Hot Pepper 'Garden Salsa'

I bought this garden salsa plant at a local Nursery. It produced very well. The peppers were consistently very spicy for us. Spicier than...Read More our jalapenos. Even though I know it is a hybrid, I am going to try and grow out some seeds next year. One of the other commenters noted that his experience in doing this went well. I like experimenting anyway and I usually do at least one experiment a year! I have been taught that if I can grow a hybrid seed out for 7 years, choosing the peppers I like, it will no longer be a hybrid. Does anyone know if that is true?

We've been growing this pepper for 5 years now, it has a permanent spot in our garden. It produces an abundant harvest, is great fresh a...Read Morend freezes well. The only complaint is that the heat varies greatly from year to year and from the beginning of the season to the end. Some are have almost no heat at all, others are hotter than the average jalapeno, so it's best to do a taste test before adding to any recipe.

This is supposed to by a hybrid that will not come true to it's parent, however that is not true in practice. I purchased my first plant...Read Mores several years ago and the following year I could not find the Garden Salsa anywhere so I started seedlings from seeds salvaged from some of the previous years air dried peppers. The results were perfect. There was no detectable difference from the parent plants. I also purchased new seed from Digital Raingardens. There were no differences in the peppers. I've continued this for about 3 to 4 years with great success. This is a very disease resistant and drought tolerant pepper. It is not extremely tolerant to excess water, but it did survive the 9" rain last year that much of my garden did not.

A hybrid chili. (73 day) Fruits are 8 X 1 inch, usually picked green (they mature red), and medium hot.