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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Toronto
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My neighbour asked me if anyone can identify these two pepper plants? He exchanged seeds for seeds but he doesn’t remember what type they are. Can anyone help out?
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central MN, USDA Zone 3
Posts: 301
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The long purple one looks like a Thai pepper I grew once. Hot, not very flavorful in my cool climate.
The little one may have a variety name, but there are probably dozens of varieties of "Chiltepin" or "bird pepper". When I was a boy, my mom had a carefully maintained variety called "Christmas pepper" that carried peppers of many colors...including purple ones like that. They were quite hot, but didn't have much flavor otherwise. I saved seeds from it and planted them in pots. They grew peppers too, that tasted about the same, but were not nearly as colorful. Pale green to white to a kind of yellow-brown when dry. Eventually the original plant grew root bound and started to be unmanageable...and never came in for the winter... Sent from my moto x4 using Tapatalk
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Cowtown, Texas – 7B/8A
Posts: 192
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Pretty plant—pods, blooms, and foliage—on the purple-X* one. The long-pod Silver's* looks fun, too.
*Disclaimer: Made up placeholder names for the unknowns. Common names seem to pretty much be made up, anyway . . . kind of like the points on Whose Line is it, Anyway? |
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Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Toronto
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Does anyone know if they turn red when ripe? When is it a good time to harvest them?
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