show-off Couldn’t resist!

[Tinwakr]

Well, today I pulled a ripe fruit from one of my Cayenne chilli plants and gave it a taste. I was pleasantly surprised as it had mild heat and sweet. I expected it to be very spicy because cayenne powder is.

I have another cayenne chilli plant but the fruit is more slender and more wrinkled. Hoping it’s more spicy.

 

[Tinwakr]

Here is one of my Cayenne plants with the fruit.

 

[Tinwakr]

Here’s the other one.

 

[Tinwakr]

Another harvest, only 10 ripe(ate one, lol) this time. I’m surprised, pretty hot but doesn’t last too long.

 

[MarcV]

I grew cayenne once too and got some nice sweet tasting pods from it with low or no heat. I found that either their taste is sweet with low heat or hot with a bitter taste. I don't like the bitter tast personally...

 

[francisp]

The Cayennes I have on my windowsill are both reasonably hot, and not bitter at all. But there are many Cayenne varieties.

 

[MarcV]

Interesting... the bitterness is the reason I avoid cayennes (and hot annuums in general) although the Jeromin that I often grow is a hot annuum that is not bitter at all...