DECEMBER 2011 UPDATE FOR THE 2012 GARDENING SEASON!!!
AT THE TIME OF THIS UPDATE, 12.19.2011, I HAVE PLENTY (THOUSANDS) OF DATIL PEPPER SEEDS.
THEY ARE ALL FROM PEPPERS HOME GROWN BY ME DURING THE SUMMER OF 2011.
I GROW NO OTHER VARIETIES OF PEPPERS ON MY FARM TO AVOID CROSS POLLINATION WITH NON-DATIL PEPPERS, SO THESE ARE TRUE DATILS.
THERE IS AN AD JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THIS POST WITH A PICTURE OF DATIL PEPPERS AND THE PARTICULARS FOR ORDERING THEM.
PLUS, THERE IS A DATIL PEPPER PAGE AT THE TOP OF THIS POST THAT YOU CAN CLICK ON FOR MORE INFO.
JUST TO BE SURE, I WILL POST THE DEAL HERE AGAIN:
$5 FOR TWO RECIPES AND A PACK OF 20+ DATIL SEEDS.
SEND YOUR HARD EARNED CASH TO:
FC
POB 205
OTTER CREEK, FL 32683 or
YOU CAN PAY BY PAYPAL. MY ACCOUNT IS MY EMAIL ADDRESS: natcoast@msn.com
IF YOU PAY BY PAYPAL, YOU NEED TO SHOOT ME AN EMAIL WITH YOUR MAILING ADDRESS.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN A GREAT PEPPER WITH TASTE AND HEAT.
2011 UPDATE!!!
I HAVE PLENTY OF SEEDS. THE PRICE IS THE SAME, $5 CASH FOR 20 SEEDS AND 2 RECIPES.
THE ADDRESS IS THE SAME ALSO:
FC
POB 205
OTTER CREEK, FL 32683
YOU SHOULD SEE AN AD FOR SEEDS IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE BLOG.
THIS UPDATE WAS DONE ON MARCH 2, 2011.
UPDATE JUNE 14, 2010:
IF YOU ARE READING THIS AFTER JUNE 14TH, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT I AM OUT OF DATIL SEEDS AT THIS TIME.
I WILL SAVE SEEDS AGAIN AND OFFER THEM EARLIER THIS WINTER SO GROWERS CAN GET A BETTTER HEAD START ON THE SEASON.
THANKS TO ALL WHO ORDERED SEEDS!
ONCE AGAIN, I AM OUT OF SEEDS AT THIS TIME. WATCH FOR A NEW POST THIS WINTER ABOUT DATIL SEEDS.
FC
Yes, the seeds are free.
There is a $5.00 shipping,handling, and general aggravation fee.
What do I get?
3. The satisfaction of knowing you helped put my babies through college.
What don't I get?
Prolific and HOT! One or two will flavor and heat up any dish you toss them in to and it only takes a cup of peppers to make a huge batch of relish, so calm down. If only one or two plants made it to this point, you should have more than you need.
Plus, you can save your own seeds and tell me to kiss off next year. Of course, my 3 babies will still be in college...
JUST REMEMBER THIS IS AN HEIRLOOM PEPPER. DO NOT PLANT OTHER PEPPER VARIETIES ... ESPECIALLY THE DATIL'S COUSINS (HABENERO) ... NEAR YOUR DATIL PLANTS IF YOU ARE SAVING SEEDS.
CROSS POLLINATION CAN OCCUR AND DILUTE THE GENETICS OF THIS FLORIDA TREASURE.
(... and don't even talk to me about the "sweet" datil with no heat. I might just slap you.
It's an abomination.)
Start your datils using standard pepper starting procedures.
BE PATIENT!
Expect about a two week period before you see emerging datil babies. My recent batch took exactly that much time and that is inside with bottom heat.
Don't transplant the young datils until they get their first pair of TRUE leaves ... not the seed leaves they emerge with.
Keep them warm, they do NOT like cold weather.
Spend twenty bucks on one of these to improve your chances of decent germination. Once they are growing, care is the same as any other pepper.
