I'd imagine they should be white. I've never grown purple jals but flower color seems to have nothing to do with pod color.

If I'm not mistaken, purple jals are only purple when ripe.

All my peppers have white blossoms even though the pods end up green, red, orange and brown.

While Purple jalapenos are Capsicum annuums (which have white flowers), they should have purple edges, as seen at the UK chilehead's site link below. It is wholly possible for the purple jal. to grow from a white flower. The only way to tell is to look at the final fruit (ripe).

If you really want purple flowers, I would suggest a Capsicum pubescens.

Here is a link that might be useful: UK chilehead

I wasnt looking for purple flowers , just kind of expected it from pictures I have seen. As I had mentioned in a previous thread weeks ago, I have three plants, two of them are purplish in color, the other is green. This bloom is in the green plant but the purple ones have several that are close to opening. Just have to wait and see I guess

All my purple jalpeno blooms were VERY purple.

Did your seed leaves turn purple shortly aftr sprouting?
My plants last year the the seeds I saved from the plant in the picture, and started this year were all purple, as are some of the leaf veins.
Here is a pic from last year:

Here is a link that might be useful:

that is more like what I expected. The other two plants are purpleish in color and should bloom soon if they havent today already.

My purple jals were initially green (for a short time), then turned purple for a long time. They eventually turned red when fully ripe. They still had nice heat when purple; Somewhat hotter than a regular jal.

Good luck.

All 3 plants now have blooms, the purplish plants have white blooms with purple edges. the green plant has fully white blooms. I planted somewhere around 20 seeds out of the same package and these were the only 3 to germinate.

here is a pic of the white bloom

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It almost sounds like an albino pepper. Well, not a true albino, but like the green plant is missing it's red-chlorophyll/purple color gene(s). I wonder what color the peppers will be?

will have to wait and see

Last week I noticed most of my peppers have one or more buds on them. With a minimum of 2½ weeks left before planting time (the last full moon in May), I think I should start my seedlings 2 weeks later next season.

Paul B.

Do any of you make hot pepper jelly with the purple jalapeno?

This is my first year growing them and while I usually wait until my hot peppers turn red to harvest for jelly, I'm curious about whether these would retain their purple color.

Harper