Nick Cramer wrote:
zxcvbob wrote:
Nick Cramer wrote:
Mark A.Meggs wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:14:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
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I bought a fresh giant red Thai pepper 3 or 4 years ago, intending to
plant the seeds the following spring. Of course I forgot about it, and
just discovered the dried out pepper in the cupboard last month. I
cracked it open to get the seeds out, and it was full of dark gray mold.
Oops again. So I planted *all* the seeds in a little flat made from a
buttermilk carton. The first seedling started poking up in just 2 days.
A couple of days after that, there were almost a dozen. Last Saturday
afternoon (about 2 weeks after planting the seeds) I potted up 20 little
pepper plants, and barely made a dent in them. I'll bet there's over
100 more plants in that flat. I dunno what I'm going to do with them
all. I don't have room to plant them all out, and I don't have the
heart to throw them away.
Hi Bob, We grow a lot of those little Thai chiles. We plant them about a
foot apart. They're quite prolific and have a long growing season. Of
course, we use them mostly in Thai recipes. My wife's recipes:
http://geocities.com/sqwertz/junthai.htm
If you want some seed stock, eat my SPAM and email me a mailing address.
Thanks.
Well, I called it a giant Thai pepper, but I've done some searching and
the variety "Giant Thai" is not nearly this big. This pepper looked
like a Thai or cayenne or jap pepper, but it was about 6 or 7 inches
long. I can't find /anything/ like it in the seed catalogs.
I have one really interesting pepper that I dug up the plant from last
year and have been nursing it thru the winter. It's a second generation
seedling from an accidental cross between a jalapeņo and a Trinidad
perfume pepper (mild habanero). Those are supposed to be different
species, and if they do somehow cross the offspring should be sterile.
I have evidence to the contrary. :-)
Bob