Texas Hot?

Quagmireage · Jul 6, 2012

Hello all,

This spring (2012) I purchased a four pack of peppers from our local Amish greenhouse. They were labeled simply as "Texas Hot". I've researched these and the closest I've come to anything "Texas" is Texas Bird (Chiltepin).
Now that my peppers have begun to fruit I've noticed that not only are they not bird peppers but I have three different types. One is an Hungarian Hot Wax and the other two are a mystery to me.
I believe one of the mystery peppers is a cherry but I'd like help identifying them both.

I have pics of both but I don't know how to include them in a post.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

rabid48 · Jul 6, 2012

and http://thehotpepper.com/topic/14109-posting-pictures/

Fremp · Jul 6, 2012

If you have them hosted on a site....look at a 45 degree angle to the left of the smiley face icon(when you hit reply to this topic). It will look like a tiny picture of a tree...Enter the URL of the exact location of the picture,and poof up it pops....even before you hit post.

hope this helps

rabid48 said:
and http://thehotpepper....sting-pictures/

or this...thx rabid

Quagmireage · Jul 6, 2012

Thanks!

Ok, Here's the group of mysteries. I know the one in the left background is the hungarian and the one on the right are the ones I suspect to be cherries.

Here's a close up of mystery 1

And one of mystery 2

Thanks again.

Dave2000 · Jul 6, 2012

One does look like a cherry but is the other leaving the fruit at about that size or could it still be growing significantly larger? They look a little like a jalapeno-bell hybrid, or perhaps an extra fat strain of jalapeno.

Partly my guesses are based on these being common pepper types, I'd imagine they want to deal with peppers that more people recognize the names of, and yet it's odd they only labeled them Texas Hot unless they had some sort of seed mishap and couldn't figure out what to do.

willard3 · Jul 7, 2012

Welcome to the world of chile taxonomy where chile names are made up by the seller.

Both are annuums.

Quagmireage · Jul 7, 2012

@Dave2000, Mystery 1 isn't getting any larger ( maxing out at around 2 inches) in fact one is begining to change color. It looks sort of redish purple right now.
Possibly "Hinkelhatz"?

Dave2000 · Jul 7, 2012

Pick and eat the redish purple one, if it's part or all jalapeno you should taste that by now.

Quagmireage · Jul 9, 2012

Here's a look at two pods from these plants. the one on the left is mystery #1, it's about 1.75 inches long.
On the right is mystery #2 it's a little more than an inch.

Still trying to figure out what they are.

Here's a cross section of #1.
It has a bell like flavor with a little heat up front.

A Cross section of #2.
It has a nice kick in the back of your throat.