Re: [CH] Guero- Means hot!?
Ray Pfaff (raypfaff@erols.com)
Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:53:38 -0400
Dave Drum wrote:
> Michelle DeWitt wrote:
>
> > I picked the first pepper of the season today from a plant I have in a
> > surrogate garden. I believe it to be a Hungarian Wax (Guero?). It looked
> > very harmless and I took a very big bite and about died!
>
> > It was as hot as any Habanero I have ever eaten and it still burned,
> > half an hour later.
>
> > Isn't a Hungarian Wax supposed to be the heat factor of a Jalapeno?
> > Maybe I've just gotten too used to the wimpy Jalapenos on the market.
>
> A couple years ago I bought some plants advertised as banananana peppers
> and some others tagged as Hungarian Wax... Both were listed as "mild"
> and the peppers produced were fairly close in appearance... with the
> banananas being a bit longer and slimmer. The Wax peppers looked more
> like they were trying to develop lobes. Both ripened from pale green
> through yellow to an orange-red.
>
I end up growing 4-5 different kinds of peppers every year and I always
assumed this was due to cross-pollination or something. Makes the green
peppers edible though...