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Originally Posted by Wi-sunflower
Purira usually doesn't go ALL purple so I wouldn't worry about it. It just gets some varied purple striping kind of like the black that Jalapeños can get.
The first time I grew it, for some reason I thought it was a fairly mild pepper. No worse than a Jalapeño. I took a bite out of one while I was giving someone a tour of the garden and immediately got the worst case of the hick-ups.
Purira isn't the hottest pepper around, but definitely is hotter than the average Jalapeño. I won't comment on flavor because that was long enough ago that I was still getting used to heat and wasn't able to distinguish flavors from the hotter chiles then. I'm better with some of them now, but haven't grown many of the unusual varieties lately.
Carol
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Yeah i noticed that not all pods turns purple. I only have a few pods that acquired purple pigments then turned into orange then red..
I agree purira is hot and doesn't taste much better compared to other ornamentals..