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chinense Bonnie Golden Ghost
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Other websites call it a chinense?
at Wally-world? Seriously? Wow, I want one (or two, or five).
Ahhh, well we all need our daily helping of protein. Ladybugs do too.
While Johnny's Golden Ghost - annuum shows individual pods in pic Totally Tomatoes - Golden Ghost Hybrid Pepper - chinense shows them on the plant, sure does look like multiple fruit per node (See below.) but both sites list this as a cross so, Inheritance and transfer of multiple-flower character from Capsicum chinense into Capsicum annuum.....AndyW said:
"Although it is unlikely that the multiple-flower character can be transferred to C. annuum in its full intensity while maintaining a horticulturally-acceptable phenotype, it may be possible to breed varieties which produce an average of more than 1.5 flowers per node, a value 50% higher than existing C. annuum varieties."
Hope this helps! NECM
Sorry, forgot... After grow out, pix of mature fruit, would show annular constriction....
In addition, the fruit of habanero chillies usually have an annular constriction between the calyx and pedicel, see below.
What's a Habanero chilli?, Annular constriction between the calyx and pedicel
That's interesting. Hopefully I keep it alive long enough to find out how the pods are.The_NorthEast_ChileMan said:While Johnny's Golden Ghost - annuum shows individual pods in pic Totally Tomatoes - Golden Ghost Hybrid Pepper - chinense shows them on the plant, sure does look like multiple fruit per node (See below.) but both sites list this as a cross so, Inheritance and transfer of multiple-flower character from Capsicum chinense into Capsicum annuum.....
"Although it is unlikely that the multiple-flower character can be transferred to C. annuum in its full intensity while maintaining a horticulturally-acceptable phenotype, it may be possible to breed varieties which produce an average of more than 1.5 flowers per node, a value 50% higher than existing C. annuum varieties."
Hope this helps! NECM
Sorry, forgot... After grow out, pix of mature fruit, would show annular constriction....
In addition, the fruit of habanero chillies usually have an annular constriction between the calyx and pedicel, see below.
What's a Habanero chilli?, Annular constriction between the calyx and pedicel
How is yours doing? Of all my plants (50+ varieties) my Golden Ghost has the most fruit-set so far. It's doing really well with its vegetative growth as well. To me it seems like it's an annuum x chinense cross.
I manage the garden center for a Home Depot in Idaho. I was looking forward to Bonnie's Golden Ghost since this March, when Bonnie's told us there would be two kinds of ghosts this year: red and yellow.
I was stoked. I had saved the seeds from red ghost in 2017 and regrew them this year, but those plants died off during the hardening process.
According to the Bonnie's rep the company's golden ghost had numerous failures and a complete die off in cases, which halted the golden ghost from ever being in my area or most areas. I bugged him constantly about when we were going to get a shipment of them in. None of the competitors around here (Lowe's, WalMart) had the golden ghost either.
At least one of the red ghosts I picked up in May, when the plants were $1.89 for the daily deal, happened to be the golden, though it was labeled red and all from the same tray.
I'm hoping at least one of the other two is red. Below is the ripe golden that took 31 days to complete.
V
I was stoked. I had saved the seeds from red ghost in 2017 and regrew them this year, but those plants died off during the hardening process.
According to the Bonnie's rep the company's golden ghost had numerous failures and a complete die off in cases, which halted the golden ghost from ever being in my area or most areas. I bugged him constantly about when we were going to get a shipment of them in. None of the competitors around here (Lowe's, WalMart) had the golden ghost either.
At least one of the red ghosts I picked up in May, when the plants were $1.89 for the daily deal, happened to be the golden, though it was labeled red and all from the same tray.
I'm hoping at least one of the other two is red. Below is the ripe golden that took 31 days to complete.
V
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Verne, yours sure looks like an annum. Has it got heat?
Have seen the red Bhut cross here at the local HD, but have not seen the yellow variety as of yet. Reds do very well. 
So does it taste like an annuum
The "look" is merely just a different phenotype and doesn't mean this is an annuum. Bonnie's red ghosts have two different phenotypes, at least in 2017, one smooth and one traditionally bubbly. I ended up with both phones, and one of the peppers had a scorpion tail.
It tastes like a ghost pepper to me. While yellow is generally "not as hot" it is still potent. Walls are maybe thicker than usual.
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It tastes like a ghost pepper to me. While yellow is generally "not as hot" it is still potent. Walls are maybe thicker than usual.
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