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Dec 22, 2010 16:03:08 GMT -5
Post by daylilydude on Dec 22, 2010 16:03:08 GMT -5
Hot or not-so-hot or maybe ever the sweet bells?
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Dec 22, 2010 20:41:37 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2010 20:41:37 GMT -5
I eat peppers. All sorts of peppers.
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Dec 22, 2010 20:43:22 GMT -5
Post by w8in4dave on Dec 22, 2010 20:43:22 GMT -5
I used to love Hotpeppers but not so much anymore... I love a lil heat , but I like to taste my food also That and acid reflux has a hold of me..
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Dec 22, 2010 21:04:08 GMT -5
Post by rintintin on Dec 22, 2010 21:04:08 GMT -5
Peppers, both sweet and hot, add so much dimension to a meal. I add sweet (& often hot) to most salads. Grilled peppers go with many dishes. I grew up in the South West, so I love a variety of hot peppers...especially fire roasted (with mesquite wood). I find all pepper plants to be attractive, especially when in full bloom! Raw, grilled, roasted, pickled, by themselves or in salsas/sauces, peppers are one of the most versatile veggies you can grow. They are also very nutritional.
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Dec 24, 2010 21:13:22 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 21:13:22 GMT -5
I grow the following
1) bell peppers (never seem to do well)
2) hot "salad" peppers (can be pickled)
3) medium-mild NuMex type roasted green chiles (Big Jim etc) and red chiles for powder
4) very hot peppers (cayenne type for crushed pepper flakes)
5) super hot peppers (Habanero types)...its impossible for me to use these up over a year, but they are fun to grow...various uses.
6) ornamental peppers
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Dec 26, 2010 16:58:47 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2010 16:58:47 GMT -5
sweet bells of all types make up most of my garden plantings,i just love them all.
now hot peppers i try to avoid unless they are mild to taste.
when i was a kid,my mexican stepdad would make us eat one for a quarter for the saturday afternoon show downtown,,so is why i don't like the hot ones.
Larry
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Dec 26, 2010 17:07:30 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2010 17:07:30 GMT -5
Like larry I perfer sweet bell peppers. I did learn last year why it's a good thing to wear gloves when cutting up hot pepperslol, washing ya hands a few times still doesn't remove the oil.
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Dec 26, 2010 18:37:59 GMT -5
Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 26, 2010 18:37:59 GMT -5
Never mind your hands, I always somehow manage to rub my face and/or my eyes...When Smoke gets in your eyes.... I love them All! Sweet (Purple in Particular) , Hot ("Black" aka Purple again ), Pickled, Flakes, Fried, Chopped, in Cheese....
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Dec 27, 2010 10:08:42 GMT -5
Post by Barton on Dec 27, 2010 10:08:42 GMT -5
I love them All! Sweet (Purple in Particular) , Hot ("Black" aka Purple again ) Which purples have you grown?
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Dec 27, 2010 10:33:30 GMT -5
Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 27, 2010 10:33:30 GMT -5
Purple Beauty is the only sweet that I've had success with in Zone 5. I've bought mixes before with purple in them and the purples never grew?
Black Hungarian has been a regular in our house since someone sent me seeds in 2007. Nice looking with just the right amount of heat.
This reminds me of a discussion on another forum a few years back. Seems that the beautiful purple colour when pickled, becomes somewhat gray, resembling bottled mousemeat, Blech! I grow them in containers so's they look cute.
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Dec 27, 2010 11:51:28 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2010 11:51:28 GMT -5
Never mind your hands, I always somehow manage to rub my face and/or my eyes...When Smoke gets in your eyes.... I love them All! Sweet (Purple in Particular) , Hot ("Black" aka Purple again ), Pickled, Flakes, Fried, Chopped, in Cheese.... Thats what I meant, i touched my face and eyes and oh boylol. Hands burned for two days.
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Dec 30, 2010 17:25:38 GMT -5
Post by daylilydude on Dec 30, 2010 17:25:38 GMT -5
OK, I'm switching up this next season! I just started seeds for Zavory, Sweet Cayenne and some mixed bells, wish me luck!
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Dec 30, 2010 19:47:31 GMT -5
Post by rintintin on Dec 30, 2010 19:47:31 GMT -5
For me, pepper plants are beautiful. I love the sweet ones, and the hot ones. Jimmy Nardello is a wonderful salad/roasting sweet pepper. My plants a year ago were very prolific (in SoCal that season). Peppers (hot/sweet) demand a long, warm season. High humidity increases the heat.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2011 7:23:26 GMT -5
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 4, 2011 7:35:14 GMT -5
Id say, but no problem with the sinuses, but now at the other end...
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Post by Penny on Jan 4, 2011 7:56:12 GMT -5
Oh wow......nice Mook........and yep.....ouch for sure!
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Jan 5, 2011 20:13:43 GMT -5
Post by Trudi on Jan 5, 2011 20:13:43 GMT -5
Has anyone grown FISH? It's a beautiful Baltimore heirloom that has streaky peppers and variagated foliage. They're a bit hot, but not something that makes your eyes shoot out of their sockets.
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Jan 5, 2011 22:11:43 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2011 22:11:43 GMT -5
I just started my super hots tonight, they are warming up on the heat mat, where they will now live until they sprout, from there they are going under T5 lights for about 3 months, then get weaned to outside. Here what I started tonight.... Bhut Jolokia Chocolate Bhut Jolokia 7 Pod Brain Strain 7 Pod Jonah Douglah Yellow Cardi Trinidad Scorpion Peruvian Serlano Chocolate Habanero
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Post by stratcat on Jan 6, 2011 0:20:51 GMT -5
Has anyone grown FISH? It's a beautiful Baltimore heirloom that has streaky peppers and variegated foliage. They're a bit hot, but not something that makes your eyes shoot out of their sockets. I grew Fish a couple times. They're an attractive plant. I really like variegated foliage.
