[CH] Rocotos etc
Andie Paysinger (asenji@earthlink.net)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:42:32 +0000
I have had better luck with rocotos when I planted them so they got
morning sun and late afternoon sun and were shaded during the hottest
part of the day. Fortunately we have cool nights because the desert
temps drop rapidly after sundown. I do not have any this year but last
year had a fair crop that began ripening in September. One person I
know who raises peppers under shade cloth in Conejo valley, an area
where it does not cool down at night (also much lower altitude), has a
big fan (a 48 inch exhaust fan he salvaged from an old factory) which
he turns on in the late afternoon along with a mist nozzle and cools the
plants thusly. I think he leaves the fan going most of the night during
the hottest weather, which is usually mid August to late September in
that area. Last year he had rocotos, mulato isleņos, chiltepins,
golden cayenne, serrano tampiqueno, scotch bonnet (jamaican red), giant
chile, chinese giant, cuban frying, and a couple of dozen unidentified
wild peppers he had collected in the Yucatan. Grady (Chivo) is not a
computer person and has no wish to become one, but he truly has green
fingers. He grows a few other crops but his great love is the pepper
plant. He has grown some truly awesome tomatoes and two years ago his
garden produced a 93 pound watermelon. Grady earned the nickname
"Chivo" (goat) when he was visiting in the Yucatan because he would eat
anything and everything that was put before him. He was collecting
some herb seeds for me and one lady showed him some herbal "cakes" which
he bit into, only to learn that it was a soap made with herbs. Said he
didn't even get indigestion. Must have been the peppers lining his tummy
that protected him.
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