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Help with pepper ID

14 years ago

I'm embarrassed - but I got a bunch of plants from my cousin, I thought I knew what most of them were, but seedlings I thought were the same variety and planted next to each other are obviously different. The 4" pots must have gotten mixed putting them into the truck when I took them home from the greenhouse (or maybe even got rearranged in the greenhouse). I also got some sickly ones later that he didn't have tagged at all but he told me he had planted all the jalapenos he had started.

From the seed packets, here is what is supposed to have been planted:

Numex Sunrise (turns yellow when ripe)

Serrano

Cayenne

Big Bomb cherry

Fooled You Jalapeno

Early Jalapeno

Sweet Banana (I'm sure I had all these planted in pairs, but I've got some long flattish peppers that don't seem to fit with any of the hot varieties listed above that he gave me)

So, can anyone help match the names with the peppers?

1. Flat sort of ridged long (6" or so) - Numex Sunrise?

2. Small pointy bell-shaped - Big Bomb?

3. Serrano or jalapeno? Kind of fat for serrano, but supposedly he didn't give me any jals

4. This is a different plant, supposedly a serrano - I can't tell yet if it's going to get as fat as #3

5. Pretty sure this is a cayenne

6. This was labeled Numex Sunrise, but if this is it, what is #1?

I also started Hot Portugal, Hinkelhatz, and Thai from seed - those are pretty easy to ID, I didn't get those mixed up! But the sweet bell peppers he gave me (supposedly a couple each of Rainbow Whoppers, Early Bell, and Chablis) are mixed up - I *think* the Chablis is the yellow bell pepper I've got coming in now (not really sweet though), the rest are just starting to bud.


Here's a couple of rows of peppers (I have more, this is only half) - cuke in the middle of the row to the right, got some bell peppers in lower right corner and sweet bananas in the middle row farthest from camera - the small plants. Some King of the North bells scattered in there too near the squash plants at top of pic.

More hot peppers in these rows

Thai and Hinkelhatz in pots on the porch - how big are the Thai supposed to get? B/c these peppers are really tiny. None of the peppers are ripening yet either. Some of the Thais are getting black - but not mushy. I expected them to turn red?

The Hinkelhatz I planted right away from greenhouse is getting huge, but no peppers

Thanks

Comments (3)

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Hello!
    I can't help with the ID's, but I can say that your garden is looking great.
    That is the proper size for those Thai chiles. The purplish color on the pods
    is a slight bit of sunburn...don't worry, though, it won't affect the final outcome.
    My Thai chiles go from green to brown and then to red.


    Josh

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I think your guesses look good. #4 could be Serrano, I don't think #5 is though...looks too long/skinny. Neither look wide enough at the top to be Jalapenos, but, there are so many varieties it's hard to say for sure.

    Great looking garden!!

  • 14 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I'm pretty sure #5 is cayenne - but maybe #4 is too. Have to wait til it gets bigger. Are #1 (actually a couple different plants) and #6 both Numex? Looked like Anchos to me, but supposedly didn't have any Ancho seeds. Maybe Numex Sunrise is a type of ancho chile? Jalapeno is as hot as my cousin will eat, I don't know how he ended up with cayenne and serrano seeds. Numex Sunrise were free seeds from Totally Tomatoes.

    Thanks Josh - I was wondering if that was sunburn - porch faces west so these pots get afternoon sun, not all day, but can be pretty intense. The garden gets pretty much all day sun from 9am til late afternoon. How long for them to ripen (I could ask the same for all the varieties!)?

    I wish all my crops were doing as well as the tomatoes and and cukes in this garden by the house (squash are just starting to produce b/c I planted late). Not a great year for berries, and I have 75 indeterminate (mostly heirloom) tomatoes in 5 rows 1000ft from the house, they are not doing great except for the yellow pear hybrids - which didn't taste like anything when I ate 2 split ones this AM! Of course, that could have been the rain.

    Gotta go stake up some more peppers - trying the Florida weave (!) since I have too many peppers to cage. I keep waiting for my determinate Glaciers to die off so I can reuse the cages and plant other things (I have 20 more peppers in 4" pots - jals and portugals I got free at Agway and repotted,nursed back to health) there, but they just keep getting taller and getting more blossoms! Peppers are just starting to get blossoms, I hope to get ripe peppers before first frost early Oct (if we're lucky).

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