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I got to sample a ripe Tekne Dolmasi today from Pepperlover seeds. What a SUPER tasty sweet pepper. It tastes sorta like a sweet red bell but has something else going on. More fruity and crazy sweet. Hint of acid, almost a citrus. Its something ive noticed from a few middle eastern peppers. Almost hard to describe other than mildly acidic. No heat i could detect on the stem end.
 
nmlarson said:
The "exotics," at least for me, are beginning to produce a bit.  A bit of a personal critique of each plant is included here, also.
 
NuMex Sauve Orange, "Distinctive fruity flavor and aroma of a habanero with only a hint of pungency. Compared to Habanero, the avg. 2¼" fruits are slightly larger, plumper, more wrinkled, and ripen to a bright yellow-orange (contrasting Habanero's orange)." 
 
I REALLY like this pepper for adding lots of flavor and just a bit of heat.  This is my new favorite of the new varieties I'm growing this year.
 
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Mad Hatter, "Slightly hot bishop's crown type.  These unusually shaped peppers resemble a bishop's crown. Fruits avg. 2 1/4" in diameter and are borne on big, bushy plants. Moderately sweet flesh with floral and citrus notes and a touch of heat near the seed cavity. AAS winner." 
 
Sweet, tastes like a bell pepper.  I didn't pick up any heat at all in the fruit I sampled, even in the placenta near the core.  The plant is very healthy and bushy, despite all the rain we've had.  It hasn't lost nearly as many leaves as the other pepper plants and is loaded.
 
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Aji Jobito.  This seed came from The Hippie Seed Company.   The other two pepper seeds came from Johnny's Seeds.  "Aji Jobito is an extremely rare chilli pepper from Venezuela. Lots of the Aji peppers are from the Baccatum family, but not this beautiful chilli it is a Chinense like the  Aji Panca. According to some people that have had the pleasure of trying it, this should be the best tasting non-hot C. Chinense.  The chilli plant looks amazing. It is a solid plant with big leaves and it grows to about 70 cm tall in a pot. The pods have an oval shape and are about 4 cm long and 3 cm wide. Starts off a light green and ends up orange, when the pod is ripe.  It is quite an exclusive one we have here and its not easy to get them.  Flavour wise: Sweet with a light Chinense flavour"  
 
This is an odd one.  Has the texture of like a bell pepper, in that it's crisp and juicy, but has no pepper flavor.  Yes, it's not hot, but I wouldn't call it sweet, like a sweet pepper, either.  I'm not picking up any pepper flavor of any sort.   It could be I picked it too early, or it could be all the rain we've had, or the fact I've never tasted a Chinense.  I'll try a more ripe one when I haven't had any other peppers to eat.  The plant is another one that has tolerated our rains, holding lots of fruit, still being bushy and retaining a lot of its leaves.
 
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I may have misread, but you've never had a chinense? That Suave Orange is a chinense...
But that aside those are all great looking varieties
 
Romas this Morning, can you say Salsa :D
 
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Roma types are ESPECIALLY susceptible to BER (Blossom End Rot) which shows up when the plants aren't getting adequate calcium uptake. That can happen when you have inconsistent moisture. It happens to peppers & eggplants, also, both members of the nightshade, or Solanaceae, family and I've had it happen to cukes, too.

It's not a disease, so you don't need to worry about it being localized. It actually happens as the buds are being set.
 
dragonsfire said:
So lack of Calcium
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Thanks.
 
https://www.almanac.com/pest/blossom-end-rot
 
Their Romas, dwarfed from the Rot.
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Juanitos posted up a really good resource on this a couple months ago.  I rarely get BER on my Roma's for some reason, but this year the early ones had it despite careful/consistent watering.  Sure enough, went away on its own in the time frame the resource suggested.  Now I'm getting bigger healthy ones coming through.
 
juanitos said:
read this document.
https://pepperdatabase.org/pdf/BER.pdf

it is more common in early fruit while the plant is growing rapidly still.
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AndyW said:
I may have misread, but you've never had a chinense? That Suave Orange is a chinense...
But that aside those are all great looking varieties
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No, I probably misspoke.  What I meant was I haven't had a Chinense BEFORE growing the NuMex Sauve Orange.
 
AndyW said:
Slightly off topic, but I thought a lot of people here would be interested. I harvested my first miracle fruit today.

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Dude!!! That is awesome!!!! Congrats!!! Just got some of this in the mail today.
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Where could one acquire a seed or two for this???
 
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