Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners

Reviewed on 12/07/2006 by pepperhead212 - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Gloucester, New Jersey, United States Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days Soil Texture: Loam Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
This is a generic name for oriental dried red peppers, so I wouldn't have ordered this if it hadn't been listed so hot by the company. It wasn't as hot as they said, but it has a good flavor fresh red and dried, and was SUPER productive, so I'm glad I ordered it! The plants were 3 - 3 1/2' tall, and I had to stake all of them because the stalks were a little thin, but also they were weighted down with all of the peppers, which grew in upright clusters of 10-12, which all would ripen at the nearly the same time in each cluster, turning brown, then red. Sort of a determinate pepper, as there were few flowers in mid-summer while all the clusters were ripening, but I got another surge of lowering toward the end - would have been good in a region with longer seasons. The only Thai type pepper out of my 12 varieties to get pepper maggots - the only drawback for me. The heat was less than Thai Dragons, and the flavor of the dried peppers was good in Chinese Stir-fries, as well as Thai curry pastes, and it was also good fresh, though I dried most of them.