Pepper source in Canada

[Diane Whitehead]

Atlantic Pepper Seeds in New Brunswick, on the Atlantic coast of Canada, sells over a thousand kinds of peppers.

The website has a lot of information about growing peppers year-round.  https://www.pepperseeds.ca

They breed varieties and are working on listing information about the crosses they are working on so that people can buy the seeds and continue with their development.

When I was looking through their list of seeds, I noticed ones from these countries, and there were probably more that I didn't see.

Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, China, Cuba,Guatemala, Ecuador, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Spain, Tobago, Turkey

[Ferdzy]

I ordered from them year before last year and this year. I noticed last time, if they said 10 seeds, you got 10 seeds. This year they said 10 seeds and we consistently got somewhere between 15 and 30.

We tried some rocotos last year. One* was obvs crossed and did poorly, but the other produced so many delicious peppers. We are on the edge of being able to grow them**, and we mostly had to pick them green but 98% of them ripened - we made 4 batches of chile garlic sauce, fermented a litre of them, and had some left to dry. All from 2 plants. That was Aji Largo, if anyone wants to know. What was particularly nice was that the flesh is really thick for a hot pepper, and we were able to remove and discard the seeds while still having good, hot results. 

On the other end of the scale we got a typical Italian red pepper called Trontarolo and it's our new favourite sweet pepper. Compact plants, smothered in HUGE peppers, and EARLY. Our big trouble has been getting red peppers early enough to go into the tomato sauce that we can, but this one did it no trouble, then kept producing right through the fall.




*Only dud we've gotten from them so far.
** Especially given last years kind of dismal summer.

[Steph S]

This site looks amazing.
I've been off pepper growing for a few years due to aphid wars.  Well, I did repair some windows and managed to grow a couple of sweet pepper plants indoors last year. 
Trontarolo sounds like a keeper!  I notice they have a whole section of indoor peppers as well.

I have seeds of Super Shepherd (which I bought from Ontario and LOVED) - guessing it is a big plant.   Also Tres Long des Landes from France, and Piment D'Esplette Gorria (probably on the late side but delicious), and a couple of old favorites like Jimmy Nardello from swap.
It's great to see pepper seeds from a source that understands the climate challenges.
I'd like to rebuild a stash of can-do peppers, I was so sad to see none of my old seeds germinate.