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Post by bluelacedredhead on Oct 9, 2007 21:37:11 GMT -5
I've heard such wonderful things about this pepper. So, when I had the opportunity to purchase a plant at a sale in the spring I did so, brought it home and gave it a place of honour away from all other peppers in my herb garden. Summer came and went. The plant was tall and stately, but few blossoms and even fewer peppers. One misshapen. Others that would fall before they got much more than a quarter inch in length. Well look we said this morning! We have a ripe J.N.!!! Sweet!~! But far from the catalogue descriptions of 10 to 12 inches in length. Oh well I said...I'll save a few seeds anyway. Maybe it was just a bad year or perhaps something was lacking in the soil. There's always next year to work with it... But imagine our shock when we cut open the little fella and there wasn't even so much as one seed inside... Too small for seed perhaps??
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Post by canadamike on Dec 26, 2007 1:13:34 GMT -5
The same happened to me this year. Well,... not exactly, you got one pepper.
Not me.
And I had baskets full of other varieties. Jimmy Nardello is a new no- no for me here in Ontario
Mike
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Post by ohiorganic on Dec 26, 2007 6:06:22 GMT -5
I grew them in 2005. got lots of peppers but none were more than 4" long and the flavor was nothing special. I prefer Marconi peppers over the JN.
And they sold very very poorly at the farmers market, no matter how I talked them up.
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Post by jtcm05 on Dec 26, 2007 8:06:04 GMT -5
I've grown it the last few years and that looks nothing like it. Here's a pic from last year. Very sweet and very productive. Ripens green to red.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 26, 2007 9:05:11 GMT -5
John, I had many small peppers on the plant shaped like those in your pic, just a lot smaller, LOL
We've always had great difficulty growing sweet peppers here. I put this plant in my herb garden at the house instead of in the main garden out back for two reasons. First being to keep it isolated from the other pepper varieties and secondly, because the herb garden had previously been the only spot where sweet peppers even thought about growing. Not this year! Maybe in 2008.
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Post by canadamike on Dec 29, 2007 23:13:57 GMT -5
Dear Blue:
I think the pictures tcm05 confirm the veracity of the litterature, but there might be a reason why frying peppers are quite more of a thing in cultures with a quite warmer climate.
Have you tried Doe Hill and Topepo Rosso? I call them my PIZZA COMBO. Doe Hill goes from light green to yellow, AND IS EARLY and productive. It is a small bell, more of a pimento. Same size but dark green then deep chocolate brown then deep red is Topepo Rosso. In both case, the flesh is thick and the taste is very good, much more so than all the other run of the mill bells I grew.
An they are so cute, my friends were crazy about them. I cook my own homemade pizza ( there is always a ton of teenagers here) and these beauties always make a splash.
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