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[Olderfart]

That’s my plan… I’m making hot sauce. I think I’m going to smoke the peppers, along with an onion or two, some garlic, and maybe a bell pepper…then make that into bottled sauce.

I've been doing that. I do a fermentation process, and it produces excellent hot sauce. The first batch included garlic, and maybe some onion, I can't recall. I fermented a batch of habaneros, and a separate batch of mini sweet bells. I fermented for several months, and mixed the two types to moderate the fire from the habaneros. I tried straining the stuff, but that didn't work well, so I now just add a bit of cider vinegar to thin it out just enough so that it will come out of the hot sauce bottle cap. I tested the pH of the final stuff, and it is acid enough to be shelf stable even without refrigeration, but the fridge is where it lives anyway. I now have another batch fermenting, this time with mango rather than garlic and onion. The cupboard where it is doing its thing is very nicely aromatic.

Most peeps find a 50/50 mix a tad spicy, so for others, I diluted that by half again. Straight habanero sauce is a bit much for me, I enjoy the 50/50 mix. The main surprise was the flavour, it is by far the tastiest hot sauce I have ever tasted.

Good luck with your project, and enjoy the results.

 

[Olderfart]

Got my order in today from NASC.

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Super happy with the bonus seed too. Grease Monkey is an awesome pick and I look forward to growing it.

Freebies that you like is a fine thing. Most of mine end up in the bin due to lack of interest - too many higher priority strains, and too little time and space.

 

[Fermented_Fruitz]

I feel like you’d be farther ahead by learning how to bake….

 

[HempoStanCitizen]

read everything what you wrote bout toping, thanks a lot!

 

[Olderfart]

you can just answer here about autos, cus i read some threads here and i trust you guys here, i am newbie grower have a lot to learn

For what it is worth, I top pretty much all my plants, mostly just because I like to keep them relatively compact and low. Kinda dumb maybe, but I get good yields, and it makes the plants easier to move onto the bench for leaf removal to keep the canopy open.

I just use fingernails to pinch the stem off above the 4th or 5th pair of real leaves. You do not want to remove multiple inches of stem, you want to clip it when it is just tall enough above the node to snip the stem off cleanly without harming the node itself. I have never fussed with sterile scissors, and not one of my plants seems to have suffered. Most of them restart growth in less than two days.

Good luck with your grow, and welcome to the best place to learn about this stuff.

 

[Olderfart]

Gracie is the same ppp

As is our little mutt. She is happy with snow on her bare belly, but hates the heat. She was a small pup in her first winter here, so she had lots of early experience with cold. She cools off by immersing herself in puddles, creeks, lakes, whatever. Seeing her with only her head and floating spaniel ears above water is pretty funny.

 

[Mara Cachafa]

you can just answer here about autos, cus i read some threads here and i trust you guys here, i am newbie grower have a lot to learn

I started topping in 2022 to get a flat canopy with multiple tops all at the same distance from my lights. I liked the results, so I continued topping every grow with few exceptions. I'm not topping my first legal outdoor girls because there's plenty of distance to the sun, so the Christmas tree shape is optimal. [Edit: I've been topping at about 3 weeks old, snipping off the 6th node as soon as I can identify it.]

 

[Olderfart]

I had a dog that was obsessed with the hose that connected the propane tank to the gas grill….every single time you left it unattended…Thor would go for it…. He got a mouth full of propane once, since I was cooking…. It didn’t turn him off it one bit…

Good thing that dog does not meet a porcupine. There are two types of dogs when it comes to porkys, the ones that learn, and the others that go for revenge at any opportunity. Revenge dogs get expensive where I live. I friend of mine owned two of them. One of his weekend vet bills was almost a thousand dollars. The porky was in worse shape.

 

[VitaMan]

you can just answer here about autos, cus i read some threads here and i trust you guys here, i am newbie grower have a lot to learn

Some people here top auto's, I have not.
Reason being the short limited life cycle of autos might not allow enough recovery time after topping and pruning.

I'll defer to people here who are better equipped to answer your questions.

 

[Olderfart]

I read u need to really spend a lot of time to establish the lovable ones u see in them vids. Cause they are still a wild animal and have a nasty bite. I had a buddy that had a racoon, thing sat on his shoulders everywhere he went. It got mean as hell in its older years.

The only pet raccoon I met wandered from the other end of the house, very casually, and bit my leg for no reason other than I was there. That experience made me feel much better about the raccoon control I did to protect seabird colonies. Those little buggers can be seriously destructive.