So guy at my work gave me the above plant today. It is pretty tall and have zero idea how to grow/maintain this. Does anyone grow these? What are the peppers like? I really have no room for this. Says you can use peppers to make sauces.
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Aji Dulce is a low to no-heat Capsicum chinense (habanero relative). I've seen a variety of morphologies for it, so I can't promise what the shape would be, but generally the flavor is good like an habanero/scotch bonnet but is heatless. Some people mix them with hotter habanero types to make sauces with moderate heat, or just make almost heatless sauces with them.
Growing them would be the same as growing any other habanero/scotch bonnet relative (or just about any other pepper, really). Give it a decent sized pot and good soil, stake it and give it some support, feed it well, don't over or under-water, and it'll reward you with peppers.
A comment about having limited space: if you like hot, and if you don't have anyone in your house who you are trying to get through the gate and get them eating hotter peppers, you may not enjoy this one as much as the others. That being said, I'm sure you'll find a use for them. For example cut up fresh and in salads, pickled and put in egg salad, or roasted and included in dishes for people who might not like very hot peppers, they are pretty versatile. Pay special attention to them if they are an heirloom variety. IOW did they purchase the seeds/plant commercially, or is this a family heirloom or a pepper they brought from overseas? That might up the coolness factor a little.
Edited to add: can you take a photo of it? Just wanted to confirm it's a chinense.
Growing them would be the same as growing any other habanero/scotch bonnet relative (or just about any other pepper, really). Give it a decent sized pot and good soil, stake it and give it some support, feed it well, don't over or under-water, and it'll reward you with peppers.
A comment about having limited space: if you like hot, and if you don't have anyone in your house who you are trying to get through the gate and get them eating hotter peppers, you may not enjoy this one as much as the others. That being said, I'm sure you'll find a use for them. For example cut up fresh and in salads, pickled and put in egg salad, or roasted and included in dishes for people who might not like very hot peppers, they are pretty versatile. Pay special attention to them if they are an heirloom variety. IOW did they purchase the seeds/plant commercially, or is this a family heirloom or a pepper they brought from overseas? That might up the coolness factor a little.
Edited to add: can you take a photo of it? Just wanted to confirm it's a chinense.
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The problem there is it hasn't been grow correctly up 'till now. It has a lot of stretch from poor lighting and even the lowest lateral growth nodes are quite high. I don't see how you'd be able to correct that and turn it into the shorter, bushier type of plant you'd want for an indoor grow. Frankly, that one could simply be more hassle that it's worth.
As you can see there is no room on my table and I want to concentrate all my efforts into growing what I got. I could transplant it to my Moms house but I'm not there everyday.
Its going to my Mo
ms house Sunday so if it doesn't amount to anything, will go on the compost pile.
ms house Sunday so if it doesn't amount to anything, will go on the compost pile.
The plant was taken to my Moms house and put in the garage. It is supposed to rain heavy tonight, and Mom is having her deck painted so I didn't want to put it outside just yet. Will see what happens.
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Another thing - It looks like that was an "indoor" plant. If so, don't forget you need to introduce it to sunshine gradually (harden-off). Otherwise, the sun will fry it.
Good luck with it!
Yes will do slowly will introduce it to some sun.