Mexibells -

[Tomstrees]

Some say hot - some say mild - which is it for this pepper ???

Some pics look like long stuffing peppers - others look like smaller bells -

I don't understand !

~ Tom

[Tomstrees]

Just an update:

I grew out the F2 Mexibell peppers and what I got were sweet blocky green peppers (which we like and are using them for cooking this summer).

No hint of heat at all -

~ Tom

The Mexibell F2 is the blocky pepper on the top left:

[ddsack]

Tom, it was too many years since I grew the original hybrid version to be sure in making a comment earlier, but I think I agree with your results. I seem to remember I had the blocky bells like you did. The flavor was not as sweet as a regular green pepper, but not hot enough to use in hot pepper dishes. Did not regrow it. Maybe in a hotter, dryer climate it would have had some heat?

Dee

[Tomstrees]

I'm not really sure re: dryer - I usually stop watering my peppers to "enhance" the taste ... I'm wondering if the "heat" has up and left the F2's ...

~ Tom

[remy]

Hi Tom,
I grew Mexibells a few years back. I don't think there is any heat to have up and left the F2s. My experience was the same as Dee's. I want mild heat, and there was pretty much none, so I didn't grow again.
Remy

[Tomstrees]

Remy -

For us, these F2 plants are too productive to give up on moving forward!
We use sweet peppers all the time and they are sooo expensive in the market. So finding a good OP to grow out is ideal. I have never grown the original F1.

Our experience with the "super hots" is they not very useful fresh:too bitter. I have used them dried in stir-fry and ground up for chili-powders. Don't get me wrong, we LOVE the heat, but not to the point that its super duper uncomfortable...

~ Tom

[WVTomatoMan]

Some say hot - some say mild - which is it for this pepper ???
My friend describes it as being mild which means the heat is barely perceptable to a lot of us that like hot peppers.

Interestingly, my friend commented about this pepper just the other day (Tuesday). He was saying that he used to grow it and liked it, but it was a hybrid and they quit making it. He wanted to find it because it most peppers are too hot for him. I remembered this thread, but not the details.

I'm interested in acquiring any Mexibell seed (F1, F2, F3, etc). IM me and I can tell you about a mild hot pepper that I have that is sweet.

Thanks,
Randy

[Tomstrees]

yeah - my mom has a palate that can pick out any fraction of heat ... to the point that I can't even "hide" it, lol

I sent a PM ... will have harvested seed shortly

~ Tom

[WVTomatoMan]

I talked to my buddy. He told me he found out that TotallyTomatoes is offering Mexibel. It seems to have a description that matches. hmm.

Here's the link:
http://www.totallytomato.com/dp.asp?...0-E51C29B61597}

Is this it? It matches what my buddy was looking for, but he thought it went by the wayside because until this week he hadn't been able to find it for years.

Randy

[Tomstrees]

Those Mexi's look much longer than my F2's ... says "mildly" hot - the F2's are sweet through and through ... productive though -

~ Tom

Original Mexibell Hybrid F1:



Mexibell F2 (top left):

[WVTomatoMan]

Tom - Where, when, and from whom did you get your F1s?

Does anyone remember anything about the older F1 hybrid that my buddy is talking about?

Now I'm getting curious.

Randy

[remy]

Tom and Randy,
I hope I didn't sound like it wasn't worth growing. It was just very mild. I remember why I grew it. I grew Poblanos one year. I like, and wanted to grow, a mild hot pepper. Well the plants kept getting bigger and bigger and no fruit! There were a few late peppers, but not much for all the plants. I then read somewhere that poblanos don't do real well up north. After that the Mexibel came out, and it was touted as a bell pepper and hot pepper cross(I figured a poblano by the looks of it) that was a productive AAS winner. From my recollection it grew like an elongated bell as shown in the Original Mexibell Hybrid F1 photo.
The weird thing is I just went and looked at the AAS winner's list to see what year it was and I don't see it listed.
Which made me remember something, and I may be hallucinating, but I feel like there was an improved Mexibel as if the original didn't go over as well as the powers that be though it would. I think it didn't grow or produce as well everywhere like an AAS winner should. So maybe it got pulled from the list? Is this possible?
Ok I just did a search for Mexibell improved pepper and it does exist!
http://www.hazzardsgreenhouse.com/Me...re_Code=Hazwho

Maybe I really did read all that I just wrote, and I'm not going crazy.
Remy
PS This year I'm growing Salsa Delight a long sort of like a thin anaheim, very mild(practically non-existent heat), super productive hybrid pepper. If you want to try growing those out, I'll save seeds for you.

[Tomstrees]

Tom - Where, when, and from whom did you get your F1s?

I got my seed from "Bluelytes" during the off season ...
She saved seeds from the original F1...

~ Tom

[WVTomatoMan]

Remy,

I didn't take it that way at all. I'm looking for a very mild hot pepper for my buddy.

Thanks,
Randy

[Tomstrees]

Randy,

I'll be processing seed this week so I'll have them out to you shortly.

Thanks again, Tom