Re: [CH] rocoto

Love2Troll (Love2Troll@kc.rr.com)
Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:47:12 -0500 

  

Vito,

I plant mine in containers of approximately 22 liters for each 1st year plant.  My potting mixture is 2 parts ProMix BX*, 1 part peat moss and 1 part compost.  This results in a light, airy, acidic (pH 6.5) mix that has plenty of food for the young plants.  

My containers are in bright filtered shade or in areas that get 6-8 hours of full sun maximum.   

You might hope for cool weather and lots of bees to do the pollinating even though most C. pubescens are able to self pollinate.

  *Pro-Mix contains Canadian sphagnum moss; perlite; vermiculite; dolomitic limestone; starter fertilizer; trace elements and a wetting agent.  The pH measures approximately 6.9   

Just saw Brent Thompson's reply.  Sure glad that he went first as he is much more experienced than I.   

I'm still trying to figure out proper fertilization.  All but a very few of my C. pubescens accessions tend to go pale in the summer and I don't know if it is from lack of nitrogen or what.  My C. baccatums stay a very nice darker green & fruit like crazy.  This has been a wet & cooler than usual year & there is little difference in production from the hotter & very dry previous couple of years.    

Vito, when you say rocoto do you mean any C. pubescens or just the usual larger fruited red, yellow or orange varieties that are commonly marketed?  I ask this because the various pubescens varieties from Ecuador, Bolivia, Guatemala & Costa Rica can vary in how they do in a particular climate.

Don't expect a lot of production the first year for the common red, yellow & orange rocoto, but you might luck out & get a plant that will do well.  One of my first year 3 yellow rocotos produced approximately 24 very nice pods the first year and the other 2 produced nothing.

I'm hoping other rocoto (C. pubescens) growers will jump right in & set me straight where I am wrong & support when they think I am right.

JohnT        



----- Original Message ----- 
From: T. Matthew Evans 
To: Vito Bisceglia ; Chile Heads 
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: [CH] rocoto


JohnT...?  We're waiting....

Matt

--- Vito Bisceglia <ireneofunes@inwind.it> wrote:
> Hi  all,
> how ROCOTO can best grown?
> thank you
> 
> Vito from Bari (Italy)
> 
> 


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