shishito peppers

marjstratton

A while back, I was visiting my daughter and we stopped at a farmers market. She was delighted to find that one of the farmers had shishito peppers. I had never heard of them before. Her two year old daughter loves them. I just went to my local farmers market (clear across the country) and was delighted to find that one of the farmers here had some. I'm thinking of seed saving and trying to grow some for myself next summer. Has anyone else tried?

Monek Marie

If you still have any of these peppers left I would save a few seeds. It all depends on how they were grown and what type of seed they were, If you try a few seedlings and they produce the pepper you want save more for the following year

I have several seeds I saved from store bought produce. They may or may mnot produce well. I will know next fall but I really liked the pepper and its worth the chance to see how they will produce.

Lisa K

I love Shishito peppers! If your peppers do not produce any you can find seeds at Botanical Interests.

blevinandwomba

Shishito peppers are easy to grow and very productive. Definitely worth the effort. They are easier to germinate than some of the specialty peppers. I haven't tried saving seed myself, though. I bought my seeds from Nichols. Pinetree does sell them but they are currently out of stock.

marjstratton

I did save some seeds. I know about Botanical Interests seeds, but haven't seen that they have Shishito peppers in any of the stores that I have looked at. Nice to know that they are very productive. I sort of guessed they were when I asked for a small box of them and the farmer gave me several large hand fulls!

water2world

@marjstratton I have never had Shishito peppers. Are they mild, hot, or spicy?

marjstratton

@water2world yes they are quite mild. My grand daughter who was two years old I think at the time loved to eat them raw.

water2world

@marjstratton Thanks, that is good to know. I will have to try and find some!

blevinandwomba

@water2world I think it also depends on your growing conditions. Mine are fairly mild, but sometimes they get a little spicy. However, most hot peppers I grow, even mild varieties, are quite spicy by the end of the season. I think it's my soil.

They are wonderful pickled, like a pepperoncini.

Cornelius

I have not tried them but I love collecting different pepper varieties (I have ghost pepper) so I will definitely keep an eye out!

Merin Porter

Yum! We sautee shishito peppers in butter until they blister, and then top them with Himalayan sea salt. Delish!!!

Sharie

I'm always saving seeds. Peppers have a good success rate of germination. Just don't cover with too much soil and keep the soil warm if you can.

water2world

@blevinandwomba Thanks, I love spicy, but mild is ok also. I hope my soil will spur the ones more spicy!

@Merin Porter That sounds so good! Yum!

Thomas

I have never heard of these, now our to grow list is growing, growing....

Monek Marie

@Thomas It does not help with all the seed addicted people here. ;) That list will just keep growing

Monek Marie

I just found shishito pepper seeds in my stash. I will have to give them a try. I should have a few spare seeds if anyone wants some.

I was gifted a lot of seeds and also participate in a seed saving distribution hub so have seeds to spare.

Right before I joined the hub I went crazy at an amish greenhoue where they had Botanical Interest seeds. 50 cents a packet so I bought $100 of very different unique seeds. I just love Botanical Seeds!

After all the talk of shishito seeds I am looking forward to growing some and also saving seeds

VickiP

Has anyone tried Cubanelle Pepper? It looks like a good selection. I found it on the Migardener site. https://migardener.com/store/seeds-by-category/all-seeds/peppers/cubanelle-pepper/

Monek Marie

@VickiP Yes I have and I really like it!~

Thomas

I really had wanted to try out the shishito peppers. I ended up getting the peppers from ThomasNaturalsRoot at Etsy; https://www.etsy.com/listing/762096219/shishito-pepper-seeds?ref=shop_review

I went with them because there was free shipping, which others tend to want me to spend $X in order to get free shipping.

From the discussions here, I can't wait until I get them growing.

silvertipgrizz

Baker Creek Seed sells the shishito and they were in stock recently but often they sell out and then you have to click the let me know button when in stock. They also have free shipping.

The best way to handle our seeds from here on out is to save our own and plant your most valuable/important/fav seeds every year to acclimatize them to your zone/area and for future planting seasons when many seeds might be very hard to find.