peppers

[orflo]

By orflo, shot with DiMAGE A2 at 2007-08-22
Gelbe kirchen
a wonderful variety, compact , bushy, very early producer of (sometimes) hundreds hot little round devils, one of my favourite varieties but you have to a bit of resistance to the heat; very decorative plants , growing no bigger than about 40 cms. high and thirty wide

[canadamike]

Gosh! Here comes another member of the hemorroïds busters club!! I am trying to join you guys, but I am still at the phase where I pay for eating them the day after....

[grungy]

Orflo - please add seeds for this one to our want list.

Mike, try Peptid AC about 15 minutes before you try the pepper and take another about a hour after your "meal". It really will help.

Cheers,
Val and Dan (grungy and grunt)

[michaeljohnson]

Also try- Asbestos toilet paper-it's fireproof

Whatever you do -don't try the variety ( Ring of fire) - I can assure you that it lives up to it's name

[canadamike]

I am deeply honored to see such a gentlemen and scholar be so sensitive to the needs of my behind ;D

[johno]

I just eat ice cream after hot peppers...

[ottawagardener]

How about ice cream with hot peppers, mmmm

Fatali Habanero - looong season. It took two years to crop in my garden. However, now that it has been alive 3 years, I'd say that it overwinters well enough and will crop in the garden and in a pot. I have sandy loam soil. Does not dry or freeze that well from my experience so this is a pepper for your summer and fall time recipes.



Pepper plant in its 3rd year.

Oh and take my word for it, don't just eat fresh by itself unless your mouth is lined with insulation. If you dont' believe me, see my old blog post:

ottawahortiphilia.blogspot.com/2007/09/overwintering-hot-peppers-sunny-season.html

[macmex]

Hey folks,

I'm in Hidalgo, Mexico for two weeks right now (home of hot food). There's a little corner of three states here where they grow a type of Jalapeño called the Rayado. It's hotter than the regular Jalapeño and is mainly used, smoked, for making salsa. I tried for something like 6 years, unsuccessfully, to get seed for Rayado, when we still lived down here. But I was never out there when it had ripe seed and apparently most folk, these days, don't save their own seed. We came back to the USA in 2001, and I thought, "Well, that's that, I tried." But each year I do return to teach two weeks of modules in the school where we used to serve. Three years ago my students learned that I'm "a seed man," just before many went home for the weekend. When they returned one of them brought me about a thousand Rayado seeds! I've grown Rayado, in Oklahoma now, three growing seasons. It's a great early hot pepper, produces large Jalapeño type peppers abundantly and dependably, and is quite hot.

I wish I had a picture. Basically it's a large Jalapeño with lots of little cracks in the skin. I've been told by some Mexican friends that Jalapeños with cracks in the skin are normally hotter than those without. I suspect that the Rayado is simply a selection of Jalapeño.

Interesting fact: Hot pepper aficionados in Mexico can tell from which state and which exposure (one the mountain side) a pepper was grown, just by tasting it. Some can tell how hot and how good flavor a dried smoked Rayado will have, just by LOOKING at it. I've never figured this out. Hot peppers are greatly affected not only by soil, but also by temperatures and humidity. If I recall correctly, the best Rayados grow on slopes which receive the morning sun, for more day time heat and cooler nights.

I'm sure that the Rayados we grow in Oklahoma don't compare, and we have not yet smoked any. But they sure are good.

George

[Penny]

Both plants are really neat.....

[Wrennie]

Orflo where are you from? Nice looking pepper.

Ottawan thats great you can take yours in overwinter!

MacMex How cool your student brought you seeds!

[ottawagardener]

Like these striped Jalapenos (normal, early variety):



They were hot!

[Penny]

Those look great too, did you grow them from seed??

[ottawagardener]

Yup. They were an early jalapeno and I hope I still have a couple seeds because I'm growing them this year too. I had 2 / 3 plants and pickled like 4 jars of these hotties as well as eating quite a few. These are not the kind of jalapenos you get at a salad bar but making some mouth watering poppers.

Wrennie: The first year I tried overwintering I thought the plant had died because it lost most of its leaves (actually it might have died). Anyhow, I did some shotty research and concluded that I'd give it a whirl and its worked well ever since. Problems: need a sunny window especially if you get six months of frost like us, do not bring bugs inside, I repeat... and now I notice a bit of leaf spot on my 3 year old Long Red Cayenne but am not sure how to handle it. Otherwise, I am careful to water when getting a bit dry, not to overwater and it seems to work. I've both planted them in the ground then potted them up for the winter or left them in the pot. Both methods worked fine.

[Penny]

Thats great, i am going to be keeping alot of my seeds, to keep and also i want to try and keep a couple plants for the winter too,

[macmex]

Great picture! I have a similar one of mixed habaneros. But I failed to take a picture of the Rayados. They look similar to Ottawagardener's early Jalapeños.

George