Friday, March 30, 2007

ROCOTO, the big chilie tree

Normal chilie have white flowers but this Rocoto has nice purple flowers and the stem is hairy, with fairly big leaves.
This year the chilies are much smaller, due to the drought.
I pickle the green Rocotos with vinegar, this is very nice not too hot with noodles and will keep for months in the fridge. The Paste is made with the red Rocotos and hot, on a scale of 10, I'll say 4.
This Rocoto chilie tree is 5 years old, grown next to the fence, it is as high as the roof top.
Every year I trim the branches and they give 2 crops, Feb. to June. There are green , red and flowers all at the same time. Very Hardy but don't like the frost. It is much better to grow new plants every 2 years to have good seeds and hot chilies.

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