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annuum How did your Jalapenos turn out this year?

I grew 3 kinds and they all turned out extremely hot on average.
 
Mucho Nacho from 2 different plants....1 in a pot and 1 in the ground
Early season...pretty typical heat for a jala
Later season green...hotter than typical
Later season ripe...OMG they are hot
Excellent flavor all season
 
Chichimeca...ground plot
Early season...a touch mild for my tastes but ok
Late season green...uncommonly hot for a jala
Late season ripe...OMG more scorchers but a few were typical!!!
Mid to late season had best overall flavor...REALLY nice variety.
 
Early jalapeno...2 in pots
Early season were a little hotter than the other 2 but mostly typical
Late season green....still pretty much what i expect from a Early Jala with the occasional demon child
Late season ripe....Not as hot as any but really nice flavor.
Excellent flavor all season
 
Im thrilled that this year i could count on a nice heat level. Even the milder ones had enough zip to satisfy. Not a single dud in the bunch. The ripe ones though took me by surprise. I grilled a few with a steak occasionally and could barely finish some. Nothing hab hot but easily upper serrano hot or more.
 
Yeah, I notice Jalapeños can take me by surprise sometimes. I'll bite off a bit more than I can chew. I think maybe I'm used to eating chinenses and then the annuum heat catches me off guard. Just the way they hit you sometimes.

But this year I'm only growing Farmers Market Jalapeños, and they have pretty much no heat at all.
 
Bought some seedlings from a greenhouse, some big early variety. They've been neither. But, we did have early grounds fungus issues from wet cool temps and them billions of cutworms but they did survive. Then extreme dry heat go extreme dry cold now and not one red ripe jalapeño yet. I picked the two biggest peppers that were both rather pale and are significantly older than the small dark ones and the y made a rather medium salsa. Was hoping for a few red one to save seeds bit we was e frost coming soon and have been surprised our pepper and tomato plants have survived 5 light frosts already. I guess morphology is real! If the temps cool gradually enough the plants can toughen up......
 
I just grew the Earlies; they were pretty much on the milder side, and due primarily to my own mistakes, they weren´t very early.  Other weird stuff I´ve noticed were that they were noticeably paler than the usual Jala green, and they just aren´t turning red for me.  ShowMeDaSauce had mentioned in his Chichimeca thread that he´s had trouble getting his Jalas to ripen; at the time, I assumed he just meant that they kept getting devoured while still green.  But, now I´m seeing what he means; to be sure, I´ve been snacking on green ones, but i haven´t had a single Jala ripen for me at all yet.  Everything else has.  My Serranos were planted at the same time, rght among the Jalas, and they turn red with the swiftness.  All of my chinense and my Mirasols and every other pepper had no problems.  So, I wonder what that´s about?
 
Bottom line: the Earlies grew well for me, produced well for me, but they´re pretty underwhelming overall.  I was lucky enough to get some Zapotec seeds from Windchicken (thanks again, Gary!) and I´ll be happily growing those and probably one other variety in 2018. 
 
I guess I´m just wondering what´s up with Jalapeños that are reluctant to ripen. 
 
Bicycle808 said:
I just grew the Earlies; they were pretty much on the milder side, and due primarily to my own mistakes, they weren´t very early.  Other weird stuff I´ve noticed were that they were noticeably paler than the usual Jala green, and they just aren´t turning red for me.
 
 
 
I guess I´m just wondering what´s up with Jalapeños that are reluctant to ripen. 
 
I think the "Early" jalapeño cultivars are selected for being quick to flower and set fruit. Since I think the industry (and probably the culinary) expectation is that jalapeños are consumed green, time until ripening might be selectively extended?
 
I'm also just growing Farmer's Market Jalapeños this year, but that might explain why you aren't getting ripe ones.
 
The only thing i dont like about Early's is size. Mine have always been smaller than other varieties. The Mucho Nacho are nice sized and thick walled. The Chichi was about as large but slightly thinner walls. Neither one though are as large as Mammoths or the other "jumbos" ive grown. They taste far better though and much hotter. None of the typical jumbo varieties have impressed me except in yield.
 
I got quite a few ripe Early's just because i had enough jalas to eat while i waited. They are excellent grilled ripe especially if you want just enough heat to satisfy. I like them with steak and i want to be able to taste my steak too. :D A couple of the grilled ripe Mucho and Chichi were almost brutal by comparison.
 
Weirdly varied in both size and colour. My latest was about 2 inches and black, despite coming of a plant where the others ripened from green to red.
No obvious reason for a sun tan, either.
 
I did Zapotec this year. The pod size was.smaller than expected but that could just be on me. Heat level was what I expected though. Very nice.

I did Farmers Market.last year and that was lower than expected but the flavor was so unique. I turned out to be a big fan of that one.

Honestly, I loves me a good red jalapeno...!
 
I had some go green, black and then red on the Mucho Nacho. The real oddity was one Much Nacho had peppers with a much pointier end. That one was in the ground next to the Chichi which also had more of a point early in the season. Late season Chichi peppers were more rounded.
 
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