Ho Chi Minh Pepper?

[HoosierDaddy]

I started growing Ho Chi Minh peppers 4 or 5 years ago. I love the flavor but the only place I have found these seeds are from Fedco. This year Fedco did not have these seeds available because their supplier had a crop failure in 2013. I had enough seeds left over from the previous years to grow this year. I won't have enough for next year though.

The Ho Chi Minh pepper looks a lot like Golden Cayenne. Does anybody know if these two peppers are the same and just have different names for the same pepper?

[recruiterg]

Why don't you just save seed this year?

I did a google search and it looks like several vendors have it listed.

[Ken4230]

www.greenbarngardens.com

I would just save some seeds

[HoosierDaddy]

I assumed the peppers would cross pollinate with other nearby varieties of peppers and seeds I collected might end up as some kind of hybrid. Do peppers cross pollinate? Tomatoes do and I just assumed that peppers would too.

Hmmmm reminds me of a Simpson's TV episode where Homer crossed a tomato plant with a tobacco plant and called it Tomacco. The fruit tasted terrible but boy was it addictive.

[Doug9345]

Peppers cross pollinate even more than tomatoes do. It's not hard to bag a few blossoms to get enough seed for your self. For that matter grow one in a gallon pot and wrap the whole thing in tulle.

[guruofgardens]

Good idea with the tulle. I have a few pepper plants that will be surrounded in tulle or green netting (similar to tulle) since I want the seeds to be true. Make sure to use a clip or clothespin at the top of the tulle to keep all insects, etc. out.

[tam91]

I thought I read peppers don't self pollinate like tomatoes, so you can't total enclose them - need to let bees in to pollinate or something? Is that wrong?

[guruofgardens]

Do Peppers self-pollinate?
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=13909

[Doug9345]

They will self pollinate. I've raised a pepper in a 9oz cup and got a pepper on it with viable seed in it.

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Well I had just enough Ho Chi Minh seeds left over from 2012 and 2013 to get enough plants for the 2014 season. Put my 2015 order in with Fedco in Mid Jan 2015 and they are sold out already for this year and sent a refund check.

I'm totally out of Ho Chi Minh pepper seeds. Just placed an order with the only other supplier of these seeds I could find in North America. I hope Green Barn Gardens come through fulfilling my order.

[Blueaussi]

According to the Fedco website, they ripen to red, not yellow; and the substitute they recommend is a red cayenne. So, no, they're not the same as a Golden Cayenne.

[drew51]

I don't bag my peppers, but save lot's of seed. i have yet to see a cross. If I do, i have plenty to try again. I will probably start bagging some as I need the bags for other plants. I try to take seeds throughout the growing season, and so far it's worked like a charm.

[luigiwu]

Now I'm sooo curious about the taste of this pepper!

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Up here in Michigan they grow green. Then they change to yellow. I pick them at the yellow stage. Actually I've never ever seen them change from yellow to red. I think that change to red is an urban myth. I grew some golden cayenne peppers last year to see if they were the same as the Ho Chi Minh. Golden Cayenne is way much hotter.

Today I found 4 or 5 Ho Chi Minh seeds stuck in the bottom corners of my old seed packet. If these germinate I 'll try to grow these away from my other hot peppers and save the seeds for 2016 and see what grows out of them.

[roper2008]

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