Recent content by Southwardbound

Within 5 miles of ocean and less than 1000 ft, probably closer to 500 ft. In CO medium was perfect for my taste. So we bought seeds that were supposed to be just that. But I am trying to figure out what went wrong cause the resultant peppers have nearly NO heat. You are probably right. But...

Beautiful plants! I am impressed! I grew up in Western Colorado eating lots of chills (Mexican food is one of my food groups) but not as many as you. My favorite food in life is Chile Verde made in the way it is in Colorado. It's basically a pork & chili stew but has tomatoes in it and kind of...

That's good to know. Unfortunately, I cannot go to the source! Environment apparently does have a profound influence. Do you think if we buy the hotter variety, it would be medium grown here? Seriously, several hundred pounds??? Do you mind sharing why and what you do with them?

The seeds purchased late December: http://www.hatch-chi...productid=28775 Says they are "certified seeds" but not sure what that means. Supposed to be medium/hot. The seed packet itself says medium. I have a scan of the package I would paste here, but don't know how to do that....... But they...

Thanks, will see what they taste like more mature. But we don't water plants here; it rains a lot. That may be a problem. Maybe a "hotter" chili variety will actually turn out to be a "medium" variety in the DR. Unless we have a dry spell, but those a pretty rare. Especially compared to SW USA...

Well, if we can get the heat level up I will agree with you. Literally dropped some seeds on the ground (well, the gardener did but he's never grown peppers) about 60 days ago and WOW! Having to thin the plants out. And there are many, many bushels already. Have no idea how will go from here...

I have heard theta growing conditions affect heat; just don't know what does what. This is the first crop off these plants. But since they are a perennial, they should last for years. So do you mean these plants will probably produce peppers with more heat as time goes on? Would they have...

My brother has a hobby farm here in Dominican Republic. I miss Mexican food, but know how to cook it. So he got New Mexico Big Jim chile pepper seeds. They are growing like crazy with massive amounts of peppers already. However, very, very mild!! Too mild. We ordered the medium heat seeds and I...

Just found site, trying to grow in the DR so I can cook Mexican food. No appropriate peppers grown here commercially.