hydroponic Rocoto Forest

[Crazy Monkey]

Starting a Dutch bucket rocoto forest in my greenhouse.
Giant Reds, Giant Yellows, Costa Rican, Aji Largo, Farm Locoto, and a couple of Rocoto Reisen. (also 2 datils, 2 corno di torro, and 2 tabasco) 32 total

 

[skullbiker]

Nuthin like a big bunch of rocotos. I should grow the Giant Yellow again, I really liked them.........and the Giant Orange.......and Motufars......and....

 

[Crazy Monkey]

Pods everywhere too. I stopped counting at 100

 

[skullbiker]

Pods everywhere too. I stopped counting at 100

It's a well known fact, "you can't have too many rocoto pods".

 

[PollenNut]

Once you go C. pubescens the only thing better is a Locopica. Both are mouth watering firebombs of juice rolling down your fingers when ripe, but the later tends to be much hotter.

 

[dragonsfire]

Awesome Group

 

[Thegreenchilemonster]

What an epic rocoto forest you have there, man!

 

[Crazy Monkey]

Picked a few from the forest. 3 giant yellow rocotos, a huge corno di toro, some ripe bananas, and some oddball red peppers that came from a plant grown from datil seeds saved form last year.

 

[Downriver]

@Crazy Monkey Nice pickins CM. The Yellow Rocotos look nice. What did you think of the taste?

 

[Crazy Monkey]

@Crazy Monkey Nice pickins CM. The Yellow Rocotos look nice. What did you think of the taste?

Quite juicy and a good bit of a kick. Heat doesnt hit right away. I use them in sauces and pepper jam/jelly. Just have to wait for the hundreds of other pods to ripen.

 

[Crazy Monkey]

Picked a few more...

 

[skullbiker]

Nice haul.

 

[dragonsfire]

Awesome!

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Rocoto Loco!

 

[Crazy Monkey]

Rocoto Loco!

Moy loco

 

[Crazy Monkey]

A couple of updated shots. The greenhouse is 20ft wide and the forest has taken over more than 1/2 of that. Not much room to maneuver. Definitely have to rethink spacing next season. I have 2 rows of 16 buckets spaced 18" center-to-center. May remove every-other bucket to give some more growing room.