[CH] Sudden Tepin Growth Spurt and Welcome Brent - Two Unrelated Even
McWilliams, Dan (DMcWilliams@fendall.com)
Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:26:34 -0500
Hi Brent,
Welcome to the list. From your description I'd say your knuckles are
pretty close to draggin' like the rest of ours. I mean that in only the best
possible way. That peri peri sauce sounds great. Could you share the recipe
or is it a commercial product? I have been looking for a good oil based
sauce. Anyway glad to have you aboard.
Someone posted about a sudden growth spurt in their Tepin. I have a
Chiletepin growing. It was always the smallest of my plants since
germination in the basement. It has been outdoors for almost (2) months.
During the majority of that time, while the rest of the little pepper plants
were getting bigger and even putting out peppers, the Tepin just didn't
hardly grow at all. Then this week it suddenly exploded. We have had alot of
rain up until the beginning of this week and the rest of the week it has
been hot and humid. It's still relatively small but the new leaves are much
bigger than any others. It also grew alot of leaves near the bottom of the
plant so its much bushier too.
>>>Brent T. wrote: "Anyway, for many or perhaps most fruits, each
fertilized seed causes some certain amount of fruit flesh surrounding that
seed to grow, resulting in larger fruits when there are more seeds and
smaller fruits when fewer seeds."
I have not found this to be true with my peppers - hot or mild - as a
general rule. I grew Cascabellas last year that were 1-1/2" lg but
completely totally packed with large seeds. Yet some of the biggest peppers
I had, the Cornio da Toros and Turkish Cayennes, put out less seeds. I was
amazed when I opened these large peppers that the seeds were so scarce.
Maybe they were abberations.
Keep the Knuckles Draggin and the Lip-fires Burning,
The Chile Cheesehead,
Dan McWilliams
Better eat vegetables and fear no creditors, than eat duck and hide from
them.
--The Talmud