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Old October 2, 2013   #46
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I grew the Giant Marconi Red for the first time this year and WOW! These peppers are HUGE and very tasty! I doubt if I will ever grow Cal Wonder again. And did I mention prolific? They are pretty big plants compared to most of my other pepper plants but pepper plants don't get too big here in Oregon, in general.

My Thai pepper plants are also HUGE this year and loaded with peppers. I probably have over 100 peppers on each plant and they are growing out fairly wide.

Cayenne always do well here in Oregon and the plants will be covered with green peppers and seemingly the next day they are almost all red. Lots of them.

My jalapenos were not very prolific.

Hot Lemon Peppers are one of my favorite and they are just beginning to turn yellow. We have had the remnants of a typhoon come through and drop over 6 inches of rain in the last few days. We normally only get 1.5 or so for the month of Sept. Hopefully my peppers won't rot before they ripen.

Giant Marconi is truly giant! And for having such large fruit, the plant had a lot of them. Another pepper I forgot to mention is Criolla de Cocina from Nicaragua.
Spicy, fruity sweet pepper. Medium size. Plants were loaded with fruit. They are odd shaped, kind of wrinkly. This is a terrific addition raw into a salad. I see Baker Creek is offering the seeds now.
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Old October 2, 2013   #47
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Great post ....I have never grown Sandia and every year consider it. I guess next year I will.

My peppers were not as exciting as last years...

the stand out was an old seed pack from Andrey ( maybe 8 years ago) labeled Ozarowska...I germinated 1 plant from 3 seeds. this plant produced the sweetest peppers I have grown...Like a pimento/bell cross....turned red fast in my climate and holds after harvest nice...Only a few seeds per pepper and next year I will grow more if the plants are true and pass this around...Tania do you know if this is a commercial variety ?

From last year several will be coming back for good

Piment d'eplette- great dried and prolific

Odessa Market- superb in production and flavor

Fresno-my jalapeno substitute for everything
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Golden Treasure- never had frying peppers grow this great and I love yellow

Doux D'espagne - huge peppers of great flavor
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Great post ....I have never grown Sandia and every year consider it. I guess next year I will.

My peppers were not as exciting as last years...

the stand out was an old seed pack from Andrey ( maybe 8 years ago) labeled Ozarowska...I germinated 1 plant from 3 seeds. this plant produced the sweetest peppers I have grown...Like a pimento/bell cross....turned red fast in my climate and holds after harvest nice...Only a few seeds per pepper and next year I will grow more if the plants are true and pass this around...Tania do you know if this is a commercial variety ?

From last year several will be coming back for good

Piment d'esplette- great dried and prolific

Odessa Market- superb in production and flavor

Fresno-my jalapeno substitute for everything
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Golden Treasure- never had frying peppers grow this great and I love yellow

Doux D'espagne - huge peppers of great flavor

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I grow Doux D'espagne and really like it and they are big!
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Old October 5, 2013   #50
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Default Giant Marconi

We canned a bunch of tangy spaghetti sauce with them and our favorite tomatoes. I cannot remember eating better tasting spaghetti sauce, the pepper taste is just amazing
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Old October 5, 2013   #51
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This year, I learned that hot/exotic peppers fail to appreciate Colorado full sun - completely understandable IMO.

And that sweeter/mild peppers need more sun then I offered.

So next year, the hot peppers will get dappled shade and the sweet ones will be sunned more.

I had forgotten to start my peppers early in Jan/Feb so I purchased many plants from cross country gardens. The convenience of receiving the most fabulous box of beautiful plants was awesome, but these plants also failed to love the Colorado dryness/sun.

A few peppers that germinated through neglect far outdid many of the purchased plants.

I need the plants to thrive on neglect as well
I can plan all I want to baby my plants but it never happens.

The plants that thrived: (I started from seed)
Heavy praetermissum - what to do with these beautiful HOT pods?
Nativo Chile - awesome in salsa

Aji Omni-multicolor - huge plant - awesome in salsa
Tabago Seasoning -
Blondie -

Tobago Seasoning - huge plant
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I visited a local farm, my CSA, and witnessed the definition of thriving. 5 acres (!!) of peppers with NO supports. And the plants were upright although loaded with fruit. The varieties must come into play here. She grows maybe 5 kinds of peppers and must have figured out what would do well in her "garden". Such is my goal.

I dug up all of my peppers and repotted into new soil, in an attempt to overwinter. They are not yet fans of the process - quite irritated actually.

I meant to bag the blossoms, but that never happened.

I have OP seeds to share, if interested - contact me.
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Brokenbar, do you mind sharing your Chili rellenos recipe?
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Great post ....I have never grown Sandia and every year consider it. I guess next year I will.

My peppers were not as exciting as last years...

the stand out was an old seed pack from Andrey ( maybe 8 years ago) labeled Ozarowska...I germinated 1 plant from 3 seeds. this plant produced the sweetest peppers I have grown...Like a pimento/bell cross....turned red fast in my climate and holds after harvest nice...Only a few seeds per pepper and next year I will grow more if the plants are true and pass this around...Tania do you know if this is a commercial variety ?

From last year several will be coming back for good

Piment d'esplette- great dried and prolific

Odessa Market- superb in production and flavor

Fresno-my jalapeno substitute for everything
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Golden Treasure- never had frying peppers grow this great and I love yellow

Doux D'espagne - huge peppers of great flavor

Jeanne
So sorry to be replying so late, there is something funny going on for me with the Tville notifications, as I miss lots of replies in many threads for some reason.

All I know about Ozarowska pepper is here -

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Ozarowska

not much, I know!
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Jeanne,
me too quite late with reply here
Ozarowska is a Polish CV from a seed vendor PNOS Ozarow Mazowiecki. Very good sweet pepper indeed!

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Great post ....I have never grown Sandia and every year consider it. I guess next year I will.

My peppers were not as exciting as last years...

the stand out was an old seed pack from Andrey ( maybe 8 years ago) labeled Ozarowska...I germinated 1 plant from 3 seeds. this plant produced the sweetest peppers I have grown...Like a pimento/bell cross....turned red fast in my climate and holds after harvest nice...Only a few seeds per pepper and next year I will grow more if the plants are true and pass this around...Tania do you know if this is a commercial variety ?

From last year several will be coming back for good

Piment d'esplette- great dried and prolific

Odessa Market- superb in production and flavor

Fresno-my jalapeno substitute for everything
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Golden Treasure- never had frying peppers grow this great and I love yellow

Doux D'espagne - huge peppers of great flavor

Jeanne
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my first year growing peppers.so iwent to a best tasting pepper web page and this is what im growing this year
1)aji amarillo
2)lemon drop
3)fatalii
4)monkey face
5)lip stick for sweet
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I hope I can find a Santa Fe Grande pepper seedling. None of mine sprouted.
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