Shishito or Pepperoncini?

[mitchNC]

I'm growing Italian Pepperoncini this year, which I believe is supposed to be allowed to turn red.
 
I'm pretty sure it's one or the other:
 
* I don't get it.  Rotates the photo left.  So I delete it, rotate it right at my end thinking it will rotate it left and therefore upright, and it rotates it twice.
 

 

[Greyhound_Gourmet]

sure look like shishitos to me....

 

[Masher]

I allowed a few stavros pepperoncini plants last yr to go fully red pods.


I grow these for pickling and use them and the brine in bloody Mary's.


They will pickle as a red pod and do get a wee bit of heat, but as an eating pepper once red, the walls were so thin it was like just chewing skin.

Keep em green. I did take the reds and made a nice hot sauce and also dried a large batch for powders.


After all said and done, I'm keeping them green and staying with just pickling them.



Have not grown shishito peppers yet.

 

[mitchNC]

Just had some KNOWN shishito peppers, blistered with a ghost pepper sauce aioli.  Great snack/appetizer.

 

[luvmesump3pp3rz]

there are a few kinds of pepperoncini as far as i know but never grew them. i just picked these shishitos just now. compare yours to these.
 

 

[mitchNC]

I just picked one that is mostly red and ate it.
It's super sweet.
 
So it can't be a pepperoncini?

 

[luvmesump3pp3rz]

usually pepperoncini has a little heat to them and shishitos don`t. i searched Italian Pepperoncini in google images and it shows all kinds of pods, some looking just like shishitos. i`m not sure what your`s are. 

 

[mitchNC]

Here are 4 shishitos and 1 mystery pepper. 
 
 

 

[luvmesump3pp3rz]

those look just slightly different than mine. the ridges are a little less pronounced and slightly darker green. which is the mystery pepper? the lighter green one, second from the top?

 

[mitchNC]

which is the mystery pepper? the lighter green one, second from the top?

 
Yep.  I tasted it.  It tastes very under-ripe.  So it must be the Italian Pepperoncini.