This is my triple planted black pearl. One is taller and only bears a little purple on the veins of the leaves and stalk. Is that one some sort of cross.
Black Pearl?
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Were the plants always located near each other? That is, did they all receive the exact same amount (intensity and duration) of sunlight? Black Pearl gets darker with more sun and it's new growth tends to be green before turning black. Perhaps the taller one is greener because it is taller. The new growth should get blacker after a while. The slower growing plant would be shorter and thus blacker than the faster growing plant.
I would guess that the smaller black plants get a little less sunlight than the tall green one. They get shaded from the bigger plant.
Pod is not Black Pearl.
Black Pearl pods are round.
You have something other than a black pearl.
Black Pearl pods are round.
You have something other than a black pearl.
Could it be some type of cross seeing that this one is also much taller than the two darker leafed plants?
The pod looks like it could be a Black Scorpion Tongue, the dark plants look like my Black Pearls.
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.
If this is the second or more times you've grown it I would say its crossed with something else, they are right in saying that the pods of Black Pear are round also the plants are very dark purple and so are the pods which are not much bigger than a Pearl hence the name.
I have both plants growing the first is a Black Scorpion Tongue and the 2 after are Black Pearls, Bleak Pearls eventually turn red if you leave em on the plant long enough and the Scorpions do produce red pods from time to time.
