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Post by daylilydude on Jul 9, 2015 14:10:51 GMT -5
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 9, 2015 17:05:33 GMT -5
I've grown it several times. It's very nearly bulletproof, at least in a hot climate. (It seems to need hot weather to really get started.)
If you have a long hot season it becomes a big plant with multiple trunks, a big root system (it can be quite a job to dig one of these out at the end of the season) and lots of branches.
The plant has small leaves, tiny nondescript green flowers, and will make hundreds and hundreds of hot little peppers, which stick upright. The plant will make multiple flushes of fruit right up 'til frost.
I have seen leaf diseases in bad disease years, but the plant doesn't seem to care. It'll drop some leaves (maybe even most of its leaves) and then come roaring right back with fresh new growth and an even bigger crop of peppers.
The peppers have some heat hot at any stage, so they can be picked at any color depending on the flavor you want. Red ripe ones are hotter. It does take some care picking the green ones as it's easy to pull off the end of the branch along with the pepper. Red ripe peppers come off easy, but they are soft and easy to crush.
If you want to try making your own homemade Tabasco, or some pepper vinegar for greens, this is the pepper to grow. It does take a while to pick hundreds of tiny peppers off each plant, though.
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whistech
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Post by whistech on Jul 10, 2015 20:38:44 GMT -5
I grew two plants last year and I'm growing two this year from seeds that I saved last year. Like Laura said, big plants and hundreds of peppers. Last year I made a pepper vinegar sauce out of them and this year I may try to puree the peppers and make a hot sauce out of them. I would like to ferment them like they do at Avery island, but I don't have the patience to do that.
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