The Prolific Peppadew

[drew51]

I'm growing a lot of peppers this year and the biggest and most prolific is the peppadew pepper! The plant is almost 5 feet tall, and has so many branches it's really a pepper bush! I have not tasted the pepper. I have pickled some using a recipe that is supposed to be the same as the commercial product.
The Peppadew USA site has thousands of recipes too. Pretty cool!
Here is the plant


A close up



Other peppers that are prolific here in the Midwest are Aji Lemon Drop, and Brazilian Starfish. Both have ton's of peppers, but niether approach the size of the peppadew.

Here's the Aji Lemon Drop

The peppadew photos were taken the 19th of August, and since then the plant is even larger. What an amazing pepper plant!

[drew51]

Some other peppers I'm growing
Malagueta


Criolla De Cocina



The day's harvest

[Tracydr]

Lovely peppers. I have got to get some peppadew seed and try them next year.

[ginger2778]

Gorgeous! Great job!

[drew51]

Since this is a patented plant, one better be careful about passing seeds around. Also this is the kinda thing that is ripe for scam. This plant is supposed to be a peppadew, but to me the pods don't look right. Most seem to be strawberry shaped and not round. I have only harvested a few (see harvest plate). So this very well could be some kind of look alike pepper. But dispite that, it is a very prolific plant that seems to grow well in short season areas. It's worth growing, but I can't confirm what this plant really is? It could be the Malawi Piquante Pepper. If you have interest anyway, just PM me about it. I would rather do it that way.
I don't want to avocate trading patented plants. Although I have no way of knowing what this plant is.
It certainly is some kind of prolific Piquante pepper.

[drew51]

Some more of this year's plants

The Fish pepper


Brazilian Starfish


Various pepper plants

[drew51]

Today I stuffed some of the peppadews and these peppers pack some heat! Maybe like Santa Fe. Probably a good salsa pepper. Not too hot, but hot enough. The plant is so prolific, a definite keeper.

[lakelady]

I didn't sow any peppadews this year, you reminded me to add them to my 2015 list. Last year I recall I got quite a few but not as many as you are! Great job!

[drew51]

Part of it when I think about it, is I started my peppers outside in a cold frame. That probably helped. After cooking, the heat was gone btw, so maybe not good for salsa. Unless fresh.

I have had bottled peppadews.

I don't know where you got your seeds, but it seems that some growers in South Africa are careless with the name. I never saw seeds of them for sale there, but a woman I visited was growing bishop's hat peppers that she called peppadews. She gave me seeds which produced hats just like the Cambuci I grow from Semences Solana .

[drew51]

Yeah, I can't confirm what it is really? But I don't care, it's an awesome plant.

[b54red]

Drew that is a Pappadew. You better build a little rack around it to support all the limbs or it will collapse everywhere as it gets more loaded with peppers in the fall. It is also much easier to pick if you can keep most of the limbs from falling down and you don't lose peppers to the ground. Pappadew is only mildly hot or not hot at all if you have a cool season with enough rain. If you have a very dry hot season they can be quite hot.

Bill

[Tania]

Beautiful and yummy peppers! Thank you for sharing the pics.

Good to know about Peppardews. I was going to grow them in 2015, so looking forward to it.

Love peppers, sweet, hot, and superhots

Tatiana

[drew51]

Originally Posted by b54red

Drew that is a Peppadew. You better build a little rack around it to support all the limbs or it will collapse everywhere as it gets more loaded with peppers in the fall. It is also much easier to pick if you can keep most of the limbs from falling down and you don't lose peppers to the ground. Peppadew is only mildly hot or not hot at all if you have a cool season with enough rain. If you have a very dry hot season they can be quite hot.

Originally Posted by b54red

Bill

Thanks Bill! I think you sent me some seeds, but this one is from another source. I really appreciate the seeds. I will try again on what you sent, just to have a diverse seed pool. I can't wait to grow some of the others you sent. Now older, but I have confidence.
Here in northern areas these plants do not grow as well as down south. I noticed that with all peppers. the plants are shorter and more compact here.
For example Uyababa pepper only got to two feet tall, not 6 feet. It produced well, but man a 6 foot plant would be cool It may have been the cool spring, they got stunted. Maybe I'll keep it and let it grow again next year. The peppers are quite big!
The seeds you sent were late in the season, so I decided to wait and try them next season. Again this will give me a diverse gene pool. The Uyababa I grew was purchased from an African seed company.

[b54red]

Originally Posted by drew51

Thanks Bill! I think you sent me some seeds, but this one is from another source. I really appreciate the seeds. I will try again on what you sent, just to have a diverse seed pool. I can't wait to grow some of the others you sent. Now older, but I have confidence.
Here in northern areas these plants do not grow as well as down south. I noticed that with all peppers. the plants are shorter and more compact here.
For example Uyababa pepper only got to two feet tall, not 6 feet. It produced well, but man a 6 foot plant would be cool It may have been the cool spring, they got stunted. Maybe I'll keep it and let it grow again next year. The peppers are quite big!
The seeds you sent were late in the season, so I decided to wait and try them next season. Again this will give me a diverse gene pool. The Uyababa I grew was purchased from an African seed company.

I don't grow the Uyayaba any more because it is just too hot for my taste; but it is the most productive pepper I have ever grown. They looked like small trees instead of pepper plants. The only really hot pepper I grow is Malagueta because it is smaller and I don't need so many of them. I also grow cayenne and jalapenos. Everything else is of the non hot types.

I usually start my seeds for peppers in December and still sometimes that isn't early enough to get a really big Pappadew unless the season is really long. For you I would think starting the seed soon and overwintering the plant so you get a good head start. A good size Pappadew for me is around 6 to 7 ft tall and about 5 to 6 ft across; but they are a mess to support. I usually fence them in with conduit and as they get larger add another fence that is taller. It makes picking so much easier and they stay healthy longer.

Bill