Thai pepper questions.

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

I recently purchased a Thai pepper bush from a Thai Buddhist temple this past weekend. They stated that the bush was grown from special Thai peppers brought over from Thailand and are very spicy. The bush appears to be in very good health and I have transferred it to a very large pot so that I can move it inside in the winter.

My questions are, has anyone seen this variety before? The peppers appear to be very light green and firm. I'm not sure if they will turn red? Or when their peak ripeness will occur.

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esox07 (4b) Wisconsin

10 years ago

Most of the Thai peppers I am familiar with grow upright and in clusters but the pod shapes are very similar. I would expect the peppers to turn read as they ripen. Other than that, I can't lend any more info. It does look like an extremely health plant though. A larger pot probably would benefit the plant as well.

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Annie
10 years ago
At 1st I was thinking you maybe have Thai Dragon when you described it, but from the pic ur pods look considerably lighter green than mine are. It's possible they are could be an unfamiliar (to us) variety of Dragon, since he told you that it was a special variety brought over from Thailand. Short of that, your plant & pods look great! I'm sure that like most peppers, yours will ripen to red, but I could be wrong. Please keep us updated!
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esox07 (4b) Wisconsin
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Yah, I have a couple thai dragons growing and they are not growing like that. Mine have the pods in bunches and growing upright. But, I have not grown them before and I got my seeds from a seeds swap, so who knows for sure. I am pretty positive mine are at least a Thai variety as I had grown Thai Hot a couple years ago and these are quite similar.
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northeast_chileman
10 years ago
WOW! Beautiful plant!

Pods very Thai like, never seen them that light green but here.> Erawa Hybrid
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coloradokoolaid
10 years ago
Your pepper plant looks pretty similar to the Lao peppers I grow. My Laotian co worker gave me the seeds, she calls them Joh peppers. They are pretty spicy and usually eaten raw when they reach a yellow-light green color, like in the photo below. But they will turn red eventually if you want to wait on that instead.
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Annie
10 years ago
This is my Thai Dragons... I had 5 last season but only 2 that I over-wintered. Within the 1st couple weeks of putting them back outside, one took a harsh hit from a storm, and I lost that plant. This is my lone survivor, but it's already got nice pods popping up left & right
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