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Varieties for plant sale ?

Jackson13

Jackson13

Every year my cousin runs the University of Delaware Botanic Gardens Spring Benefit plant sale. I have for the past years donated seeds for this and it's has become a great success. I typically package about 20 packs of OP superhots a year for the last 6 years. I am coming to the end of my varieties from my superhot collection. Do you fellow growers think that people would be just as interested in other kinds such as, annuum, baccatum, frutescens and pubescens?

Thanks for your input.
 
Hey, I helped select varieties for the UGA Plant Breeding Graduate Student Association plant sale for a couple of years recently. We have had good success with Red Knight and some NuMex varieties. Gardeners aren't usually very excited about superhots, but they love bell peppers, and Red Knight has the best disease resistance in the world right now IMO.
 
I would look into adding some of the new varieties out of seminis seeds, their varieties usually do pretty well all over the place.
 
 
But really, the best advice you could possibly get comes from your own university. These are the varieties that UDelrecommends:
 
https://cdn.extension.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/20132545/Peppers.pdf
 
 
 
 
I expect a lot of people would be interested in the more familiar annuum varieties, and possibly baccatums too. Maybe some of the tastier, non-superhot chinenses like Scotch Bonnets as well. Or the very low heat ones like NuMex Suave Orange. I'm not too sure about the frutescens and pubes though.
 
Edmick said:
I would think the average would be more interested in those than superhots 
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You'd be surpised how much the novelty factor of big name supers affects sales.
 
People who like chillies on a more normal level than us, though, will definitely see the appeal in milder varieties. Preferably ones like Jalapeños, Bonnets, Habaneros and other potentially familiar things.
Lemondrops are great for the slightly more adventurous.
 
Thanks for all for the advice. I think i'm going to mix it up with a little of all the varieties I have. This may broaden purchases from those who don't like the brutal heat of the superhots.
 
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