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Sat Jan 18, 2020 2:09 pm

I purchased 100 Medusa pepper seeds on Amazon for $3.95 and free shipping with an anticipated arrival in two weeks. I think of the Medusa pepper as a beautiful, decorative pepper plant which grows to about 10" in height, but is crowned with green, yellow, and red peppers sticking out like spikes. It supposedly has no heat, so it makes a safe pepper to grow around kids who want to feel and taste unusual things.

With a two week shipping schedule, I thought it would probably be shipped by a home gardener in the United States. It actually took three weeks from the order date to receive it and it shipped from Uzbekistan and the seeds were produced in China. I planted twenty four seeds today for germination under lights on heat mats. It will be interesting to see how well they germinate and grow. I don't believe they are all Medusa seeds because I made the mistake of rubbing one eye after planting the seeds, I know for a fact some of the seeds are from hot peppers.

Enclosed with the seed was a small note in Chinese and English thanking me for my order and inviting me to visit their new web page at WWW. enjoymygarden.com. They have some interesting vegetable seeds interspersed with other products like adult bedroom toys. I suppose their philosophy is you can't garden year round, so you need other hobbies in the winter.

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Sat Jan 18, 2020 2:13 pm

I am not touching this one

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Sat Jan 18, 2020 2:22 pm

Let's keep this thread on track... where might be a better source to buy Medusa peppers?

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Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:07 pm

Nan6b wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2020 2:22 pm Let's keep this thread on track... where might be a better source to buy Medusa peppers?
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Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:08 pm

Now, Nan, LOL, ( and I simply cannot keep a straight face right now, nope not at all!!!!), if one cannot stay busy in the garden, one may want to keep busy in the house...warmth in the winter and all that. Cooking or hobbies, such like. You know, to recharge your batteries so one can be like the Energizer Bunny, keep going and going and going, in the garden.

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Sun Jan 19, 2020 12:21 pm

Those items can also be used as tomato pollinators. Bonus!

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Sun Jan 19, 2020 1:54 pm

Cole_Robbie wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2020 12:21 pm Those items can also be used as tomato pollinators. Bonus!
As I recall they worked quite well for you.
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Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:17 pm

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Sun Jan 19, 2020 4:20 pm

Ginger2778 wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:17 pm This says Medusa is hot. http://www.reimerseeds.com/medusa-hot-peppers.aspx
It well might be at this point! :oops:
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Sun Jan 19, 2020 8:21 pm

If you did get authentic Medusa seeds, they are small plants. I grew a few years ago.

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Sun Jan 19, 2020 8:26 pm

I've read the Medusa pepper is hot, but most opinions seem to agree that it has no heat up to mild heat with highest scoville rating i've read at 1000 units. I'm really growing them as decorative flower pot plants on the deck. If they are hotter than expected, I'll stuff them in a bottle and put some vinegar in the bottle and use it as pepper sauce on cooked greens and spinach.

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Mon Jan 20, 2020 5:29 am

Keep in mind that since the advent of the ultra super hots the regular or less than regular hots aren't considered that hot anymore.
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Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:30 pm

I go by the Scoville units mostly, but love the sweet peppers, not the hot to silly hot ones.
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Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:33 am

I've grown many ornamentals through the years. Can't think of any that are mild and most are very warm to hot. Rosetta is one I grow that actually tastes good. Most have no flavor just heat. Gemstone is my go to for containers and mass plantings in ground. 8-10" tall and wide for months of color.
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Post: # 7279Unread post Donnyboy
Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:33 pm

Those are beautiful peppers. I probably grew Tabasco peppers one year, but I don't remember growing them. They now come up wild in my garden every year.
When I was seven or eight years old, my "arithmetic" teacher had a tiny pepper plant in her classroom window sill. The plant was so pretty covered in little red peppers. I had no knowledge of hot peppers, so I pulled one pepper, popped it in my mouth; and sat down. My mouth was suddenly on fire. I couldn't say anything because I was afraid of the teacher who liked to use a ruler on kids hands. I sat and silently suffered for about forty five minutes.

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Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:03 pm

Okay, I figured out what my "Madusa" peppers, ordered from Amazon; shipped from China are. They are all hot cayenne peppers. They are becoming loaded with small, skinny, green peppers. I pulled a little one today to see if it is hot. I recognized the taste immediately and I recognized the heat in a few more seconds. Fortunately, I like cayenne peppers, but I will have a lifetime supply after this year.

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