Trading Lists: Items available from melgir
View melgir's member page| Plant Name | Cultivar | Type | Thumbnail |
| Hot Pepper Capsicum pubescens | 'Manzano' | Seeds | (PlantFiles) |
| Capsicum Capsicum pubescens This is a perennial chile. Fruit looks like a mini bell pepper—smaller than a small egg. Flavor is juicy, fruit-like, complex and EXTREMELY hot. One-fourth of one chile is all you need for a medium-hot 4 serving vegetable saute for fajitas. Even after washing hands a few times, the capsicum can linger, so wear gloves when cutting fruit or handling seeds. Be careful not to inhale the juice and oils that disburse when you slice into the fruit (It makes me cough and opens my sinuses just to slice it). The seeds I have are from the same variety that I bought as frui from Ralph's grocery in West Los Angeles, where it sells for about $7 per pound. I was really pleased to find the plant for about $4 at the Marina Garden Center, because seed a germination rate of 50% is supposedly not uncommon and I'm impatient. Thick, juicy walls make this fruit unsuitable for drying. Heat will vary with the way the plant is cultivated. My plant was neglected, thus the chiles are very hot. Pretty plant, with purple flowers that remind me a little of Four O'clocks. I've read that it gets very big, but mine is about 4 ft. tall and about 5 months old. Somewhat treelike, with slightly rangy, blue green foliage. It produces in our cool season as well as the summer thus far (temperatures ranging between 40 and 50 degrees F. overnight; high 50s to 70s during the day). There are a lot of blossoms on it now, despite the cool weather. I've read that it prefers milder climates. | 'manzano, also know as rocoto. ' | Seeds |  (PlantFiles) |
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