My pepper list!

November 7, 2013

In 2014, I plan on paying more attention to my pepper plants than I have in the past. While I love peppers of all varieties for both eating and seasoning, my family and most of my friends don't care much for them. They are slightly more difficult to give away than my tomatoes and other garden produce. I like them not only because they taste good, but they also produce plants which are more easy to care for in my garden than tomatoes and the plants are usually very beautiful and produce well in good conditions.

While most pepper growers seem intent on growing the hottest peppers possible, my desire is to grow the most flavorful and the most flavor varieties I can grow. I do like hot peppers, but not so hot that the taste is obscured by the pain.

The following is the list of peppers I intend germinating and growing next year along with my tomatoes and other things. The descriptive text with each variety came mostly from postings on the web. I have no idea how accurate the text is, but I should know by next fall. Positive and negative comments will be appreciated.

PEPPERS

Trinidad Scorpion
The Trinidad Scorpion is one of the world’s hottest peppers. The plants are quite tall and known to be good producers of golf ball sized hot peppers. Trinidad Scorpion Pepper pods mature from green, to orange to red and have an extension looking like a scorpion tail on the bottom of the pod.

Bananarama Hybrid
If you like banana peppers, you'll love this hybrid whopper. It produces much bigger peppers on much smaller plants. Each fruit is 2" longer and an amazing 30% meatier than the peppers on Sweet Banana. The fruits are 8" long and more a truly giant pepper. They start yellow and mature orange-red, so you can pick them at any stage you like. Great for pickles, salads or grilling. The plant is typically 16” to 24” tall.

Better Bell II Hybrid
It’s hard to imagine a bell pepper much finer than Better Belle, but this improved version offers wider adaptability and even better production than the original. Thick-walled, 4-lobed peppers are 4 inches tall and 5 inches wide, and start out green but mature to a bright, shiny red. Vigorous plants are tobacco mosaic virus resistant. We love this variety for its top quality fruit and dependably high yields. 75 days.

Chapeau de Frade (Bishops Hat)
The rich fruity flavor of Chapeau de Frade is incredibly good. The peppers are shaped like miniature bells with lobes that hang down at the lower edge of the ripe fruit. Plants can get 6 to 7 feet tall and are loaded with red bell peppers. Very hot. You can cut off the lobes and they are sweet and fruity or cut down to the seed and the pepper is nicely hot with a heat range similar to Cayenne peppers. These peppers are excellent made into hot sauce and provide flavor in cooked foods that is comparable to the perfume/seasoning peppers. Very drought tolerant.

Giant Marconi Hybrid
30-inch tall plants bear heavily despite cold, wet, or dry conditions, and are resistant to potato virus and tobacco mosaic virus. 63 days. ALL AMERICA SELECTIONS WINNER for 2001. Awarded for its earliness, yield, size, and flavor, this is one of the biggest Italian-type, sweet peppers that you'll find anywhere. Peppers turn from green to red, and at 8 inches long with a lobed tip, they resemble a cross between a Marconi and a Lamuyo-type pepper. They are sweetest when red and are good for salads, but really are outstanding when grilled and roasted, methods that bring out the best of their great flavor.

Sweet Cayenne
85 days. Capsicum annuum. Plant produces good yields of giant 12" long by ½" wide cayenne shaped sweet peppers. Peppers are very sweet, have thin walls, and turn from green to crimson red when mature. Plant has green stems, green leaves, and white flowers. The plant is loaded with amazingly long cayenne peppers. Excellent for stir fry. Enjoy the cayenne pepper without the heat!

Big Guy Hybrid
The largest jalapeño on the market in our offering, and the perfect pepper for pickling, stuffing and slicing. At 5-inches long and 1-inch thick, this pepper is ready to spark up any salsa. 43” tall

Aja Dulce
Looks just like a Red Habanero, but has little or no heat. This variety is popular in Latin American countries, because the pretty 2 in. long red peppers offer the same strong aromatic essence and flavor that is found in Habanero, with only a hint of heat. Tall plants produce an abundant harvest of tasty fruits. 85 to 90 days.

