Hi all,
This is our second year of growing peppers. Last year we grew gypsy peppers, jalapenos, and cayennes. This year we found a wider variety of peppers. We have mini bells, purple beauty bells, tabasco, habanero, "chili grande," jalapeno, and cayennes.
Aside from a moldy mini bell, all of our peppers have been doing well... except for the habaneros. We have four habanero plants, all about two feet tall. The plants look good; it's just the peppers that are bad. The first few peppers had black speckly mold inside and a later one had bluish fuzz, so we didn't eat them. Some of the later peppers were free of the mold (though some of the seeds looked black), but they smelled terrible. They didn't smell like peppers at all and they were not very hot. We cut off a green habanero to see if it smelled better than the others (the others were all orange). It smelled only slightly better than the riper habaneros yet it still had that gross, unpepper-y smell.
What caused this? I read that the mold could have been caused by damp, cool temperatures or bugs. If this is all due to bugs, why are the habaneros the only affected plants? We have different plants in between the habaneros and only one pepper has been moldy.
We live in Canada in zone 2b/3a. The spring was cool and wet; the summer warm and dry. I personally do not water the plants but I believe they are watered every other day.
This is our second year of growing peppers. Last year we grew gypsy peppers, jalapenos, and cayennes. This year we found a wider variety of peppers. We have mini bells, purple beauty bells, tabasco, habanero, "chili grande," jalapeno, and cayennes.
Aside from a moldy mini bell, all of our peppers have been doing well... except for the habaneros. We have four habanero plants, all about two feet tall. The plants look good; it's just the peppers that are bad. The first few peppers had black speckly mold inside and a later one had bluish fuzz, so we didn't eat them. Some of the later peppers were free of the mold (though some of the seeds looked black), but they smelled terrible. They didn't smell like peppers at all and they were not very hot. We cut off a green habanero to see if it smelled better than the others (the others were all orange). It smelled only slightly better than the riper habaneros yet it still had that gross, unpepper-y smell.
What caused this? I read that the mold could have been caused by damp, cool temperatures or bugs. If this is all due to bugs, why are the habaneros the only affected plants? We have different plants in between the habaneros and only one pepper has been moldy.
We live in Canada in zone 2b/3a. The spring was cool and wet; the summer warm and dry. I personally do not water the plants but I believe they are watered every other day.