They will produce when nights warm up and can produce lots of peppers over a long fruiting season if you will keep them picked.
Don't wait until they turn orange! Green datils are the standard. They can be green, green with purplish streaks, or , when fully ripe, bright orange.
Keep those orange ones off the bush as they signal the plant that, "Hey, relax, your work here is done."
At the end of the season, I let some peppers go to orange so I can save their mature seeds for the next year.
Treasure.
A typical datil pepper will hold about 30 to 40 seeds. I'll mix them from different individual datils when I count out your 20 seeds.
If you want some seeds, hide a $5.00 bill (no checks, no paypal, no money orders) in an envelope and mail it to:
FC
POB 205
OTTER CREEK, FL
32683
(Yes, I know you shouldn't send cash through the mail, but it's only 5 dollars. If that is too scary for you, just grow some other pepper.)
If you do order some, email me once in a while at natcoast@msn.com and let me know how things are going.
AT THE TIME OF THIS UPDATE, 12.19.2011, I HAVE PLENTY (THOUSANDS) OF DATIL PEPPER SEEDS.
THEY ARE ALL FROM PEPPERS HOME GROWN BY ME DURING THE SUMMER OF 2011.
I GROW NO OTHER VARIETIES OF PEPPERS ON MY FARM TO AVOID CROSS POLLINATION WITH NON-DATIL PEPPERS, SO THESE ARE TRUE DATILS.
THERE IS AN AD JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THIS POST WITH A PICTURE OF DATIL PEPPERS AND THE PARTICULARS FOR ORDERING THEM.
PLUS, THERE IS A DATIL PEPPER PAGE AT THE TOP OF THIS POST THAT YOU CAN CLICK ON FOR MORE INFO.
JUST TO BE SURE, I WILL POST THE DEAL HERE AGAIN:
$5 FOR TWO RECIPES AND A PACK OF 20+ DATIL SEEDS.
SEND YOUR HARD EARNED CASH TO:
FC
POB 205
OTTER CREEK, FL 32683 or
YOU CAN PAY BY PAYPAL. MY ACCOUNT IS MY EMAIL ADDRESS: natcoast@msn.com
IF YOU PAY BY PAYPAL, YOU NEED TO SHOOT ME AN EMAIL WITH YOUR MAILING ADDRESS.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN A GREAT PEPPER WITH TASTE AND HEAT.
2011 UPDATE!!!
I HAVE PLENTY OF SEEDS. THE PRICE IS THE SAME, $5 CASH FOR 20 SEEDS AND 2 RECIPES.
THE ADDRESS IS THE SAME ALSO:
FC
POB 205
OTTER CREEK, FL 32683
YOU SHOULD SEE AN AD FOR SEEDS IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE BLOG.
THIS UPDATE WAS DONE ON MARCH 2, 2011.
UPDATE JUNE 14, 2010:
IF YOU ARE READING THIS AFTER JUNE 14TH, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT I AM OUT OF DATIL SEEDS AT THIS TIME.
I WILL SAVE SEEDS AGAIN AND OFFER THEM EARLIER THIS WINTER SO GROWERS CAN GET A BETTTER HEAD START ON THE SEASON.
THANKS TO ALL WHO ORDERED SEEDS!
ONCE AGAIN, I AM OUT OF SEEDS AT THIS TIME. WATCH FOR A NEW POST THIS WINTER ABOUT DATIL SEEDS.
FC
Yes, the seeds are free.
There is a $5.00 shipping,handling, and general aggravation fee.
What do I get?
- Approximately 20 heirloom datil pepper seeds from a line of plants handed down from my Grandfather to my Father to me. My Grandfather was THE datil pepper plant guy of St. Augustine for decades. He and his greenhouse produced thousands of pepper plants each year and there is a good chance that any datil pepper plant in the US could trace it's lineage back to his hands. So these seeds are a sacred trust ... not just seeds.
3. The satisfaction of knowing you helped put my babies through college.
What don't I get?
