Re: [CH] Siberian Pepper seeds
Ingrid Ruscheinski (Ingrid.Ruscheinski@t-online.de)
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:48:41 +0100
>Now the question is: Do I plant a few now in my autumn indoors to grow
>though the winter.? Or leave it until spring and plant with my usual
>peppers.?
I'd suggest you treat the Siberian Indoor Pepper just like any other chile.
Although they can be started all year round (like any other pepper) I find
it most practical to have them pollinated outdoors where there are more
insects to do that for you. For most of us this means to get them started in
spring so they are ready to flower in summer.
Sibs seem to be halfway resistant to the usual indoor diseases/attacks so it
is no problem to overwinter them. My mother plant (mother of your seeds,
too) is 4-5 years old. It did not grow much in the past 3 years but is still
busily producing pods.
I had bought it from the '96 or '97 Ruehlemann catalogue where Mr Ruehlemann
reports to have found it "in the East" (Siberia?). Pedro is the first
chilist I know who got it from an entirely different source, a Russian
collegue.
Good luck!
Ingrid