Name this pepper

[kygreg]

The plant is about 2ft high, some of the leaves have a purplish shading and peppers are short and dark. Do Poblanos get dark? Thanks.

[nctomatoman]

How long are the peppers? There are lots of ornamental hot peppers with purple foliage and black/purple fruit that ripen red - could be a black or purple Japaleno type- what also can occur is that it is a cross of some sort - peppers cross so easily and you can get all sorts of combinations. Was it purchased or saved seed - and if purchased, did it have a name? Poblano/ancho do not have purple on the foliage or fruit.

[kygreg]

It was a traded seed, the peppers are about 2" and stubby. It was not supposed to be ornamental.

[nctomatoman]

could be Black Hungarian (a black Jalapeno type), but the foliage appears too dark for that, and the peppers a bit shorter. I suspect you have either a cross or someone's unnamed selection. Let us know what color it turns, heat level/flavor/wall thickness. It is really easy to get mysteries with peppers from saved seed (via trades, etc!)

[franzb69]

Possibly black hungarian or very dark purple jalapenos.

I'm growing purple jals at the moment and mine are still seedlings still. So i really cant tell.

[kygreg]

After I made the original post, I remembered that last year I grew a Czech Black and these peppers look a lot like that, but I don't remember what the CB foliage looked like.

[stormymater]

Is the flesh thin rather than thick & crisp? Lots of seeds? Mild-moderate hotness? If so it's likely a Black Jalapeno. I am growing them & thus far have been underwhelmed. Also they turn green when cooked - bu-mmer.

[kygreg]

I haven't harvested any yet, but as far as I know, I have no seeds for a Black Jalapeno. But I will check for the qualities you mentioned.

[Blueaussi]

What does the flower look like? Hungarian black would have purple flowers.

I suspect Craig is right, what you have looks like some sort of ornamental.

[elmtree3]

Those look excactly like the Black Hungarian peppers I got from SSE last year. I had caged 8 of them for seed saving and pulled the cover after I discovered 2 of the 8 had longer, pointed tips on them, and thinner walls than the others. The 2 oddballs also had green foilage as opposed to the black/purple foilage, and not all the flowers were purple.
But the peppers(on the black hungarian) were very good, about jalepeno for heat, and looked very nice. A tall, rather spindly plant.
Needless to say, I scrapped the seedsaving endeavor.
I'm growing them again this year, but I weeded out any of the seedlings that didn't have black/purple foilage. And I don't plan on saving the seeds.

[stormymater]

I got my seed from TGS. Looks just exactly like your pic. Will use them this year but not grow again.

I am ever so much happier with the Jalaro seed I got - bright yellow thick walled crisp not quite as hot as regular green jalapenos. Wish they were a tad hotter but they are so pretty even when cooked & productive. Will be growing these again next year for sure.

I am slowly gathering the "must haves" for peppers too LOL!