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4
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great at first, but oh boy!,
August 2, 2006
Submitted by RaeSofSunshine
from Tampa, FL
(read all my reviews)
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4
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5
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"This may be because I'm not used to growing hot peppers (this is the first season I've done so), but... Early in the season, Salsa Delight was wonderful! Just enough heat to be interesting, but not enough to burn. I could handle the peppers like they were bell peppers. It was great. And you can't beat how prolific these were, and they seem to be very insect resistant. Never had a problem with bugs. I use organic methods of pest control, and I never had to treat these pepper plants. One plant would produce up to 5 - 10 peppers a week.
But this last week or so (the end of July), some of the peppers have started turning red, when they were only green before. I thought this was perhaps because they were left on the plants a little longer or because the outside temperature has gone up. But apparently, the temperature of the peppers has gone up too. I was sauting a few today, which were picked about a week ago and have been sitting in our 'fridge, and just breathing the air over the pan in the kitchen got capsicum in my mouth, burning my soft pallet and throat a little bit. I removed the pan from the heat, got a small piece of pepper and tasted it, and it took a good twenty minutes of rinsing with sugar water to make the burn go away. My fingers even now are stinging, and it's been hours. I had removed the seeds and spines, and there was no other seasoning in the pan, except salt, but still the peppers were extremely hot. I've had milder jalapenos. There were no other hot peppers planted in the garden, nor are there any neighboring gardens with hot peppers to cause cross-pollination with a hotter variety. I have no idea what happened with these, but be warned that these could be very, very hot, despite the mild heat rating on Burpee's scale. Still, they were very good earlier in the year."
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Reviewer Information
Would recommend: No
Type of gardening:
Large Garden
Gardening skill:
Moderately skilled
State of residence:
FL
Types of plants:
Vegetables
Gardening experience:
1-5 years
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