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What's the sweetest chilli?

+1 for Sugar Rush
of the phenotypes i have grown, i found the cream round pheno to be the sweetest sugar rush
with all of them they get so much sweeter if you leave them on the plant until fully mature 
another C. baccatum  i find to be sweet and delicious is Aji Fantasy. 
 
This year i am growing an interesting C. annuum   named Violet Sparkle
that is said to be bland when picked immature, but sweet like honey if allowed to mature to a deep dark red.  We shall see
https://www.rareseeds.com/violet-sparkle-pepper/
 
A few of the middle eastern bell types are supposed to be sweet with minor heat. Antep Aci Dolma being one of the hotter ones. Similar to a jalapeno in heat.
 
Vendor in Australia.   http://chilli-seedz.com/shop/chilli-seeds/antep-aci-dolma/
 
My ripe jalapenos were really sweet last year. The powder was so sweet it tasted like it had added sugar. I cut a few in quarters lengthwise and dried them. Ate several like a candy stick. :D
 
agreed with walchit on the little snacking peppers they sell at the store. No heat whatsoever but a pretty refreshing snack with some ranch dip or whatever. For something with a little more heat then I agree with going for some of the aji/baccatum varieties. Letting them sit as long as you can on the plant (as mentioned above) will help intensify the sugars a little more too. The fact that wild peppers are almost exclusively spread by avians is no coincidence. Birds will rarely eat the unripe pods and would rather go for ripe ones because this is when the sugars and other flavonoids (also seed quality) are at their peak making them more appealing to them, and us.
 
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