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Post by stratcat on Jan 6, 2011 0:30:50 GMT -5
I just started my super hots tonight, they are warming up on the heat mat, where they will now live until they sprout, from there they are going under T5 lights for about 3 months, then get weaned to outside. Here what I started tonight.... Bhut Jolokia Chocolate Bhut Jolokia 7 Pod Brain Strain 7 Pod Jonah Douglah Yellow Cardi Trinidad Scorpion Peruvian Serlano Chocolate Habanero Nice list, mvnewf. I grew Bhut Jolokia once. Wow...these ought to burn you up!
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Jan 6, 2011 12:34:13 GMT -5
Post by sorellina on Jan 6, 2011 12:34:13 GMT -5
Ciao all-
If I were to give any potential pepper growers a bit of advice, it would be to limit the number of the seriously hot peppers you grow unless you're planning to create hot sauces or powders for sale. For whatever reason, the really hot peppers are the ones that are usually the most prolific, even in our short season in Tunderiffic Toronto. It's quite easy to get overwhelmed with harvests and a really good idea to enlist help from reliable sources during harvest time. On the other hand, the sweet bells are more of a challenge to grow and produce large harvests, so planting more than you think you may need might be an idea to ensure getting enough.
Duane is our pepper-grower and he currently has at least 10, maybe more large tubs of dried peppers for grinding and tons of diced peppers in the freezer, more than we'll go through before the next harvests, I'm sure.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 8:47:50 GMT -5
I love them All! Sweet (Purple in Particular) , Hot ("Black" aka Purple again ), Pickled, Flakes, Fried, Chopped, in Cheese.... Mmmm hot peppers, yummy!
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Jan 8, 2011 16:32:01 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 16:32:01 GMT -5
I grow sweet ones and hot ones. I only eat the sweet ones. The hot ones I grow for my brother. He saves the seeds for me to plant. This past year was not a good season. I planted them peppers in March but was able to harvest until November. They just didn't want to grow. Thinking it may have been to hot and not enough rain.This year I am hoping that will grow better so I can have a much earlier harvest.
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Jan 11, 2011 1:47:20 GMT -5
Post by txdirtdog on Jan 11, 2011 1:47:20 GMT -5
I like sweet bell types fresh, and in most dishes, just not stuffed. I like hots, but habs are probably the top of my enjoyability comfort zone. Most of the peppers I am trying to grow this season are new to me except for jalapeno and cayenne. Sweet: Quattro D'asti Rosso Emerald Giant St. Vincent Seasoning (maybe this should be in hots, but I don't think so).
Hots: Jalapeno M Long thin cayenne Chocolate Hab Habanero de Arbol Chinese 5 color Hungarian Wax Thai Dragon (hybrid) Tequila Sunrise (not sure if this belongs in hots)
I will only grow 1 of most of these with more jalapenos and sweet bell types.
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Jan 11, 2011 6:30:15 GMT -5
Post by bluelacedredhead on Jan 11, 2011 6:30:15 GMT -5
TX, I've grown Quattro D'asti Giallo before, the giant yellow & green one. I bet you'll have better production than I did here with more fruit maturing. Hope you enjoy them.
What is St. Vincent Seasoning??
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Jan 11, 2011 7:32:58 GMT -5
Post by Penny on Jan 11, 2011 7:32:58 GMT -5
Hmmmm, I've never heard of that one either....do you have a pic of it?
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Jan 11, 2011 8:26:21 GMT -5
Post by txdirtdog on Jan 11, 2011 8:26:21 GMT -5
Unfortunately I don't have a picture. I received it in a trade. The one I traded with *I believe* rec'd it sometime during the fall and was nice enough to add a few seeds on top of the trade. But from what I've been able to gather it is a very little heat-high flavor like some of the other seasoning peppers. If I am successful in growing it, I'll try to remember to take pics as I haven't been able to find any.
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Jan 11, 2011 8:31:05 GMT -5
Post by txdirtdog on Jan 11, 2011 8:31:05 GMT -5
TX, I've grown Quattro D'asti Giallo before, the giant yellow & green one. I bet you'll have better production than I did here with more fruit maturing. Hope you enjoy them. What is St. Vincent Seasoning?? Thanks blue. I hope I have good production. I'll at least be able to offer them more time to mature if nothing else.
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Jan 11, 2011 9:02:20 GMT -5
Post by sorellina on Jan 11, 2011 9:02:20 GMT -5
Ciao txdirtdog-
Chinese 5 Colour is a really pretty one. Give it a prominent spot, maybe even as a bedding plant or in a basket. The peppers themselves are edible, but hot like serranos. I put whatever ornamentals Duane grows in the bottom of whatever I pickle for some heat.
Chcolate Hab makes a really nice powder for spice rubs for grilling or smoking. I hope you like to cook! Let's see some of those TexMex recipes Texas is famous for!
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Jan 11, 2011 13:10:21 GMT -5
Post by txdirtdog on Jan 11, 2011 13:10:21 GMT -5
Ciao back to you Sorellina! I do plan to put the 5 color in one of the front beds for color. It will be interesting to find out the heat and flavor of these. The pictures I have seen of these are really nice. I had not thought of powdering the choc hab, so thank you. As I rec'd a dehydrator recently, I will dry and powder some.....outside of course. While DW does the majority of the day to day cooking, I do like to cook, and am told I am pretty decent at it. I will be happy to share recipes as time progresses.
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