What kind of pepper is this?

lumierefrere · August 10, 2007

Earlier this week I was at the farm market and saw the most gorgeous peppers ever. They were similar to the coloration of a Lucky Cross tomato. Light pink, ivory, orangish. The morning sky color. Beautiful! And sweet. Not the shape of a bell but coming to a single point. The owner of the market (not the grower, I have no idea where they came from--not here, I'm pretty sure) said they were Ivory. But at Reimer's the description and photo don't match.

Is anyone familiar with this? Are seeds available for it? (I know nothing about peppers.)

Barb

lumierefrere · August 18, 2007

I got it at the farm market. It is supposed to be called Ivory. I can't find it anywhere. Is it a bell? Supposedly when fully ripe it's orange. Any help would be great as it's very nice and I'd love to grow it.

montanamato · August 18, 2007

Barb...Lots of companies offer seeds for white hybid bells. Swallowtail seeds has a picture.

Jeanne

Suze · August 18, 2007

Wonder if it could be Ivory Banana?
http://www.g6csy.net/chile/var-i.html

No picture, but there is a picture for Ivory (which doesn't look like your pepper - too blocky).

See also:
http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/w.../pepperal.html

Ivory (PEP9147) - Breeder and vendor: Northrup-King. Characteristics: 3-4 lobed blocky bell pepper that is ivory-waxy colored at maturity, medium large fruit size, fruit begins very light green maturing to soft yellow when past optimum harvest stage. Similar: Garden Sunshine. 1991.

Ivory Banana - Vendor: Stokes Seed Co. Parentage: F1 hybrid. Characteristics: yellow wax type pepper, pendant fruit, thick-walled, 230 x 60 mm fruit size, butter-yellow ripens to red, 56 days. 1997.

You were told "ripens to orange", but maybe that's a difference in perception of color or depth of color.

lumierefrere · August 18, 2007

I think it may be Sunbell. If you forget about the bell part because you're right, Suze, this doesn't look like the regular bell and you forget about the "Ivory" part because we don't really know from the grower what he planted, it's from the man at the vegetable stand, and just go on the shape and coloration, I think this is it. And you're right, we don't know what this one ripens to.

Anyway it's delicious/sweet and beautiful.

http://www.tomatogrowers.com/sweet4.htm

August 10, 2007	#1
lumierefrere Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Zone 4 NY Posts: 772	Ivory Pepper? Earlier this week I was at the farm market and saw the most gorgeous peppers ever. They were similar to the coloration of a Lucky Cross tomato. Light pink, ivory, orangish. The morning sky color. Beautiful! And sweet. Not the shape of a bell but coming to a single point. The owner of the market (not the grower, I have no idea where they came from--not here, I'm pretty sure) said they were Ivory. But at Reimer's the description and photo don't match. Is anyone familiar with this? Are seeds available for it? (I know nothing about peppers.) Barb

August 18, 2007	#2
lumierefrere Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Zone 4 NY Posts: 772	What kind of pepper is this? I got it at the farm market. It is supposed to be called Ivory. I can't find it anywhere. Is it a bell? Supposedly when fully ripe it's orange. Any help would be great as it's very nice and I'd love to grow it.

August 18, 2007	#3
montanamato Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Montana Posts: 1,038	Barb...Lots of companies offer seeds for white hybid bells. Swallowtail seeds has a picture. Jeanne

August 18, 2007	#4
Suze Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 3,027	Wonder if it could be Ivory Banana? http://www.g6csy.net/chile/var-i.html No picture, but there is a picture for Ivory (which doesn't look like your pepper - too blocky). See also: http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/w.../pepperal.html Ivory (PEP9147) - Breeder and vendor: Northrup-King. Characteristics: 3-4 lobed blocky bell pepper that is ivory-waxy colored at maturity, medium large fruit size, fruit begins very light green maturing to soft yellow when past optimum harvest stage. Similar: Garden Sunshine. 1991. Ivory Banana - Vendor: Stokes Seed Co. Parentage: F1 hybrid. Characteristics: yellow wax type pepper, pendant fruit, thick-walled, 230 x 60 mm fruit size, butter-yellow ripens to red, 56 days. 1997. You were told "ripens to orange", but maybe that's a difference in perception of color or depth of color.