SEED STORIES | Chiltepin Pepper: Wild Chile of the Borderlands
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- The Chiltepin isn't the oldest known capsicum species, but without it we wouldn't have such cultivated peppers as cayenne, poblano or jalapeno. The petite fruit might be mistaken for a berry, and it's likely that migrating birds -- so important to the spread of these peppers in the U.S. - Mexico borderlands -- did just that. It is the only wild chile native to the U.S., and its spicy, pungent taste is unique among its relatives. Baker Creek is happy to offer this variety in the 2020 catalogs!
being from Texas, ate these all the time. We would collect them when working cattle to have that day.
Wild Turkey that have been eaten chilitpins have Awesome flavor.
great tip on the turkey! screenshotted to remember that one
Gary B I wouldn’t have thought of that, great information 👍🏼
That sounds awesome! I got to remember this!
❤️❤️❤️ Yes! My father always had his chiltepins in a jar read to smash in his napkins to put over anything he ate. We still grow them today. Beautifully told, thank you from Tucson!
My grandfather used to have several chiltepin plants and he would harvest them, let them dry outside, and then grind them up in his old fashioned hand crank coffee grinder.
He would keep the powder in a silver snuff box that had belonged to his grandfather that he brought with him when they moved from Wales to Texas.
One Chiltepin bush just appeared in my backyard. Now I grow them and make sauces, salsa, and mustards.
They’re so good.
My mother has been growing these since before I was born! They are really hardy, require very little maintenance and you get good yields. They can even continue growing in fall in the 9b conditions.
Yes ma'am. I live in Zone 8B, south Georgia and it's crazy because my peppers always take off in the fall and winter here. 🌶️😋
Very little maintenance? They require alot of maintenance.
@@armandoavila7079 They grow wild in the desert.
A year ago I bought a chiletepin. I had no idea it was a perennial that would become my favorite houseplant!
these are fantastic they can last more than one season in California as long as they are fed and cared for properly wild varieties are great once you have a plant you have seeds for decades!
My grandma was from Oaxaca and she used this Chiletepin in her famous salsa recipes!
I didn't know much about the origins of this famous but significant pepper thank you!!!
Chiquito pero picoso!!❤️❤️❤️
I dont think these grow wild in Oaxaca
Love this. Great information. As a native Arizonan, transplanted in Tennessee, the scenery is especially beautiful and appreciated. 🌶💚🥰
I live in Abilene Texas and the birds have planted several of these in my back yard. My husband and I both love these little fiery hot peppers and use them almost everyday as we both like things spicy. I just dry them and use the mortar and pestle to crush for cooking.
i cant wait to get my catalog in the mail,, this and many other seed varietys are going to be tried in next years gardens for sure,,thank you for the videas/ ideas and videos
Yeeeessssssssss! I had an old Hispanic woman pull a jar of these out at a pizza restaurant I was working at. She gave me a few and I loved them. I just discovered this and ordered some seeds from you!
The Wiri Wiri pepper from Guyana, is very fruity and spicy. Makes a great spicy ketchup!
We love this pepper and have been growing them here in South Carolina for over 15 years. 🌶️
Although born in Cuba, I've spent the last 50 years in the USA southwest, specifically in Northern New Mexico, and southern Arizona. Santa Fe NM cuisine demands green chili for it to be considered, authentic, so I've been eating such, for 3 plus decades now. Now, my wife and I moved to a beautiful ranch-inherited-approximately one hour east of Tucson Arizona. To my amazement, there's over forty chiltepin bushes growing around the main house. to my delight.
i got some in the front yard in irving texas ... i never planted them and never realy tended to them and we dont even live in the country.... haaa how cool is that?
The reader is really good!!
I love Pequin
and Tepín peppers.
A long time ago, in Arizona, I planted chiltepin seeds from Native Seeds Search and enjoyed them for years until I moved away. The plant may still be there. Feels like time to grow another.
They've grown in my backyard wild since before I was born. We have sooo many bushes along the fence. I've been drying them, going to make a bunch of powder.
WWII, as a member of the 10th Mtn Div Remounts, while in Texas, My Step-Father was introduced to these chilies, and any thing, especially a spaghetti concoction know as "Trapper Special" deserved a couple of these. I believe he packed some into the Italian Alps while packing Howitzer ammo, so there might be a small population of these peppers there...I hope so.
Ice cream wow really? thanks for sharing.
I got mine from mockingbirds. I have one that is 4 years old and 8 ft tall growing along my chain link fence.👍👍
Does it die in winter?
I'm still waiting for my catalog so I can order a bunch of seeds.
We've always called them chile piquin here in south Texas.
Thats a different variety
You spell it that way, but it’s not pronounced that way. Least I spell it that way. But you pronounce it chili-te-pin
RGV representing or what!
@@chasintails2179 in Sinaloa they're known as piquin or chiltepin. I grew up hearing and using the name piquin though.
