He made me a very beneficial and generous trade. Thanks, Smoke. - Rick

kyp83, I'm interested in your sauces, would you share your recipes?

Smokemaster was very generous to me too.

I have to say thanks to smokemaster as well for all the seeds I got from him in an sase. He really helps allow the passion for the hobby grow for all of us.

Well I started 40 different kinds today! Hopefully I have enough light for them all!

joeknowsjolokia,

What have you started? What zone are you in?

Bill

Hope they all grow lots of pods for you guys.
Let me know if there are any crosses.
Some seeds I don't know if they were issolated or not from trades etc.
If you get an interesting cross I'd like to know what variety so I can re-lable the pack it came from.

So far nobody has told me they got crosses from any seeds I've sent out except the fish pepper which are now labled fish cross.
It is a tastey pepper and prolific too. I grow the cross every year.
I think it crossed with the Mexican Serrano or red chile.Probably the serrano.
A good juicey pod with moderate heat.I like it.
I think it has better flavor than the pure fish pepper.

Enjoy your seeds.

Last year was my first year doing hot sauces. I tried out 4 or 5 just by looking up some recipes, making changes to them or just recipes from friends and family.

This year I have tweeked them all a bit from what I have heard last year and actually all the chile peppers I am growing is targted towards a specific hot sauce or salsa.

I picked up growing peppers just a hobby last year and I had so much fun growing peppers and making hot sauce I have a good amount planned for this year.

Here are the peppers I am growing this year for my hot sauces:

Datil
Yellow Habanero
Peach Habanero
Carribean Red Habanero
Jamaican Brown
Bhut Jolokia
Naga Jolokia
7 pod / 7 pot
Trinidad Scorpion
White Habanero
Ring of Fire
Kung Pao Hybrid
Serrano del Sol
Fish Pepper Cross

bhut,7pot,naga, 7 different habs, scotch bonnets,Fish Pepper Cross,Serrano,Serrano del Sol, geez this could take a while.... Do you really want me to list them all?

Trying to get these all in this year plus about 100 more I'm waiting on seeds for.Some of these the seeds are in the mail.

