Anyone recognize these peppers?
they were a late addition to my garden, and I made the cardinal sin of not writing down what they are ( or, at least not with the rest of my notes 🤷♂️)
They have a bit of a sweet profile with a late mild heat kick. (Jalapeno level or less)
Your milder heat kick threw me off at first, but people actually do experience heat differently, but they are spitting images of Orange Habernos or their cousin the Roatan pumpkin habanero. I’ve grown both.
Just my opinion. They really look like habaneros. If you were growing a lot of sweet peppers around them, they may have cross pollinated, making them less hot. The green one looks like an unripe habanero, or scotch bonnet.
How big are they. They are shaped like habaneros. Are they that size? If large, they could be oddly shaped bells. Or, Johnny Booth is probably right about cross-pollination. Heck, you may have created a new chili.
Unless they were mis marked at the nursery where I purchased them, they definitely aren’t habaneros. Habaneros are too hot for me. I never would have intentionally bought them. These aren’t as hot as the jalapeños I grow. They were the only peppers in the bed that I grew them in, so I don’t know if cross pollination is an issue. Could be as I have other peppers in other beds near by (Anaheim / Italian Long Hot / Pablano / jalapeños), but don’t know enough about the process..🤷🏼♂️
Here's the deal: Peppers, unlike their cousins the tomatoes, do fairly readily cross pollinate, BUT that only affects the seeds, not the fruit. I'm guessing that you bought aji dulce THIS year, whether knowingly or not, or the plants you grew LAST year had cross pollinated fruit that dropped to the ground, overwintered, and sprouted a plant this year. If you save the seeds from this year's fruits, they will not all produce the same plant/fruits cuz they're likely a result of hybridization that will result in several "varieties" (mixed genes)--unless they are indeed uncrossed aji dulce. It will take several generations of careful growing/selecting to "purify" the seed to be what you want.
Read a Wiki article on Mendel's experiments with peas. BTW, peas are the "seeds", not the fruit.
To go on further, humans are the "seeds", there is no fruit. A fertilized egg--the seed- grows into a human, and if the parents are of two races, the offspring will be, to one degree or another of mixed race/color. If the same two parents mate again, the offspring will not likely show the same "color", cuz random gene mixing, ya know.
Last edited by Willy; September 28, 2024, 05:43 PM.
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