2 standouts

Minnesota Mato · July 27, 2012

Two peppers have been standouts for me this year. I like to cross everything, I lose focus on where I'm trying to get and just have fun seeing what happens. The all purple pepper was from my very first cross with years of selecting for all sorts of different reasons and it ends up with this beautiful color. The striped pepper ironically was from an unknown cross with a guatamalan black pepper and I have been selecting for several years.

RobinB · July 27, 2012

Wow! Those are beautiful! Is this the color they are when ripe? Are they hot or sweet?

Minnesota Mato · July 27, 2012

Both turn red when ripe, the purple one almost maroon. The purple one is quite hot and the striped one is pretty mild. I would like to cross it with a fatalli to see if I could get a striped fatalli.

Granite26 · July 27, 2012

That purple one looks great! Nice job!

Mudman · July 27, 2012

Are these stable yet? They look amazing!

Mojave · July 27, 2012

Beautiful!!

lakelady · July 27, 2012

I love that purple pepper! How cute is that! The striped pepper is pretty neat too.

Minnesota Mato · July 27, 2012

The purple one is getting close to being stable but the striped one I haven't figured out yet.

Darren Abbey · July 28, 2012

Is the purple one thick-bodied like a Jalapeño? I could easily see a market for purple Jalapeños... ;-)

Actually, I could see both doing well for commercial use as well as home gardening.

sprtsguy76 · July 28, 2012

Very colorful pictures, thanks for sharing!

Damon

remy · August 1, 2012

That is a pretty purple pepper!
Remy

dustdevil · August 1, 2012

Did you pick a peck of purple peppers?

dustyrivergarden · August 2, 2012

Purple Jalapeno's there doing well for me.

July 27, 2012	#5
Mudman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NW Wisconsin Posts: 910	Are these stable yet? They look amazing! __________________ Mike

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Mojave Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: SF Bay area Z9a Posts: 821	Beautiful!! __________________ Bill _______________________________________________ When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir Believe those who seek the Truth: Doubt those who find it. -André Gide

July 27, 2012	#7
lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	I love that purple pepper! How cute is that! The striped pepper is pretty neat too. __________________ Antoniette

July 28, 2012	#9
Darren Abbey Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Minnesota Posts: 586	Is the purple one thick-bodied like a Jalapeño? I could easily see a market for purple Jalapeños... ;-) Actually, I could see both doing well for commercial use as well as home gardening. Last edited by Darren Abbey; July 28, 2012 at 03:26 AM.

August 1, 2012	#11
remy Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Z6 WNY Posts: 2,354	That is a pretty purple pepper! Remy __________________ "I wake to sleep and take my waking slow" -Theodore Roethke Yes, we have a great party for WNY/Ontario tomato growers every year on Grand Island! Owner of The Sample Seed Shop

July 27, 2012	#2
RobinB Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Near Reno, NV Posts: 1,621	Wow! Those are beautiful! Is this the color they are when ripe? Are they hot or sweet?

July 27, 2012	#3
Minnesota Mato Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: minnesota Posts: 175	Both turn red when ripe, the purple one almost maroon. The purple one is quite hot and the striped one is pretty mild. I would like to cross it with a fatalli to see if I could get a striped fatalli.

July 27, 2012	#4
Granite26 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: Western WI Posts: 359	That purple one looks great! Nice job!

July 28, 2012	#10
sprtsguy76 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2007 Location: Santa Clara CA Posts: 1,125	Very colorful pictures, thanks for sharing! Damon

August 1, 2012	#12
dustdevil Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: WI, USA Zone4 Posts: 1,887	Did you pick a peck of purple peppers?

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dustyrivergarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Holbrook, Az zone 5 Posts: 157	Purple Jalapeno's there doing well for me. __________________ “The yield of a crop is LIMITED by the deficiency of any one element even though all of the other necessary elements are present in adequate amounts”. J. Von Liebig's law of the minimum.