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Manzano Sold At Fiesta
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Posted by reyna1 Zone 8 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 15, 09 at 19:31
yay!
today after we got home from hitting the outlet mall for some halloween costumes, my wife had a craving for crawfish - so we pulled into the Fiesta mart. However, they didn't have crawfish so we settled on some babyback ribs. But lo and behold I found some manzano's being sold for 3.99 a lbs. I took a couple to taste and see if I like them and take some seeds from them :)
I'll be tasting them tonight and see if I like them. I must say I found them to look rather small. I had thought they were larger but they look like a large habanero w/ thicker walls. I'm excited though as I've never seen them sold around here. |
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RE: Manzano Sold At Fiesta
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| well, i ate my first manzano. i took out the seeds and munched on the pepper. it tasted a little citrusy but not hot at all - 3 minutes later the heat kicked in and continued to rise. this is a pretty hot pepper, with a lingering heat - it completely caught me by suprise. i could handle the heat but it just built on and on. about 10 minutes later it started cooling down. i finally had to eat a piece of lemon to cool off my tongue and lips. i decided to try a lemon to take a away the heat, because i read somewhere that acidity is what takes a away the burn. it worked really quick. so in the future you may want to try to minimize a pepper burn w/ a slice of lemon. |
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lemon, that's new. thanks for the tip. i'm growing my first rocoto plant though small. lost all five flowers it produced. beautiful though. finally, i read that bloom spray or hand pollination might have helped. now it's cold and i haven't seen a flower for a couple of weks. sigh...
a missed opportunity. i'm curious. how did this pepper compare to the lemon drop. |
RE: Manzano Sold At Fiesta
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| To me the manzano was way hotter. The hard part about it was the manzano's heat literally did not kick in, until like maybe 2-3 minutes later. So that gave me tons of time to chew up the whole pepper. Then the heat came on slowly ever so slowly and just grew and grew. It was a kind of irritating heat - almost like someone telling a long long long boring joke - the kind you just would love to have over and done w/ but it keeps going on and on!!! haha I didn't really taste much in terms of flavor. To me, it didn't really have much of a flavor at all. It almost tasted like a very very light bell pepper. Same texture as a bell pepper but nowhere near the green flavor that they have. It had what I think was a very light pepper taste. Even lighter than the lemon drop. I'm tempted to taste my lemon drops green! I have some that are still green. |
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| Sounds like it was not ripe when picked, which is common for store bought peppers. I have tried some from Fiesta also, and the taste was bland compared to a homegrown one. |
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| sounds possible as most fruit/vegeatables are often picked earlier prior to being sold commercially. |
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I have raised Manzanos for the last several years with mixed results. They are a very long season pepper, so sometimes our season in CT isn't long enough for them to ripen. They are much tastier after they are ripe. This year, I've gotten several ripe ones. I don't know if the seed you get from a green Manzano will germinate or not. Are the seeds black? I have also found that they like partial sun, unlike most peppers.
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| I have had 90% germination out of the Manzanos I have planted from seeds that came from peppers at Fiesta. I have tried germinating seeds from other varieties of peppers from the store with about a 50% germination rate and alos ended up with poor quality plants from other pepper types. Manzanos like a more shaded area and will not produce pods if out in the sun for most of the day. They are typically grown in the mountains in South American. |
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| i picked up some of these today at local mexican market. They are not cheap compared to other chiles ($6.99/lb) they looked pretty ripe (yellow turning to orange color). the pepper itself is very intense and interesting tasting. The heat however was super intense right away and lingered for a little bit, although not in an unpleasant way. Ended up chopping some of the peppers up and throwing them in a vegetable soup. I am definately a fan of this one. Can't wait for my own rocoto and manzano plants to produce. |
RE: Manzano Sold At Fiesta
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| Manazanos are available at almost every market in Mexico and you find it everywhere in the cuisine. I have had non-characteristic results when I grew them, ie, I had 2 flushes of fruit in the first season. Manzanos make great poppers: manzano with prosciutto and provolone inside and aged in oil. |
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