Bulgarian Carrot
Beautiful, 3-1/2 inch long, bright orange peppers have the shape and color of a carrot, but are quite hot. Fruit is produced in abundance on short plants, making for quite a show in the garden. The flavor of these chiles is not only hot, it is also fruity, lending itself to use in chutneys, salsas, sauces, and even hot pepper jelly. Bulgarian heirloom variety. 67 days

Fooled You
Truly a jalapeno pepper for gringos, this one has no heat, but still retains the essential flavor of a jalapeno. Peppers look like normal jalapenos except they are a little larger at 3.25 inches long. The fruit is thick-walled and heavy, and like other jalapenos, is borne in profusion. This variety is perfect for making mild salsas or using in Mexican dishes served to children or others who do not tolerate spicy food. 65 days..

Pasilla Bajio
When fresh, this pepper is called 'chilaca;' it is also known as 'chile negro.' 8 to 10 inch long cylindrical peppers are thin walled, and dark green ripening to dark brown. They have less than 250 Scoville units and are mainly used dried for their rich, smoky flavoring in sauces. Plants are tobacco mosaic virus resistant. 75-80 days.

Trinidad Perfume
This wonderful seasoning pepper from Trinidad may look like a typical habanero, but it has no heat. What it does have is delectable pepper flavor that adds so much to make Caribbean dishes or other cuisines really special. Pendant peppers are 1 to 1 1/2 inches long and mature to golden orange-yellow. Plants are tall and extremely prolific. 80 to 85 days.

I decided to also include my intended tomato grow list for 2014. While I don't plan on adding any more varieties to the list, a few may be removed if I can't acquire the seed for germinating in late December.

BLACK
Black & Brown Boar
Black From Tula
Carbon
Cherokee Purple
JD’s Special C Tex

CHERRY
Black Cherry
Jaune Flamme
Juliet
Large Red Cherry
Porters Improved

EARLY/SMALL
Fourth Of July
Hanky Red
Magyar Piros Boker
Moravsky Div

GWR
Humph
Lime Green Salad
Malachite Box (Malakhitovaya Shkatulka)

HEART
Kosovo
Wes

ORANGE
Dixie Golden Giant
KBX
Orange Minsk

RED / PINK
Barlow Jap
Brandywine Sudduth
Bush Goliath
Cowlicks Brandywine
Cuostralee
Dester
Fred Limbaugh’s Potato Top
Giant Belgium
Gregori's Altai
Homestead
Hoy
Marizol Purple
Mule Team
Prudens Purple
Prue
Stump Of The World
Tarasenko 6

Ted

KarenO · November 7, 2013

Your pepper list is very interesting to me Ted. I have built a bigger greenhouse this year and I am thinking about expanding my pepper repertoire from the few I have grown and your list appeals to me from the flavor but not excessive heat standpoint. I like the descriptions and I may well look for some of those varieties up here.
Thanks

KarenO

Patihum · November 7, 2013

Ted -Have you grown the Chapeau de Frade before? It's on my list to grow this next year too.
Aja Dulce_ grew this a couple of years ago. Good flavor but I missed the heat and went back to a regular habanero.

AKmark · November 7, 2013

Thanks for the pepper list. I put mine in hanging baskets up in the trusses where the aphids don't roam, and they don't have to share space with tomatoes. Looking forward to trying Bananarama and Betterbell II

Penny · November 7, 2013

Excellent pepper and tomato list, there are a few new ones on there for me, off to Google(lol).

Smithma · November 7, 2013

Impressive list. I've grown the Big Guy Hybrid for Several years, very productive. Some peppers from the same plant will be very hot and some have normal jalapeño heat, don't know why.

Sun City Linda · November 7, 2013

Yes, great list (s). I am really going to grow A LOT LESS tomatoes in 2014. I really MEAN IT THIS TIME!!!!

If you shoot me a message or post here with what tomatoes you still need, I have quite a few on your list. BTW - I believe Hanky Red to be the most prolific tomato I have ever grown.

salix · November 8, 2013

Ted, let us know which ones you need seed for - like Linda, I also have a lot of what's on your list and am willing to share. Think I might have to try the Fooled You or the Trinidad Perfume pepper, I am a confirmed wuss when it comes to hot peppers.

