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Post by diane on Feb 25, 2015 20:34:38 GMT -5
Now that my potted peppers have a gap in their production, I have been buying some tooth peppers imported
from Spain.
They are 22 cm long x 6 cm wide, bright red, and good in a salad or a stir-fry.
I tried germinating a few of the seeds but they didn't. Odd. Almost everything else germinated - chinense, baccatum, pubescens, annuum .
I'll try again, sowing a lot more seeds this time (usually I sow six, one each for me, some family and friends).
Does anyone know their proper name? I suppose they might be hybrids.
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Post by ilex on Feb 26, 2015 3:10:37 GMT -5
Photo?
Not sure what they are. Do you mean bell peppers?
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Post by Al on Feb 26, 2015 5:38:13 GMT -5
I have also been buying long spanish peppers recently, really lovely looking things. I sowed seeds & they germinated alright. Perhaps they took a little longer to come up than some other peppers & chillis, & possibly not every seed came up. I also wonder if they are a hybrid so it will be interesting to see what is produced. I just labeled the pot "pointy peppers" but I think Tesco sold them as "Torro Rosso" or something similar. I am guessing this refers to their red colour & resemblance to a bulls horn (Torro = bull?)  IMG_1326 by portobell0, on Flickr |
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 26, 2015 7:43:14 GMT -5
Did you try the baggie method just to make sure? And I must get some of those! (Husband's spanish - he'd drool)
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Post by hortusbrambonii on Feb 26, 2015 9:46:10 GMT -5
Those look like the peppers at the Turkish supermarket (again... what's up with this forum and Turkish supermarkets lately)-.
They were very low-priced for some reason last week, and I like their taste very much... So we ate them several times lately in very different dishes. Good stuff!
(I have no idea what would come out of saved seed, they might be F1 indeed)
Funny is that we call them with the English term 'sweet pepper' here, and the bell peppers that are much more regular in the supermarket are 'paprika'.
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Post by Al on Feb 26, 2015 12:15:46 GMT -5
These four cost just £1 at a high street greengrocer, there must be a huge glut of them in southern Spain or where ever. I am growing a Romanian variety this year which is a similar shape (Antohi Romanian), but only gets about 10cm long. Hope it tastes as good. I think Lidl sells jars of these type of peppers deseeded with the skin scorched off, might be worth preserving some as they are so cheap.
I have never been very sure of the difference between sweet peppers, bell peppers & paprika. Always assumed bell peppers tend to be that 'blocky' shape, & that the term sweet pepper just means they are NOT hot chilli peppers. No idea where cherry peppers like Peppedew fit in.
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Post by ilex on Feb 27, 2015 18:00:22 GMT -5
"Torro Rosso" are Italian words.
In any case, it could be "Palermo F1", type "Ramiro". AFAIK, Ramiro is op and very good (I don't eat peppers, but grew ramiro a couple years ago).
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Post by diane on Feb 27, 2015 20:18:32 GMT -5
I especially like them with cauliflower - red and white is pretty on the plate.
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Post by diane on Mar 1, 2015 1:06:48 GMT -5
I found out a possible reason that the seeds taken from the peppers I am currently eating did not germinate.
Sun-dried pepper seeds germinate much better after a six-month period of storage at low temperature than do freshly gathered seeds.
(a 1940 study by W.R.C. Paul in Tropical Agriculture - various issues in volume 94.), quoted in Peppers, the Domesticated Capsicums, by Jean Andrews.
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