Capsicum Annuum
Cascabel , Black Pearl , Hungarian Hot Wax , Hungarian Yellow Wax , Large Red Cherry , Black Negro De Arbol , Cherry Bomb , Fresno , New Mexico , Chile Negro/Pascilla Bajio , California Chile ,
Shishito , Red Mushroom , Yellow Mushroom , Greek Pepperoncini , Anahiem , Jalapeno M , Volcano Hybrid , Sweet Banana , Hot Banana , Cascabella , Cubanelle , Long Thin Cayene , Serrano , Poblano , Jalapenolite , Nu Mex Twilight , Mat's Hot Cherry , Explosive Ember , Pequin , Red Missle , Thai Red Hot , Chilaca Pascilla , Chile De
Arbol , Sandia Hot , Nu Mex Sweet , NuMex Garnet , Maraba PI 497977 , Arledge , Remic , Venus , Chile Tepin , Bermuda Hot , Mexican Bird , Cveta Hot/Rainbow Chile f1 , Fish , Turkish Cayene , Corno Verde Hybrid , cveta hot f2hybrid , Ethiopian Brown Berbere , Carribe , Guajillo , Aji Amarillo , Orange Thai , Chilhaucle Amarillo , Goats Weed , Inca Lost , Mayan Love Pepper , Peter Pepper Orange , Pingueta De Mono , Costeno Amarillo , Bulgarian Carrot , Gold Cayene , Santa Fe Grande , Pimento , Little Nubian , Sweet Mini , Wenks Yellow Hot , Balloon , Chicken Heart , Pico De Gallo , PI224433 , chihuacle rojo , Explosive Blast , Padron , Italian Roaster , Lombardo Pepperoncini , Santaka Hot Asian , Early Jalapeno , Serrano Tampiqueno , Flourescent Purple , Royal Black , Piquillo , Broome , Rainbow Mix , Cabeza De Lagarto , Chichien , De Rata , Grif 1548 , Lumbre , PhulJadi , Filipino , Golden Treasure , Sheepnose , Corno De Torro , Black Scorpion Tongue , Chervena Chushka , Burning Bush , Bolivian Rainbow , Purple Serrano , Golden Nugget , Jimmy Nardello's , Gypsy , Puya , Black Hungarian , Marbles , Haiti Cluster , Ammazzo , Chinese Multicolor , Holy Mole Hybrid , Starburst , Tequilla Sunrise , Barker Hot , Masquarade , AlakuZold , XIGole , Etna , Sarga Czeresznue , Piment'DEspelette , Chilhaucle Negro , Peter Pepper Yellow , Aji Cereza , Purple Pequin , Petit Marseilais , Dundicutt , Nora , Pili Pili-PI 194722 , Macho , Key Largo , College 64L , Frigatello , Super Chile , Rooster Spur , Hot Apple , Aji Rojo , Aji Crystal , Large Poblono , Paprila Supreme , Italian Gourmet , Kim's Jalapeno , Floral Gem , Tepin var.aviculare , peperone , pequin vae. glabrisculum , beaver dam , Spanish Red , Verengata TriFetti , Peter Pepper Red , Largo Purple , Little Elf , Filus Blue , Purple Jalapeno , Pretty Purple , Portokolova Fifironka PI
370374 , Mongolian , Mek Phet , Gum Drop , Ring Of Fire ,
Cascabella Bola , Ecuador Hot , Praire Fire , Yellow Bedder , Long La , Buran Sweet , Macskapiros Cat Red , Parker Hot , Ancho San Luis , Chilcostle , Red Jalapino , Hot Banana , pimento tangerine ,Bola , Chung-sol , Qquary gochu , Delicious , The Giant , Put-gochu , Aljja , I like everything , Kimchi PepperTae-yang , Hong-gochu , Peruvian Purple , Diaulicchi , Chilacate , Demon Red , catarina , carolina cayenne , bulldog , cherry hot , conchiti , dutch hot , fogo , garden salsa , gorogled bel liut , hanoi red , hungarian death hot , biker billi , baccio di satana , arizona toothpick , agua blanca , african bird-orange , acolarimento , kung pao , lazaretti , piccante di cayenne , pimento picon , portagal cayenne , cayenne super , sabes , sudanese hot , szechuan , thomas jefferson cayenne , jalapeno hybrid-heaven , long red slim , hawaiian sweet hot , chaco , st.helena, hanoi market , long hungarian green , sweet yellow cherry , confetti , chocolate cherry , chahua , balada , cow horn , rouge de la bresse . jalapa , ho chi minh , czech lack , bombero , galaguera , feher ozon paprika , georgia flame , aurora , maule's red hot , alma paprika , garden sunshine , fushimi , pritamin paprika , pusztagold , new mex 6-4 , hatch , dianonte market cherry , portugal cayenne , pimento picon , zambia , verigated striped , devils toothpick , south korea unknowns-1,2,&3 , south Korea cross , South Korea ornamental-purple , South Korea tiny ornamantal , bulgarian spicy , island delight , island hellfire , kogi , puerto valarta , pointsetta , singapore , salmon , trotolino amarosa , thai dragon , assam , cap 1473 , Texas Chile Petines , firecracker pequin , sweet cherry , nu mex big jim , corno di toro-yellow , yellow thai , thai burapa , indian jwala , philipine long green , chinese 5 color , long purple cayenne , siling lara , onza rojo , verigata , nu mex sunflare , oretty in purple , purple tiger , cap 1546 , black cluster , florida wild , prik ki nue thai bird , cigana gypsy , feferona red , kalocsai 622 , romanian red , macska sarga yellow , szegedi 20 , surajmukhi , robustini pepperoncini , goghuku togarashi , kalocsai v2
Capsicum Baccatum