- A guarantee that EVERY seed will germinate. My recent germination test shows that most of them do. Keep in mind these are prolific producers and one plant can supply you with more peppers than you can use.
Prolific and HOT! One or two will flavor and heat up any dish you toss them in to and it only takes a cup of peppers to make a huge batch of relish, so calm down. If only one or two plants made it to this point, you should have more than you need.
Plus, you can save your own seeds and tell me to kiss off next year. Of course, my 3 babies will still be in college...
JUST REMEMBER THIS IS AN HEIRLOOM PEPPER. DO NOT PLANT OTHER PEPPER VARIETIES ... ESPECIALLY THE DATIL'S COUSINS (HABENERO) ... NEAR YOUR DATIL PLANTS IF YOU ARE SAVING SEEDS.
CROSS POLLINATION CAN OCCUR AND DILUTE THE GENETICS OF THIS FLORIDA TREASURE.
(... and don't even talk to me about the "sweet" datil with no heat. I might just slap you.
It's an abomination.)
Start your datils using standard pepper starting procedures.
BE PATIENT!
Expect about a two week period before you see emerging datil babies. My recent batch took exactly that much time and that is inside with bottom heat.
Don't transplant the young datils until they get their first pair of TRUE leaves ... not the seed leaves they emerge with.
Keep them warm, they do NOT like cold weather.
Spend twenty bucks on one of these to improve your chances of decent germination. Once they are growing, care is the same as any other pepper.
They will produce when nights warm up and can produce lots of peppers over a long fruiting season if you will keep them picked.
Don't wait until they turn orange! Green datils are the standard. They can be green, green with purplish streaks, or , when fully ripe, bright orange.
Keep those orange ones off the bush as they signal the plant that, "Hey, relax, your work here is done."
At the end of the season, I let some peppers go to orange so I can save their mature seeds for the next year.
Treasure.
A typical datil pepper will hold about 30 to 40 seeds. I'll mix them from different individual datils when I count out your 20 seeds.
If you want some seeds, hide a $5.00 bill (no checks, no paypal, no money orders) in an envelope and mail it to:
FC
POB 205
OTTER CREEK, FL
32683
(Yes, I know you shouldn't send cash through the mail, but it's only 5 dollars. If that is too scary for you, just grow some other pepper.)
If you do order some, email me once in a while at natcoast@msn.com and let me know how things are going.
40 comments:
Done!
Awesome, can't wait to try them..
Tammy of Al.
When I was in St. Augustine last year, I bought my husband (the peppersauce gourmet) a bottle of datil pepper sauce. He said it was the best he'd ever had. So be lookin' for my 5 bucks. He's gonna want to try this on his own!
This is plumb exciting. Can't wait to tell Liz. I can't eat hot stuff but I grow her hot peppers every year just the same...
Cool post! I may even get in on this, as I've had some cross-pollination from a neighbor's pepper plants...It will be nice to have some heirlooms again.
I put my money in the mail this morning. I've never grown datils before so I'm looking forward to it.
Thanks!
I need some peppers to make Pilau! I have the vinegar and no peps! :( Love you!!
I have a black thumb and just like to eat! Maybe you should help me out! :D
I may have a small greenhouse this summer to extend my growing season, so I'll give them a try! Datil peppers in Minnesota- would that be a first?
Aaargh - I just got 3 massive seed orders through and I'm up to my eyeballs in stuff my glasshouse probably won't have room for already. I guess I'll just have to hope you offer these next year.
Hi FC,
Well, cockadatildoo...heirloom seeds! I'm checking if a friend from Minnesota would like some. I tried herbs from seed last year and every one of them croaked.
P
I love datil pepper sauce with boiled shrimp, etc!
Somebody's comment got deleted from a post about datil pepper seedlings? LOL, must have been a jealous jalapeno farmer!
Cathy just passed me a seed alert here in the hotel room. You best be saving some of those seeds for me.
My cash will be in the mail on Monday! We'll see if those puppies can grow in North Carolina!
Kenneth,
Great! I hope they grow well for you!
