Recent content by Dr.Peppar

 Thanks a million!   Any advise on sprouting the black seeds?

The problem here in FL is the sandy soils. The RNN love it. All that crop rotation stuff, it just doesnt work over the course of a year, year after year, the way I grow system wide (which would be hard to explain). The bastards are down i the ground, and anything set on top of it they crawl up...

I see quite a bit of variance each year in the FL markets down here each year between pods marked "Scotch Bonnet" / "____ Caribbean Habanero". For me its all about if they have that strong fruity aroma / flavor, or not.

Root Knot Nematodes a major ordeal down here in Florida for anything Solanoideae.   In my old yard I had a huge Chinaberry Tree, Neem's toxic bastard cousin, which I had good results chopping big wads of raw leaf into a bucket of water, let it soak a good 20 minutes, and dunk stuff into it or...

Depends on the size of the pot, age of the plants, age of the soil (as it changes across the year), composition of the soil. In my early years I was running 5 gal pots, here in FL, on no budget so had FL 'dirt' (sand) mixed in with lots of manure and everything else I could manage to conjure up...

Now that's interesting!!!

You an grow some great peppers in FL sandy soils if you work the top a good bit with even just some horse manure. But in pots sand of any amount is like my worst enemy. Its weight alone just sucks. And eventually the plants eat everything but the heavy ass sand. Eventually after some you have...

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  Black seeds is how you know you have rocoto's.   I'd like to hear people's results from trying to sprout rocoto's.   There's no other plant out there I can think of as giving abysmal germination results. I lost count how many times I've acquired various rocoto seeds from various sources and...

Pepperhead here. Would like to get in on. Have lots of ethnic types to add in!

  Now looking at those, neither seem a proper fit. These were long and slender, and none were quite red. Also looking at this: http://www.thechileman.org/results.php?chile=1&find=serrano&heat=Any&origin=Any&genus=Any The ones pictured there dont quite fit either. :sick:

Yeah I'll be well documenting the growth and the eventual fruits to best nail it down.... for now I suppose I'll just have to amend the product page explaining the affair.

Thanks. The guy i got them from didn't have a name for them so I started calling them Bolivian Carrot but then when just I found that serrano's are known for fuzz I feel like a major douche.   I sell the seeds & now plants in my site, but I'm always open to trades.

The last one looks like Dorset Naga.

I found these at an odd fruit stand (operated by a family from Peru) in late 2012:   Serrano peppers are always available here at most of the major grocery chains, but these didn't strike me as Serrano's.   I didn't get around to actually growing them last year, but now I finally am and look at...