A comparison of pods: Aji Habanero (over) & Criolla Sella (under). Both belongs to capsicum baccatum.
Aji Habanero comes from Mexico. Criolla Sella comes from Bolivia. Both pods have some heat especially if you eat the hole pod (some of the Aji Habanero pods were milder). If you remove the innewalls you can eat them fresh without any "pain". Both plants seems to be very prolific. My harvet was somewhat modest because of the cold august/september. Criolla Sella pods dries very fast on the plant. The Aji Habanero did not dry that well on the plant as you can see on the picture.
Criolla Sella has a typical baccatum taste. Aji Habanero has also a baccatum taste but not that obvious as the Criolla Sella.
The Turbo Pube PI 585267 capsicum pubescens has very nice looking pods. It originates from Ecuador.
A comparison of pods, CAP 1492 and Turbo Pube PI 585267. Both bolongs to the capsicum pubescens
Korean Hot capsicum annuum
Aji Verde, from this day: indoor
Joes Long - still outside
Grekisk paprika, Sivri Biber, Sweet Nardello
Regards
Patrik
Shiny Red
Maraba
Cumari
Misqucho Colorado PI 152225 I love this one when the pods changes color.
Etkezipaprika, a very nice paprika from Hungary. Sweet and tasty. In my care more prolific than the bellpeppers, but almost as big. If your looking for a pepper that could replace the bellpeppers and you also would like a pepper that has a little heat, this colud be the one. Somehow my wife loves this one.
Edit 20081023: Just triend another pod. It was a lot hotter than the other pods. But still very tasty. I think I will grow this one again.//Patrik
After a couple of days of very nice weather with warm nights (last night it was 14,5 C) there are some colder weather coming. I harvested some plants.
Guindillas is quite hot even as green. In spain it is used green. Second harvest with 49 pods;)
But there are still many pods left outside under some cover though, Cap 1492.
Korean Hot Capsicum annuum, is also still outside.
Aji Verde Capsicum baccatum, is also still outside.
Sweet Nardello
Two nice baccatums, Aji Norteno and Inca Red Drop(background).
Rocopica
A little bit more about rocopica
ROCOTO WEBSITE
Aji Rocatillo, capsicum chinense, is finaly starting to mature.
This is how the will look when mature.
Johns pictures.
I got the seds from JohnF.
Regards
Patrik
Criolla Sella capsicum baccatum is a Bolivian chile peppar. The fruits on my plant was 4-6 cm long and 1 cm in diameter. It rippens from green to orange. It has a thin flesh that makes it excellent to dry. It has some heat and a very nice taste. Quite prolific plant.
Rocopica is still outside and its one of those peppers that have very nice flowers!
Cili Goronong
Maraba, this one did not like it in a small pot, but at least I got some pods.
Trinidad Scorpion (the red one) not yet matured.
Regards
Patrik
Its time to bring the capsicum chinense inside. This one has already shown signs of the cold nights. Its called PI 152225 MISQUCHO COLORADO and its one my favorites of the year. I hope I can bring you some better pictures of this plant later.
Petit Marseillais
Trinidad Scorpion FG has also moved inside
Last night I tried a very small piece of a mature pod of Trinidad Scorpion FG, in my opinon it had a wonderful taste with hints of citrus and mango. But after the taste comes the heat...arrrggggg.... Well it was very hot. Of what I have heard the (Red) Trinidad Scorpion should be hotter aswell as the 7-pod and the Bhut and Bih jolokias. Are these peppers really ment to eat
Regards
Patrik
Some pics from early september 2008. Still no frost, but it has been very cold the last nights.
Turbo Pube
Turbo Pube
Cap 1492
Blondie
Peruivan White Habanero - this plant is two years old. It almost died during the winter. Now it is a very small plant.
Petit Marseillais
Regards
Patrik
Pictures from the botanical garden of Stockholm
Bih Jolokia, amazingly big plant (at least 1,5 meter tall)
Bih Jolokia pods and some bugs
Shiny Red. Last year I traded seeds with the Botanical garden of Stockholm. I got seeds from this great capsicum chinense and I gave away seeds from the...
Locato. I just love this capsicum pubescens. But as my pubescens they are very late this year up here in Stockholm. But it had some pods...
...still green though.
Flower of Locato
2009 09 07 Pics from the balcony
Rocopia
Rocopia, no ripe pods yet.
Musqucho Colorado PI 152225, this one is really becoming a favorite...
...aswell as this one Tasmanian Red, very prolific and very beautiful (in my opinion). More pictures of this chile pepper...
...here..
...and here.
Brown Rocoto
Aji Norteno
Thai Hot Capsicum Annuum
Cap 1492 Flower.
