On Jul 16, 7:40?pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
"Sheldon" wrote in message

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On Jul 16, 10:38?am, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
"Jack Schmidling" wrote in message

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What has happened to jalapeno peppers?

The ones in the supermarket more often than not taste like bell
peppers. I
have noticed this over the past few years and it seems to be getting
worse
with time. We used to get a dudd now and then but now we rarely find a
hot one.

The solution of course, is to grow them ourselves. Well guess what?

The ones from the garden shops have the same problem so we started
growing
our own from seed. Well, guess what again?

This year's jalapenos grown from seeds advertised as hot are perfectly
sweet. We sampled three different plants from different areas of the
garden and they are all the same.

Any thoughts?

I've grown Burpee "Jalape o M" for the past two years and the peppers had
plenty of kick. What brand & variety did you grow?

I've been growing jalapenos from the same packet of Burpee seeds for
five seasons now, those suckers are too hot, stick a fork in em and
they'll melt the tines.

Hot, and big too:http://i7.tinypic.com/66kzvko.jpg

Too hot for me, I trade away most with my neighbor for his garlic and
Yukon golds.

It's weird - before I grew jalape os, I'd only tasted them out of jars, or
at restaurants, maybe in salsa or cooked into other stuff. They never
impressed me as hot at all. At home, when I want heat in the recipe, I use
the cayenn peppers from the garden, fresh or dried. When I grew jalape os, I
figured I'd be getting peppers I could stuff, cook briefly, and woof 'em
down like potato chips. Ha. Not.

Guess what, they're four times as hot when dried and crushed. The
usual pizza parlor pepper sprinkle I can literally cover the slice and
not feel it's too hot, but not with the ones I grew myself, they are
too wicked to eat.