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Malagueta, a Portuguese pepper

Hoping these old seeds are still viable. In case you're wondering and concerned, a ventilation hole has been drilled in the top of the jar.
Neat, let us know how they do! I tried growing some ghost peppers and jalapenos in my garden this year, do you have any gardening tips?
 
Neat, let us know how they do! I tried growing some ghost peppers and jalapenos in my garden this year, do you have any gardening tips?
Hi Natasha,

I will! I might even take a photo if they germinate. But the seeds are very old and they may not.

Gardening tips? Well, I don't really have many. This is all I know: In my experience, ghost peppers, in fact any of the ultra-hot peppers tend to be very slow to germinate and also to grow and they tend not to survive the winter. I might buy a seedling or two and see what happens. But actual gardening tips. I like to prepare the soil with manure and compost. The compost can be dug in but I find it's works just as well if I lie it on the surface of the soil and put a layer of mulch on it. Whatever I plant responds well to this treatment. I have a cultivated blackberry too, and this is a case in point. The soil here is still cold, so I haven't put any mulch down yet, but I did give it a decent layer of compost and the plants are a mass of new, healthy shoots and leaves.

The people at GardenWeb.com are a great help, and what I'm sure would be the standard work on growing peppers is The Pepper Garden by Dave DeWitt and Paul W. Bosland if you'd like a book with all the information you'll ever need. Nice book. Here's a cheap secondhand one in good condition (not sure whether the link will show when I post this. If not, just click on the title). It costs $40.50 new from Amazon.

Hope this helps.

See ya!
 

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