Re: [CH] Pepper Question....

Michael Bailes (frgntgar@ozemail.com.au)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:36:55 +1000 

At 6:03 AM +1000 16/4/98, Steve Rucci <rucci@worldnet.att.net> (by way of
Mary Going wrote:
>Greetings.  I was browsing around and found your web site.  I have a
>question, and I hope you can help answer it.  I've been growing hot
>peppers since last year.  (just a whim, but I enjoy it)  Anyway, I
>bought a few plants from a nursery, just getting whatever, hoping to get
>a winner.  Two of the plants I got are fairly unique in my opinion.  (At
>least my limited knowledge about peppers makes them unique to me.)  The
>first one had black stems and branches, and black leaves (they start out
>green to dark green & then turn this black color).  They produce very
>nice looking purple blooms and when the peppers grow, they are also
>BLACK.  They stay this way until finally turning red.  The peppers
>themselves are very small.  The biggest ones are usually no bigger than
>about 1/4 inch. in diameter and stay fairly round - Hot taste.  (close
>to the beginning of winter, the entire stalk & branches turned a
>bleached white color, leaves still green/black, but the plant is still
>alive, and producing again now)
Sounds like a chilitepin but unlikely you purchased this at an Australian
Nursery
>The second plant was normal looking, compared to the first one.  It's
>typical green leaves and has white blooms with a little bit of purple in
>the center.  When the peppers grow, they are BRIGHT PURPLE, eventually
>turn orange, and finally red.  They are a pointed-shaped pepper and grow
>to about 1 - 1 1/2 inches long  -  Hot taste.
Perhaps Bolivian Rainbow.
>Question is:  What kind of peppers are they???  The only answer I have
>is that the purple one came with a nursery tag that said "Masquerade"
>but this doesn't sound right to me.
Steve
many of the ornamentals are just given a pretty name, not just in OZ but in
USA too.
(see the list  of 200 on our web site)
I would need to see the plants for abetter guess at names.
why can't you ask the nursery that sold you the plants?


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