Re: [CH] Rocotos are ripe!
Styx (styx@gwi.net)
Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:51:31 -0400
Hey Rob
How's it been over there besides a cooler & wetter year? I remember last
year you had a record heat wave.
It's been the same way on the coast of Maine this year too. A lot of
people had problems germinating there normal seeds outside this spring
because it was so cold and wet. The wind blew off the ocean all spring
& summer, but I think we had at least 4 days that were like summer
especially the last saturday & monday of august.
So your rocoto's are still growing great. How about the yellow ones I
sent you? Are they still growing or do you just grow the red ones now?
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Have A Good One
Styx >:o)>
Rob Pieters wrote:
>Hi
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>>JohnT wrote:
>>Oh wow! 4 gal pot. I love it when people do things like that. I have a
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>3rd year red rocoto in my livingroom window. This spring I transplanted to
>an 18 gal pot and pod production isn't what it was last year in an 8 gal pot
>on my deck last year when I got 3 major flushes of pods. Both my deck & LR
>window get only filtered sun because of all my trees. It's now about 20'
>from base of plant to tip of longest branch.
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>Well, I grow rocoto in approx 3 to 4 gal (10-15 liter), pot's too, no
>problem there all full of fruit every year, new or overwintered, never had
>one who didn't set fruit.
>I'm located in The Netherlands, where day's are quit short, just like the
>season and weather is mild.
>Specially this year we only had about 4 weeks with temperatures above 25
>degC (77F) and a record broken of the rain which has fallen during
>summertime, and both the new and the overwinterd rocoto I have are loaded
>again.
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>I'll see if I can put some pictures somewhere on the net in a couple of
>weeks if someone is interested of the plants I have.
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>Hope this helps
>Kind regards
>Rob NL--
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Have A Good One
Styx >:o)>