A couple mystery Capsicum

[Bender Rodriguez]

Ok, so I bought a Ghost Pepper at a local nursery this spring and have been anxiously awaiting the fruit to ripen, but now that they are turning, I'm not so sure that this is actually a bhut jolokia. I'm thinking more along the lines of a Caribbean Red hab?

Next, I bought a four-pack of Purple Beauty bells (which I wasn't impressed with, but that's another thread), but one of them turned out to be something completely different. These started out solid purple like the bells, but as they grow, they fade to the mottled green-purple like you see here,and when they ripen fully, they turn red. Size and consistency is very similar to a Gypsy bell, but these are HOT. Hotter than any other C. annuum variety I've ever grown, less than C. chinense vars. They have a very good flavor too, almost habenero-like.

(Sorry for the bad pic. This one was hard to get to without pulling it off the plant)

I have one or two more fruit from this plant ripening now and I plan to save seed from these for next year. My guess is some kind of accidental hybrid, but I'm curious to see what the rest of you think about it.

Thanks in advance!

 

[FadeToBlack]

Top one looks like a red hab. Not sure about the bottom.

 

[Dulac]

Wow, they sold that as a bhut jolokia? I'm not sure what it is. It doesn't look like the Caribbean red habaneros I grow.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

The nursery that these came from has a reputation for mislabeling their plants.They grow some nice stuff but it's not always marked correctly, so I took a chance on the bhut. It definitely has the heat and flavor of a normal habanero.

I'm more interested in what you all think about the second pepper. I'm at a loss as to what it could be at this point. All I know is I took a bite of one expecting a sweet bell crunch, and instead got a mouth full of fire

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

Here's a couple more shots of the second mystery pepper

Ripe fruit on the left, immature fruit on the right

Inside shot with the seed vein removed

I'm open to wild guesses at this point

I also have quite a few seeds I'm saving if anyone interested enough to try them personally

 

[DocNrock]

Cajun bell?

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

Cajun bell?

That was my first thought, but I've never seen a Cajun bell turn purple --> green --> red like these do.

 

[dragon49]

How hot is the large red one?

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

The center vein is easily on par with, or hotter than, a cayenne, but the walls barely have any heat at all