Posted on 01/10/2014 12:20:06 PM PST by greeneyes
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The story on the Sriracha plant is one of Kalifornica harassing a successful business man the had a great idea and capitalized on it. Capitalized being the offending word here, I’m sure. The owner is a Vietnamese man that saw the ripe red jalapenos going to waste on the plant in the fields. He produced his Rooster sauce from them. The health dept wanted him to hold all shipments for 30 days because the sauce is uncooked. Them they ordered him to do something about the fumes coming from the plant. I haven’t read, but I am sure he has complied by now. They just cant stand a success story.
I like heat sometimes and sometimes not. With sushi, I coat it in rooster sauce. My wife just shakes her head at me! LOL
WOW, my cactus blooms only during the Christmas season. What kind of cactus do you have?
With scoville heat units, it varies from individual plant to plant. Growing conditions, amount of water and such affect the heat. All Ghost Peppers are not equal, some are less than 1mil scoville units, some way more. Just as Jalapenos are not all the same heat, even when bought from the same bin in the store.
I dont know where mine stand on the scale, but they are surely very, very hot!
“When I want to place small seeds in a starting medium I wet the end of a toothpick or similar with my tongue and pickup one seed at a time...”
I place the seeds on the top of the mix and use the instruction for how deep they should be planted, then use the seed planter helper (a metal strip with a channel to place the seeds, then tap a bit so each seed will fall off onto the mix. I use that helper to punch each seed into the soil as deeply as the instructions say.
The above will not work for tobacco seed which is very close to microscopic. Can’t see a separate seed, looks like dust in the envelope. I think using a toothpick might work with these seeds. Johnny, what do you think about this? I have been dreading trying to plant that dust.
Growing stevia from cuttings.
http://growingstevia.blogspot.com/2008/08/4-stevia-propagation-by-cuttings.html
I also wonder if you can’t just bend one of the branches on Mr Stevia so it’s touching the soil, bruise it, cover the injured part with soil, and it will grow a root at that point..like rosemary.
Good to hear. I mostly use my hot peppers to make various hot sauces. I will approach these with caution.
The final opinion will come from my daughter-in-law who is half Thai. Her taste buds however are 100% Thai. She eats Red Habaneros (about 500,000 scovilles)like candy and uses my red habanero hot sauce like ketchup.
Mere mortals like myself will use these with caution. I will defintely warn her before I spring them on her. Thanks for the info.
I just copied that info at the link you provided. It says put the cutting in vermiculite. When engineer cleaned out my outside storage room, there were two bags of vermiculite and he asked if I wanted to keep that. I almost had him throw it away as I couldn’t think how I would need that. I did keep it so I’ve got that.
Those directions are not clear enough for me in one respect. He assumes I know where to cut the plant - I don’t. Are we talking cut off a whole limb? I understand how to cut it but not sure I take off a whole limb.???
Sounds like DIL doesn’t need much of a warning.
I'd put them on the same level, but it's been quite awhile since I've had authentic gochujang.
That's just crazy. I wonder if those same hypocrites get raw veggies from the store. He did have a good idea though, and made use of peppers that would otherwise go to waste.
That, of course, gives me another idea! I've been wanting to grow more jalapeno's anyways.
My wife just shakes her head at me! LOL
Yours' and mine too. :) I have a small collection of hot sauces that I love to use. many of them are commercially produced, but some are homemade. We made out own tabasco sauce a couple years ago by just semi-drying the peppers and letting them naturally ferment in the jar. Add a little vinegar and wala!
I am always looking for hot sauce recipes if you want to post or freep mail any, I would be grateful.
What FReepers had to say about the Srircha caper…http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sriracha/index?tab=articles
Vermiculite is what’s used in Mel’s Mix.. egqual parts of vermiculite, peat moss, and compost, so it’s good you saved that vermiculite.
It’s also used in jewelry enameling..get out your blow torch.
I would make your cut where two leaves are emerging from the stem, then strip the leaves about 2 inches up, and stick it in your propagating medium.
Okay, someone restrain me. I went to Walmart for flour, saw they had put out their seeds, anc bought 4 packets.
I figured as long as I was buying seeds I didn’t need, I should see if Home Depot had put theirs out..Unfortunately, for my budget, they had. I bought a red, white, and blue seed potato baggie, and a bunch of seeds, and seed tape. I resisted the “no batteries required” soil ph tester, but kinda wish I hadn’t..
The only gochujang I have used is from Tim's Asian Market. I've never been to Korea.
That is a non sequitur statement and action on your part. :o) You didn't need it (negative action) so you looked for more of it (positive action).
I have several seed catalogs on a table by my chair and I've said before I'm afraid to go through them as I might fall off the wagon and buy more.
If your area stores have seeds out, ours probably does. I need to wait for plants to come in to get herbs. Surely, spring plants are not out, right?
I am still on house lockdown, so when you next go to Lowes, if their herb plants are there, please let me know. I would likely be okay going to open air plants unless people are crowded around them. Wouldn’t get too close to the person behind the open air checkout place, then wash my hands when I get home.
I saw hardy herbs out a Home Depot..like Rosemary, forget what else. I did buy lemon balm seed today..After coming back every year for at least twenty years, mine bit the dust last year.
I wonder if there is such a group as seedaholics anonymous or plantaholics anonymous. BTW, in the Burpee Seed Display (it's huge) at HD, there was no "On Deck Corn", or "SuperSauce tomato" seed, but there was the seed for their new for 2014 something or other beefsteak tomato.
“I wonder if there is such a group as seedaholics anonymous or plantaholics anonymous.”
In my case, it is Johnny’s fault I am a plantaholic - he started me on this so he has “contributed to the delinquency of a major” (rather than a minor :o)).
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