November 7, 2013	#1
tedln Guest Posts: n/a	My pepper list! In 2014, I plan on paying more attention to my pepper plants than I have in the past. While I love peppers of all varieties for both eating and seasoning, my family and most of my friends don't care much for them. They are slightly more difficult to give away than my tomatoes and other garden produce. I like them not only because they taste good, but they also produce plants which are more easy to care for in my garden than tomatoes and the plants are usually very beautiful and produce well in good conditions. While most pepper growers seem intent on growing the hottest peppers possible, my desire is to grow the most flavorful and the most flavor varieties I can grow. I do like hot peppers, but not so hot that the taste is obscured by the pain. The following is the list of peppers I intend germinating and growing next year along with my tomatoes and other things. The descriptive text with each variety came mostly from postings on the web. I have no idea how accurate the text is, but I should know by next fall. Positive and negative comments will be appreciated. PEPPERS Trinidad Scorpion The Trinidad Scorpion is one of the world’s hottest peppers. The plants are quite tall and known to be good producers of golf ball sized hot peppers. Trinidad Scorpion Pepper pods mature from green, to orange to red and have an extension looking like a scorpion tail on the bottom of the pod. Bananarama Hybrid If you like banana peppers, you'll love this hybrid whopper. It produces much bigger peppers on much smaller plants. Each fruit is 2" longer and an amazing 30% meatier than the peppers on Sweet Banana. The fruits are 8" long and more a truly giant pepper. They start yellow and mature orange-red, so you can pick them at any stage you like. Great for pickles, salads or grilling. The plant is typically 16” to 24” tall. Better Bell II Hybrid It’s hard to imagine a bell pepper much finer than Better Belle, but this improved version offers wider adaptability and even better production than the original. Thick-walled, 4-lobed peppers are 4 inches tall and 5 inches wide, and start out green but mature to a bright, shiny red. Vigorous plants are tobacco mosaic virus resistant. We love this variety for its top quality fruit and dependably high yields. 75 days. Chapeau de Frade (Bishops Hat) The rich fruity flavor of Chapeau de Frade is incredibly good. The peppers are shaped like miniature bells with lobes that hang down at the lower edge of the ripe fruit. Plants can get 6 to 7 feet tall and are loaded with red bell peppers. Very hot. You can cut off the lobes and they are sweet and fruity or cut down to the seed and the pepper is nicely hot with a heat range similar to Cayenne peppers. These peppers are excellent made into hot sauce and provide flavor in cooked foods that is comparable to the perfume/seasoning peppers. Very drought tolerant. Giant Marconi Hybrid 30-inch tall plants bear heavily despite cold, wet, or dry conditions, and are resistant to potato virus and tobacco mosaic virus. 63 days. ALL AMERICA SELECTIONS WINNER for 2001. Awarded for its earliness, yield, size, and flavor, this is one of the biggest Italian-type, sweet peppers that you'll find anywhere. Peppers turn from green to red, and at 8 inches long with a lobed tip, they resemble a cross between a Marconi and a Lamuyo-type pepper. They are sweetest when red and are good for salads, but really are outstanding when grilled and roasted, methods that bring out the best of their great flavor. Sweet Cayenne 85 days. Capsicum annuum. Plant produces good yields of giant 12" long by ½" wide cayenne shaped sweet peppers. Peppers are very sweet, have thin walls, and turn from green to crimson red when mature. Plant has green stems, green leaves, and white flowers. The plant is loaded with amazingly long cayenne peppers. Excellent for stir fry. Enjoy the cayenne pepper without the heat! Big Guy Hybrid The largest jalapeño on the market in our offering, and the perfect pepper for pickling, stuffing and slicing. At 5-inches long and 1-inch thick, this pepper is ready to spark up any salsa. 43” tall Aja Dulce Looks just like a Red Habanero, but has little or no heat. This variety is popular in Latin American countries, because the pretty 2 in. long red peppers offer the same strong aromatic essence and flavor that is found in Habanero, with only a hint of heat. Tall plants produce an abundant harvest of tasty fruits. 85 to 90 days. Bulgarian Carrot Beautiful, 3-1/2 inch long, bright orange peppers have the shape and color of a carrot, but are quite hot. Fruit is produced in abundance on short plants, making for quite a show in the garden. The flavor of these chiles is not only hot, it is also fruity, lending itself to use in chutneys, salsas, sauces, and even hot pepper jelly. Bulgarian heirloom variety. 67 days Fooled You Truly a jalapeno pepper for gringos, this one has no heat, but still retains the essential flavor of a jalapeno. Peppers look like normal jalapenos except they are a little larger at 3.25 inches long. The fruit is thick-walled and heavy, and like other jalapenos, is borne in profusion. This variety is perfect for making mild salsas or using in Mexican dishes served to children or others who do not tolerate spicy food. 65 days.. Pasilla Bajio When fresh, this pepper is called 'chilaca;' it is also known as 'chile negro.' 8 to 10 inch long cylindrical peppers are thin walled, and dark green ripening to dark brown. They have less than 250 Scoville units and are mainly used dried for their rich, smoky flavoring in sauces. Plants are tobacco mosaic virus resistant. 75-80 days. Trinidad Perfume This wonderful seasoning pepper from Trinidad may look like a typical habanero, but it has no heat. What it does have is delectable pepper flavor that adds so much to make Caribbean dishes or other cuisines really special. Pendant peppers are 1 to 1 1/2 inches long and mature to golden orange-yellow. Plants are tall and extremely prolific. 80 to 85 days. I decided to also include my intended tomato grow list for 2014. While I don't plan on adding any more varieties to the list, a few may be removed if I can't acquire the seed for germinating in late December. BLACK Black & Brown Boar Black From Tula Carbon Cherokee Purple JD’s Special C Tex CHERRY Black Cherry Jaune Flamme Juliet Large Red Cherry Porters Improved EARLY/SMALL Fourth Of July Hanky Red Magyar Piros Boker Moravsky Div GWR Humph Lime Green Salad Malachite Box (Malakhitovaya Shkatulka) HEART Kosovo Wes ORANGE Dixie Golden Giant KBX Orange Minsk RED / PINK Barlow Jap Brandywine Sudduth Bush Goliath Cowlicks Brandywine Cuostralee Dester Fred Limbaugh’s Potato Top Giant Belgium Gregori's Altai Homestead Hoy Marizol Purple Mule Team Prudens Purple Prue Stump Of The World Tarasenko 6 Ted Last edited by tedln; November 7, 2013 at 10:28 AM.

