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Re: Pepper Giveaway 2014-2015

Apple. Shepherd's garden is a family owned business. I don't know why the name changed but Renee Shepherd is still the owner.
I've grown Thai Dragon before. These sites list Thai dragon seeds for sale

https://www.kitazawaseed.com/seed_454-104.html
https://www.tmseeds.com/product/Chili-Pe ... -F1-Hybrid
https://www.westcoastseeds.com/productde ... l4g9Y.dpbs
https://www.lakevalleyseed.com/Pepper_Th ... _p/674.htm

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I have grown all of these except the one from Kitazawa seeds, which a friend grew, and told me that it was definitely not the old Thai dragon we used to grow.

From what I heard, Shepherd's was one of those family businesses in which one of the kids - Renee - wanted to keep the family business going, but one wanted to sell out. It took a while to get it going again, but it's good that it is, and that Renee has a lot of similar items.

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That's good to know. I had Thai dragon before and I liked them, but I don't remember where I got them. I do buy some seeds from kitazawa. There seems to be a lot of different Thai peppers.

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Shepherd's was purchased by White Flower Farm, then closed. Maybe it was one of those hostile takeovers. Renee seems to be doing fine off on her own.

Lots of Thai peppers? There are lots of Thai gardeners and people interested in peppers :).

I have grown A Thai Dragon and have Thai Hot every year. Thai Hot probably wouldn't go very far as a descriptive name ... I appreciate that it is early maturing. Quite a few peppers have little chance of maturing in my gardening climate.

The Thai Dragon seed may have come from Thompson & Morgan. I saved the seed. That was something of a mistake since I should have already known it was a hybrid. Even if it wasn't, the plants were growing in the open garden with other peppers. Up, down or sideways - even with the direction of the pods, the offspring was varied! Flavor is difficult for me to discern since these things are hot! I can't tolerate all that much heat so as to really know what I'm up to in the kitchen, at the table or in my pepper patch :roll: .

To avoid cross pollination, a few Thai Hot plants have been the only variety I've grown here at home the last few years. Others are in a distant garden.

My neighbors haven't had peppers but I noticed last year one neighbor had bells. I don't know about Asian or Chinese peppers ... figured there was a risk to the Thai Hots so I decided Native American and learned over the fence to demand, "Katimma ish ia? Katimma ish ia?!"

It might not have worked ... I'll find out next year when I plant the pepper seed ...

Steve :)

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I have had thai hots which are very tiny on a plant that is under one foot tall and very hot. Hot thai which has peppers that are 1 inch long and thin pointing up and somewhere around a tabasco in heat. My Thai dragons looked and tasted a lot like cayennes with similar heat levels. There was also the thai bird eye chili that grew in clusters of two or three, pointed down and were very hot.

So I guess there is a lot of variation in Thai peppers.

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Red Crimson . I love bells but can't eat spicy.



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