annuum Heatless Jalapeño Hungarian Cross?

[Acprkit]

Hi everyone,

Late last summer I crossed a Jalapeño with a Hungarian Hot Wax. Both plants were producing peppers with a moderate amount of heat. I grew out the F1 in the grow tent and just tasted the first ripe pepper - almost no heat! The heat level is like a Shishito or even milder.

Unless I mixed up the seeds, the cross is shiny and was dark green like a Jalapeño, but shaped like the Hot Wax. The pepper is two lobed and grew down instead of up like the Hot Wax.

I thought that heat was a dominant gene. Could it be mild because of the growing conditions (plenty of light, no stress)

Here is is growing:

Here’s the F1 fruit:

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[skullbiker]

The first peppers produced are not always a good indicator of what pods will have for heat as the plant matures.

 

[DontPanic]

Damn!
 
You got that pepper from a plant still in the double cup?
 
Congrats on your growing skills! 

 

[Acprkit]

The plants drink through all the moisture in the cups about every two days, so it’s a lot of watering with some mild general purpose fertilizer thrown in.

I want to keep the plants small until I can plant them outside so I’m keeping them in the double cups.


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