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ats32

ats32

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I bought what I thought was an orange bell pepper plant but the plant that was labeled that way ended up being a different plant that produced orange small very hot peppers. They are very tasty with great heat but are not habaneros. Take a look and let me know if you recognize these! Thank you.

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They're nothing that I recognize.
From the shape and color, looks like it's a orange bell crossed with a jalapeno.
Pepper crosses are common because they're so easily crossed by insects.

~Martin
 
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Habaneros and Jalapenos are both different species.
They can cross, but the resulting seed is only partially fertile., meaning some of it won't germinate.
I also think that if it was a habanero cross that you'd taste some habanero flavor.


~Martin
 
I also think that it would look a little more like a habanero than what it does if it were what my friend suggested. I dont know what it is but if ypu're a chile-head save the seeds and replant if they have good flave!!!
 
By "not a habanero" I meant that it wasn't any kind of normal habanero that I've seen.

From the amount of heat and the way they look the way I'm leaning towards that it is a cross between a habanero and jalapeno. Very tasty and VERY hot.
 
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Icwish I could bite into one! I took the easy route this year and encouraged my brother to do the garden at his house and he order several nice chile plants from our favorite pepper nursrey! ... I get to enjoy the harvest withoyt the daily grind of maintaining...I am responsible however for watering when he is away which has been a few weeks this summer...Its a nice garden with a good variety...
 
I'll take a picture of the plant in a little while.

I bought the plant at about 3" high already at a nursery and it took about 5-7 weeks to ripen. I only have the one plant of this variety because of space limitations but I will be keeping some seeds in hopes to duplicate it next year.
 
Here's the plant. It's about a foot tall and producing like crazy. I just picked all of the above peppers yesterday and will have about the same amount to pick in a couple days plus it's flowering a ton. Terrific plant.

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If you're real curious, save some seed (from fully ripe fruits) and plant the next generation, If it's a chinense/annum F1 cross you should definitely see some plants with specific chinense characteristics in the F2 as the genes segregate. That would help to confirm the assumption.

~Martin
 
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