It's dead, Jim

[AnotherFairportfan]

I don't think it's coming back from this



The final crop



Next year, i'm grabbing two plants as soon as Kroger puts them on sale, and they're going out in the big box immediately.

[Dave]

Yeah, peppers won't tolerate a serious frost.

The only edible pepper I know of which really seems to do well as a perennial is the Manzano. Even it is frost-sensitive, but I've seen one resprout from the roots after a freeze.

[AnotherFairportfan]

My one consolation is that the kudzu must be dead for a while, too.

Is the Manzano particularly hot?

[GlytchMeister]

Kudzu is never dead. It’s only slightly delayed, but it is as inevitable as death itself. It is a plant of death, and thus cannot be killed like some ordinary mortal plant.

[Dave]

My one consolation is that the kudzu must be dead for a while, too.

Is the Manzano particularly hot?

As a confirmed chili-head I rate it as moderate. The ones I've had are roughly comparable to a jalapeno... nowhere near a Habanero or Scotch Bonnet, let alone a Scorpion. They respond very nicely to being picked in vinegar.

One Manzano bush in a good location can supply plenty for a family.

[Typeminer]

The rescued peppers look okay, at least.

Friend was loading me up with surplus cherry peppers, and I just ate the last of them on Friday. Winter is here.

[DinkyInky]

I don't think it's coming back from this



The final crop



Next year, i'm grabbing two plants as soon as Kroger puts them on sale, and they're going out in the big box immediately.

I seriously would save some seeds of a couple of the ripe ones to try to start in-house in about March. Even if they don't take, it's an experiment to learn how to start them without starter plants. Plus, if you like the heat/flavour in those and they do take, you can continue on with this crop. I've grown many hot peppers inside for my Mother from "ornamental" indoor plants. Just ah...don't make Kimchi from Thai Fires and Thai Royal Dragons...especially if the seeds came from her.

[Dave]

Nuclear kimchee! A bit like the scene from "Silent Movie", looking through the window of a Szechuan restaurant, at all the customers sitting at tables, gasping, with smoke streaming out of their mouths.

[Just Old Al]

Nuclear kimchee! A bit like the scene from "Silent Movie", looking through the window of a Szechuan restaurant, at all the customers sitting at tables, gasping, with smoke streaming out of their mouths.

Or a variant from "Mars Attacks!" - customers sitting there eating, then they start to convulse and their heads explode.

[Dave]

Nuclear kimchee! A bit like the scene from "Silent Movie", looking through the window of a Szechuan restaurant, at all the customers sitting at tables, gasping, with smoke streaming out of their mouths.

Or a variant from "Mars Attacks!" - customers sitting there eating, then they start to convulse and their heads explode.

You aren't suggesting that someone in DinkyInky's family is the Korean Slim Whitman, are you?

[Just Old Al]

Nuclear kimchee! A bit like the scene from "Silent Movie", looking through the window of a Szechuan restaurant, at all the customers sitting at tables, gasping, with smoke streaming out of their mouths.

Or a variant from "Mars Attacks!" - customers sitting there eating, then they start to convulse and their heads explode.

You aren't suggesting that someone in DinkyInky's family is the Korean Slim Whitman, are you?

Only when she laughs....

[DinkyInky]

Or a variant from "Mars Attacks!" - customers sitting there eating, then they start to convulse and their heads explode.

You aren't suggesting that someone in DinkyInky's family is the Korean Slim Whitman, are you?

Only when she laughs....

More like this...or this...oh, and I may have done this to someone...this, this is how I usually order something, with this response...minus the semi-serious injury.

[Dave]

Heh... Sydney definitely does live up to her name.

I imagine she'd have enjoyed the Savina burger at the Prince Of Wales pub in San Mateo, as it used to be in the days of yore. Definitely the hottest thing I've ever eaten. Once we had finished, the lunch group agreed that an urgent trip to the Dairy Queen down the street was called for, as a matter of sanity and survival.