When last we left our heros, on Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:00:05 -0400, Pat Meadows scribbled:
>My apologies to Pam, I sent my answer via private email -
>that was a mistake, I'd meant it to go to the newsgroup.
S'ok, we all miss click once in a while, and your name is familiar enough that I didn't mistake you for someone trying to sell me generic Viagra Without! Prescriptions! for my penis, which was recently enlarged through the application of ancient Taoist's seeekrit techniques.
>I'm always curious about new pepper varieties, are the
>>pepper seeds they sent you bred to be smaller, or are
>>they from a variety that is already smallish? I can think of
>>several that would do well in small pots, Prairie Fire or
>>Bird's Eye Peppers come to mind, as well as any of the
>>ornamental types. I grow the Bird's Eye Peppers and
>>Fish peppers in pots, although I wouldn't call a Fish
>>pepper a dwarf. I do have one in my front flower
>>bed because they're awfully pretty.
>
>Sorry to be unclear - they only sent me tomato seeds, not
>pepper seeds. I bought the pepper seeds from
>
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- they are 'Mini-Bell'.
>I selected the Mini-Bell variety because I don't like hot
>peppers, and this was one of the few sweet peppers I found
>that is said to be 'mini'.
Erm, I think it's the pepper that's mini, not the plant. I tried to grow some a while back, and the plants were small as opposed to a habenero or Marconi pepper, but not what I would call dwarf. I tried the chocolate bells, and they were tasty, but truely only a good mouthful per pepper.
A regular sized bell pepper that grows on a small plant is a Buran pepper. It's a Polish heirloom that I got from Seed Savers.
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I'd give them a big thumbs up! Good flavor, and popping out peppers all over the smallish plants. They produced all summer and into fall for me last year. This year they're covered in green peppers, but I'm a believer in letting peppers get ripe, so I haven't picked any yet.
Alternatively - each afternoon I could just move the plants
>over from the bay window ledge to the shelves with
>fluorescent lights that we already have in the living room
>(that's where I start my seeds - I have four 4'x1' shelves
>for seed-starting). These shelves are right next to the
>bay window: it wouldn't be difficult to do, especially if I
>group the plant pots in larger containers.
I have an A-frame seed starting contraption that my father built me. Top row has one row of Fluorescent lights, second row has two, bottom has three. The shelves and lights come off so that it can be folded up after the seedlings are planted. It's a handy thing.
I will probably feel that I need to move the plants out of
>the bay window area at night when the weather is really cold
>anyway - we draw lined draperies across the area at night,
>to conserve heat in the house, and it gets pretty cold there
>at night. Especially when it's below zero weather
>outside...
Ugh, I'm a real cold wussie, I get whiney when it gets below 40F. I'd rather deal with the heat and humidity now than the kinda cold you get in the winter.
Pam, although one of my dogs would like to live in year 'round snow.