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Post by daylilydude on Jun 6, 2017 3:27:39 GMT -5
This is a beautiful plant and someone has dropped one off on our front porch as a gift... just wish I knew who?? Anyways, has anyone else grown this variety and care to share their thoughts and hopefully pics? Here are a few pics on the one that was left on the porch:
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Post by paulf on Jun 6, 2017 8:28:29 GMT -5
One of the really nice ornamental peppers. Ours are several years old and have gotten large enough to call a shrub. It is in a large pot and gets brought in every fall and put back out in the spring. I suppose you could eat the fruit if you really wanted to, but why would you. Your photo are nice and representative of this plant.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 6, 2017 8:31:14 GMT -5
Gorgeous, DLD! Much lile that Maui purple I grow, with long peppers, but almost black, w/purple flowers. Be sure to isolate some of the flowers, and save some of the seeds!
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jun 6, 2017 10:08:16 GMT -5
My Black Pearl plant last year. It's gorgeous when the fruit is ripe: Now, let me tell you about eating this pepper. Heat wimps definitely don't even want to lick the pepper. They are extremely hot- not quite super hot territory, but pretty darn close. Taste-wise, this one is absolutely a spitter. It's nasty. I swear when I think about tasting it last year at my pepper tasting my toes want to curl up, it's awful, and there was no redeeming quality to the tasting. Sometimes there is a hint of something sweet, sometimes the finish is pleasant... Not this one. It was like we licked up foul battery acid and then couldn't get the taste out of our mouths fast enough. So I do not recommend eating. That being said, this was the one plant I chose to over-winter last year in my one sunny window. It made me smile all winter long to see it growing on my windowsill and I looked forward to seeing what it did in the spring. Well, one fine April day something made me look closer at it and I realized that I was looking at a full-on spider hatching happening. Teeny-tiny creepy crawlies and webs all over it! It went outside as fast as I could get it there, where the plant promptly froze as our overnights were still too cold for vegetation to survive. It's been sitting on the deck since then, deader than dead, and I've been thinking about what I might put in that pot for the summer. But then last week I found something truly incredible, and yesterday I snapped a picture: Turns out it wasn't quite dead after all and has the will to live. I am looking forward to seeing this one bear fruit again. I will grow it again and again simply because it is so stunning to look at.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 6, 2017 12:04:19 GMT -5
That Maui purple is not one you would like to eat, either. Rated @225k, it is too hot for most, and the only way that I can use it in cooking is to dry it, and use it in stir fries, though you still probably won't want to bite into it!
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Post by daylilydude on Jun 6, 2017 15:50:13 GMT -5
One of the really nice ornamental peppers. Ours are several years old and have gotten large enough to call a shrub. It is in a large pot and gets brought in every fall and put back out in the spring. I suppose you could eat the fruit if you really wanted to, but why would you. Your photo are nice and representative of this plant. Thank you paul, so yours is like 3 or 4 ft. tall, I sure would like to see a pic of it if'n you don't care? Gorgeous, DLD! Much lile that Maui purple I grow, with long peppers, but almost black, w/purple flowers. Be sure to isolate some of the flowers, and save some of the seeds! Thanks pepperhead212, the purple almost black look is what interested me the most, i'm already thinking of isolating some seeds and growing some in an annual flower bed i'm working on. My Black Pearl plant last year. It's gorgeous when the fruit is ripe: Now, let me tell you about eating this pepper. Heat wimps definitely don't even want to lick the pepper. They are extremely hot- not quite super hot territory, but pretty darn close. Taste-wise, this one is absolutely a spitter. It's nasty. I swear when I think about tasting it last year at my pepper tasting my toes want to curl up, it's awful, and there was no redeeming quality to the tasting. Sometimes there is a hint of something sweet, sometimes the finish is pleasant... Not this one. It was like we licked up foul battery acid and then couldn't get the taste out of our mouths fast enough. So I do not recommend eating. That being said, this was the one plant I chose to over-winter last year in my one sunny window. It made me smile all winter long to see it growing on my windowsill and I looked forward to seeing what it did in the spring. Well, one fine April day something made me look closer at it and I realized that I was looking at a full-on spider hatching happening. Teeny-tiny creepy crawlies and webs all over it! It went outside as fast as I could get it there, where the plant promptly froze as our overnights were still too cold for vegetation to survive. It's been sitting on the deck since then, deader than dead, and I've been thinking about what I might put in that pot for the summer. But then last week I found something truly incredible, and yesterday I snapped a picture: Turns out it wasn't quite dead after all and has the will to live. I am looking forward to seeing this one bear fruit again. I will grow it again and again simply because it is so stunning to look at. Hmmm... now the taste of foul battery acid does not sound good at all, so it's prolly gonna just be a ornamental plant every year. Well maybe I could use it for a joke on someone that "says" he can eat fire... LOL! That Maui purple is not one you would like to eat, either. Rated @225k, it is too hot for most, and the only way that I can use it in cooking is to dry it, and use it in stir fries, though you still probably won't want to bite into it! pepperhead if'n I isolate some of these would you be interested in a lil trade?
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 6, 2017 21:25:41 GMT -5
I'd definitely be interested in a trade daylilydude! That Maui purple is also gorgeous when those peppers turn red. I'll find one of my old photos.
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Post by daylilydude on Jul 15, 2017 19:41:55 GMT -5
I'm thinking that this may go into a self watering 5 gallon bucket and it will be brought in in the winter?? How much light do you think it would need to keep it going so when it goes back outside in the latter part of spring it will still be alive?
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jul 15, 2017 20:32:27 GMT -5
I had mine in a West facing window all winter. It really didn't get much good quality light. When I bring a pepper in to over-winter, I prune it heavily and plant it fresh when I bring it in for the winter. I prune back the branches a lot, and I also trim the root ball a small bit. This is a really good article with directions for preparing a pepper plant for over-wintering. www.thechilliking.com/growing/over-wintering/You will not believe how much more productive your pepper plant will be in it's second year of life!
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