Atomic Starfish , Lemon Drop , Aji Limon , Aji Angelo , Aji Habanero , Inca Red Drop , Kaleidoscope , Guyana PI
199506 , Rain Forrest , Praetermissun var Baccatum , Brazilian Pumpkin , Aji Chinchi Amarillo , Bishops Crown , DongXaun Market , Earbob PI 159272 , Peruvian Orange-Naranga-PI 446900 , Inca Berry , Aji Omnicolor , Aji Amarillo-Peru , baccatum pea , Fire Fox , Grif 9221 , Polumbo PI 439411 , chinchu uchu , aji norteno , aji red , brazillion arbolito , Joker Hat , Albertos , Queen Laurie PI 281405 , Bulgarian Teardrop PI 439370 , Aji Pineapple , Aji Picante , Bigit Locoto , Aji Santa Cruz , Aji Verde PI 290983 , Heart throb PI 260574 , Pieto de Moca , Dedo de Moca red , brazillian starfish , aji limon , el oro de equador PI594244 , criola sella , aji colorado , lami spiral , aji benito , chayusa ruso , aji cito , Capsicum Praetermissum Var. Baccatum , Aji De La Tierra , peruvian Creole PI 594605 , aji blanco cgn 21470 , cap 220
Capsicum Chinense
Red Savina , Habanero Arbol , White Habanero , Orange Habanero , Cancun"Carlos" Habanero Red , Cancun "Carlos" Habanero Orange , Red Habanero , Naga Morich , Chocolate Scotch Bonnet , Fatalii Yellow , Carribean Red , Congo Trinidad , wild brazil , Yellow Trinidad , Red Dominica , 7Pod , Habanero Brown , Gold Bullet , Big Sun Yellow Scotch Bonnet , Trinidad Scorpion , Trinidad Scorpion FG , Trinidad Perfume , Royal Goldn PI 315023 , Datil , Cumari ou Passarinho PI 497985 , Columbian Orange Lantern PI 275127 , Cachuca , Billy Goat , Bhut Jolokia , Fatalii Red , Paper Lantern , Jamaican Yellow Hot , Madam Janette , PI 215733-Peruvian Chinense , PI 224448-Tangerine Bell , PI 224706-Chile Blanco , Chocolate Habanero , Safi Red Habanero , Yellow Habanero , Peach Habanero , Mustard Habanero , Dorset Naga , Aji Dulce #2 , Aji Dulce Yellow , Cumari , Harolds St. Bart , Burkina Yellow , Jamaican Hot Chocolate , Red Mushroom , Aji Limo , Quintisho , Arivivi or Arabibi Gusano PI 5733 , Bido Tacana PI543181 , Carmine PI 214730 , Yellow Mushroom , Guyana Tragedy PI 238046 , Habanero Manzano , Peruvian Shiney Red , Habanero Punta Giallo , Limon , Black Congo , Aji Umba , Foodorama Scotch Bonnet , Congo Brown , Purple Habanero , Martinique, maraba , Cleos Dragon , White Bullet , BGH 1725 Yellow , Tasmanian Habanero , Rocotillo , Naga Jolokia , Devils Tongue , Tobago Seasoning , Jamaican Scotch Bonnet , Scotch Bonnet , Maui Purple , ADelberto's Habanero Brazil , Market Peach Habanero , Wiri Wiri , PI 159263 Yellow # 2 , Antilles Carribean , TFM Scotch Bonnet , Congo De Nicaraugua , Jamaican Red Hot , Uvilla Grande PI 281393 , Tree Habanero GT , Chocolate Habanero -Long , Chocolate Brown Habanero , Red Mushroom GT , Bhut Jolokia IC Strain -Special , Fatalii X Peruvian Chinense , Peruvian White Habanero , Burkina Hot , Datil X Limon , Bonda Ma Jackque , Ecuadorian Devils Breath , Pimenta De Neyde , Bode Red , 7 Molhos , Cabaca , Biquinho , beni highlands , surinam habanero , chocolate congo , numex suave , white habanero , west indy , red habanero , chocolate brown habanero , scotch bonnet , squash pepper , tiger teeth , caiene , peruvian serlano , bonnet bell cross , aji chumbo , pi 224424 , pi 257068 , pi 260484 , 7 pot #1 and #2 chaguanas trinidad ,7 pot #1,2,3,4 , trinidad scorpion #2,3 , aji dulce de venezufla , orange chiero , goat , amazon , Aji Panca , Limon Grande , Trinidad Scorpion Morouga ,SBS Demon Habanero , SBS Scotch Bonnet , SBS Chocolate Habanero , SBS Fatalii Hybrid , grif 9246

