Both my sweet and hot banana pepper ripen to red as do my jalapenoes. The second pod on this bush is looking to favor the jalapeno a little more than the first.
This Xjalapeno pod looks to have more of a banana shape. Instead of a yellow banana color it has a lighter green color. Don't know if it a sweet or hot banana cross though.
Last year, I planted jalapeno right next to cayenne and banana peppers. This year, I planted 30+ seeds taken from the jalapeno pods. I have only noticed one cross. Is open polinated crosses really that rare?
Current picture of raised bed. Have a few pods forming, but most blossoms are still dropping.
A view of the annuums in ground.
It's black gold!! It's Vermi-Tea!! Just part of a weekly treatment.
I tasted the pod. The heat level is hotter than the jalapeno. Maybe half the heat of an orange habanero. The heat concentrated near the tip of the tongue. Couldn't feel heat anywhere else. Maybe not quite ripe.
The topping is so thick that it tends to want to come off when the slice is picked up by hand. But when it is reheated the next day as left overs the fork is not needed.
Just cinderblock and added composted leaf mold from my 8X8 compost coral. I also add over 20 gallons of worm castings.
Thank you and I placed cardboard between the soil and the bedding. Thinking that that will kill the grass and encourage worms into the bedding.
Sometimes I have...