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  • From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] peppers was: Seed Festival
  • Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:49:20 -0800

At 3/20/2006, you wrote:
My son already has a
standing order in for any hot pepper seeds, heirloom of course.

Where are you growing peppers? I have some seeds from a tropical pepper grown on Saipan. This little pepper is about 3/4 inch long and hotter than you can run away from. A sauce made from this pepper will as my brother says "make a mouse slap a tomcat." I brought 7 bottles back from my recent trip to Saipan and only have two left after visiting my son and some friends.

The pepper grows wild on the Marianas Islands and is descended from the Habineros planted by the Spanish in the 1500s. Locally it is a Boonie Pepper or Donnie Sale. In the tropics the peppers produce year round with small 3/4 inch thin peppers in red, yellow, and green. They are hot.

There is another pepper there that has also naturalized. It is the long thin shape about 2 inches long and green. It is good to eat off the bush after the seeds have been removed. Very hot but a good flavor. Just be careful where your hands go after eating one. Did it say it was hot? After eating one of those you will not get sick for a year, nothing will come close to you. It could be the hottest pepper I have ever eaten whole but it was good. Did I say hot? It was well beyond hot.

Don Bowen Awl Knotted Up
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