I have a monster dense plant that's almost 6 feet tall and maybe wider. I call it the Sonoran insanity pepper because no matter my best intention of getting off work and picking the plant clean...the process JUST NEVER ENDS, and ends up driving me crazy. I don't quite get the 'rareness' focus because Ive found plants growing in urban alleys and around the city. seeds and starters are easily available as well. But the cultural importance...yes, I get it. I actually tip with my chiltipens, when appropriate, and you can tell they are so happy to get a bag of them. I usually get a story about how when a family member returns from a trip to Mexico they bring back a bunch of chiltipens to hand out. Easy plant to grow if u live in zone 9.
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Yikes! Chiltepin is hotter than ghost pepper??? No, thanks. I will stick with growing SWEET PEPPERS!
Michelle Johnson -- I thoroughly enjoy hearing the back story to seeds and their history. You do such a good job narrating and producing these stories. Thank you! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA. 10/18/2019.
Hi, I don't think they said hotter than the ghost pepper? It is hotter than a jalapeno, though
Hi, Gayla. I just re-watched the video. OOPS! You are correct. Michelle said it was hotter than Jalapeño. Ghost Pepper was mentioned next.... which is where I goofed. Have a great day. Best wishes from Kate.
@@TalkingThreadsMedia I am just glad it isn't that hot because I want to try it and there's no way I could handle uotter than ghost pepper, lol. Here in the PAC NW, I didn't get my chilis to ripen this year and I am hoping I would have better luck with such a small pepper so I can make homemade pepper sauce. Take care!
Hello again... Nope, my Canary Bell peppers did not reach maturity this year, either! I had 58 plants... Here in Olympia, we had a long, cold, wet spring... and then an earlier than normal hard frost (10/8, 9 & 10) -- followed by a greater than normal amount of rain. This year was really tough! I look forward to giving it another "go" next year. Good luck to you next year, as well! Best wishes, Kate - Olympia, WA
Hi, Amy. Thank you. Yes...let's hope next year is better! Best wishes from Kate.
Funny, I have my Baker Creek catalog right next to me. I make a Baltimore based hot sauce for a living, and business is good. I miss living in Tuscon though, if only for tacos and ristras.
I traded for an envelope of Chiltepin whole peppers about 10 years ago. I was able to cultivate one plant for almost 3 years before it died. You can`t leave it in the ground in temperate regions. My plant was grown in a large pot so I could bring it in the house in the colder months. It was actually developing bark, or what looked like bark on it`s very hard woody stem and lower branches. I still have about a cup of the peppers that I harvested before it died.
1fanger how far north are you? I really want to grow hot peppers in Maine.
We are in northeast PA. Pretty severe winters, occasionally. Maine is pretty cool, in regards to gardening. Maine potatoes are common, because you have short but intense solar activity. I know a guy who grows all kinds of stuff in Alaska under hoop houses under plastic sheeting. Just remember that peppers are a tropical plant. They love heat.
1fanger with the short growing season both hoophouses and greenhouses will be important to my gardening success. I’ll soon be ready to do some trial and error sessions.
Good luck.
I will have to try these out in my garden.
Love your story videos about different plants
I grow them here in Kansas I love them great heat taste on soups
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one of my faves as it hits nicely but doesn't linger long
Thanks!A lots information.
We have some of those seeds we got from our seed bank here in Arizona. Native Seed Search.
I remember my mom and dad grew in the front yard. Man they were spicy.
Great content. Thank you
So excited for this pepper! Went to purchase before reading they will be available in 2020! XD
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I love these videos Shannie thank you!
Nice video!
I'm definitely going to get some of these.
Best flavor out there if ur making Mexican food it’s a must have heat is there then goes quick awesome....lmk if u need seeds
Where ya at bro
I got a wild strain that I grew from seed she’s good hot heat
Einstein Alberto yea that’s cool there still green right now u can eat em but they peak when they turn red and that’s when I get seeds never done it bro how would u recommend sending them
We've always called them "chile petins" for whatever reason. They're everywhere here. Hotter than hell and extremely pungent, no thank you! 😥😄
Chelsey Hartmann chile Pequín and chiltepin are similar but the shape is a little different. Pequín are conical, chiltepin are more round.
Perhaps Guatemalans or El Salvadorans taught your region or community that name. Chile petín is one of many names. I have noticed some are naturally more round or more elongated with this variety of chile pepper
I first had them at a Christmas dinner in Dallas 20 years ago.
Yes, this legendary pepper is very popular in TX!
I think I like these better than habanero. A little more hardcore upfront and not as much lingering heat. Always give an affordable hot sauce based on these a try 😁
These are so hot and delicious. We grow lots of variety of hot peppers and ferment them for hot sauce. Yummy
In texas, I grew them because they never died. Cold hardy in texas. Hard to keep them alive in s. Ca.
Dang, now I need some of those too.
I love using these..I get them fresh here in Tucson..
ive grown these peppers all my life 🤯
They grow wild in my area, I eat them almost every day
Magical this is my main ingredient
They grow here in Puerto Rico I think they are called “ Ají “.
