This is my 4th or 5th year growing peppers and gardening vegetable in general. Mostly grown from small plants purchased at places like Home Depot and local nurseries. I have grown many varieties from standard green, yellow and red bell peppers, giant marconi's and a few other sweet varieties but have also grown Jalapeno, Cayenne, tobasco, Santa Fe Grande, Poblano.
This is my first year growing Habanero, I grow in 5 gallon buckets so they can be moved as the heat gets brutal in New Orleans which stunts growth. In spring and fall my Jalapeno are 3" long but 1" to 1 1/2" during the hot months. The Habanero's grew well they looked pretty much as they should, orange, crinkled/pinched in folds. I got a few larger nice ones before the heat kicked in and I moved all of my peppers and tomatoes to the side of the house where they got less sun and wouldn't get sunburned. I always get smaller fruit during the hottest months but when it cooled off I started getting tons of flowers and therefore fruit in September when they were moved back to the back of the yard to get max sun. I noticed that about 1/4 of them look funny, smooth and round and not like a habanero at all suddenly. The orange color is even different. The ones that look like grocery store Habanero are darker orange. The small smooth round ones look more like a pumpkin the size of a cherry. At first I thought it hybridized with the Jalapeno or Poblano which are adjacent but If I remember correctly the seeds once grown should show hybridization not this plant because the bees landed on the Jalapeno first. Does that sound right? So why are they coming out small, smooth, round and lighter . It is about 25% of the abundant number which there must be 120 to 150 peppers in various stages of growth presently. Is this a hybrid already or is there some known problem caused by conditions of improper care? I know they make mistakes at those plant farms because I have bought what was supposed to be red bell pepper which came out yellow.
This is my first year growing Habanero, I grow in 5 gallon buckets so they can be moved as the heat gets brutal in New Orleans which stunts growth. In spring and fall my Jalapeno are 3" long but 1" to 1 1/2" during the hot months. The Habanero's grew well they looked pretty much as they should, orange, crinkled/pinched in folds. I got a few larger nice ones before the heat kicked in and I moved all of my peppers and tomatoes to the side of the house where they got less sun and wouldn't get sunburned. I always get smaller fruit during the hottest months but when it cooled off I started getting tons of flowers and therefore fruit in September when they were moved back to the back of the yard to get max sun. I noticed that about 1/4 of them look funny, smooth and round and not like a habanero at all suddenly. The orange color is even different. The ones that look like grocery store Habanero are darker orange. The small smooth round ones look more like a pumpkin the size of a cherry. At first I thought it hybridized with the Jalapeno or Poblano which are adjacent but If I remember correctly the seeds once grown should show hybridization not this plant because the bees landed on the Jalapeno first. Does that sound right? So why are they coming out small, smooth, round and lighter . It is about 25% of the abundant number which there must be 120 to 150 peppers in various stages of growth presently. Is this a hybrid already or is there some known problem caused by conditions of improper care? I know they make mistakes at those plant farms because I have bought what was supposed to be red bell pepper which came out yellow.
