7 pot brain strain red

A super short update. the 7 pot brain strain red is getting ready to set flowers.

I love the way the flower buds develop. They are pointing in different directions. Almost like they are curious, looking around. :-)

Wishing you all a great Valborg / Walpurgis Night!

Hot regards,

  Mats

Douglah, almost there

Big expectations. As always. This one is not far away from opening its flowers. I have no previous experience from the Douglah variety. But it looks good. And it's the one that is leading the "first flower" competition here at our home...

Wishing you all a nice Sunday night!

Hot regards,
   Mats

Picture of the day - San Francisco and Bandera

A follow-up to yesterday's "historical" picture.

Here I am in San Francisco back in 1995. Guess if I'm in heaven here :-) I remember that I bought my first Chile Pepper Magazine in this shop :-) And probably some habanero sauces as well...

The picture below is from another trip in 1997. It's from Bandera in Texas. The Cowboy Capital of the World. I appreciated the bar for being so honest :-) Doesn't really have to do with Chile Peppers, but I found it suitable for a Friday night.

Have a great weekend
    Mats

Old pictures

It's a rainy evening and I'm going through some old pictures...

These three shows what I brought home from a trip to Texas in 1996. I am happy to have big feet, because I could stuff at least some of the hot sauce bottles in my shoes that I packed in my suitcase. But I still had a super heavy hand luggage... And my check in bag was on the limit what was allowed. But, it worked! Everything came home with me, without breaking a bottle :-)

Picture below: I remember two favorites. Melinda's is one of them. And that other bottle to the right - Holy City Heat - hot sauce. Yum!


La costeña cans. Makes my mouth water! Pickled serranos! Phew! Nice!

Hot regards
  Mats

Repotting Trinidad Scorpion Morouga Blend

Hi!

Thursday already! I have some weeks off work, and a while ago, I thought I had an ocean of free time. What an illusion! My new job starts on Wednesday, so soon I won't be counting days, but rather hours :-)

It's been a good time off work, and I have been living a kind of effortless life. No achievements, no todolists or stuff like that. But today I noticed that the Trinidad Scorpion has been growing a lot lately. So it was definitely time to repot this hot little friend. The roots have developed very well. I usually check at the bottom of the pot to see if the roots show. And they did. That's a good simple indicator that it's time for repotting.

Said and done. Here it is in its new pot. Looking good!

If we now could have some warmer weather, the plants could soon go out on the balcony. At least during daytime.  It's good to have the blog as a kind of diary. I see that last year, I moved them out on the balcony on May 21st. Also, the heading on that post was - "Trying to learn from experience" http://chilesinstockholm.blogspot.se/2011/05/trying-to-learn-from-experience.html. The lesson was that I should not be so impatient, but rather try to wait a little longer... The winds are usually very strong on the balcony during spring. So this year I hope that I will not have any broken plants.

A comment for Mia. I promised to get back to you about the soil. (ICA - I love eco). So far, I'm very happy with it. Compared to previous years, the plants look much healthier. And I also wonder if not the aphids that more or less destroyed my last year, came from the soil I used then.

I'm still using coffee grounds as fertilizer. It seems to work fine. I also use other fertilizers as well of course.

Well, this turned out to be a long post. Wishing you all a nice weekend when it's time for that!

Hot regards,
   Mats

A short update

Just a short update. The plants are of different sizes, but in general it looks very good.

And best of all! Still no aphids!!! Wohooo!

Wishing you a nice week!
    Mats

7 pod brown

Hi!

Just want to share this picture with you. Look at the size of the leaves of my 7 pod brown....Big for such a small plant.

I really hope it continues to grow this way.

Wishing you a great weekend!
    Mats