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Old October 25, 2016   #1
TomNJ
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Default Swimming in Serranos

In reading up on Serrano peppers on the Internet, several sites mentioned they are usually picked green and to expect up to 50 peppers per plant. Personally I only pick red ripe Serranos for use in hot sauce and salsa. So with the season's first frost looming, I harvested the last of my Serranos today and tallied up the season's yield.

My seven Serrano plants yielded a total of 22 pounds of red ripe peppers. At an average of 0.23 ounces/pepper, that's over 1500 peppers or about 220 peppers per plant! And that's just the red ones - there were probably a couple hundred green Serranos left on the plants I pulled today, and I'm also not counting what some friends had picked earlier.

Are these unusually productive Serrano plants, or do the Internet sites have their typical yield figures wrong?

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