toomanytommytoes, annie8, SP & 4shoes mystery chilli growing

[Small pumpkin]

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This one looks like spike. Can’t remember if spike is on the list though.

[toomanytommytoes]

Interesting! Something yellow/orange? I'm not sure what that could be.

Spike isn't on the list. Could be Rooster Spur?

[Small pumpkin]

Interesting! Something yellow/orange? I'm not sure what that could be.

Spike isn't on the list. Could be Rooster Spur?

I was hoping you had a short list of names for the orange one

It’s not rooster spur, I’ve grown spike & rooster spur before. Grew them next to each other. Never (knowingly!) growing either again. Nice hot chilli, produce loads of pods on fairly compact plants, but............. the biggest pain in the butt to harvest ever!
Same growing habit. Very bushy with masses of pods but rooster is more stumpy, less pointy and slightly fatter.

I moved another 5 plants into my 1st tunnel yesterday. I was really surprised at how big some of them have got

[toomanytommytoes]

There's only a couple of orange Annuums in the mix and none of them are that shape or that big. There are some sweet peppers that turn orange at some point during ripening, but they all start off waxy yellow and not green. Another true mystery?

[Small pumpkin]

There's only a couple of orange Annuums in the mix and none of them are that shape or that big. There are some sweet peppers that turn orange at some point during ripening, but they all start off waxy yellow and not green. Another true mystery?

More proof that isolation was none existent .
We’re getting some very interesting pods because of it.

[annie8]

At last I have some sign of ripening. I swear it was green the other day but one of the chillis on the plant with purple flowers has suddenly darkened. Very excited.

[Small pumpkin]

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At last I have some sign of ripening. I swear it was green the other day but one of the chillis on the plant with purple flowers has suddenly darkened. Very excited.

I’ve got a couple doing that as well. Still haven’t worked out if purple is the final ripe colour or if they’re supposed to go red.

[Small pumpkin]

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Just tried these two. Both basically sweet peppers. With a very small amount of heat at the top (seed) end. The yellow one was a very nice flavour.

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At last I have some sign of ripening. I swear it was green the other day but one of the chillis on the plant with purple flowers has suddenly darkened. Very excited.

That looks like royal black

[Small pumpkin]

That looks like royal black

Royal black isn’t on the list, I’ve just discovered. Possibly Zimbabwe Black. Still not convinced, the pods (on mine anyway) look to big to be that.

Annie just remembered to find out what colour Zimbabwe Black turn, they’re red when ripe. We’ll see what happens

[annie8]

Definitely. Doing a quick search on it some of the pictures have it with purple leaves and others green. Mine has purple on the stem and the first leaves were purple but the rest increasingly green with a purple tinge around the edge. Maybe the level of purple varies a bit. Certainly the shape of the chilli - conical with a tapered end fits with mine. They are also pretty small maybe 3-4 cm. Will see if it goes red.

[toomanytommytoes]

My suspected-shishito/padron has one variegated leaf. Hmmm....

[Small pumpkin]

What’s the chances of the being a Helix Nebula chilli

[annie8]

Wow look at the shape of them. Was that on the list ?

[Small pumpkin]

Wow look at the shape of them. Was that on the list ?

Yeah it’s on the list. I’m just not sure my pods are quite long enough to be a Helix Nebula. The twisted irregular shapes right.