Fruit From the Arledge

Here are the peppers I salvaged from the dying Arledge last week.


As I said on my flickr page:
I cut these off the dying Alredge Heirloom back on July 9th. At that time, only two of the peppers were a fully ripened red. All the other were kind of, to really green. So I used an Alton Brown trick, and put the green ones in a paper bag with a banana. Though I do not remember the exact process, I think it has something to do with what the growers of the bananas spray on them to speed up the ripening process. In the paper bag, the banana gives off some of the stuff, and few days later, more then half of the peppers are now ripe. The others were just too young.

I'll need to do something with the ripe ones pretty damn quick, because they will go bad in a couple of days. I think I'm going to throw most them in the blender and make a hot sauce. I'll keep a couple of them to use in a salsa. My bro says he'll use the green ones in a really good jambalaya he makes. If the hot sauce turns out good, to quote Hyde on That 70's Show, "I'm gonna be super-pissed!" We shall see...

Down Goes Arledge...

Bad news on the pepper growing front. Lost my second favorite plant, the Arledge Heirloom. On Thursday, July 6th, the plants leaves started drooping really badly. It was acting like it needed water. But all the other plants, including the one in the pot it shares(Jaloro) looked good. So I hit it with some water...as the sun went down, the majority of plant perked up. Just one little stem stayed droopy. But the next day it looked even worse then the day before. I took a closer look and discovered some sort of white moldy stuff at the base of the plant. So I gave it a good dose of straight seaweed fertilizer. Guess I discovered it too late...by Sunday it's leaves were completely limp/dead. So I cut all the peppers off, and yanked the plant. I had high hopes for this plant. It made a lot of nice looking peppers, that had good heat.




The white moldy stuff.

Another learning experience for The Newb - even the best looking plants can keel over at anytime. I'm sure there is something I could have done(or not have done), before this plant got so bad off. So I'll need to do a little research on the ol' internet...

Hot Stuff...

So decided to pick some peppers today. The ones I picked are nice and ripe: two fataliis, a kung pao and a thai.

Fatalii - Beautiful, yet painful...just like a woman. I think I'm in love with these peppers. I couldn't believe the lemony citrus, almost sweet flavor these peppers have. Never tasted anything like it. Then the heat attacked with full force. My whole mouth was on fire.


Thai on the left, the other is the Kung Pao. Both had good heat. The KP was kind of sweet w/ a nice a taste, and THEN the heat kick me in the back of the throat. The Thai was just straight hot...not much flavor.

Not much else is budding anymore, except for the Chocolate Habs. Those are going crazy. I think the heat has effect everything else.

Chocolate Habs - they started budding/making fruit when everything else stopped!