sandy0225

I am the current Guinness book of world records "Heaviest bell pepper" title holder now. So I guess I'm not really a celebrity, but now that is my claim to fame.


and this is the picture of the pepper on the scale. Our market scale's platform is 12" wide x 10" deep, for scale.

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Sandy Burrell



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Muncie, IN 47302
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crazy banana

That is very cool. Congratulations.

merce3

Neat. What did you do to get such a large pepper?

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Hammocked Banana

Amazing, congrats!

Abnshrek

I can see it now "Sandie's World Largest Pepper's" on Sale now.. :^)

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saltydad

Way to go, Sandy!!

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sandy0225

Here's the whole story. Actually I didn't do anything special to the pepper.
I wish I could sell the seeds, that would be really cool! But it was from a hybrid pepper, called Jackpot, that I got on clearance sale from Park seeds. They were on sale for .99 for 15 seeds at the end of the season and I needed like $3 more to get free shipping, so I ordered them to save $4 on shipping...lol...The worst part is that they don't even carry this seed anymore. I only have like 10 seeds left after I planted a dozen this spring.
I had the plants in the garden on drip irrigation, and we were running greenhouse fertilizer through the drip about once every two weeks, and watering once a week real deep if it didn't rain. It was an outstanding year for bell peppers here last year anyway, everyone had good luck with them, so they must have had just the kind of weather conditions they liked in this area.
My daughter and I were picking some big peppers off those every week and just for fun when we were at the market each week, we started throwing the biggest one on the scale and weighing it, posting a picture to facebook of it on the scale, and then selling it for $1. So one week we had .74 lbs, then next week .99 lbs, and then when this one was over a lb, I decided not to sell it because the master gardener group was coming to the house for a picnic. I wanted to show it to them and tell them it was the smallest one so it didn't sell and get a good laugh out of them. Amanda decided I should see what the record was for bell peppers, so I looked online when we got home and couldn't find it and found how to submit it to see if I had a claim so I did it. We put the pepper in the freezer whole and uncut before it got too old so that we could preserve it, just in case. Guinness wanted all kinds of paperwork and signed affidavits, but we had showed that big pepper to everyone that would look at the farmers market that day, so it was no problem to get witnesses. And they wanted the "event" to take place at a public place, and the farmers market is a public place, so they approved my claim. Anyway, that is the whole story.
I thought about trying to take out some of the seeds of that one just to see if they came true at all or what I could get out of them in production, but I haven't done it yet. Don't know if it would be worth the effort or cutting the pepper up for them. What do you all think?

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Sandy Burrell



Northern Tropics Greenhouse
1501 East Fuson Road
Muncie, IN 47302
www.northerntropics.com


specializing in bananas, heirloom tomatoes and water gardening plants~
check out our new online store at our website!