Aji Amarillo in Austin
 

I'm growing a Peruvian Aji Amarillo and its a great big beautiful
plant with big beautiful Ajis. The problem is they've been big
beautiful ajis verdes for more than a month now and show no signs of
turning amarillo. Has anyone else had any experience with these
peppers?

Thyro wrote:
I'm growing a Peruvian Aji Amarillo and its a great big beautiful
plant with big beautiful Ajis. The problem is they've been big
beautiful ajis verdes for more than a month now and show no signs of
turning amarillo. Has anyone else had any experience with these
peppers?


They take a long time. I'm not sure exactly which pepper you have; I've
grown a capsicum baccatum in Minnesota that has quite large (5 to 7
inches long) fruit that start out yellow-green and eventually turn
orangey-red. I don't get many red ones because they take over a month
to fully ripen. I'm growing another baccatum this year that someone
sent me the seeds -- he called them "Limon de Peru", and I've only seen
one yellow pepper so far this year. I guess it took about 4 to 6 weeks
to fully ripen. The limon peppers turn bright golden yellow when fully
ripe, and they are only about 3 inches long (and I think they taste
better than the other variety I usually grow)

I like them better green anyway.

Best regards,
Bob

Thanks Bob!

I guess I just have to be patient.

Thanks Bob!

I guess I'll just have to be patient...

Where did you get the seeds for the aji amarillo?
I just moved to Austin and I'm from Peru so would love to have fresh ajies at home!
Thanks!

On Fri, 6 May 2005 00:49:11 +0000, soledad
wrote:

Where did you get the seeds for the aji amarillo?
I just moved to Austin and I'm from Peru so would love to have fresh
ajies at home!

You will have to start from seeds on this I suspect.

http://www.seedsofchange.com/
offers these for aji amarillo but it is getting a little late this
year to start peppers from seeds. But you have to start when you can.
Welcome to Austin.

Rusty Mase
Austin, Texas

Thanks! I'll try it.

You still have plenty of time to enjoy a late summer or fall crop. The
peppers will take about 105- 110 days from the time you plant the seed. I
would recommend the following to sites to order online.

http://www.batnet.com/rwc-seed/ Redwood City Seed they have many exotic
varities.

http://www.tomatogrowers.com/index.html A good relible site for both tomato
and pepper seed.

Have Fun.

Jim
"soledad" wrote in message
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Where did you get the seeds for the aji amarillo?
I just moved to Austin and I'm from Peru so would love to have fresh
ajies at home!
Thanks!


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soledad