"I wonder how they would grow out?", I wondered. So, I planted one.

Here's one of the pods I have growing on it today.

I think I planted seeds from an orange one, be interesting to see how these turn out. They're already quite a bit longer than the parent pod, but not as thick.

But it looks like you are a long way from a mini-bell there. I hope mine turn out closer. I will probably give them a shot next year.
Bruce

Your results are more drastic, so far I have about the same general shape but they seem to be a bit larger than the ones in the package I bought.

Mark

I wonder what they have in their heritage that is making them this long?

Could it be as simple as crossing a nardello with a bell to get the original hybrids?

A lot of the time I don't get anything worth keeping. The biggest issue is production. A lot of these "custom" (small company created/distributed) hybrid peppers are designed for field growth that doesn't require much (if any) staking. I have a small garden so I like my plants to both tower and produce. The small + productive traits seem to be hard to stabilize open pollinated.

When I do things like this I sometimes make intentional hybrid crosses between whatever I have growing that's interesting. Most of these become "trash plants" who's seed isn't worth saving, but I've picked up a couple of interesting projects/results out of it.

I have my own (stabilized open pollinated from hybridization) small/super-sweet pepper I worked on for years called Crunch Sweet Orange that was created from a friend's Romanian Sweet pepper and a supermarket-seed-saved pepper that I was growing out. It's a large plant with vigorous production of 3"-ish sweet orange peppers. It's similar to "Yummy" but it's much larger, more productive, has slightly different "fruity" flavors underneath the "sweet," and it produces slightly bigger peppers. It's not a great comparison because "Yummy" was bred to be a compact plant, but the end result is small super-sweet orange peppers. I'm currently working on a Anaheim x Cubanelle cross between my two favorite collected seed lines of both. It'll be a few more years...this project is more slow-going.

Sometimes when you grow out a F1 it looks exactly the same...produces the same. Sometimes you get "Woah, what's this?" There's always hybrid-given traits you can't see that might not be present...such as disease resistance or drought tolerance.

Greatly looking forward to seeing what color it turns and what it tastes like.

nc-crn: email me about a trade, I'd love to get some Crunch sweet orange going in NJ.

Can't tell yet if its going to be orange or red, but I'm pretty sure I planted it from a yellow or orange seed, so no telling what it'll be.

Kevin

Size is obvious, flavor is definitely sweet and mild, oddly lacking in the normal "pepper" flavor you get even with bells. About the same flavor as the little ones, which is good.

Seed placement seems erratic.

Overall pretty good though.