Bruce,

Click here: Rachel's Pepper Seeds

Which will take you to a commercial pepper seed sales page that I have nothing to do with and have never ordered seeds from.

On that page you will find a series of links entitled as follows:

Novelty, Ornamental Peppers
Chile Type Peppers
Bell Peppers
Sweet Peppers
Pimento Peppers
Paprika Peppers
Stuffing Peppers
Frying/Roasting/Cooking Peppers
Spicy, Warm to Mildly Hot Peppers
Hot to Blazing Hot! Peppers

Click on "Chile Type Peppers" which will take you to the section of the sales sheet offering a bunch of chile type peppers.

At the bottom of the "chile type peppers" listing, you will find Vallero, which Rachels describes as follows:

"PEP291 Vallero Chili
Originally from Buenaventura, Chihuahua, it was first collected in 1990. Used by Barney and Mahina's favorite Chile colorado restaurant. Fleshy when green. Rich brownish-black to reddish-brown when mature. Medium heat, but can vary. 6 inches"

The Web page is organized really clumsily and is bothersome to navigate. Oh well, it apparently has what you're lookin' for.

Good luck, Bill

Thanks for the tip Bill. That's one of the places I had looked but my Vallero peppers were much smaller, never changed from red and were probably the least fleshy peppers I've ever grown. Which means they dry wonderfully without assistance even here in CT.

Have you tried NativeSeeds.org? I got my seeds from there :)
And could your seeds have been mislabeled from the company you originally got them from? That might explain why yours don't resemble the pods described online.
~Jessi

PQ,

I found several other references to Vallero peppers online, including the Native Seeds one. All of them described Vallero basically the same. I think maybe you're right when you wonder if Bruce's seeds were mislabeled or maybe just misnamed by the person who gave them. That's would be too bad since Bruce describes the peppers as being great.

Bill