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hahahah yeah I grow a lot of varieties of Chili Tepin as well as Manzano/Rocoto chilies
the rest is your standard cucumbers/tomato/eggplant/cabbage...blahblah...we try to eat as healthy as possible
I grew up eating Mexican Food as well as married a mexican so we also run the standard cilantro jalopeno etc....I have always have a love of hot food so I like to grow hot peppers...I also breed them.....crossing differ types to get a differ taste and heat profile....pretty much just like cannabis.....as for the market.....eehh.....way flooded...there is only money to be made industrially or as a boutique grower......IMO

 

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LOVE rocotos! Can't grow them here.

 

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Rocotos are very special and easy to grow....as long as you can protect them from the sun and only give them 6 hours direct sun...the rest ambient and shade....although my enviroment is perfect at imulating peru with its damp foggy coastal atmosphere I have seen them grown in the mountains of Oaxaca to the midwest of the U.S......I myself have never been able to grow them in containers but once I found the perfect spot and stuck her in the ground and stopped watering and fertilizing.....she exploded

 

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One of my sisters used to have a house in west Oakland and the neighbor right behind her had a HUGE rocoto bush, well over 6' tall. That was my introduction to them. I tried to grow some that my dad got sprouted (the man has a special touch with those touchy peppers, I tell you what) but the first cold weather they gave up the ghost.

 

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they can handle pretty low temps,even frost....but not for extended periods...as the Andes get pretty damn cold....also....my bush has "died" 3 times....no leaves just dead sticks...left it where it was and a few months later....growth explosion
...I know get between 50-100 chilis about every 3 months....as long as you pick them they will remain flowering and fruiting

 

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Oh shit... you mean I should have left it? Damn it! We don't get frost for very extended periods, but we are a zone 7b, temps can get down into the low to mid teens.

 

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yeah I get temps in the mid teens low twenties for about 2 weeks with the rest of the cold being in the 30's.....all the leaves will drop and the wood becomes brown and brittle....then when things warm up....tada.....peppers go dormant......you can actually take a fully mature pepper plant and pull it out of the ground and dry it and now you have root stalk....when the weather warms you stick it in the ground and treat it like a seedling

 

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Alright I got to get me one of them and see mostly I can grow peppers and seldom freezes here and I have a spot with direct sun for 4 to 8 hrs and shaded the rest of the day. Going on quest to get one of the plants or seeds. Capsicum pubescens are they all the same or different strains from the 2 I listen to most suggestions are very acceptable

 

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threre are a few varieties....but usually there are orange/red/yellowmine are a cross with a ghost chili...that I made
standard are mostly round like an apple hence the Manzano/rocotto

 

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Send me some seeds heheheh.:):):party1:

 

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Wisher619 said:

yeah I get temps in the mid teens low twenties for about 2 weeks with the rest of the cold being in the 30's.....all the leaves will drop and the wood becomes brown and brittle....then when things warm up....tada.....peppers go dormant......you can actually take a fully mature pepper plant and pull it out of the ground and dry it and now you have root stalk....when the weather warms you stick it in the ground and treat it like a seedling

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Damn it! Now I'm thinking of all those peppers my dad gave me.