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Post by daylilydude on Apr 10, 2015 19:55:14 GMT -5
I'm not talking about the lava in your mouth you have to spit them out kind of pepper I'm talking about the nastiest pepper you have tasted and just spit it out cause you didn't care for the taste of it! What do you look for in the taste of a pepper that makes you want to grow them again?
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swamper
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Post by swamper on Apr 10, 2015 21:07:44 GMT -5
More often it's the texture that limits the quality of peppers more than flavor imo. The peppers I shy away from are those with walls that are just too thin or watery. Ace is very popular since it ripens red so quickly but the flavor is lacking for anything but salad use. Chiles with thin walls that fill up with seeds aren't interesting to me.
I'm always on the lookout for early ripening peppers. Apache is a very early chile, but again the fruits were thin walled and not very tasty.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 11, 2015 11:23:07 GMT -5
NuMex Orange Suave was a spitter to me last year. It's a no-heat habanero that is supposed to have great habanero flavor. Mine had little taste, and what taste they did have was unpleasant. I thought maybe the first ones I had harvested too soon, so I left more on the plant until they were deep orange - definitely ripe - and they were no better. So I pulled the plants. Garden Sunshine was not quite a spitter, but I have no plans to grow it again, either. The variety description said they were best when blushing yellow and orange, but to me they had little taste or sweetness until full red, at which point they had to be picked and used promptly. (In the Florida heat they would go from red to mushy really fast.) When picked at the right time, they were kind of sweet and decent in flavor, but nowhere near as tasty as my bells. They were better cooked, so I mixed them in with my bell peppers for stir fry, fajitas, etc. Ironically, those two varieties were some of my most prolific producers.
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Post by stratcat on Apr 11, 2015 17:14:54 GMT -5
Ironically, those two varieties were some of my most prolific producers. I noticed that about spitter tomatoes, too. Great production...
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 11, 2015 21:23:35 GMT -5
I've had a number of spitter peppers, mostly being the ones so hot that I don't want to swallow them, but I want to sample them. Funny thing is, we have told others to spit them out when sampling, but some habameros are very slow to come on, and they would swallow them anyway, and pay the price later!
I have had countless types of very bitter peppers, even after ripening, and they were only edible when dried, and used in stir-fries. Many were ornamentals, though I still grow one - Maui Purple - since it is the best purple pepper I have grown. Most I just never grow again, and this is why I try just one or two of the new ones, and wait to see if any live up to my favorites.
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