Capsicum Frutescens
Japones , Hot Portagal , Purira , Red Chile , Naga Jolokia , Puta Madre , Zimbabwe Bird , Golden Frutescens PI 257083 , Grif 9197 Costa Rican Red Frutescens , Ata Ijosi , Eximium Type #1 59414 , Yellow Tabasco , Hawiian Super Hot , Takanotsume , Tabasco Greenleaf , Bradley's Bahamian , Piment Malagueta , ata barukono , brazilian
malagueta , Laungi , Meght , Flame Fountain , African Devil , Tabasco , Indian PC! , Siling Labuyo , Pili Pili , Aji Pajarito , vietnamese tearjerker , gundu red , damini , new delhi long pc2 , nepali orange polo pipiki , fire serrano , not awi cgn 22168 , cream thai , angkor sunrise
Capsicum Pubescens
PI 593930 Ecuador Pubenscens , Yellow Manzano , Orange Manzano , Orange Rocoto , Red Manzano , Chile De Seda , Red Rocoto PERU , Manzano Amarillo , Yellow Rocoto , orange and yellow-store , yellow-store , big yellow store , peach store , orange and yellow strange store , orange mutant store , orange and purple store , long twisted store , apple shaped store
Capsicum Chacoens
C. Gaopagoense
C. Eximum
C, Preatermissum
A bunch of Unknowns

I have about 120 varieties of them outside that have overwintered.There are about a little less than 200 out there now.Gotta get rid of some doubles.All are in containers.
Nice living where there isn't a winter.

Smokemaster,

Three things...

1) Growing that many! Holy crap! You da man!
2) you have mail
3) Holy crap! I can't imagine doing that volume.

Bill

So Smoke, what do you do in your spare time?

I'm lucky I don't get a winter here and I can grow some peppers through the winter like C.Baccatums,C. Pubescens and some Frutescens and Annuums.C.Chinense don't do well in cooler weather.
There are a lot of plants on the list that I can grow in smaller pots so they don't take much room,I can stack pots kitty corner on each other.
Small pots makes it easier to bring in some when they flower for seed.

Last Spring-my hardening off/start out area.
Plants get put all over the place eventually.Some stay under the shade cloth.

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The tree after a haircut.

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One small doubt I have.
Growing so many different varieties .....will it not lead to cross pollination and dilution/hybridization of some or most varieties?

Naga Jolokia Addict

smokemaster_2007, that tree is awesome. How old and what variety is it?

Dale

When I want seeds I put a 5 gal. paint strainer over the plant or a branch if I have to do it outside otherwise I move the plant inside and let it flower there.
Once I get pods started it goes back outside with the pods marked that were self pollinated-tie thread around the stems.
Thats why I only have a certain amount of varieties of seeds not 500+ varieties.

The Big tree is a Habanero Arbol(not a C.Chinense).
PM me if you want seeds.
It grew about 4ft. the first year and up to about 9ft. the second.It grows wider than tall.
It had a haircut of about 3 ft. off the top and each side before this pic was taken.
This ones about 6 yrs. old.
There are 2nd and 3rd generation ones in the corner by the shed that were about 3 months old.
They need a new home if anyone in the Los Angeles,Ca. area wants them.Bring a nursery pot to replace the one it's in and they are yours.
The tree doesn't mind cold-actually likes it better than heat.Fruits 3-4 times a year.Couple gallons of pods each time.

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Need a home:I have another in a different spot that also needs to go away.

