Tried a Manzano Rocoto for the first time

thegreenman · Sep 25, 2020

Man, they are delicious. I never knew what I was missing.
Anyone grown them in South Florida with success?

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dlsolo · Sep 25, 2020

I grow at least two plants every year. This year I'm growing one inside my grow tent for ease of access and to collect seeds to refill my stock.

Love these peppers. Juicy and hot. No complaints.

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Chewi · Sep 25, 2020

Think I remember someone growing the brown turbo pubes too.

willard3 · Sep 28, 2020

Everybody in México love his manzanos.
Use it everywhere

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DontPanic · Sep 29, 2020

thegreenman said:
Man, they are delicious. I never knew what I was missing.
Anyone grown them in South Florida with success?

You could check skullbiker's glog. He seems like he's having wickedly fantastic success growing Rocoto's in central Florida.

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/73129-skullbikers-roaring-into-the-twenties-glog/

thegreenman · Sep 29, 2020

DontPanic said:
You could check skullbiker's glog. He seems like he's having wickedly fantastic success growing Rocoto's in central Florida.

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/73129-skullbikers-roaring-into-the-twenties-glog/

Thanks I'll check it out, but Central FL and SE FL have quite different climates. Here it's rare to get below 80f 10months a year.

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willard3 · Oct 6, 2020

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Max Nihil · Oct 17, 2020

The manzano rocoto is the only fresh pepper that I have had an issue with.
At the time (around 2002) I had a modest collection of hot Capsicum species and I was eating habaneros right off the plants but the manzano was something else...

I literally could not keep them down when I ate them fresh and entire.

They are amazing when cooked and presented no issues for me that way.

I've been meaning to try growing them again but they don't fit into my Capsicum projects at present and I need all the space I have.

Walchit · Oct 18, 2020

I got some at the Mexican grocery store, thought being so big they probably wouldnt be that hot. I stuffed them with cruahed pineapple and grilled them. Took a big bite and they were a lot hotter than I was expecting. Ended up turning them into some sauce lol

ahayastani · Oct 20, 2020

Walchit said:
I got some at the Mexican grocery store, thought being so big they probably wouldnt be that hot. I stuffed them with cruahed pineapple and grilled them. Took a big bite and they were a lot hotter than I was expecting. Ended up turning them into some sauce lol

That was my first impression as well... I was "introduced" to this pepper by my relatives from Michoacán. They grow a lot of rocoto in that region, though they mainly call it chile perón. The climate there is somewhat colder, especially during the nights. I assume the high altitude has something to do with it (the state capital is at ~1900m altitude).

Here in Chiapas, rocoto is grown on a small scale for local consumption, and only in the highlands (as far as I know), and manzano is the name they give to habanero :rolleyes:

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Doña Ángela (Michoacán) uses perones regularly, for instance in Carne Apache (with Eng. subtitles).

Edaxflamma · Oct 20, 2020

After seeing this thread, I just happened to find some of these at the local market the other day. The fruits look identical to the ones in the photos above but don't taste any different than a bell pepper. I am assuming I must have just grabbed a dud?

Pr0digal_son · Oct 20, 2020

Edaxflamma said:
After seeing this thread, I just happened to find some of these at the local market the other day. The fruits look identical to the ones in the photos above but don't taste any different than a bell pepper. I am assuming I must have just grabbed a dud?

Not uncommon to get a grassy flavor with some. Save some seeds and grow your own,you can let them fully ripen.They are really nice looking plants.

ahayastani · Oct 20, 2020

Edaxflamma said:
After seeing this thread, I just happened to find some of these at the local market the other day. The fruits look identical to the ones in the photos above but don't taste any different than a bell pepper. I am assuming I must have just grabbed a dud?

Rocoto has black seeds, bell peppers white. What did you have?

Edaxflamma · Oct 20, 2020

The fruit was shaped like the ones in the photos and the seeds are black.

Pr0digal_son · Oct 20, 2020

Edaxflamma said:
The fruit was shaped like the ones in the photos and the seeds are black.

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It's definitely a C.pubescens. Try to grow a few different ones and I am sure you will find one you enjoy. I prefer the orange market pods and yellow varieties.