Re: [CH] "Garden Salsa" Hybrid?

Dave Anderson (Chilehead@tough-love.com)
Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:20:19 -0700

Hybridizers never give away their "Trade Secrets" My guess is that 
it's probably a New Mexico or Anaheim descendent. It's listed as a 
Romitel type but I don't know what a Romitel is. Here's the 
description from the hybridizer's catalog:

"Garden Salsa pepper is the perfect variety for homemade salsa 
with just the right amount of "heat". Garden Salsa is hot enough, 
without being too hot, but the fruit still provide plenty of kick. This 
hybrid matures medium-early, about 73 days from transplants to 
the first harvest of long, 7 to 8 inches by 1 inch wide, beautifully 
shaped green fruit. Fruit are quite smooth with medium-thick walls 
tapering to a point. They turn from green to red at full maturity, with 
a medium pungency rating of about 3,000 Scovilles. Plants of 
Garden Salsa are quite large, along with their resistance to 
Toblamo Po virus, they have the ability to set heavy loads of fruit."

It's one of the few hybrids which I sell. I think it's a really nice 
pepper.

Dave Anderson
TLCC
http://www.tough-love.com

 
> On to the question....
> 
> Even though "Garden Salsa" is a hybrid, does it belong to any particular
> variety such as New Mexican or Cayenne or WHICH ONE?? Which varieties is it
> a hybrid of?