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plant Unidentified Pepper Plants

Back in January when I started some seeds from about 8 varieties of peppers, many did not sprout and I put them and the peat pot soil in a plastic bag and stored them in a closet.  Several weeks later I was going to use the soil and retrieved the plastic bag and, wow, hundreds of sprouts.  Long story short, I weeded them out in time to get about 30 plants growing in pots.  They started flowering about 6 weeks ago and many have produced fruit.  Three of the plants are unique to me as I don't recall ordering any seeds for peppers that look like these.  They have a small, pale green, almost yellow fruit.  The closest seeds I grew that these resemble slightly are Wiri Wiri Peppers.   Of 20 seeds I only had one that succeeded in growing and the rest of the seeds were in that plastic bag.  But these 3 plants do not look like the single Wiri Wiri plant that has not flowered.  Does anyone recognize this pepper plant and can give me an idea what it might be?  I tried one of the peppers and it is Very hot with a lingering heat.
 
 
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Looks familiar.> .Yellow street peppers??..
 
 
 
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The_NorthEast_ChileMan said:
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Looks familiar.> .Yellow street peppers??..
 
 
 
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Thank you!  I'm so glad I discovered this site!  That was a great link you displayed and the Cascabella Pepper does seem to be the closest thing I've seen yet to this pepper/plant.  Some of the seeds I ordered and tried planting were Cascabel seeds, and none of them came up.  So they ended up in the "plastic bag germinater".  I suppose they could have sent me the wrong seeds.  But my research gives a low scoville rating for those peppers and even though this is the first stage of pepper development, they are VERY hot.  The other plants I have in the pots are Fresno Peppers, Maybe 12 of them.  They have developed peppers to the final red color stage and I have tried them.  They are not nearly as hot as these little yellow devils.  I will let the peppers continue growing and see how much hotter they get after they mature to orange, then red (If they are Cascabella Peppers).

 
 
MarkV that picture looks very much like what I have, as does the pics and descriptions of the Cascabella pepper.  The Rosemary pepper and Cascabella pepper plants and peppers look almost identical.  I have read that the Rosemary pepper starts out white, which these peppers did not.  The Scoville rating for the Cascabella pepper does not seem right.  It is shown as about 4,000 on most sites.  However a couple of sites with testimonials from growers of this pepper attest to the burning heat of the pepper, which I totally agree.  My Fresno peppers which are supposed to be twice the heat pale in comparison.  I love the Fresno peppers as I can eat them freshly picked and they have a sweet taste and just the right burn.  I can't eat even half of this little pepper without a powerful burn that lingers for a long time.  Nice picture BTW!
 
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