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Music, plants, food

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BIG Pepper Thread 1/🧵

I grew over 29 varieties of peppers in 2025. This thread reviews growth/productivity, cold tolerance and gives an honest detailed description of taste (fresh, dried and how it blends with other ingredients when cooking).

I hope people will find it useful for reference.

A woven basket filled with a colorful assortment of various types of peppers in different shapes, including red, orange, yellow, and black, resting on a bed of green grass.
A collection of jars filled with various dried peppers, including ají panca, milder peppers, and a mix of others. The jars are labeled with their contents and arranged on a dark background. The tiny jar on top of the larger ones isn’t labeled. It’s dried biquinho salmao.

A collection of jars filled with various dried peppers, including ají panca, milder peppers, and a mix of others. The jars are labeled with their contents and arranged on a dark background. The tiny jar on top of the larger ones isn’t labeled. It’s dried biquinho salmao.
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The 60 Minutes episode on CECOT that Bari Weiss cancelled was shown in Canada. Someone uploaded a recording of it to Internet Archive that you can watch here.

It’s horrifying. TW: torture.

https://archive.org/details/3mam75w3oec2n

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Pepper experiments 🧵1/3

So far the greenhouse hasn’t gotten below 40F/4C. Here are how the peppers are faring:

Peppers that haven’t suffered any significant leaf drop and are producing

Ají cacho de cabra
Ají chinchi amarillo
Ají dulce orange
Ají jobito
Jimmy nardello
Madhatter
Peppapeach stripey
PJ UFO
Scotch bonnet

A variety of colorful peppers in different shapes and sizes, including yellow, orange, red, and some white, arranged in a woven basket. Black raspberry leaves are at the bottom.
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Happy Halloween!

Besides candy for the kids, there are treats for their parents: fruit tree seeds!

Yuzu, a cold hardy, disease and pest resistant citrus

Red hybrid jabuticaba, compact shrubby tree that fruits nearly all year round (Grow in a pot, bring indoors in winter.)

(Both plants come true from seed.)

Someone said it looked like I was handing out drugs and needed to decorate the basket. Not sure if it helped…

A woven basket with a decorative purple and black handle contains several small bags filled with tree seeds, resting on green grass.
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Hey everyone,

In case you haven’t heard the news in Alaska, there was a devastating typhoon that hit the western part of the state and more storms are on the way. Thousands of people are displaced and have lost everything.

Below is a link to donate to the disaster relief sponsored by the Alaska Community Foundation:

https://alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=14833

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More pepper posting

Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají dulce
Ají habanero
Cheiro do norte
Grenada Seasoning
Habanada
Madhatter
Padron
Peppapeach stripey
PJ UFO (buried)
Purple naga hybrid
Scotch bonnet
Sugar rush bell stripey
Sweet Imposter
Trinidad perfume
Trinidad pimento seasoning (check out the weird one in the middle)

Acerola cherry
Caroline raspberries (buried)
Physalis grisea
Romano purpiat
Wild tomatoes

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@faab64 💚😊

I’m growing 28 cultivars this year and will make a long thread in late November/December about how they grew, what they smell and taste like (raw, cooked, dried) bc I don’t think pepper vendors are descriptive enough.

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@faab64 definitely 💚😊

There’s one this year that was a standout winner, ají habanero. It gets its name from tasting similar to a heatless habanero but is a baccatum species but I don’t think this is true at all. The flesh is very thin so having it raw is not so special. It shines as a dried pepper. Dried, it’s sweet and tastes like smokey-earthy dried apricots. It’s an excellent substitute for saffron and bc it’s a prolific pepper you don’t have to be stingy with seasoning.

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@faab64 hmmm, the peppers in your pics look like what we call ají dulce, a chinense species and heatless habanero. Below are the ají habanero baccatum peppers and its flower. Baccatum flowers have yellow-green lace patterned nectar guides, chinense flowers are smaller and very pale green/whitish. Baccatums are also usually huge plants with large leaves, over 3ft/1m minimum at maturity. Mine’s about 4ft tall right now.

Ají habanero flower with the yellow lace nectar guides.

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BIG Protest Thread 🧵

Resources and information for protestors

-How to find
-How to prepare / stay safe
-Printable flyers
-Rights
-How to identify disinformation and bad actors
-Deep Canvassing

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Almenachier, serviceberry 🧵

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s, “The Serviceberry”

As much economics as natural history, she links the gift economy with nature -storing abundance in the belly of my brother. She examines how capitalism is an unsustainable and destructive system and how it might be replaced.

It’s a beautiful book and very salient to our current economic-ecological problems.

Cover of the audiobook "The Serviceberry" by Robin Wall Kimmerer, featuring illustrations of serviceberry leaves and berries, along with a bird in flight. The text includes the subtitle "Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World"
A close-up of a bee-mimic hover fly perched on white flowers, showcasing its black and yellow striped body and the delicate details of the petals. Green foliage provides a soft background.
A close-up image of green leaves with small dark berries growing on a plant. The background features more foliage, indicating a natural setting.

A close-up image of green leaves with small dark berries growing on a plant. The background features more foliage, indicating a natural setting.
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@junesim63 💚💚💚