Re: [CH] Rocotos
David Cook (zeb@austin.rr.com)
Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:11:31 -0600
> Hey Chile-heads,
>
> I would like to offer Cameron once again my thanks
> for sending me a pkt of Rocotos seeds.
I have to send out a thanks, too, but to Nick in Australia for the rocoto
seeds. I just went out the hothouse and the first ones were breaking
through. Took them about 2 weeks to show. Now if I don't kill them before I
get them in the ground.
> Is there something I could do to help promote the germination of these
seeds?
I soaked them in 10% bleach water for almost two days. Bleached the black
color right out of the seeds!
> Is there something I could do to promote growth?
> The plant is very hardy, in spite of its slow growth.
> After last year's garden season I brought it inside, it had been slowly
> mulling over the idea of actually becoming something other than a sprout
as
> it sat there in it's four inch peat pot.
Sounds like you might want to transplant it to a bigger pot and fertilize it
a little when spring comes on. It will be fairly dormant during the winter.
David "Zeb" Cook