Time before bearing peppers....?

[Zenbaas]

I have a Malawi pepperdew plant that I have been growing since last year and I am yet to see any peppers or flowers at all..?

Is it possible that the plant itself is a dud? What am I missing here or am I just a tad impatient.... I

[Zenbaas]

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The plant is nice and healthy as far as I can tell and except for some avids recently there is nothing else worth mentioning.


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[Zenbaas]

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[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Zenbaas

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Well bump it is.
Before I give my answer lets speak of the Peppadew pepper.
In the other thread where someone is looking for seeds and you offered some I started looking again.

From what I have found the Peppadew company has now started selling other stuff.
It has also been bought out a few times.
The real pepper is a piquanté pepper a cultivar of Capsicum baccatum.
It seems the only thing they could trademark or hide was the process and the company name.
As other companies are selling the piquanté peppers.

Just about the same thing happened to the Mcllhenny Tabasco sauces here.
You can grow and sell Tabasco peppers but you cant call and sell a sauce called Tabasco.
But anyway when I looked at the pictures when you first posted this my first thought was not enough sunlight and or heat.
Another might be they are not big enough yet.

Worth

[Zenbaas]

Worth it gets a lot of sunlight despite its position. My Jalapeños are all flowering as well. The bush is actually quite big and it is more than a year old.

This is a Malawi pepperdew. I think I am going to try and transplant it in the garden. It had proven to be a very hardy plant thus far.

[Worth1]

If you ever get any peppers from it I will give you instructions and recipe that is real close to the stuff they sell.
I made some with some hot peppers and people raved over them.

Worth

[Zenbaas]

Originally Posted by Worth1

If you ever get any peppers from it I will give you instructions and recipe that is real close to the stuff they sell.
I made some with some hot peppers and people raved over them.

Worth

Hahaha I'll definitely be bothering you later on for that recipe Worth..! I have a "proper" peppadew growing as well which has just undergone it's very first pruning(snipped the main stem midway) . That one will definitely have a lot of peppers when I'm done with it.

[Worth1]

I'm going to try it with some Manzano peppers.

Worth

[Zenbaas]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I'm going to try it with some Manzano peppers.

Worth

Actually on that note have you ever had the commercially sold peppadew peppers Worth..? No idea if they are available or sold in the US.

I also Love their Jalapeños..! You can see why they have tried to keep their preserving/pickling recipe a secret because it really does add some great flavour.

[Worth1]

I cant quote you for some reason but yes.
I may have been the first person in town to buy them several years ago.
I love the things.
One way I put them out is by putting a cherry tomato or olive in each one.
Anytime a new pepper comes out canned in the jar or fresh I see it with my pepper radar.

In the house I have pickled, canned fresh, jelly, dried, salsa, powder, and everything you can think of I have made myself.

Worth

[Zenbaas]

Now you are making me even more eager to make sure I get some peppers this year! I love the idea of stuffing them with olives as well as cherry tomatoes. We normally stuff them with cheese but thats always after the fact of course.

I remember when the officially released here in SA. They were on pizza's and everything you could imagine.

That said they're still a regular item on all local pizza restaurants

[Worth1]

Some of the more bizarre things I have stuffed them with is smoked oysters tuna salad crab salad and shrimp.
For some reason I cant think of much a pepper of some sort wont go with.

Worth

[Zenbaas]

Originally Posted by Zenbaas

Actually on that note have you ever had the commercially sold peppadew peppers Worth..? No idea if they are available or sold in the US.

I also Love their Jalapeños..! You can see why they have tried to keep their preserving/pickling recipe a secret because it really does add some great flavour.

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Some of the Jalapeños..!

[Zenbaas]

So this morning while uprooting my Malawi pepperdew to go and transplant it in the garden (it just needs more space in any case) I happened to see a single white flower...! It was on the other side of the plant hanging over the balcony so I couldn't see it.

I guess I have to apologize to the poor plant Will be planting it out today to a much better spot where it can bush out to its hearts content.

[clkeiper]

Fertilizer may be an issue. too much nitrogen will cause much green growth and no flowers.