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JAHaworth
12-13-2007, 03:36 PM
Hello all. I'm sorry if I have put this in the wrong place.
I was wondering if someone could help me identify this pepper that I'm currently growing.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZK2lq7YL_e8/R2DC_LpXVqI/AAAAAAAAAQY/ljZWJY_5Gfg/s1600-h/chilli2.JPG
http://bp0.blogger.com/_ZK2lq7YL_e8/R2DC-7pXVpI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/ylkJEqlvCKE/s1600-h/chilli1.JPG

Thanks in advance.

POTAWIE
12-13-2007, 03:49 PM
It looks like some sort of habanero. Where did you get the seeds?

WACOFlyer
12-13-2007, 05:09 PM
It looks like some sort of habanero. Where did you get the seeds?

Agreed. I have grown many varieties of habs. Maybe a cross? Look at the leaves.

JAHaworth
12-13-2007, 08:51 PM
I brought it as a seedling from our local plant shop(Palmers). The label says its a Red Habanero. It's just that they look a little different from pics I have seen on the net.

fisting_mayfield
12-14-2007, 12:50 AM
Yeah it does look different... there are TONNES of varieties out there and as many crosses as there are decimals in pi!

the heat and flavour may give it away when its ripened

JAHaworth
12-14-2007, 03:09 AM
I have never tried them before so I'll just take the labels word for it.
Thanks again.

stillmanz
12-15-2007, 05:43 AM
At a guess but lookking at leafstructure my money on Jamaican red kinda like scotch bonnet but with more pod irregularity. Just a guess but.

imaguitargod
12-16-2007, 11:42 PM
Hmmmm............that is an odd one. It's very wide for the most part. You should take a pic of the flower and then of the ripe pod for us. That'll help more for ID-ing it.

JAHaworth
12-17-2007, 02:43 AM
Will do. I'll grab a photo of a flower soon and I'll have to wait for the ripe one as none are yet.

JAHaworth
12-20-2007, 03:09 AM
OK!!! I have added a pic of the flower and of a semi ripe pod... Its the closest I have to a ripe one. The other pics are also from the same plant, just completely different shapes.

http://jahaworth.blogspot.com/

Pam
12-20-2007, 08:25 AM
I was browsing Peppermania the other day, and I noticed that the smooshed peppers in your pictures look a lot like her Congo Trinidads. http://www.peppermania.com/chinense_11.html

Today I notice that you have a lot of pointy ones on the plant, too.

LUCKYDOG
12-20-2007, 01:38 PM
the pointy one looks like Scorpion or Bents Nerd

stillmanz
12-21-2007, 06:38 AM
I still think its a Jamaican Red hot all mine have classic pod variance as yours.

fisting_mayfield
12-21-2007, 07:53 AM
Yeah i would say the pointy one looks like a trin. scorpion, but i could be wrong.

shouldnt be long till you can taste one tho and give a heat level... that could help?

looks like a chinense tho for sure!

JAHaworth
12-21-2007, 11:54 AM
Are the Jamaican Red Hots as hot as they sound? Same with the Scorpion? How do they compare with the Habanero Reds which these are supposed to be?

Omri
12-21-2007, 12:00 PM
Looks like some kind of cross.
Definitely a hab of some sort.

EDIT:
Are the Jamaican Red Hots as hot as they sound? Same with the Scorpion? How do they compare with the Habanero Reds which these are supposed to be?
They're both REALLY hot, and the Trinidad Scorpion is said to be as hot as the Naga Morich.

stillmanz
12-22-2007, 07:31 AM
lets be realistic I doubt a nursery in NZ is pumping out Trinidad scorpions as a generic red habanero...people gonna makemoney out of it first.
Jamaican reds a a "bonnet type pepper with much more variance in pod shape. Very heavy producer in my experience. A good pepper to own.
Let it grow out a bit and see what it does.
Also IMO there is too much variance to be congo pepper.

JAHaworth
12-22-2007, 12:57 PM
The plant is producing HEAPS!! of pods. I'll add an image of the whole plant in the next few days.

JAHaworth
12-23-2007, 08:23 PM
Well for anyone interested and thouse helping me, here is a photo of the whole plant.

Thanks

http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZK2lq7YL_e8/R28F3-GtmBI/AAAAAAAAARY/uF9atvhLGew/s1600-h/Habanero1.JPG

Omri
12-23-2007, 08:27 PM
Now it looks more like a red hab, but definitely some kind of cross.

stillmanz
12-24-2007, 08:40 PM
I still think its a Jamaican red hot or very similiar the pods are very irreguliar which I find with mine. When I goback towork I'lltake apic for you to compare.

LUCKYDOG
12-26-2007, 10:41 AM
Huge peppers! I would say they are some sort of hab. The one you have in an earlier pic looked like a T Scorpion. Must've been a fluke