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Help identify?

Hello this is my first post since becoming a member , and so far everyone has been super helpful and I have learned a lot just buy reading all of your posts! I am new to growing peppers. My friend just gave me a few of these pods and was hoping you guys could help me identify this pepper? Unfortunately I do not have a picture of the actual plant. Thank you guys!

Comments (30)

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Here's another picture.

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    I can try and get a picture of the plant if it's to hard to identify. Thanks

  • DMForcier
    9 years ago

    Pod doesn't look like anything I've grown.

  • woohooman San Diego CA zone 10a
    9 years ago

    Yes. A pic of the plant might narrow it down. I'm stumped a tad also.

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Thanks DmForcier , I was told it is a native of mexico. Woohooman I will hopefully get a picture by tomorrow and post it here.

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    My friend was able to send me this picture of the pepper plant. He said his mother has had it a few years now. Any info about it will be greatly appeciated!

  • avidgardener25
    9 years ago

    This looks like a chile pequin. I have relatives that live in Texas and these grow like wildfire. I also grew these and the bullet shaped little pods are very
    similar.

    Preston

  • toolstack
    9 years ago

    I thought maybe goat pepper.
    Randal

  • woohooman San Diego CA zone 10a
    9 years ago

    I was thinking Pequin too. I;m growing one, but have yet a mature pod, and I'm not sure of the size of the pods, since it's my 1st year growing one.

    California: do the pods grow upright? Hard to see in that pic.

    Kevin

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Thank you for the info Preston , Randal , and Kevin! Kevin , from looking at the picture the pods are pointing down and not upwards. Would that eliminate pequins?

  • woohooman San Diego CA zone 10a
    9 years ago

    Yep.

    Kevin

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    I googled goat pepper and pods look nothing alike. I'm stumped!

  • sluginator
    9 years ago

    That looks like the same kind of pepper that I have asked for help to identify.

    Old man of the garden

    The fruit starts out sticking up and then ends up pointing down.

    It makes a tall plant, like what you showed, with a woody stem. It is healthy for years.

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Sluginator you are right , they do look pretty similar. I will ask my friend if the pods stand upright before pointing downward. I guess we call it mystery pepper for now?

  • sluginator
    9 years ago

    Most people wouldn't remember which way it used to point.

    I live in Carlsbad and can provide more photos, etc. to help identify.

  • woohooman San Diego CA zone 10a
    9 years ago

    Sluginator: hey neighbor! Santee here.

    In one of your pics, the pods are upright and look like Pequin. The last pic though -- are they just pointed down because of weight of many pods and the branch has inverted?

    Kevin

  • sluginator
    9 years ago

    Woohooman: Howdee neighbor!

    These peppers always do that. I don't know if it is weight or what that causes it.

    When they are young they point up. Later they point down.

  • seysonn
    9 years ago

    I did a search (Just curiosity ) and I think what you've got is some version of bird chili or pequin. Few years ago I grew a variety that was tiny and pointy. I have seen some that are round. So there could be varieties of different size as well.

    seysonn

  • sluginator
    9 years ago

    I think that the fruits are too big to be either pequin or bird chillies.

  • djoyofficial
    9 years ago

    Being new to the whole growing side of things I have no idea but, I am curious.... why hasn't anyone mentioned the flavor/heat? Or is it an 'understood' when talking... bird pepper/pequin.? Still curious about it.

    dj

  • sluginator
    9 years ago

    Djoy: good point. That should be important.

    These are hot. Maybe jalapeno times ten. Or times fifty. It is hard to measure.

    The same with flavor. I don''t know how to measure flavor.

    But you are correct. Flavor/heat should be important.

    This pepper has lived for multiple years and everyone enjoys its flavor.

    I just want to know what it is.

    It is an interesting cultivar and I want to be able to kep growing it.

  • DMForcier
    9 years ago

    Actually, now that I think about it, the pods do kinda resemble a "Black Cobra" that turned out to be a goat pepper. Tall and spindly with a soapy taste. Hated it.

    Dennis

  • woohooman San Diego CA zone 10a
    9 years ago

    I'm retracting my Pequin guess. I have plenty of pods on mine. And though I don't have any color yet, I just don't see them getting anywhere near that xize.

    Kevin

  • DMForcier
    9 years ago

    Yeah. good point. Those are larger than my goat.

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Maybe a Inca berry pepper?? Still trying to figure this out.

  • woohooman San Diego CA zone 10a
    9 years ago

    I doubt it. Though it looks similar, you said yourself it was a MEXICAN pepper. History taught me the Incas were in Peru. ;)

    Kevin

  • sluginator
    9 years ago

    CaliforniaGrowing, I think you are right!

    Definitely a C. baccatum. That would explain the long life.

    Another possibility is Earbob PI159272.

    There is a good list of baccatums here:
    Capsicum baccatum

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Woohooman very true! I thought maybe it was not a mexican pepper , but doing more searching I found it does look similar to a Mexican pepper naked Catarina (capsicum annuum). What do you guys think?

  • northeast_chileman
    9 years ago

    A good match!

    Here is a link that might be useful: Reimer Catarina

  • CaliforniaGrowing
    Original Author
    9 years ago

    Right on northeast chileman!! I'm gonna get a few more pods from my friend and save them.

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