Re: [CH] Phillipines Pepper
Susan Welsand (chilewmn1@bluemarble.net)
Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:54:44 -0400 (EDT)
Dave Dewitt grew this plant from me. I have consistently sold out of it
every year no matter how many I sowed in the greenhouse. This spring, I
only sold 2 plants, go figure! I got the seed froma customer who works in
the Phillipines. He sent me some seeds from Davao this year. I have them
in both the greenhouse and the field and they have not fruited yet. That
is one long season pepper.
Since I didn't sell them in the spring, I've had them as potted plants.
They are skysracpers and have great fuzzy stems. If I have some leftover
from Farmer's Market I'll bring some plants to Open Fields if anyone wants
to take them home.
They are hot but nothing like a chinense.
Susan
The Chile Woman
On Wed, 24 May 2006, John H. Sphar wrote:
> I found siling labuyo on Dave DeWitt's pages. Here is
> what I found at
> http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/davesgarden99.html
>
> The "Siling Labuyo," illustrated here in its green
> form, turns a bright red and is a very appealing,
> elegantly-shaped pod about three-fourths of an inch
> long. I never figured out how it happened, but this
> Filipino chile was long-touted as the world’s hottest
> chile. I had only seen the dried red pods, so I had no
> idea what species it was. Yes, it was hot, but not as
> hot as most habaneros. Speculation ran from the
> frutescens species, making it a tabasco relative, to
> the chinense species, a habanero relative. But
> carefully look at the leaves of the plant and notice
> how hairy they are. This trait, known as pubescence,
> is associated with the leaves of two other Capsicum
> species, pubescens and some varieties of annuum.
>
> When I looked at my siling labuyo, not only did its
> leaves resemble those of a serrano, its flowers looked
> like serrano flowers. Its pods were clearly in the pod
> type of Piquin in the annuum species. I took a sample
> from my garden of leaves, flowers, and pods all on the
> same branch to Dr. Paul Bosland at The Chile Pepper
> Institute of New Mexico State University, and he
> agreed with me: "Siling Labuyo" is a domesticated
> Piquin This mystery, assuming the seeds were
> authentic, seems to be solved. It is an annuum, but
> one of the hotter ones, with a heat scale rating of up
> to 100,000 Scoville Units, within the lower range of
> habaneros, which measure, generally, 80,000 to 200,000
> Scoville Units. I should point out that some seeds
> listed as "Siling Labuyo" are frutescens, so this may
> be a case of two species sharing a common name.
> "Siling" means "chile" in Tagalog, a native language
> of the Philippines, and if I had to guess what
> "labuyo" means, I’d say "incendiary."
>
> John
>
>
> --- Byron <byronbromley@tellink.net> wrote:
>
> > Any one here know the name of a chile that grows
> > wild in the Phillipines??
> >
> > A friend and a real chile head ( the type that eats
> > Savinas on his eggs
> > and uses tobasco sauce as a mouth wash) said he
> > purchased a shopping
> > bag full for 10¢. He felt that they were hotter
> > than the Red Savina
> > and/or the Choc hab.
> >
> > 10Q
> >
> > L,B.
> >
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