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Community members pick peppers to take home and plant.
What’s the appetite for hot peppers among local growers? To gauge how well specialty peppers would grow in Hawaiʻi and how productive they might be, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) Oʻahu extension hosted a field day at the Waimānalo Research Station over the summer.
Chili peppers are commonly used, both fresh and dried, in many different culinary dishes, however, the production of other chili types has not been nearly as common in Hawaiʻi…