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Why is the 'Farmer's Jalapeño' cool?

Because it goes from a little nub to a jalapeño looking thing in a couple of days.
 
"Meh!" you say.  You've seen much cooler peppers and you can buy those at a supermarket.
 
Then it starts to rebel against smooth supermarket jalapeño stereotypes:
 
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Same pepper, a week later.  Corked all to heck and about twice the size:
 
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Then it gets even cooler...but you'll have to wait.  This plant just finished fighting off the mother of all aphid infestations, so it's running behind on production.
 
Codeman said:
WOW! Thats cool! how hot is it to compare say a mammoth jalapeno?
 
I find they tend toward the same heat as most other jalapeño varieties, but with a slightly better flavor than what you'd get at a grocery when ripened all the way to red.  By the time they hit that stage; they're often completely covered in corking and look like someone glued potatoes to your pepper plant, thus the alternate name of 'Potato Jalapeño'.  :D
 
The plant itself looks cool, as well.  Leaves and stems are hairy like a pubescens and it has huge flowers for a pepper plant.  I'll try to get shots of mine tomorrow if weather permits, but it looks rough due to aphid carnage.
 
I have one as well and I am really interested in the taste. I've heard that they have a sweeter or slightly more fruity taste than "store generic jalapeños" have. Unfortunately, mine was also set back quite a bit this year so I'll have to see if I get one.
 
It's a unique pod for sure!  
 
Whoa. That jalapeno is "The One!"

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Nice pics Brian. I have some nicely embroidered pods on my plant from the seeds you sent me. They started off smooth and I thought they weren't the real deal. Then they started corking. I agree with you that the foliage is attractive, almost like a pubescen.

How are the Amarillos doing?
 
Peter_L said:
I have one as well and I am really interested in the taste. I've heard that they have a sweeter or slightly more fruity taste than "store generic jalapeños" have. Unfortunately, mine was also set back quite a bit this year so I'll have to see if I get one.
 
It's a unique pod for sure!  
 
Yeah, they're definitely sweeter than a garden variety pod and lean to the milder end of the spectrum.  Especially if you let them go fully ripe to red.  Texture is pretty dead-on cantaloupe, which I never really thought about until a conversation I just heard outside.
 
:cool: "Don't that thing look like a cantaloupe to you?  Dude done mad scienced a melon pepper."
:) "You think it taste good?  Bet he'd give us some."
:cool: "Helllll no!  The Mexicans don't even eat his stuff, fool. Say it's too hot.  Let's go."
 
And as they were walking off...
 
:) "If he eat all those things, you think a cop sprayed him he just walk through it like he dusted?"
:cool: "From stories, I think if a cop SHOT that dude he just walk through like he dusted and they be apologizing. Got nothing to do with peppers."
 
I love my neighbors.  :rofl:
 
kentishman said:
Nice pics Brian. I have some nicely embroidered pods on my plant from the seeds you sent me. They started off smooth and I thought they weren't the real deal. Then they started corking. I agree with you that the foliage is attractive, almost like a pubescen.

How are the Amarillos doing?
 
Amarillos are healthy, loaded up, and ripening.  Hope to start having pods late this week.  While I was recovering from surgery, the largest plant grew into two others for support.  I now have an 'Aji Amarillo Fatalii Yellow 7-Pot BBG bush' of considerable size.  :D
 
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