Minna Glenn

These particular plants wintered over in the garden - they are in a raised bed and I covered them up well. So they have had long hot summer.

I've multiplied them by cuttings after the first time I planted seeds, since I wanted to sure to keep the strain. We've been back to the Foster since but that gardener is long gone. What made me think it was a soil mineral problem is that Hawaii has such rich volcanic soil - maybe I'll just try different mineral additions when I take cuttings this fall.

Thanks for your reply!

We obtained this pepper plant in Hawaii (Honolulu) several years ago. A Vietnamese gardener with a community garden plot at the Foster Botanic Garden offered us a taste and it was delicious - sweet and a little hot. We (legally!) mailed some of the seeds back to ourselves in Memphis, TN, and have grown it since. In Memphis it is not as tasty as in Hawaii - kind of bland. We don't have the same volcanic minerals here - I've supplemented the soil with Azomite but no results yet. I'm new at this forum (altho a regular and grateful reader) and hope I can figure out how to post my picture.

Any advice (to get it tastier) would be appreciated. Also I am glad to share seeds.

Minna