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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺

@thegreenman.us
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🌺 🌶️ 🌴 tropical horticulturist, garden designer, plant nerd, speculative fiction fan, metal head, bluesman, Floridaman, father, husband, Dudeist, Pastafarian

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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 11/10/2026
We got this Elephant's Foot plant - Dioscorea elephantipes - a few years ago from local horticulturist Palmer Crippen. It's finally starting to look impressive. 🌴
Elephant footplant
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 04/10/2026
So, this is an interesting product. Ice packs that contain (a minute amount of) fertizer. 🌴 🌶️ Analysis 0.01-0.01-0.01.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 03/10/2026
Portea petropolitana 🌴 with Dioon cone.
Pink and purple flower spike of A bromeliad
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 02/10/2026
Goat time 🌶️
Bahamian Goat peppers.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 01/10/2026
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 30/09/2026
Orchids on display 🌴
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 29/09/2026
Butterfly Ginger 🌴
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 22/09/2026
I smell a ddos attack coming very soon.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 17/09/2026
We have the stupidest President in history. #donaldtrumpisasubidiot
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 14/09/2026
Looks like some of my crosses took. Last time I did this cross all the seeds were infertile. #tryagain #peppercrossing #chinensexannuum 🌶️
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 14/09/2026
It took me until my 30s to really grasp some of the social and political aspects of Asimov. He's my most re-read author
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 13/09/2026
I was gifted this Dioon in a 3 gallon pot by my late friend Kevin Davis 23 years ago, and it is finally fruiting now. The tomentum covered cones are really something to see. 🌴
Dioon spinulosum with cone. Dioon cone with tomentum..
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 11/09/2026
This is why my Ghostbirds are so good. They fruit prolifically like a bird pepper with the heat of a ghost pepper 🌶️
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Well that's terrifying: "Today 57 million American adults are functionally illiterate. That number represents 28% of the adult population, a significant surge from 18% just over a decade ago." sciencepolitics.org/2026/08/21/a...
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Adult Literacy Is Mysteriously Declining Across Many High-Income Countries - Science Politics
COVID and smartphones alone cannot explain the decline. One thing we do know: both young and old need to retain the ability to gather and process information.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 18/08/2026
It's so hot I don't have much fruit set in my garden, but I did get a few. 🌶️
Bahamian Goat, Tiberius Mauler, Fried Chicken, and Aji Lolo Red.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 15/08/2026
Perfect Bahamian Goat 🌶️ 🌴
Bahamian Goat peppers on the bush.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 11/08/2026
The upshot of this is that these are better than their original parent, so they may be worthy of growing out as a unique varietal.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 11/08/2026
These F4 aji Lolo peppers have reverted back to the phenotype of one of the parents. The original cross was Habanero Adalberto x Orange Brazilian Starfish. The F3 of that cross, called Staranero, was crossed with Aji Pineapple and yielded an orange pumpkin shaped pepper which I dubbed Aji Lolo. 🌶️
Red Aji Peppers in the hand
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 11/08/2026
Murasaki Purple 🌶️
A handful of red peppers
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 29/07/2026
I grew a Trinidad perfume years ago along with Tobago seasoning and some other seasoning peppers and they are all C. chinense
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 29/07/2026
That's a annuum
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 24/07/2026
Pain, lots of pain. So far I've just been dehydrating or freezing them and trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to do with all this heat.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 24/07/2026
I was "today" years old when I learned that venomous primates exist. Slow loris - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_lo...
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Slow loris - Wikipedia
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 24/07/2026
Oooh yah. 🌶️
Friend Chicken Pepper coming in
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 22/07/2026
Summer heat. 🌶️
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 20/07/2026
Aji Chombo, Bahamian Goat and Brown GhostBird peppers. 🌶️
Three peppers in the hand,
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 20/07/2026
Super Julie Mango is super beautiful. 🌴
The orange red fruit of super Julie Manjo
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 19/07/2026
Is a big crash coming? July 29th is one predicted date where earnings calls may spell the downfall of Ai.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 17/07/2026
The worst 5 are all deep red states, as to be expected.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 17/07/2026
Worst states to live in America in 2026 www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/... Unsurprising.
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These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026
Some states may have low costs and light regulation, but high crime and lack of healthcare are among important factors when people choose where to live.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 15/07/2026
Cubanola domingensis Campanita Criollo 🌴
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 14/07/2026
Some flowers in the butterfly conservatory. 🌴
Thryallis flowersBottlebrush flower Purple Porterweed flowerOrchid Tree Flower
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 14/07/2026
Strait of hormuz live tracker.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 12/07/2026
I've been growing quite a few of these this year and they are quite beautiful but not very spicy. I even crossed it with a Primotalii. Still waiting to see if the seeds are viable.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 06/07/2026
When Trump was inaugurated I predicted he would tank the economy within 18 months. I have until July 20th to be proven right or wrong. Unfortunately it's looking like I'm going to be correct. #electidiots #fafo
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 03/07/2026
Grammatophyllum flowering 🌴
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 26/06/2026
Today is going to be rough. #insomneasucks
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 25/06/2026
Interesting I don't think I know that what cockroaches smell like... I guess I will have to investigate...
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 24/06/2026
Still getting a few peppers this summer when the temps drop from afternoon and nighttime thunderstorms this random pepper grew up in my hedge 🌶️
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 23/06/2026
Dendrobium crumenatum - thunderstorm orchids going crazy on this Live Oak tree. 🌴 #orchid
Thunderstorm orchids blooming on a oak trunkWhite orchids blooming on an oak tree
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 21/06/2026
It's a lovely fragrance for sure.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 21/06/2026
Fagraea ceilanica, Perfume Flower Tree is blooming now. 🌴
Two white Perfume flowersA white flower
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 21/06/2026
My Father's day gifts from my bestest daughter. She knows me so well. Mead, hot sauce, and Dungeon Crawler Carl merch. #fathersday
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 11/06/2026
My spring season has ended...these are some of the last stragglers. 🌶️ #hotpeppers #hybridpeppers
An orange Aji Lolo, a red Ghostbird, a Black Hungarian, and a Aji Sunrise Pepper.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 03/06/2026
You're in.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 02/06/2026
You've been added
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 02/06/2026
Two phenos of the same cross. These are three way cross of Brazilian Starfish x Habanero Adalberto x Aji Rainforest. The red is an F4 and the Orange is an F3. 🌶️ #peppercrosses
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 23/05/2026
I grew these labeled as Fried Chicken Pepper, which they obviously aren't... but I also have Bahamian Goat growing so I thought maybe I messed up the tags, but no,after a taste these have almost zero heat. Nada, zilch. I ate a whole pepper and it was just like a seasoning pepper. 🌶️
Two orange peppersThree unknown orange peppers on a blue background
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 14/05/2026
I would take all of the super hot SHU ratings with a heavy dose of skepticism. It would be trivial to adulterate a sample before testing, and the lure of world record money makes people do bad things. Personally I would say these are very hot, as hot as any Reaper for sure.
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Chris🌴🌶️ 🌺 @thegreenman.us · 14/05/2026
Today's harvest with lots of Primotalii. Luckily I have two co-workers who like to make sauce and salsa so most of these will go to them. 🌶️
A bench covered in poles of different peppers in red, yellow, brown and orange.
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