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Pepper Joe's "CHILE NEWS & VIEWS"...1/31/10
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Hey to all Fellow Chileheads, Gardeners and Newbies.  Welcome.  I've spent extra time in this Newsletter bring you back some of your Favorite stuff...like "Ask Pepper Joe" and Featured Recipes.  Enjoy!!
 
 
I owe you some NEW Pepper Pics from the last Newsletter.  I'll triple check the link this time to make sure it's the RIGHT one.  Sorry.....
Place some of YOUR Pepper foto's up while you're there......
 Check out just a FEW of Pepper Joe's 40+ Varieties of Hot Peppers for Sale
  Kung Pao Pepper...NEW for 2010
 
 Ghost Pepper engineered by Pepper Joe.  Original Strain out of India.  Many poor imitations...these are 100% Guaranteed.
 
 5 Color Marble Chile.  One of our Customers Favorites
 
 Pakistan Chunky Chile. NEW for 2010.
 
Charleston Hot Pepper.Just look at these colors...
 
CHARLESTON PEPPER
MOST SOUGHT AFTER PEPPER IN THE UNITED STATES...
After 12 years of developing, plant pathologist Phil Dukes released the Charleston and received over 50,000 requests for seeds. In a copy of "Science Update" the ARS researchers pleaded "No More Requests Please". The Charleston performed well in all field tests for over 5 years.

MORE ABOUT THE CHARLESTON...
The Charleston was selected our of hundreds of strains. The plants were kept in isolation for pure seed. "Home Gardeners will like this variety because it doesn't take up as much space as other Cayenne varieties" says Phil Dukes. "It only grows about 15" high and produces about two pounds of fresh peppers per plant. The rainbow colors start out yellow green, then golden yellow, bright orange than to deep red when it ripens. It is about 20 times hotter than the typical Cayenne (about 70,000 to 80,000 Scoville Units) and can be grown anywhere in the USA".

TWO GREAT PEPPER MEN MEET...
Phil is a good friend to Pepper Joe and gave us a tour of the 300 acres at the U.S. Vegetable Lab in Charleston, South Carolina to see this incredible variety growing in the fields. We even dodged a few alligators with Phil and had a really neat time. It was really interesting to visit the seed bank and observe the whole operation. Phil asked Pepper Joe for some tips on germination. It was a wonderful get-together for two well-knowns in the Hot Pepper Industry. Phil gave us seeds from the original strain and it's the offspring of these seeds that we offer to you.

 "ASK PEPPER JOE"
I ordered 3 kinds of seeds from you and even though I live in Illinois I started a couple of each just to see. I'm so excited about the atomic starfish!! They all started and I have to separate them tomorrow, so Thank You Very Very Much! I Love em! :) This is the first year I've grown peppers and I'm pround to say I've done VERY well, for not knowing anything about them when I started!! Now I have 14 different kinds of peppers going, 58 plants in all!! My first Cayenne showed up yesterday and for some reason I've been excited about those so that was great! I am addicted no kidding, everyone I know can't believe it haha I treat them like my kids, good thing I have none of them yet haha!! It's a really good hobby for me though and keeping me from smoking so much 2 and puts me in a good mood all around, so it was really cool finding your site cause it seems you take the same pride in it! And all the different seeds I can get!!!! I LOVE IT!!!  I LOVE IT!!!! THANK YOU!   Oh yea! I read to put a banana peel in the soil so I did when i changed pots and their stems got a whole lot stronger!!!
Tawny
Galesburg IL.

 
Hey Tawny,
You sound awesome.  Why don't you post some pics on my website in the 'Foto Gallery'.  My customers would love to see them.
I'm growing the Naga Pepper from India...one of the hottest in the world and will sell it next year.
I'm impressed with your successes so far.
Fiery Regards,
Pepper Joe 

 

Hello Pepper Joe,

 I am truly amazed at your site and the variety of peppers that you have available.  I look forward to getting my seeds and growing the hottest peppers out there.

 You have no competition!!  I reluctantly ordered 10 varieties of peppers from Reimer seeds last year even after all the bad stuff that I read about them on-line.  This year I tried re-order exactly what I ordered last year-  What a mess!!!  They added on 5 expedited service charges on my account for 30 bucks!!!  After spending a whole day back and forth with them by email they tell me that their system is perfect and I am the problem.  They accused me of "clicking" too many times-  This was not the case.  After 2 more tires and 2 more canceled orders they sent me this:

  Sorry, we banned you from ordering because it is considered spamming if you continuously place the order over and over again and make the same mistake.

It would not have got to this point if their system prevented this problem in the first place and or they had an ounce of customer service.  They made no attempt to fix the order and just kept on canceling the whole thing.  WHAT A MESS!!!

people are shocked when I tell them I was "Blacklisted" from the site.  I am happy that all this happened because now I am working with someone who genuinely cares about doing things the right way.

I can wait to get the seeds!!  What about adding some banana peppers to the mix? 

Thank you for not banning me from your site!!  I am happy to spend my 50 bucks on your quality seeds and not with Reimer seeds.  They loose you win!! 

Keep up the great work!!!! 

Chili Head JIM

(YOUR BIGGEST FAN!!)

P.S.  Appreciate is spelled wrong below-  Just want to help you look a bit more professional when someone completes an orders.

Jim,
I sure do appreciate you and your business...thrilled to have you as a customer.
PJ
 
Hey Joe;  Just a little follow up.  I assume because of the lack of bees here, the ghost peppers will not set fruit.  I went from bloom to bloom with a very small artists paint brush, and they set fruit right away.  May be something you might want to pass on to your readers.  Attachments are your ghost pepper, and the ten year old, nine foot pepper plant, growing through the roof of the green house.
 
Best
Jay
 
Jay,
That's typical for the Hab Family...as the plant gets larger/stronger the peppers will set.
Fiery Regards,
Pepper Joe
Editors note...this is the NUMBER ONE QUESTION that I receive...about plants dropping blossoms and small peppers.  Most peppers do this with young plants...until they grow a little stronger then MOST of the flowers and Buds germinate.
Fiery Regards...Pepper Joe
 
 hi i want to use sulfur powder, so i went to the drug store here in ontario canada, and they told me there r a number of different kinds of sulfur, so what kind of sulfur can i use with my hot pepper plants? p.s. i got my seeds from u. i am impressed with your survice and i will be looking forward to doing more business with u in the near future, thanks,craig strickland st.thomas ontario canada
 
Craig,
I'm not familiar with the different types of Sulfur.
Tell them yo want organic sulfur for plants.  It is used as an anti-fungicide and anti-bacterial.  It's also a GREAT fertilizer as a foliar spray.
Fiery Regards,
Pepepr Joe
Editors note:  This year I'm going to pput a few tablespoons of Sulfur in teh hole before I transplant my Hot Peppers...To prevent soil borne diseases.
 

For many more questions answered IN GREAT DETAIL go here..
 
"CHILEHEAD FAMOUS RECIPES"
Naomi's Texas style stuffed peppers... 
20 large jalapeno's
1 Tub philly's jalapeno cream cheese or onion and chives cram cheese
1 large pkg of thick sliced hickory smoked bacon (can use turkey
bacon for low fat recipe)
1 Pkg of skinless frozen or fresh chicken tenders

Slice peppers length wise including the stem and seed. Fill each pepper half with cream cheese, slice a piece of chicken to fit on top of your pepper then wrap each pepper with a slice of bacon (if peppers are small can use half slice of bacon). Place each wrapped pepper in a foil pan and cook on grill or in oven until chicken is done. Fix a lot these they go fast. Enjoy Naomi Hume Early, Texas

 

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