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If I were in CA that pepper tree would have a home, guess I'll have to start mine from the seeds you sent. LOL Jackie

I could probably bare root the smallest one and put it in a shipping tube and mail it to you.

Here is a before and after Of a Chocolate Habanero and Black Scorpion Tongue that was mailed from Texas to me a while back.

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A few weeks later.

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If I used a tube I could send one pretty much untrimmed.
PM me if interested.
Good points=A year head start
Bad=Overwintering a monster (it has easily survived up to a week of freezing temps. but I don't know how much longer it could have lasted with those temps.)
It loves cool more than warm temps.Supposed to be from the Andes...
My smallest is 4ft. tall.
Shipping costs.

Smokemaster, I love the pics, especially the Habanero Arbol. That's really impressive! Wished I lived in a warmer climate.

Here is some more pepper porn for you. LOL
Red rocoto from peru with an Aji Amarillo.

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Pimento.

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cubanalle

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Explosive blast

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Explosive Ember

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White Habanero

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LOL who needs pay per view when you can view the pepper forum for free!

Those white habs are awesome!

thank you so much smokemaster seeds where awesome so many variety thank you

To say I'm impressed would be a understatement. I think your container gardening skill matches your sense of variety. I'm in a container rut- can't grow anything unless it's in the ground or in one of my waterfarms. May I ask your preferred medium and method of fertilization?

For winter plants I've been playing with 5 parts fine orchid bark,1 part peat.2 parts pearlite (or 1 part pearlite and 1 part pomice).

Water with 1/8th strength Fish emultion and Seaweed extract everytime I water.

I'll flood the pots every so often if I think I have a fertilizer buildup.

Summer plants get a mix of
50/50 potting mix and planter mix with about 1/3rd pearlite added.
If it still doesn't drain good enough I'll add fine orchid bark too.Planter mix is composted forestry products.

I still haven't found a GREAT potting mix that doesn't dry out in 100+ degree southern exposure summer heat but still isn't holding too much water during the winter.

Smokemaster,would you have any sase choc,white,other hab seeds left? I recently had some sent to me which iam thankfull for but they are not germanating. flyfisher?
thanks Brian Tucson Az.

Brian,

Are you being patient? My chocolate habs took several days longer to sprout and now I think I'm at 100% from what I germinated. They just took their time.. I thought they were garbage too but nope! I was just being cranky. :)

Erin

i have been germanating them for 2 weeks now and
nothing has poked out of the seeds. wait longer?

Mine came up almost 2 weeks after the others. But that was me..

Ok, time for HOT WINGS AND SUPER BOWL!

Hey Mike!!

thanks again for all my beauties! *wink*wink*. You're the best! will get some pix of my setup soon as i'm not so lazy.

"A nods as good as a wink to a blind man"
*Nod*Nod* Your Welcome. : )

Did you find somebody to put in your garden yet? : o
Since they weren't black you might not need the body...

Just received your seeds today- Thank you very much for your generosity, quite an array of seeds to say the least. Also for giving up the medium and fertilizer tips. I've already mixed up some batches for a few plants I have to try out. Now I gotta get to work and get these seeds going. Thanks again Smokemaster!

Not going to clutter you all up over every one, but I do have to drop one initial update- five days, and I have multiple varieties (Caribbean Red, Orange Hab, Serrano) already germinating. Ten Smokemaster variety seedlings compared to one Chili Pepper Institute seedling. They're the real deal and I'm stoked- thanks again!

The orange habs if they were from me are probably some kind of cross but they are super prodctive.
Everyone who has grown them loves them.
I call them Mutant Orange Habaneros because some seeds grew several different pod shapes,sizes and color shades but all are super productive.
I try to separate them into color shade,size etc. when I've grown them out.
Last year I planted them too late and didn't get pods.
Plants seem to be disease resistant too.

The Bhuts I send out were from a plant grown from Pepper institute seeds.The plant was issolated so I think the seeds should be pure.
But Murphy's law still might apply. LOL

I hope you get lots of healthy plans that kick out the pods this season.

