Star Pepper

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Anybody ever grown it or heard of it?

Last year my friend Carlos and his wife were at market and he pulled out these huge 5 foot pepper plants that were loaded to the max with these funny looking orange peppers.

They reminded me of hundreds of little flying saucers. I asked him what it was. Both him and his wife said it was a Star pepper.

It is sweet. In the green stage reminds me of a taste of a bell. In the orange stage it has a nice pleasant sweet taste and the peppers are firm and crunchy.

Of course I had to have me one of these Star Peppers, especially since they are sweet. Unfortunately he does not remember where he got the seed from.

I haven't really been able to find any info on it. It is not the Orange Starfish pepper. I have grown the Orange Starfish and they don't even look the same. It's not one of the Bishop's Cap either I have grown both of them.

This is the green stage. Takes them forever it seems to turn orange. They will just keep making bunches and bunches of the green ones and then one day they will just about all turn orange at the same time. If you let them hang on, eventually they will turn a red, but at that stage most of the insides start molding.


If anybody knows anything about this pepper, I would love to know.