Posted on 04/18/2014 9:49:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
Are you growing piper nigra here in CONUS?
/johnny
Not really...New England.
In a greenhouse? Because I would love to grow them.
/johnny
Ok, where’d you get the piper nigra seeds? Have they sprouted yet, I hear they’re devlishly difficult to germinate.
I started them early...very nice plants (so far). Plenty of light in an area with radiant heat; feeding them bat guano. Lost the greenhouse when I moved recently. Obtained the seed in a swap (I told you that you need to get involved in those, BA.) Planted eight seeds, all eight germinated.
Hmm. I might try some bought this summer. It will be this fall’s seed swap before I can get any that way.
Cool. I may have to try that next year. Save seed. ;)
I’ve got tobacco seed and really good cantaloupe seed to swap for a few.
/johnny
Oops...my bad. I didn’t see the other tray...planted FIFTEEN seed, all germinated and are doing quite well. They will get their first taste of outdoor sunshine tomorrow...just a taste.
I’m baby sitting grand kids and have no idea what my garden is doing right now. Probably playing loud music and having a party.
Told the grand kids that if this gig rolls into tomorrow, we were going to relocate the AO. I need to be near my garden this time of year.
/johnny
I have cats that LOVE pepper plants...it’s quite the juggling act to keep them all intact. I have become tuned in to the sound of a cat’s jaws opening...
Speaking of seeds; the seed bill I’ve mentioned before passed the NH Senate yesterday.
I save seed from EVERYTHING...drives my wife nuts.
My catz have been known to nosh on pepper plants. I’ve moved the shelves so they can’t get to them.
/johnny
"Chili peppers have been a part of the human diet in the Americas since at least 7500 BC. There is archaeological evidence at sites located in southwestern Ecuador that chili peppers were domesticated more than 6000 years ago,[1][2] and is one of the first cultivated crops in the Americas that is self-pollinating. "
Yay.
You’ll have to send me your website addy when you get one set up. too bad it’ll be YEARS before your piper nigra plants actually make seeds...
This impresses me as an extremely difficult task.
If asked about the origins of cultivated peppers, my first inclination would be South Asia or the Pacific islands. The second guess would be South America.
To start with, they probably assume that domesticated peppers first made their appearance with the Clovis culture, about 13,000 years ago. But a lot of the technologies used then, and later Indian tribes, may have arrived there already developed.
Either from the Pacific islands or South America, such as the Pedra Furada sites in Brazil. Much, much older than Clovis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Furada_sites
I keep my tomato and pepper seedlings in the garage on cold nights. I had a mouse attack last year that wiped out a whole tray. Liberal applications of ‘mousicide’ (traps) stopped that. I have only just started stuff in the past week though so I will probably just keep them outside except on the coldest nights.
The mice even ate the superhot seedlings. I guess either mice didn’t notice, didn’t care, liked hot stuff or the pepper plants didn’t have their mojo yet.
I’ll leave them to my wife...she’s younger.
Thanks for the ping. Very interestign.
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