PIPPIN'S GOLDEN HONEY PEPPER

[karstopography]

Anyone grown this one?

Got some free seeds that arrived from BC.

[PlainJane]

I grew it 2 seasons ago. Pretty nice all around and great flavor. It’s not a huge bell so you need more plants. Good frying pepper.

[karstopography]

I grew it 2 seasons ago. Pretty nice all around and great flavor. It’s not a huge bell so you need more plants. Good frying pepper.

My pepper growing ideas are evolving with each season. Gatherer’s Gold ended up being a very positive revelation and it might have been just luck since I found a delicious recipe where ripe peppers get blistered in a hot skillet and then sprinkled with Parmesan. So now, I want to explore not only growing Gatherer’s Gold again, but other similar no heat sweet peppers that can get the same treatment in the skillet. Frank’s pepper was good in flavor, but the plants are relatively tiny and not especially vigorous as summer progresses. Gatherer’s Gold was a much more robust plant. Calabrian Caviar was initially very nice, but like many sweet and bell peppers, the fruit themselves shrink too much as the heat of mid summer arrives. Jimmy Nardello, good early, not vigorous as season matures, disease prone.

So for 2025, I want Gatherer’s gold in the line up. Giant Aconcagua is another one that handles our summer well, stays large, vigorous and productive, but I had not tried the GA peppers in the recipe I had for Gatherer’s Gold since I didn’t grow Giant Aconcagua in 2024.

I’ve grown peppers that grow well here, but then haven’t connected with the flavor. I have grown peppers that I love the flavor, but the pepper plants don’t seem to thrive here. What I want to get to eventually are the peppers I love to eat and that thrive here.