November 7, 2013	#4
AKmark Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Wasilla Alaska Posts: 2,010	Peppers Thanks for the pepper list. I put mine in hanging baskets up in the trusses where the aphids don't roam, and they don't have to share space with tomatoes. Looking forward to trying Bananarama and Betterbell II

November 8, 2013	#8
salix Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: north central B.C. Posts: 2,310	Ted, let us know which ones you need seed for - like Linda, I also have a lot of what's on your list and am willing to share. Think I might have to try the Fooled You or the Trinidad Perfume pepper, I am a confirmed wuss when it comes to hot peppers. __________________ "He who has a library and a garden wants for nothing." -Cicero

November 7, 2013	#2
KarenO Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 5,931	Your pepper list is very interesting to me Ted. I have built a bigger greenhouse this year and I am thinking about expanding my pepper repertoire from the few I have grown and your list appeals to me from the flavor but not excessive heat standpoint. I like the descriptions and I may well look for some of those varieties up here. Thanks KarenO

November 7, 2013	#3
Patihum Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Southeast Kansas Posts: 878	Ted -Have you grown the Chapeau de Frade before? It's on my list to grow this next year too. Aja Dulce_ grew this a couple of years ago. Good flavor but I missed the heat and went back to a regular habanero.

November 7, 2013	#5
Penny Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 948	Excellent pepper and tomato list, there are a few new ones on there for me, off to Google(lol).

November 7, 2013	#6
Smithma Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Oklahoma City Posts: 67	Impressive list. I've grown the Big Guy Hybrid for Several years, very productive. Some peppers from the same plant will be very hot and some have normal jalapeño heat, don't know why.

November 7, 2013	#7
Sun City Linda Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: SoCal Inland Posts: 2,705	Yes, great list (s). I am really going to grow A LOT LESS tomatoes in 2014. I really MEAN IT THIS TIME!!!! If you shoot me a message or post here with what tomatoes you still need, I have quite a few on your list. BTW - I believe Hanky Red to be the most prolific tomato I have ever grown.