Anyone know where you can get real Roquito Pepper seed?

Started by George the Pigman, February 24, 2019, 11:50:10

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George the Pigman

I have been searching websites to see where I can get real Roquito Pepper Seed (Capsicum pubescens).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_pubescens

I thought I had found it on Suttons and the South Devon Chilli Farm websites but further investigation has revealed that the Roquito-like peppers they sell (Biquinho Pearls) are actually a variant of the group of Chinese Peppers (Capsicum chinensis) to which the Jalapenos belong and come from Brazil.
Anyone know where I can get Capsicum pubescens seed?

George the Pigman


ancellsfarmer

Available from:
https://www.pepperseeds.eu/informatie/
No recommendation nor experience of this supplier, who are in Nederlands
Freelance cultivator qualified within the University of Life.

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galina

As another name for Rocoto is Locoto, there is also Alberto's Locoto from Real Seed.  Still have some in the freezer, half is just right for a dish, one makes a hot dish.  These are lovely tasting, very thick walled and fruity with black seeds. 
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/hotpeppers.html

George the Pigman

Many thanks for all your replies.
It looks like its more complicated than I expected!. Looks like Roquito peppers are as broad a range of peppers as the Jalapenos.
I notice in Nickys Seeds there is an Arequipa Ricotto pepper used for stuffing. We were in Arequipa on a Peruvian tour several years ago and stayed in Arequipa. The speciality of the town were these medium sized red peppers stuffed with rice and baked in a cheese sauce. The dish was lovely but my they were hot! Must have been this one.
I wonder what the variety of Roquito pepper is used and sold in the UK over the last few years. Certainly its only mild hotness and very small.

Vinlander

www.semillas.de has a lot of them - all different types. Based in La Palma but write in German or English (slightly wonky).

Reasonable prices and P&P, fairly quick too. But Roquito/Rocoto/Locoto/Manzano peppers are 100% perennial (but not frost hardy) so are worth sowing anytime up to May - if you can resign yourself you to green peppers this year and a big yield of ripe ones next year. Even smaller plants from a later sowing are even easier to overwinter anyway.

Obviously if you want a third+ season you need to grow them to fruit in pots, but pots buried in a greenhouse border do well. Last year they actually preferred to be outside (being from mountain areas).

Cheers.
With a microholding you always get too much or bugger-all. (I'm fed up calling it an allotment garden - it just encourages the tidy-police).

The simple/complex split is more & more important: Simple fertilisers Poor, complex ones Good. Simple (old) poisons predictable, others (new) the opposite.

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