Market Farming

["Shoemaker, William H" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>]

Pepper variety/type selection can be tricky. You can find different varietal 
names for the same pepper based on location, stage of harvest, etc. 
Pepperoncini peppers are generally harvested immature and are not hot. They 
are pickled and can be made hot by adding a hot sport pepper or a hot pepper 
juice to the pickling sauce. The immaturity gives it the thin, succulent 
flesh. Italian Long Hot is a type more than a variety, though there may 
actually be a variety by that name. The problem is sorting out a whole 
culture of peppers in Italy developed over centuries, then immigration 
bringing them here and mixing them up even more. So if you're a little 
innacurate in your use of varietal name but true to type, you're probably in 
the game.

We have a very popular small, early sweet pepper in Chicagoland called 
Melrose. It really is a good pepper and unique and only Julius Caeser knows 
where it came from. I'd bet any big city with significant Italian-American 
populations who hold their culture dear would have a similar pepper. Its one 
of the delights of the Italian food culture in the USA.

Bill
William H. Shoemaker
University of Illinois, Crop Sciences
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL  60174
630-584-7254, wshoemak AT illinois.edu

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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 5:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Italian Long Hot Peppers

Kim,

Could you have meant Jersey long hots?  We have them all the time, great
pepper.  Some very hot and some pretty mild.  Riemer Seeds have them in
stock.  This is not the Greek Perroncini.

Maury Sheets
Woodland Produce
South jersey



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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 1:53 PM
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Subject: [Market-farming] Italian Long Hot Peppers



Does anyone grow Italian Long Hot Peppers and can you point me to a seed
source? Or an alternate name to find them by? I find references on the
internet to people cooking with them, but zilch on finding them by that name
from a seed company. We have a request to grow them. I've never seen them,
but they're apparently used pickled a lot. And they're a long thin, curly
pepper, apparently, that goes from green to red, orange or yellow (maybe
they grow through yellow and orange to red). Any ideas or advice?

Kim
Barking Cat Farm
NE Texas where winter finally arrived along with some much needed rain
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