Trinidad Scorpion FG (Yellow)
Tasmanian Red
Sweet Nardello
Joes Long
Pi 441551
Shiny Red
Kaleidoscope
Earbob
Ciao
Patrik
Some pictures taken with flash in the evening.
Tasmanian Red (Capsicum Annuum/Chinense) is a very prolific plant. I belive it has produced more than 100 pods.
Aji Norteno Capsicum baccatum - the first pod is now almost red. I belive this one is of the most common peppers in Peru.
Misqucho Colorado PI 152225 Capsicum chinense is a also a prolific pepper still yet to mature.
This one turned out to be a hybrid. This in not Habanero White Giant as you can see there is a small pod that turned out red I am now looking for Habanero White Giant seeds as I really love those big white pods.
Sorry for the not so good quality of the pictures taken in a hurry
Regards
Patrik
Blondie is still not white.
Cap 1492 - I love this pubescens pepper.
Aji Panca - Everyone who tried this one really liked it. Not very hot but tasty.
Regards
Patrik
I just could not wait, so I started to germinate White Rocoto when I got the seeds (July 2008) Maybe a little bit early for the 2009 season.
Some pictures of the peppers at the country house.
Chilhuacle Negro
Thai Hot
Atomic Heart
Blondie
Elisabeth
Sivri Biber
Etkezipaprika
Regards
Patrik
Habanero (or Habanero Orange) Capsicum Chinense
Bode Capsicum Chinense
Tobago Seasoning Capsicum Chinense I Just love the colors on the not matured pods. A matured pod can be seen in the picture below.
Monkey Face, Kaleidoscope, Aji Colorado, Grekisk Paprika, Tobago Seasoning
Chilhuacle Negro Capsicum annuum
Flower of Brown Rocoto Capsicum pubecens
Thai Hot Capsicum annuum
Blondie Capsicum baccatum is now almost black
Petit Marseillais Capsicum annuum
Inca Berry Capsicum baccatum
Fenir Capsicum annuum
Matured pods of White Fire, Champion, Aji Colorado, Topgirl
I have started to harvest some of the peppers. It is allways interesting when you taste a new pepper for the first time. Here are some of my reflections.
White fire:
Somewhat of a dissapointment. I have tasted two pods and they had no heat at all. The taste reminded me of sweet red bell peppers.
Champion:
Matured pod: I could not feel any heat. In my opinion sweet with the taste of green apple and green grass.
I did also taste a not matured green pod and a well(over-) matured pod. I prefered the matured pod.
White fire Capsicum annuum and Champion Capsicum baccatum
Aji Colorado:
This one I really like. First of all a very beatuful plant with pods in many colors. The pods have some heat. The taste is typical baccatum. It reminds me of Aji Cristal in taste. I belive they are good as immature as well.
Topgirl:
A sweet pepper. Mild and very tasty.
Bulgarian Carrot:
This one looks like a carrot and it did also taste like a carrot (almost )! Sweet and fruity taste. Nice heat, Scoville units 10 000 - 30 000.
A hot carrot!
Hot Pepper Lantern:
Hot, but not very hot in my opionon. Also very tasty.
Tasmanian Red
This one was hot, but not as hot as many habaneros. The taste was ok. No typical chinense taste.
Tasmanian Red Capsicum chienense or should it be Capsicum annuum ? ( I belive so)
F2 hybrid from Jaloro F1 (isolated seeds).
Very tasty Jalapeno Hybrid with typical Jalapeno heat.
More to come soon, watch my photopage for more new photos
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Pictures from the balcony
(includning Long Chocolate Habanero, Pimento de Padron, Aji Norteno, Giant White Habanero, Aji Rocotillo, Trinidad Scorpion, Aji Habanero, Fenir, Cumari, Maraba + ophelia aubergine, Ida Gold tomato, etc)
Tasmanian Red, Shiny Red, ST. Lucia Island, Trinidad Scorpion FG, MISQUCHO COLORADO PI 152225
Cili Goronong, Brown Rocoto and Criolla Sella
Cili Goronong Capsicum chinense
Inca Red Drop
Inca Red Drop
Rocopica
Tasmanian Red
When you grow chile peppers at work then you know you are a chile head
These are my plants (all pictures from 20080528, sorry for the poor pictures)
Hot Pepper Lantern Capsicum Chinense. A plant from 2007, it feels great to have ripe pods of a Capsicum Chinense in may.
Habanero (Habanero Orange) Capsicum Chinense. Several pods on thier way, the unripe pods looks very similar to the leafs in this picture.
Can you guess the pepper!
This pepper is related to Trinidad Scorpion, the seeds I planted are from a Trinidad Scorpion FG pod.
Here is a picture of the peppers that I will have on my balcony this year. Not included on this photo is Rocoto Brown and P. Padron.
