I have grown pepperonci , different kinds, but was not impressed. One they have thin wall thus little meat. Secondly, the skin was too tough. Same goes for Sh!sh!to.

[QUOTE=Gardeneer;689533]I have grown pepperonci , different kinds, but was not impressed. One they have thin wall thus little meat. Secondly, the skin was too tough. Same goes for Sh!sh!to.[/QUOTE]

Shish!to is why God invented olive oil and sea salt...

just read that sprinkling the foliage when watering makes peppers hotter, so they should be watered from beneath?

[QUOTE=mensplace;689587]just read that sprinkling the foliage when watering makes peppers hotter, so they should be watered from beneath?[/QUOTE]

In all my years of reading and talking to people, I've never heard that "advice". I'm in trouble if it is true because that is how I water the main garden and I don't eat hot peppers knowingly :)

- Lisa

I don't think that getting the foliage wet has anything to do with the heat of the pepper. Peppers are hotter when grown in hot and dry conditions. That is what I have read and that has been my experience in my many years or growing peppers.

I think maturity of the plant has a bearing on the hotness of peppers to some degree.
And hot dry weather.
Poblanos I picked in August were as hot or hotter than any jalapeno I have ever had.

I have also read where watering makes them hotter.
I think it is hog wash.

Worth

[QUOTE=Worth1;689725]I think maturity of the plant has a bearing on the hotness of peppers to some degree.
And hot dry weather.
Poblanos I picked in August were as hot or hotter than any jalapeno I have ever had.

I have also read where watering makes them hotter.
I think it is hog wash.

Worth[/QUOTE]

PERZACKLY why I asked the experts..........but it would semm best to put sweet peppers in the front yard and hots in the back. I don't have any plant covers