Second. Wrong place for BER, not hard and circular like anthracnose.
Did you have trouble with your foliage this year? Leaves should be shading your pods on a SB.
Maybe try some kind of shade cloth or moving into a spot with less hours of direct sunlight
I've enjoyed growing the yatzy peppers sold by pepper Joe.
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They classify these as "cayanne" but they have the sharp bite that I associate with Thai chile so idk
Haha, yep. If you add water its gunna be wet.
Thats good advice about using dry ingredients where possible though. I hadn't considered dehydrating my fruits before adding them to the sauce.
looks like a sunburn, makes sense if there are no pigments in the pod to protect it from all that UV.
Some here will say that it looks like end rot. If you want you could fert with some Calcium Nitrate fertilizer.
Basically what the others said. I don't know if i would call them "dormant genes" but it seems to me that there are lots of dominant alleles in wild and semi-wild species that combine to produce many small fruit. They those alleles are randomly replaced by a domesticated pepper, you can get a...
The variation from chiltepin crosses is super cool though they're so close to the wild relatives that they do some really cool things when they start to segregate. You should totally save seeds!
Any idea who the father is?
Paul Bosland and Ivette Guzmán wrote a chapter in the new book Capsaicin and its Human Therapeutic Development titled "A Matter of Taste: Capsaicinoid Diversity in Chile Peppers and the Importance to Human Food Preference" and its a real treat. Its available open access here...
I would say nitrogen over magnesium, magnesium deficiency is a stranger pattern in the leaf and nitrogen is more uniform (though it varies in the plant top to bottom). fertilizing with both wouldnt hurt though.
can we get a close up of a leaf upper and downer?