Tammy,
They should do great in Alabama. My blog pal roger grew them in Washington State!
Sayre,
He's a true gourmet. The bottled sauces really aren't that bad ... unless you've had homemade.
Can't wait to hear how they do for you.
3C,
Can't eat hot stuff? I would really miss that. You should have no trouble if you are already used to growing peppers from seed.
Hteen,
You were the one person I expected might have their own supply!
SandcastleMomma,
Wow! They should grow great in the panhandle.Keep us posted!
Emma,
I have some frozen ones that will work for pilau. Love you! Great seeing you today!!!!!!
Cindy,
You are too busy growing someBODY! Besides... you can't eat hot datils and then nurse a bouncing baby! Poor thing would be up all night!
Deb,
I can't verify that, but I'd bet 5 dollars it's a first for MN.
I'm getting ready to make a small hoop house from cattle panels.
Tai,
What a great dilemma!
Don't worry, I plan to do so!
Patio,
I hear ya. My first round of baby datils croaked last year when I neglected them at this crucial seedling stage.
Mockingbird,
Me too! Any seafood is better with some good datil pepper relish!
I love jalapeno's too, but they are two very different flavors.
Vive le difference!!
Oh, btw, Deb: I started some of these very same two years ago in Florida and took them to Chicago to finish out the season- they did fine, producing about a dozen peppers on 3 plants. And then came the big freeze with accompanying black rot, etc. and not enough foresight to save seeds from the ones we actually enjoyed. So- I"m starting over!
Vicki,
Check your email!
WooHoo!
I hope you have some left for me too!
Will send post on Monday!
Papa Powers would be proud that his legacy will continue around the world. Five dollars is a bargin for sure, can you imagine how many peppers they could get if 2 or more plants make it? More than enough for about 40 gallons of sauce with lots of peppers left.
Awwww, man!
Hi FC,
The Minnesota chicka wants some. I'll send the $5 with her address today. Hope you have some left!
P
i'm hoping my seeds from 3 years ago are still viable. also hoping for a garden. i still have some dried datils too.
love your spread the datil project.
It could be my computer but I'm not sure if your datil link in the top right corner is working. Just thought I'd let you know so you can check. Love you!!!
They are awful pretty, and I am growing used to a *bit* of heat in food. So maybe 50 years from now I'll be ready...
Sent my order in yesterday morning. :)
Can't wait! Thank you very much.
To all, Thanks for the orders and the interest in the datil!!
Emma, You were right! I had http:// in there twice and it was mucking things up! Love you!
Can I just save the time and spare your precious seeds my black thumb and have you send me some homemade datil pepper relish?
Native Mom,
LOL! Now that would be cheating wouldn't it?
$5 headed your way from Tally town from Ray.
I hope I didn't miss out. My $5 will go in the mail tomorrow -- coming from the Space Coast.
Hi FC,
This will be a great reminder of our wonderful honeymoon in St. Augustine in 2008, year after year...mine will be in the mail before the end of the week. And I hope your babies appreciate your hard work in aid of the college fund,lol.
Where can I find information on standard pepper starting procedures?
I've never started from just seeds and I'd like to learn how.
Thanks
Do you still have some seeds available? Let me know and a fiver will be on it's way.
Hey I bought some seeds from this person and not one seed germinated and I know what i am doing i grow everything from seed
Skip,
Had you bothered to email me with your problem, "this person" would have sent you more seeds.
I live in Indialantic south of Cocoa Beach. My father's people, the Parpals (Parpal) came from Menorca with the Turnbull Colony. I grow the regular datils but am looking for the sweet dail seeds (which I wouldn't grown anywhere near the hot bushes).
Do you have any?
I enjoy your blog!
Regards,
Seaside Gardener (Jenifer)
Do you have seeds now ?
You are the first person that I have known to say don't let the peppers go orange. I live in st Augustine and all of my life I have grown and cooked with the pepper and the orange ones have the full flavor and heat and my plants yeild 100s of peppers per plant.
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