If anyone gets any crosses let me know so if I have any of that batch of seeds left I can re lable them acordingly.

I do a lot of trades so some seeds I don't know about the purity.
I only use what I was told were pure seeds or seeds from venders for trades so the trades should be pure.

Sasbe's contain anything I have a large quantity of.even if I'm not sure about purity because I haven't grown them out yet.
So far the fish pepper seeds are the only ones that I know some are crossed.Most aren't but some are.
I actually like the cross better for taste.
But most people got pure fish seeds according to those i've asked.
Maybe only 1 pod got crossed but it's mixed with the others from that harvest so I lable it as a cross to make sure nobody is dissapointed when the seeds don't grow pure plants.

If you get an interesting cross I'd like to get seeds from it in case I gave all mine away or it was the only cross in the batch.

Enjoy your gardens.

Awesome Smokemaster !!
Thanks for all the seeds. It's awesome how you help out newbies, oldbies, and everyone in between. Ghandi said '
Be the change that you want to see in the world.' If more people were like Smokemaster imagine what a world we would live in !! Thanks again !!

Smokemaster, you're a pepper freak! lol. Who could grow that many varieties? Wait...let me look in the mirror. :)

Chris

Chris,
What I grow is a drop in the bucket compared to SOME people I know....
Thats who I get seeds from.LOL

Waiting on some S.Korean seeds.

And then there is the Peru thing comming up.

Need all colors of baseballs this time.
Some cool Baccatum pods might be nice to.
Just to take up the space between Rocoto pods.

Instead of a pickle jar I'll let her use one of my 7 gal. sparklets bottles that I use for brewing beer.

She might have to squish a few to get them through the neck though or cut them into quarters or hopefully 8ths if they are big enough.
That bottle might fit a few pods to get us through the season. :)

Received your generous offering of seeds.
My grandson and I are excited about growing them.
Thank you very much.

smokemaster: Brewing beer, eh? Where do you live again? ;) I need to get one of your seed trades, dude! I love hot pepper growing, as you may know by now. This year i'm doing Chocolate habs, carribean red habs, thai red chili's & a few others. I can trade you some seeds or cuttings or whatever. Please let me know if you still have anything available. =)

Thanks - Steve

You have Mail.

I got the Homebrew.Bock , Wheat , Chile Ale and a couple other assorted ales.About 6 flavors right now. :)
Gotta have something cold to drink while I sit under the tree habanero on my lounge chair on a hot summer day...

That's the life right there. =) I'm tossing down a few Blackberry Witbier while eating my wife's famous spicy chicken. I'll vpn in & check my mail in a few. thanks.

- Steve

Let's not be silly Mike. I don't grow that much. :)

Chris

sweet setup!! thats for sure....

someday in my dreams :)

Ah! Baby pictures.

Cute little guys.

Like Beth says"Your Chile Childs".
I just got an E-Mail from here too.

cmpman1974,

What types of lights are you using to grow with?

Thanks
Jeff

the_trips, just regular dual bulb 40 watt fluorescent fixtures from Home Depot. :)

Smoke:

"You have Mail.
I got the Homebrew.Bock , Wheat , Chile Ale and a couple other assorted ales.About 6 flavors right now. :)
Gotta have something cold to drink while I sit under the tree habanero on my lounge chair on a hot summer day..."

I never did get the e-mail. Did you get a bounced back reply or anything?

Peace - Steve

I don't know what happened.
I sent it via your page here...GW mail.
Basicaly E Mail me about seed trade-have,want etc..
I assume you mail address is the same as on the site here.

smoke: Thanks for trying! lol...GW messages have been a bit flaky for me lately...or it just may have been our spam filter freaking out. =) Anyways, I have a good few hots growing this year. I'd love to grow (even if I don't eat any of them b/c of the heat) some Bhut Jolokia's. I'm also looking for a few nice colorful sweet peppers. I have all kinds of seeds (and a few seedlings) I can trade you for them. What are you looking for? Let me know.

Thanks - Steve