elliemater
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Post by elliemater on Jun 25, 2014 20:56:23 GMT -5
It was supposed to be Serrano. It's got hair.
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Post by elliemater on Jun 25, 2014 21:00:04 GMT -5
I have Manzano seeds, but I thought I got them after I finished seeding all of my peppers. And this baby pepper is pointy?
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Post by paulf on Jun 26, 2014 8:59:18 GMT -5
Just a nice healthy looking pepper. It will be a good one I can tell.
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Post by elliemater on Jun 26, 2014 11:21:18 GMT -5
The latest word is that it seems to be a Goats Pepper cross.
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Post by swamper on Jun 26, 2014 20:53:04 GMT -5
Most of the serranos I've seen are hairy like that.
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Post by elliemater on Jun 26, 2014 22:46:30 GMT -5
Most of the serranos I've seen are hairy like that. I agree with you now that you have told me and I also looked into it. Oh well, it's still pretty neato lookin'!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 26, 2014 23:54:02 GMT -5
I only grew one variety of serrano, and it was not hairy, but it was different from other serrano peppers that I have seen (fatter, milder), so it was probably totally different. Yours doesn't seem as hairy as the rocoto that I grew. It looks almost like a tomato!
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Post by daylilydude on Jun 28, 2014 13:45:04 GMT -5
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Post by elliemater on Jun 28, 2014 16:50:09 GMT -5
I am certain there is literature somewhere devoted to it...for the tomato, it is a wild characteristic and I do remember reading something to this effect (okay, could I be more vague?). Well here's a bit of anecdotal evidence (which is scientifically pretty useless)...in the fall I had a few leafminers. Nothing horrible, but I was picking leaves off here and there. I was growing Seattle's Blue Woolly Mammoth tomato...which has very fuzzy/hairy stem and leaves...and it was the ONLY plant in 30 that I was growing which did not have a single leaf miner on it. Could have been any other characteristic it had, but it does leave me wondering if the lil' guys just didn't want to fight through the hairy jungle.
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Post by paulf on Jun 28, 2014 20:23:54 GMT -5
Not only do plant hairs (trichomes) help repel insect pests, there have been studies that show certain peppers with an over abundance of trichomes have resistance to certain pepper viruses. Like I said, looks like a healthy pepper to me.
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Post by elliemater on Jun 28, 2014 21:35:52 GMT -5
Not only do plant hairs (trichomes) help repel insect pests, there have been studies that show certain peppers with an over abundance of trichomes have resistance to certain pepper viruses. Like I said, looks like a healthy pepper to me. Yes you did say that, and you were right!
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