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[Tucson Grower]

rdback, Thanks, this thread was interesting, but left me wondering. Now I've got lots to watch.

[glen]

Hello all. I haven't posted in a long time. I am still focused on chili peppers in the back yard. I still have many of the same variety's growing in the yard that are shown here in this thread. I have no access to seed now due to the pandemic. Well, I take that back, I might be able to order seed from seed company's. I haven't tried. I have many good variety's now as you can see on this thread so I haven't tried to order any online. I should try. I cannot receive or send seed to or from private individuals right now. Everything gets confiscated by either customs or homeland security or USDA. My yard is covered over in Chili peppers which is the norm. I grow them in pots under the shade of the fruit tree's and palms in the yard. Chili's can't take the full sun in Panama. We have intense sunlight here. Its worse for a chili pepper if they are in a pot also. Come to find out chili peppers are adapted to growing in shade and partial sun. Right now I am growing a lot of Thai hot peppers and Tabasco peppers and Pequin peppers plus the super hots of course. I am growing less super hot peppers and more of the medium heat peppers. Medium heat peppers are more useable in the kitchen actually. I have been making chili paste. Not chili sauce. Chili paste is thick like tomato paste. Its concentrated and you use less of it. Its very spicy. If you have never tried chili paste you can buy it in the Chinese grocery store. It comes in little plastic tubs usually and its usually medium heat. Mine is much hotter. Anyways, I hope everyone is doing well and I wish you a fantastic 2022. I know, things are tough now. I suggest that everyone prepares for the worst and hopes for the best. Its going to be a year with challenges.

[macmex]

I haven't even thought about ordering seeds, but there are a few I should probably order. I am about ready to take the Shishito plunge and make a special spot for them. I believe my family would love them (not to mention myself). Am also contemplating the rat tail radish which Bon grew. Sounds like something our family would use.

This year I will almost certainly plant Tabasco again. I didn't for maybe two years but the fact is that it is super well suited for our conditions and an extremely useful pepper.

[glen]

Tabasco is a great pepper. They pick easy and they are juicy. When tabasco is ripe they just pop off the plant. You can pick them with one hand and you don't get the stem with it. You don't have to deseed them. They aren't too hot. Superhot peppers are no longer new to me so I can now appreciate Tabasco for what they are. A useful pepper. I have really big Tabasco plants this year however, they don't really produce that many peppers for me. I have a Thai hot variety that is about the same size plant but they produce much more. Plus they keep producing. Plus the plants can live for several years. My Thai hot variety is about the same heat level however, they are hard to pick compared to tabasco and they are not juicy like tabasco. They are just as useful though in the kitchen. You can grow tabasco or Thai hot in small pots and both are ornamental so they look good around the back porch in pots. I am growing a new pequin pepper this season. I found it growing in front of someone's house and picked up some ripe peppers off the ground to get the seed. The plant was growing in an odd place so it might be a volunteer. As you know, there are many variety's of tiny peppers. The mother plant of this new variety is huge and was absolutely over loaded with green pequins. The Mother Plant looks to be several years or more old. I have 4 specimens growing in the back yard and now they have started producing. Plants are about 4 or 5 months old and are small. This new variety grows very slow. This is a mystery plant however, it produces peppers smaller than a tabasco but this plant produces much more and the plants can get very big. I will take photos later when the plants have something interesting to see(huge and full of peppers). I always get excited when I stumble into an unknown variety so this was very good fortune for me.

[rdback]

The new pequin sounds interesting Glen. Good luck with it. While we're waiting for pics of the seedlings when they grow up, you could sneak over to the neighbor's and take a pic of the mother plant. Just don't get caught, lol.

[glen]

It's been a year since my last confession. Sorry about that. I had found some wild peppers last year and planted some seed from them. It was a flop. What I had done was steal some peppers from some wild plants down the street. The plant I got the peppers from was chock full of tiny peppers. There were other plants in the area that were wild. I planted the seed and ended up with different shaped peppers on each plant. They were feral pepper plants. I know what they look like now and won't make that mistake again. Its been a year and this is a new year. I see there is feral peppers in the same area. Every plant has different shaped peppers on it. Some are loaded. By the way, its summer here in Panama. Its hot and nasty now. Its my summer. I planted real Pequin's this time. I have about 10 at least growing in small pots. There are also Thai hots, tobasco's and others. I hope everyone has a great 2023. I know that we are in hard times so just do the best you can. I will pray for everyone.

[FrostyTurnip]

Glen!  It’s bon.  Good to hear from you.  

I find my peppers do well somewhat crowded, likely to shade each other.

Miss ya!  Aaronic blessings coming your way with much Shalom.  

[macmex]

Hopefully the off types were still tasty. I haven't grown piquin in over a decade. How time flies! It was beautiful and productive for me. I grew it next to some basil plants and remember how delicious the aroma while harvesting those little peppers. The basil was doing it!

Glen, the only new pepper I plan on growing this year is Ají Charapita, a very small fruited relative of habanero. I do hope to do a good size planting of Shishito, which is hardly a hot pepper but still quite tasty as a side dish, served like green beans. Chrysanthemum gave me the seed. Of course, Ajicito will be somewhere in my garden. That one is just too beautiful and productive to forget!

"El que mora en los cielos se reirá; El Señor se burlará de ellos." Salmo 2:4 (Psalm 2:4)

[heavyhitterokra]

Great to hear from you again, Glen. 

We've missed you.

Welcome back!

[glen]

Hello everyone!! Pequin means "little" in Spanish. I think you can buy seeds online. I found mine growing wild in a certain area of my "barrio". We have an area also where the feral peppers grow so I avoid that area. Now I have plenty of seed. I grew the pequin peppers as a novelty for a long time. However, now that I have tried many different variety's I discovered how great this pequin is. I will try and get some pics soon and post them. I am fairly sure that this variety is a "frutescen" variety which is an important fact about pequin. This means that it won't mix with other variety's easily. You can grow "chinense", and "frutescen" varieties in the same garden without worrying about crosses. You cannot have peppers like "jalepeno" in the garden or "cayenne" in the garden because they mix with your other chili's. Bell pepper also. The pequin's have good flavor and they are big plants and produce a lot of peppers. They are a pain in the butte to harvest because they are tiny. Since I am only growing peppers for my own use its not a big deal. I use to make a lot of hot sauce but it never gets used. You only need small batches for use in the kitchen so pequin's make sense. So do Thai hots and tabasco's. Thai Hots grow just as well as the pequins. Tobasco puts on much less peppers than the Thai hots. Thai hots produce for a long season just like the pequin and all these tiny peppers grow with very little effort. Flavor is excellent on the tiny peppers.

[glen]

George! You should plant a few pequin's just for old times sake!! They are easy and really don't require much. Plus, you are feeding the birds. Particularly the mockingbird's. We don't have mockingbird in Panama but we have a couple of varieties of birds around that eat them. Plus, chickens don't like em which is a plus. Tiny peppers are beautiful!