Soldato
- Joined
- 22 Aug 2004
- Posts
- 7,606
Does anyone know what this is? The plant was a gift, and it grew this single fairly large pepper. I was thinking it would be a sweet one, but it burnt my lips! I'd love to know what it is 
2018 Chilli Growing thread
- Thread starter robfosters
- Start date
Soldato
My Little Red Devil chillies (form of Capsicum Frutescens) are doing VERY well this year. The others, (Habanero and as of yet unknown (mix)) not so good..
Soldato
My entry of 3 Ring of Fire chillies won 3rd prize in our village produce show at the weekend
Soldato
Does anyone know what this is? The plant was a gift, and it grew this single fairly large pepper. I was thinking it would be a sweet one, but it burnt my lips! I'd love to know what it is
Jalapeño most likely.
Soldato
- Joined
- 22 Aug 2004
- Posts
- 7,606
I grow those and it looked nothing like one 
This was a lot bigger, I've looked at a million pics on the internet too
This was a lot bigger, I've looked at a million pics on the internet too
Soldato
As far as bigger but similar to jalapeno, could be hungarian hot wax.
Your pepper looks a little odd shaped, almost deformed
Talking of deformed, seems I have created a hybrid
Some of (3) my cayennes have peppers that dont look like Cayenne. They are broadly cayenne shaped, but also have wrinkly skins were as my cayenne are smooth skinned, or should have been!
Also instead of going from green to red, they are going green to yellow
So my suspicion is I have somehow crossed cayenne with some habanero I was growing last year that flowered but were too late to fruit properly
I wonder how hot they are... I guess there is only one way to test easily!
Your pepper looks a little odd shaped, almost deformed
Talking of deformed, seems I have created a hybrid
Some of (3) my cayennes have peppers that dont look like Cayenne. They are broadly cayenne shaped, but also have wrinkly skins were as my cayenne are smooth skinned, or should have been!
Also instead of going from green to red, they are going green to yellow
So my suspicion is I have somehow crossed cayenne with some habanero I was growing last year that flowered but were too late to fruit properly
I wonder how hot they are... I guess there is only one way to test easily!
Soldato
- Joined
- 22 Aug 2004
- Posts
- 7,606
Not one of those either, they are quite long This was more like a normal pepper in build I'll put some more photos up later!
This was more like a normal pepper in build I'll put some more photos up later!
Soldato
Nice work!My entry of 3 Ring of Fire chillies won 3rd prize in our village produce show at the weekend
Soldato
- Joined
- 22 Aug 2004
- Posts
- 7,606
Soldato
As posted above, with that last pic i am going with jalapeno as well or some close family member
Caporegime
- Joined
- 21 Jun 2006
- Posts
- 38,372
Looks like possibly a jalapeno hybrid. They seem like a mix of jalapeno and habanero. It's not perfectly shaped like a jalapeno.
Associate
You should name it!
Soldato
- Joined
- 22 Aug 2004
- Posts
- 7,606
Haha, I’m glad it’s got everyone else puzzled too!
Associate
- Joined
- 15 Feb 2015
- Posts
- 1,064
My entry of 3 Ring of Fire chillies won 3rd prize in our village produce show at the weekend
Congrats!
Get some pics up if you can...My Aji Limon have finally started maturing and they looks just beautiful - and the taste is great - I've not had anything like them before and work really nicely in a stir-fry.
The hungarian hot wax are still going well and have a couple of jars of them pickled now - really enjoying them - nice flavour and just the right level of heat for spicing up a lot of dishes.
The padron are pretty much all done now, not surprising really as they had really strong growth early in the season and fruited first - had quite a few servings of them just quickly fried with a sprinkle of salt.
Pepperoncini I had really high hopes for but they have no noticeable heat, they're really prolific with hundreds of decent sized fruit but not really what I was after for my stock of pickles
Caporegime
- Joined
- 21 Jun 2006
- Posts
- 38,372
what are the symptoms of too much fertiliser?
i'm going to water then neglect for a week and hope they perk up a bit. my chillies aren't looking too great like wrinkly and small.
i'm going to water then neglect for a week and hope they perk up a bit. my chillies aren't looking too great like wrinkly and small.
Soldato
Too much fertiliser is normally too high a ratio of foliage to chilies
All wrinkly and small could actually be lack of water, they do contain about 90% water so if they are struggling for enough they will end up under formed and potentially will start to dry out.
Normally with lack of water you get less crop, but if it was really extreme then they will start to dry out naturally. Are they going soft as well?
All wrinkly and small could actually be lack of water, they do contain about 90% water so if they are struggling for enough they will end up under formed and potentially will start to dry out.
Normally with lack of water you get less crop, but if it was really extreme then they will start to dry out naturally. Are they going soft as well?
Caporegime
- Joined
- 21 Jun 2006
- Posts
- 38,372
the funny thing is my soil meter is measuring the soil as being moist not dry.
the chillies are small due to them being early in their growth cycle. the ones that are slightly bigger of the newer ones anyway. they look wrinkly at the bottom half.
i gave them a glass of water today - zero fertiliser. so i'm going to leave them now for 3-4 days and see what happens. the glass i gave them today put the soil into the wet marker. but it should hopefully dry up a bit with the sun/heat today.
i didn't feel them but how firm should they be when growing? i didn't want to damage them by squeezing them either when i was killing some aphids 2 weeks ago.
i managed to get rid of all the aphids. used some rose clear. that was 2 weeks ago though.
Soldato
Oh aphids, they drain the goodness so its possible the chilis at that time were affected
Growing chilies, right upto maturity are quite hard, they only really soften up when ripe, even the thin skinned like scotch bonnet are surprisingly tough
Do the plants look ok generally? What I find happens is that at the end of the growing season they plants will suddenly shut down, i think what they try to do at that point is starve the leaves and chillies. At this point the plant can even start to rot.
The leaves become quite obvious, curling even when soil is wet, the chilies need to be picked at this point, the chilies do fail to mature slowly and they do seem to go backwards quickly. I think the point is they mature and "go bad" quickly so will fall off to get to ground level to function as seeds for next year. They ripen really quickly once removed and at ground level.
Growing chilies, right upto maturity are quite hard, they only really soften up when ripe, even the thin skinned like scotch bonnet are surprisingly tough
Do the plants look ok generally? What I find happens is that at the end of the growing season they plants will suddenly shut down, i think what they try to do at that point is starve the leaves and chillies. At this point the plant can even start to rot.
The leaves become quite obvious, curling even when soil is wet, the chilies need to be picked at this point, the chilies do fail to mature slowly and they do seem to go backwards quickly. I think the point is they mature and "go bad" quickly so will fall off to get to ground level to function as seeds for next year. They ripen really quickly once removed and at ground level.
Soldato
If you used poison/chemicals I wouldnt eat the fruit.... Roseclear is systemic, so it will have got into the fibres of the growing fruit. compost them, not worth the risk eating imo.
Soldato
my first harvest today.
Few apaches, bonnets and a single ripe ghost
Few apaches, bonnets and a single ripe ghost