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   Yvan (yvan@toot.ale.gd)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 22:39:09 JST Yvan

   Postal excitement!

   I wasn't going to be buying any more chilli seeds this year, but I cannot find any rocoto seeds and its a variety I really want to grow again. So I fired an order into the Chilli Chump Seeds shop: https://chillichumpseeds.com/

   Of course one does not just buy ONE packet of seeds lol... so two rocoto varieties, some Kashmiri Mirch, and a couple of interesting purple/multi-shade varieties in both the mild and quite-hot departments.

   Plus the bonus/freebie Khang Starr variety: KS StarrLing

   #GrowYourOwn #ChiliPepper #Chillies #Peppers

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     morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 22:39:08 JST morph

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     • Richard Rollinson

     @yvan The 'Marlene' are awesome.
     @richrollgardener

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     morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 22:52:22 JST morph

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     @yvan I like that they're not too extreme. So you can eat more of them in one meal. :)

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     Yvan (yvan@toot.ale.gd)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 22:52:24 JST Yvan

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     @morph they're the ones we grew before, was a really surprising fruit! So fleshy, but also quite spicy. Really liked them, they were great roasted and stuffed. But the year we grew them was a bit of a late start so we didn't get loads, going to get an earlier start this year and hopefully more fruit. I think they'd make a good fermented sauce. @richrollgardener

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     morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 23:09:14 JST morph

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     @yvan Aww ... that looks good. 😛
     It's often too warm in summer for the rocotos in my place.

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     Yvan (yvan@toot.ale.gd)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 23:09:15 JST Yvan

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     @morph this is some of ours from 2023, baked stuffed with a quinoa and goat cheese mix I think. We didn't get any in 2024 sadly (generally a bad chilli year for us). Fingers crossed for 2025!

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     morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:11:23 JST morph

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     • Chalk

     @Chalkllate That's true. So far the only person I met who knows and loves rocotos comes from Uruguay.
     @yvan

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     Chalk (chalkllate@yeen.town)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:11:25 JST Chalk

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     @yvan@toot.ale.gd @morph@morphnet.de roccotos are some of the most underrated peppers out there, it's sad they aren't popular in grocery stores

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     morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:22:55 JST morph

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     • Chalk

     @yvan Not to mention their purple flowers. :)
     @Chalkllate

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     Yvan (yvan@toot.ale.gd)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:22:57 JST Yvan

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     • Chalk

     @morph @Chalkllate I hadn't heard of Rocotos at all until I did a Fatalii seeds order a couple of years back... they don't feature much on chilli/pepper YouTube or elsewhere. They're great looking plants too, with their furry leaves... and they seem to grow rather large.

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     Yvan (yvan@toot.ale.gd)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 01:22:58 JST Yvan

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     • Chalk

     @morph @Chalkllate in the normal grocery shops in the UK you rarely see anything but pretty generic green and red chillies with the look of jalapeño or cayenne varieties about them, sometimes they might venture a scotch bonnet in the bigger cities... and that's about it really. There's a tiny bit more range in good indie South Asian shops - though usually not much more than just Scotch Bonnets, sometimes Habs, and often larger milder pointy pale green and yellows types.

     But that's why we grow our own! :) Hopefully over 20 varieties this year for us.