Ate My First Aji Sugar Rush

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Im not 100% sure this pepper had fully ripened, or even if the phenotype is right(my other Aji's are putting out way different pods IMO) but I ate it anyway.  Its been on the plant for ~2 months now, maybe longer.  Decided tonight was the night I was going to eat it up.  Tomorrow is the day my colon and anus are going to be angry at me for eating a whole pepper.
 
Cut it in half and pulled out the seeds to dry as these are supposedly rare.
 
Started out eating 1/4 of the pepper.  Nice sweet flavor to start, but it didnt last long and I got into the very mild standard pepper flavor(like a bell pepper), not sure what that flavor is described as.  Heat wasnt bad.  Ive had hotter jalapeno's, although that burn doesnt last long, this one is definitely sticking around a bit longer.  Kept eating more pieces until it was gone.  The bottom half was quite a bit hotter than the top half.  Enjoying the burn right now.  Very mellow burn.  Might have gotten a very little bit of endorphin high as I am sitting here very mellowed out.  Nothing like the endorphin rush from eating reapers.
 

 
 
I'm growing sugar rush cream and sugar rush peach. 
 
Neither of mine are shaped like that one though. 
 
Very sweet taste, lives up to the name. Like a gooshing sweet. Rather enjoyable and would be a great addition to a sauce in lieu of sweeteners. 
 
this is sugar rush peach, or supposed to be.  Seeds were bought from superhotchilis.com so I assume they are legit.
 
I started another thread in the growing forum this morning asking about the phenotype difference.  I have 5 of these plants and this one is putting off pods like this and the other 4 are putting off completely different looking pods.
 
I have a couple of late comers that I am flushed with anticipation to try. I had one succumb to dampening off. so I planted 2.
 
Whatever it is, I would suggest it's not 100% ripe just yet. There is definitely a hint of green on the inside curve of the pod. Also, all pods, regardless of type, have a bit of grassy flavor while they are still green. Even compare a green bell pepper to a fully ripe, red (yellow/orange/etc.) bell pepper - they don't taste anything alike. It will be interesting to get your take on it when you try a fully ripe pod. 
 
geeme said:
Whatever it is, I would suggest it's not 100% ripe just yet. There is definitely a hint of green on the inside curve of the pod. Also, all pods, regardless of type, have a bit of grassy flavor while they are still green. Even compare a green bell pepper to a fully ripe, red (yellow/orange/etc.) bell pepper - they don't taste anything alike. It will be interesting to get your take on it when you try a fully ripe pod. 
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yea I felt it wasnt quite ripe, but i am not exaggerating that this pod was on that plant for 2+ months, maybe more like 3(early april I believe).  I guess the excitement got the better of me, although I am not not disappointed I ate it.  PLUS the other plants are putting off pods that look completely different than this plant, so I am wondering if this plant is not true, although its only planted around other Aji's and I have nothing else at all that has traits like this pod.  Only other plants even close to this one that could cross polinate would be: reaper, jays peach ghost scorpion, BOC.  The only plants of those that had flowers when this pod set would be the reaper, and this has nothing reaper like at all.
 
I saved the seeds from this pepper but will not mix them with seeds from any of the other Aji's.
 
I think your pod needed a few more days on the vine as well.....and would have bumped the heat up a few more notches.....but hey its hard to wait for that first pod to ripen after all the waiting we do.....I am going to pick a couple of my first small Paper Lanterns today....nice a red....but small.
 
Patience with ripening is the true prayer of a growing chilehead! 
 
Sounds like you might need a little info about crosses. If you take, say, a pure jalapeño and a pure habanero and plant them right next to each other, they will not be crosses. What's more, if you take a stem from each and separately grow clones, even if the containers you start them in are side-by-side, the clones will not be crosses. However, if any of the flowers of the two got pollinated by the same pollinator (bee or otherwise), although the pods will not be crosses, the seeds that come from the pods as the result of that flower being pollinated will be crosses, so any plants grown from those seeds will be crosses. So either the vendor of your seeds had a plant that was crossed with another and he/she took seeds from the pods that plant produced or the vendor just managed to mix up seeds and you have something entirely different.
 
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