So most ornamentals are not the best tasting, and many avoid them for this reason. However, there are quite a few different varieties that are considered ornamental that are great tasting as well. I wanted to start a thread where we can discuss these types and and find out which of these peppers are worth eating. What ornamentals are you growing that surprised or impressed you with their flavor?
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Great Tasting Ornamental Pepper Varieties
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I've grown several ornamental varieties AaronTT. Judging just from what I've grown/eaten I would recommend the following:
Fish Pepper - beautiful variegated foliage and peppers - starting stripey green and maturing to a deep lipstick red. Great dehydrated and ground (cayenne like heat) and with any manner of seafood (duh).
Maui Purple - dark purplish foliage and peppers start dark purple almost black. Skinny spikey upright pods mature to a dark brick red, medium hot, good for pickling and great for pizza flakes.
Aji Omnicolor - smaller bushy plants, high yielding with fruits that start white then go green and orange to finally red at maturity. Good medium heat and very versatile; use for salsas, ceviche, hot sauce, powders, etc.
I would not recommend Bulgarian Carrot, Czeck Black or Royal Black for eating. The plants/pods are beautiful but I found then quite seedy and bitter.
Fish Pepper - beautiful variegated foliage and peppers - starting stripey green and maturing to a deep lipstick red. Great dehydrated and ground (cayenne like heat) and with any manner of seafood (duh).
Maui Purple - dark purplish foliage and peppers start dark purple almost black. Skinny spikey upright pods mature to a dark brick red, medium hot, good for pickling and great for pizza flakes.
Aji Omnicolor - smaller bushy plants, high yielding with fruits that start white then go green and orange to finally red at maturity. Good medium heat and very versatile; use for salsas, ceviche, hot sauce, powders, etc.
I would not recommend Bulgarian Carrot, Czeck Black or Royal Black for eating. The plants/pods are beautiful but I found then quite seedy and bitter.
The sweet pickles is really nice, no bitterness or any floral taste.
I was told,that Black Pearl has heat.They also have a lot of seeds.I don't know for sure.
It is many times called either Thai Hot or Thai Sun, I always grow at least 4 of them and have had the plants in my grow since 95SavinaRed said:
They are part of two different blends I make and both are great all round everyday goodness. I am a big fan of them personally. Great fresh and dry.SavinaRed said:
Aji omnicolor is a great strain
! But whats ornamental About it? Just good pods with decent heat! Love them
Explosieve ember is a great ornamental! 100s of small peppers on one plant! Starts of purple as the leafs and riping to blood red!
Has a nice kick and no floral taste or whatsoever !
! But whats ornamental About it? Just good pods with decent heat! Love them
Explosieve ember is a great ornamental! 100s of small peppers on one plant! Starts of purple as the leafs and riping to blood red!
Has a nice kick and no floral taste or whatsoever !
I grew 4 ornamental varieties this year. Black pearl, purple flash, Chinese 5 colour and sangria. For my tastes, the sangria was the best flavoured out of them all, seemed similar to Thai peppers in flavour with not much heat. Chinese 5 colour was decent when ripe, while purple flash and black pearl were so so fresh.
Since Fish Pepper is one of my favorites... I've been wondering if that foliage could be ported to other varieties. I live far too north so I grow indoors most of the year. It's important for me that my plants are both super decorative and "useful". I plan to do some Fish crosses in 2015.
Cumari P. ( Iknow ist's a wild, but it looks cool.)
HellBoar said:
I'd put it between a ripe serrano and a cayenne personally. Thin walled pods, pretty prolific plants. Do well in containers too (or did in my 3 gallon pots).