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Hangjiao (Chinese space chili)
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The bunch as a whole are generally said to be sweet, fruity and cayenne-like, ideal for salads and stir frying. I haven't had chance to grow them yet though, so won't be able to give my own views until the end of the 2017 season.
They're nice wherever you would normally use bell peppers, in my experience. I don't particularly care for cayenne, but I grew these things for the novelty and ended up liking them quite a bit. I grew the HJ5 (Helix) and HJ6 (Pulsar, I think). Both were worth growing. The things look like mutant cayenne, produce prolifically, and have decent flavor to them. Mine all had less than serrano heat. I'd say the HJ5 did have better flavor, but they're very similar. Fruity, kinda cayenne and bell pepper-y. Virtually no heat until near the stem, like maybe an inch or so. I grilled them and used them both on salads a whole lot.
(Because I had a lot. Just the two plants dumped out buckets of ridiculously warped looking giant cayenne style pods in a season. It was pretty cool.)
(Because I had a lot. Just the two plants dumped out buckets of ridiculously warped looking giant cayenne style pods in a season. It was pretty cool.)
The one small variety, I think it was the Afterglow, is apparently quite hot but it's still not Hab level. The others aren't much at all heatwise.
I'm missing Meteor and Big Bang, would you be open to trading?
Jase4224 said:
The two I grew were definitely different both in look and in flavor, but they all originated from some sort of cayenne so they remain similar. I think the originals were just a slightly larger cayenne that had resulted from previous experiments on either a Russian or Chinese satellite. I know the tomatoes they grew on that same mission came from seeds of plants that had been on Mir for like 6 years, but those got mixed results. The bell peppers they did, however; averaged 750 grams and had no less than twice the vitamin C of a standard.
Fun fact: Prior to sending chile peppers into space to mutate them, the Chinese were trying to mutate them on the ground using Cobalt-60 (yikes).
Fun fact 2: The Russian and Chinese space programs have both experimented with growing stuff in space on satellite or space station for over a decade in hopes of solving various world food crises. The Americans have worked on mutating roses so they could get a higher oil yield for perfume.
Do you still happen to have seeds for the Meteor? Searching for it for some time now.D3monic said: