February 17, 2018 | #1 |
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Sweet red peppers for a beginner
It's been so long since I grew peppers that I'm practically a beginner.
I'm looking to try to grow a few peppers this season as long as they turn red and are not hot at all. I was looking at Jimmy Nardello and King of the North but I really have no idea what I'm doing. Just looking for suggestions for good sweet red pepper varieties for a new pepper grower. Thanks Jim |
February 17, 2018 | #2 |
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Try Lipstick. I like it red/ripe and for me it's much more prolific than bell peppers and possibly sweeter too.
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February 17, 2018 | #3 |
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Every time I hear about Jimmy Nardello, it's something good.
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February 18, 2018 | #4 |
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I can vouch for Jimmy Nardello, and Lipstick too. One thing I'll say for Jimmy N. it is just so richly tasty everyone loves it even though it is pretty thin fleshed and really a fryer, we eat them up raw as well. Lipstick has the juicy crunchy thick walled sweet pepper thing, earlier than most and a very respectable pepper.
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July 27, 2018 | #5 |
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Tolli's Sweet Italian is a great one but this thread is a few months old so maybe its too late for this year. ;-)
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July 27, 2018 | #6 |
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I bought a 4 pack of Giant Marconi from the local greenhouse for filler plants ( I've got 130 pepper plants) and had a few replaced with these. I picked 2 a little early. The rest are green yet, but there are a dozen of them per plant. I haven't eaten one yet.
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July 27, 2018 | #7 |
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Jimmy nardello is excellent, but not really a bell replacement, as its a thin wall.
Can't grow a bell to save my life but red belgian is an excellent sweet pepper that can replace a bell anywhere. Corno di toro can as well, but hard to get them to ripe in short season up north here. |
July 27, 2018 | #8 |
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Pmcgrady those are some sweeeet peppers in both senses of the word!!
2 winters ago I was looking through the 'reduced for quick sale' bin at the local grocery store. I found a bag under their President's Choice label listed as 'perhaps the sweetest pepper in the world'. They looked just like your GMs there. I couldn't eat the ones I bought as they were starting to rot but I got seeds from them which I grew last year and was very pleased with. Seeing those 2 bad boys of yours I suspect that is what type they actually were! Pete
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Although I'm not growing any, everyone is raving about how well " King Arthur" are doing well this year for a red bell.
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King Arthur is good and also Socrates. I am growing a lot of different bells this year and trying to keep the suckers down so they produce larger peppers and it seems to be working. Socrates is almost always the first bell to produce a ripe pepper each year and this year was no exception. If fertilized well it produces some really large peppers with nice thick walls. Revolution is another that does well but the skin is tougher on it than some bells. I think I have about 8 different varieties of bells and they all seem to be setting good now and I should have some good peppers come fall if no disaster befalls them. I am having a heck of a time with aphids on the peppers at the shady end of my garden.
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July 29, 2018 | #15 |
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Ajvarski Sweet is a consistent performer for me.
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