Peppers for next year.

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

has anyone tried growing either New Ace, Lady Bell or Peacework? i'm thinking of making an order through FedCoSeeds and they show these take about 62-75 days for these 3 types.

 

[digitS']

@Chickie'sMomaInNH , I have not but they make sense for my garden, too. I've grown King of the North that is noted as a Peacework parent. Interesting collaboration behind the breeding of that pepper .

The good foliage cover sounds good. I'm tired of seeing sunscald on my peppers.

Setting fruit in cold weather would also be important. I think that could be a problem with misshapen fruit, as well.

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

Digits-quit weeding so well.

 

[bobm]

Steve, take a page from my 7 year old grandson's school experiment and use lots of compost and heavy fertilizer to increase pepper plant size and more leaves on the plants. Should decrease sunscald !

@Chickie'sMomaInNH , I have not but they make sense for my garden, too. I've grown King of the North that is noted as a Peacework parent. Interesting collaboration behind the breeding of that pepper .

The good foliage cover sounds good. I'm tired of seeing sunscald on my peppers.

Setting fruit in cold weather would also be important. I think that could be a problem with misshapen fruit, as well.

Steve

ld !

 

[Jared77]

@digitS' did/does King Of The North work well for you?

Off to look at Peacework's lineage

 

[digitS']

King of the North indeed does well, consistently.

It should be my standard but I sometimes have good pepper years and will be misled by other bells.

Peppers always have an early struggle in my garden because of our cool spring weather. I think that they would really benefit from potting up to a good-sized container and a delayed setting out into the open garden until nearly July. I don't want to mess with them through the entire growing season in pots but maybe just stalling for summertime would be a good thing.

Steve

 

[Jared77]

Good to know thank you

 

[seedcorn]

Peace works? What is special about that?

 

[digitS']

Heritage and who was doing the breeding seems unique to me.

It could be that Fedco and people in Maine didn't play a part but here's what that seed outfit has to say:

". . . King of the North and Early Red Sweet in its parentage. Each small plant in our observation plot vine-ripened about 6 medium-thick-walled peppers with good flavor and full-bodied sweetness. A product of farmer-breeder collaboration starring CSA-grower Elizabeth Henderson and her team at Peacework Farm in cooperation with the Organic Seed Partnership, the California Pepper Commission and university breeders, Peacework is a stabilized open-pollinated variety. Seed from this variety is sold under license and a portion of the proceeds go to support public vegetable breeding at Cornell University."

?

I mean, this is one, small pepper plant with how many parents ..? From one coast to the other ..?

Steve

 

[Jared77]

I read that too & I saw what made you wonder. It's something and had me scratching my head about it after reading that too.

I wonder how much of an improvement it is. Is the goal more peppers? Just wondering where they were going with Peacework.