesinstockholm.blogspot.se/2012/08/bokashi.html, and today we thought it was time to take the next step. To create our own activated EM.

It all started with the goal to create some highly nutritious fertilizer for the plants, but we really liked the idea to reduce the garbage from the kitchen. So now we recycle more or less all the remainings.

And as you can see from this cartoon, this "activated EM" is useful for many things. Big excitement, to see how it will work :-)

And here it is. One week until we have our own activated Effective Microorganisms. Here is the "machine" :-)

Here you can read more: http://emrojapan.com/about-em/about-em.html.

Have a great week!
   Mats

Trinidad Scorpion update

Hi!

I moved the plants around today, so the would dry up a little. It's raining a lot here... But it's quite warm. I found out that the fruits on my trinidad scorpion have started to turn red. Very nice! However, I don't dare to try them out yet. I think I mentally need to get prepared :-)

Wishing you all a great weekend!
   Mats