Trial: Annual

Years Trialed: 1998

Good Qualities

Yield - bears like crazy! (2); Great color on peppers; Bright Red (2); Strong grower; Trouble free; Use fresh or dried; All peppers sticking up; Excellent; Plants grew well & fast as transplants; If pinched, nice long side stems appear; Vigorous; Good colorful plants; Possibly use as dried arrangement; Sturdy stems & foliage; Good for drying - for work on wreaths, etc.; After 2 weeks on rain; plugs were still okay in trays.

Problems

Very long season; Not enough height or length between nodes for cut flower production; Took a long time for them to really start growing & I thought a long time to get 'red', but it might have been our weather this year.

Comments

This was my winner for this season. As a fresh cut it was really a hit in bouquets with sunflowers & red /orange zinnias, picked it to use fresh with just 1 or 2 red & rest green. Made wreaths with it dried & sold lots of just bunches dried; We grew the Cramer's side by side with our own cultivar. Both grew well & vigorously.; We preferred the size and shape of Cramer's (pods were slightly smaller & more pointed & yielded a little better.); I planted Burpee's 'Poinsettia' peppers at the same time, & they were turning red when most of these were still setting peppers! When it frosted (10/22), almost all were far too immature to harvest. For decorative peppers, I recommend ' Poinsettia; Similar to Nippon Taka-Johnny's (looks identical); Similar to Red Rooster Spur - not especially different from many of the other Chile's on the market; Would make a great pot plant - compact, even form, pleasant to the eye; Have taken them to Craft Shows, where I sell dried flower bunches along with finished dried arrangements and have sold out all the pepper bunches I bring with me.

Supplier

Cramers' Posie Patch 116 Trial Rd. N. Elizabethtown, PA 17022 717-367-9494 FAX 717-367-8666