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Pepper feed back please

15 years ago

I am trying to round out the last few spaces in the pepper patch. On the "hot" side going for maybe mild to med like a pablano and on the "sweet" side a Marconi.

has any one had experince with these. I'm only going to TLC so can't get to exotice. thanks

Comments (3)

  • 15 years ago

    Pablano is one of my favorites and they do have a 'tiny' bite to them, but I find that I used them a lot.

    I grew yellow marconi last year and they did great. My experience with red marconi production has not been as good although the taste is good. The red marconi was a much smaller plant in my garden, but then Pablano and Yellow Marconi are large plants. Mine were about five feet tall and had to have a cage around them. The cheap tomato cages are adequate for peppers, but not tomatoes.

  • 15 years ago

    My pablanos are always small and hotter than I would like no matter which ones I try. I still like them.

    Giant Marconi was a good performer for me last year. They were huge and good.

  • 15 years ago

    Scot, mine were small last year also. The vines were large and planted much too close so it was kind of a jungle to pick them, but I picked hundreds. I have friends that moved here from California, but both are natives of Arizona and they love peppers. I shared with them throughout the season and when I got tired of picking in the Fall, she came over and picked more for her freezer.

    There was no way to eat the number of peppers I grew last year fresh, so I washed them, and cut them in 'cooking' size pieces and froze them. I did some bags that were only sweet peppers, and some that were a combination of sweets, jalapenos, and pablano which I just labeled spicey. They are perfect for cooking all winter and very convenient. Mexican food and chili got the spicey, where a lot of other dishes just got sweets. I hope to be able to do the same thing this year. I also planted habs, but they will probably be used in jelly making. Dawn got me hooked on that one.

    George gave me some seeds for a small hot pepper that he calls 'Frank's Thai Hot'. I think Frank is his son. Anyway, I didn't grow a lot of them, but I left them to turn red which was pretty because the peppers all grow straight up in the top of the plant. I dried the peppers and ground them into flakes. Now I have to do it again because it was my husband's favorite pepper to sprinkle on pizza and other things all year. I didn't plant very many, but when my son and DIL were picking tomato and pepper transplants to take for their tiny garden, he asked me if I had one of those plants that his Dad had the flakes from. I gave him a pot that had two in it, but maybe I should have planted more of those. Just for the record, they are hot little buggers, and one bottle of flakes has lasted all winter. LOL

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