You may be referring to aji charapita, which looks similar but which I think is a different variety. I understand that they are not quite as hot as chiltepins.
Grow them in my garden, love them
So 🤷🏻♂️ the seeds I bought ain't full bred ?
The seeds are of a stable variety. The plants used to grow our seeds are selected from wild plants to mirror as much as possible the characteristics the plant had before domestication!
i just found out this plant is in backyard. it has been there for at least 2 years
I have had many different type of chillii. My personal choice of chilli are:
1- should not be too hot as it would spoil the food's taste. Maybe somewhere between 50000 to 150000 Scoville.
2- the flavour is similar to bell chilli flavour.
3- slightly sweet.
I am an Asian and I love eating chilli but would not add oddly flavour chilli into my food.
Ordered some and let me tell you they are good if you like spicy foods
So cool!
Some significant misinformation in this video. It's not the only wild variety found in the US. An easy example to disprove it is the pequin pepper, which is easily confused for the same pepper. There are others, though, all annuums.
Not seeing it on the site - is it listed under a different name?
Hi Tyler. They’re not for sale yet but they will be soon! Keep checking back.
@@RareSeedsBC I wondered why there wasn't a link to it. :)
you want some seeds? give me a text I'll send you a shit ton, they're everywhere out here. 362 571 1757. leave your name and I'll call you back
and bs. my plants are growing like trees. most are very short simply because cows chew them down and spread the seed. which obviously isn't a bad thing because in the agricultural or gardening world we would refer to it as pinching back the tops to make them bushier, thereby creating more sets of blooms, but then you can also propogate by cuttings so to each his own.
no offense. I love rare seeds co., but it spreads seed through birds chickens, and cows, most especially cows. as far as I've seen in my lifetime in the south. most white Americans kill the plants or weed whack them, not realizing how much they are worth per plant. they survive every winter, even being frozen and will pop back up in the spring.
I was given some a month ago just picked pop one in my mouth and boy it was hot !
I've grown them for years 4 of my plants came back and also self seeded like crazy
How far north can they be grown? I’m in northern Maine.
4philipp they'll make it inside or in a garage with a grow light and deep mulch. they'll sprout out in the spring. or you can grow them year round indoors with no issue. they ripen better with full sunlight..to make then hotter water them less.
if you want some whole peppers hit me up 361 571 1757. they grow wild all over in my town of shiner tx. I've transplanted a bunch from the nearby ranches and open land in the area. mine are like trees.
and you're lucky btw. after living in Texas and Indiana most of my life, and visiting most of the US, Maine was the one place I traveled to that I said holy shit. I want to live here until I die. it's beautiful. such a diverse ecosystem. and so green.
I have like 400 wild plants on my land lol
Maranatha!
Amen
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shit. these grow like a damn weed in all of texas. to the point that farmers just mow them or spray them with herbicide. yall need some seeds, holler. we got plenty around shiner, tx.
361 571 1757. send me a text or look me up on facebook. I'm all about sharing seeds. I harvest wild plants often out here after realizing the native are more disease resistant and more resistant to climate. I can hook you up with wild blackberrie plants which we refer to as dewberries here in the south, which are thorned, so they rarely get destroyed by birds, and we have wild walking Egyptian onions which set bulbettes on their tops are flowering plus the onion below ground. they spread super quickly, and we have the wild peppers as well. not all areas have them but I've noticed anywhere with cattle or ranch land that hasn't been sprayed by intense herbicides, and they're everywhere. they can be hard to germinate. but I think it depends on the soil mostly as I've had good success. if you want something let me know. I'm a stay at home mom and a horticulture agriculture nerd. I've never sold anything but I see the taste of the south is become popular, as is natives, and I'm out in the fields anyway may as well spread the wealth.
I'd like to see some growing wild. Where around Shiner can they be found?
Did I do wrong by pruning my petin plants all the way down,
I pruned mine way back at the end of the season after they went dormant, and they came back strong as ever the following spring.
how come everyone is calling these ones pequins?
Chile Pequin, chile del monte, bird bush, chiltepin chile petín...are all names of this plant - there are other names depending upon the region/country. Taxonomically, it is classified within variety glabriusculum of the species Capsicum annuum.
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Ese no es ni chiltepin ni piquín ese es chile japonés
From Greg
The slowfood foundation for biodiversity? How is that going.
I have a monster dense plant that's almost 6 feet tall and maybe wider. I call it the Sonoran insanity pepper because no matter my best intention of getting off work and picking the plant clean...the process JUST NEVER ENDS, and ends up driving me crazy. I don't quite get the 'rareness' focus because Ive found plants growing in urban alleys and around the city. seeds and starters are easily available as well. But the cultural importance...yes, I get it. I actually tip with my chiltipens, when appropriate, and you can tell they are so happy to get a bag of them. I usually get a story about how when a family member returns from a trip to Mexico they bring back a bunch of chiltipens to hand out. Easy plant to grow if u live in zone 9.