Pepper identification help, please

12 years ago

I thought I had posted this already, but I do not see it. Apologies if you see it twice.

I picked these peppers from the gardens outside the hotel where I stayed a few nights ago in Blowing Rock, NC while driving the Blue Ridge Parkway for my honeymoon. The hotel owner (and gardener) said he did not know what they were. (A regular guest brought him the seeds, but he could not remember the varieties.)

The peppers to the left of the quarter all came from the same plant. Likewise with the peppers to the right of the quarter.

Any help with figuring out what they are would be most awesome! Thanks in advance!

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ronnyb123
12 years ago
"The peppers to the left of the quarter all came from the same plant."

I call BS on that one. If the red one was yellow, there would still be a better chance even with the tail, but the way it looks now, there is no way. They are just too different to be growing on the same plant. Maybe they were planted together and you assumed they were the same.

The yellow are probably from a Banana plant of some kind, as for the red one, I have no clue. For the right side, they look like some kind of red Jalapeno due to the cracking of that variety. Small and round could be final winter production or just a hybrid.

This post was edited by RonnyB123 on Sun, Oct 12, 14 at 17:57
uncleflip
Original Author
12 years ago
It's definitely possible there was a second plant in the pot where I picked the ones on the left. However, I couldn't tell there was. It may have been growing up so close to the other plant that they were intertwined, and deceived me into thinking it was one plant.
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kuvaszlvr
12 years ago
That's a very real possibility. I had a ton of flowers bagged on one of my plants, I was so happy that I had a bunch of fruit already setting... then I realized the ripe fruit was not white but orange... and it was bigger. I had two seedlings come up in the same pot and assuming they were both the same thing (I have since realized that the seeds I received were not true) I planted them together. I cut down the orange one, now I wish I hadn't as it was really pretty.

I agree, with Ronny, I think the yellow ones on the left are Hungarian Hot wax. Not sure about the ones on the right, I don't think they are jalapenos, they have tails. Those things are just weird looking... maybe a cross between a jal and a hot cherry?
Pam
ronnyb123
12 years ago
A tail? You may be looking at the stems on those jalapenos. ;)

I also thought about hot cherry. Good call.

The red one on the left with the tail is the weird one. Scorpion like tail and smooth skinned.

Uncleflip, did you taste them? Hope you saved some seeds to grow too.

This post was edited by RonnyB123 on Mon, Oct 13, 14 at 12:56