Hello Jay,
Those sugar apples look great!! Makes my mouth water just lookin at them. Your ghost chili is huge! How long have you had it? IS that the only mango for the season? Great lookin peach tree. Looks like your going to have a great peach harvest!!
Andrew

Nice pics, Jay...thanks for posting. That peach tree looks really great. I love white fleshed peaches. Is this your first crop on this tree? Probably not. What are the chill hours requirement for that particular peach? Also, which dragon fruit is that?

Harry

Wow..you got a lot going. Everything looks delicious. The peach look very nice. I need to learn the netting for my fig trees. What did you use and where did you get the materials? I will need to fix up a net for my in ground trees later. Your sugar apples are so big already. Mine are still just tiny and still flowering. That's the different between in ground and pot. I think my tree is way off season....LOL

Jay, nice pics. Wow, that peach and sugar apple look great. That ghost pepper is loaded. Make sure to hand out as many as you can to neighbors, colleagues and friends. For a good time go on Youtube and watch videos of people eating those. Some end in "I think I need to go to the hospital!" That hybrid cross sounds pretty neat. Congrats on your crops.

Jay, I bet your rear end hurts just by walking by that ghost pepper tree. Looks like your having a very successful season with your trees, congratulations.

Ghost is about 1 1/2 yrs. They pack quite a punch and you learn the hard way not to cut them up without gloves on. If not, you're guaranteed regrets for the next several hours. One mango on the nam doc mai. I've been battling fertilizer issues...at least that is the conclusion Harry and I have come to.

First haul on the peaches. The yellow peaches only produced about 8 fruit and they were enormous. I probably should have thinned out the whites, but didn't. They are very small and practically breaking down several branches. I'm not sure on the chill hours. We are making ice cream with some today. Going to make peach/ghost chili jelly soon too.

Just bird netting and PVC. Pain in the butt...BIG pain in the butt. Not sure what I will attempt next year. Got to be an easier method.

Those are some very nice pics Jay. The dragonfruit looks delicious. What variety is it? I am amazed at the amount of peppers on your plant. Does it keep a constant crop year round? My plants here always hardly ever live that long. Maybe I should start growing them in containers to protect them from nematodes.

Interestingly, tonight on Gourmet TV: Diary of a Foodie on Create TV, they had a whole program on vaious chili peppers around the world and how they are used. The host, a self-proclaimed "Chili head" took two bites of a Ghost Chili (which I think is also called something like Bhut Jolokia). He shook his head back and forth quite a bit, but seemed to weather the experience without any catastrophic problems. Of course, they may have had to spray his mouth out with fire extinguisher foam when they cut away from the scene in which he chomped the pepper. I'm not into growing peppers. I like spicy flavor in my food, but am I am not a Sadist or a Masochist with trying to burn surface areas of someone's or my mouth and throat. But Jay, your plant is very impressive. I don't guess you have any problem with birds or other critters stealing or damaging the fruits, do you?

Harry

Your greenhouse and yard always look so perfect and shows how much effort you put into it.
That chilli pepper is called "Bhut Jolokia" in India - which literally means that the "ghost leaves the body when this chilli is eaten"!! I am wondering how many of those you can consume, Jay?

Great photos J,
everything is looking so healthy right now. Nice fruits on the sugar apple, I tried to pollinate a bunch of flowers here but not fruit set. Save me some pepper seeds and we can trade, I've a chili del monte that has great flavor and heat.

peach/ghost chili jelly sounds excellent.

thanks for posting,
-Ethan

Thanks all.

How many of those can I consume? Ha!! It's more like how little of just one! I like hot and spicy food but no where close to being in the league of a lot of those hot heads. I will finely chop one up and sparingly add to brats and burgers. No way in he!! will I eat any part of one by itself. I love the plant though. With nearly every single chili on there now bright red, the plant seems to almost glow like it is on fire. Even while in the greenhouse, it continued to put out chilis. It is an unbelievably productive plant.

Man VS Food seems to always get sucked into a challenge with a some meal that has ghost chilies in it. These are always from dried chilies, not fresh...or possibly the extract of them. Fresh ones are not nearly as hot as they are when dried or roasted. That is when they take on the lethal heat. The first several chilies off the plant had very little heat at all. It wasn't till later did they get the respect they deserved.

Harry, I've not seen anything bothering this plant. It is up on the patio so the rabbits probably stay clear of there. I've seen where they have chewed on some cayennes though. I wish they would sample one of the ghost chilies. Maybe their freaking heads would explode!

The red dragonfruit is an unknown variety I received from Eggo several years ago. This was the first fruit of only two. That, in my book, is nearly unacceptable after this amount of time. Another plant that is on the "better giddyup" list!

Ethan...I've not had any trouble pollinating my sugar apples. But I'm not having any luck whatsoever with the very few blooms I've gotten on the cherimoya.

The peach ice cream turned out to be very good. I'm starting to think that maybe the ice cream maker was not such a good idea. I can see the possibility of getting carried away.

I've never seen a pepper plant so loaded with peppers before! That is amazing!

That pepper is nuts Jay. I have a couple small ghost peppers that I started in the winter but it's nothing like yours. Mine are maybe 18" tall. I still have not got one pepper from mine. I did not know they could even get as large as yours. Maybe you should try selling the peppers on ebay.

John...they seem slow to take off. Once in a larger container and some fert, they zoom.

Sheehan...check your emails!

Jay, did you send an email today?

Your trees look very healthy. I won't have the stones to bite into a ghost chili. haha I've seen what they can do in man vs. food.

Sheehan...Sent a couple while back...maybe one last week or before. Spam filter? Or just ignoring me??!!! LOL!

Wow, it still amazes me that you can grow a banana tree in Ohio and get fruits! Your ghost chili and peaches looks amazing! Also, I love your sugar apples. They look very healthy and fantastically delicious! Excellent job! ( :
Bo

Jay, great job. Did you plant your trees inside your greenhouse or are they in pots?

That mango and sugar apples are in pots. Bananas in ground in the greenhouse.