Hi guys!
I´m Nicolás, from Buenos Aires, and I am trying to identify some peppers I´m growing. But with one of them I´m really clueless, so I though about asking to the specialists... which would be you.
This is the thing. I started recently to cook with peppers, which is something I really enjoy. And I like to grow my own plants, specially the ones that I use most, or the ones whose fruit is not so easy to get, which would be the peppers. Since I´ve been recently cooking some thai food, and I had no idea what peppers to grow, I tried to get some thai hot peppers. But that proved hard to achieve, and winter was coming. So I tried to grow something else before the winter. And here´s where it all starts.
First of all, I tried to reproduce some peppers that I got in the chinese neighbourhood (pictures 1&2, and if you wonder what does the label say, it´s just "hot peppers"... yeah, thanks for the information). And I sucessfully did it (pictures 3 and 4, no fruit or flowers yet, and just the big plant, the others are supposed to be thai... yes, I managed to get those in the end). but I´m not sure what kind of peppers they are. Maybe jalapeños? Not the big Jumbo ones, but the little ones. I´ve seen very similar ones in a supermarket, this time with the jalapeños label on top of the box, but they were green and red, which makes sense because they´re used in both stages. But the ones I bought come only in red, so maybe it´s another variety.
But that´s just one of the two problems. Here comes the other one.
I tried to get a second variety, and found a woman who was selling some Chi-Chien plants, already grown a couple of weeks. I went for them, but she had to leave the city, so her husband gave me the plants. Turned out he had not a slightest idea of what was she selling, but gave me some plants. More than I needed, and more than one variety. I have them all together now in one big pot (picture 5).
There are five plants, and at least two different varieties. Let´s call plant n.1 to the bigger, already having a green pepper (pictures 6,7&8). First and obvious question: what is that??? It´s obviously not a chi-chien, I know they look completely different: they grow upside and are as big as the pinky finger, while this one grows downside and is longer. Plus, the chinese ones turn from green to orange to red, and this one is turning some darker colour, as you can see in the bottom of the only fruit growing (picture 6). Unluckily the plant has no flowers right now: after the first flower turned into pepper, the second one fell off (picture 8; btw, is that a problem or some sort of bad sign?). Second question: plants 2, 3, and 5 look all the same thing, but are the same thing as the n.1? (pictures 9,10&11). The leafs are similar, but the n.1 looks not so leafy, despite it´s the bigger one. That makes me think they´re different. But of course, no fruit and no flower makes things really complicated. And I don´t think I´ll be seeing them ´till spring (beginning here in september), because it´s really cold now (around 10º-50F during the day, dropping to half during nights).
And no, I´m not gonna ask about the n.4, because I think I know what that is: a "ají putaparió", which would be something like a "motherf*cking chilli". They call it so because that´s what one is supossed to say after eating them because of the heat (it´s not THAT heat, in comparison, but we are not used to it). The proper name would be kitucho chili, and it´s typical from the north argentinean and Bolivia region.
So, let´s summarize, because you´re probably a little confused right now.
First question (pictures 1-4): jalapeño or what?
Second question (pictures 5-8): what?
Third question (pictures 5, 9-11): plants n.1, 2, 3 and 5 all the same, or n.1 different from the others?
And fourth question: how is it that you are still here and reading? Thank you!
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I´m Nicolás, from Buenos Aires, and I am trying to identify some peppers I´m growing. But with one of them I´m really clueless, so I though about asking to the specialists... which would be you.
This is the thing. I started recently to cook with peppers, which is something I really enjoy. And I like to grow my own plants, specially the ones that I use most, or the ones whose fruit is not so easy to get, which would be the peppers. Since I´ve been recently cooking some thai food, and I had no idea what peppers to grow, I tried to get some thai hot peppers. But that proved hard to achieve, and winter was coming. So I tried to grow something else before the winter. And here´s where it all starts.
First of all, I tried to reproduce some peppers that I got in the chinese neighbourhood (pictures 1&2, and if you wonder what does the label say, it´s just "hot peppers"... yeah, thanks for the information). And I sucessfully did it (pictures 3 and 4, no fruit or flowers yet, and just the big plant, the others are supposed to be thai... yes, I managed to get those in the end). but I´m not sure what kind of peppers they are. Maybe jalapeños? Not the big Jumbo ones, but the little ones. I´ve seen very similar ones in a supermarket, this time with the jalapeños label on top of the box, but they were green and red, which makes sense because they´re used in both stages. But the ones I bought come only in red, so maybe it´s another variety.
But that´s just one of the two problems. Here comes the other one.
I tried to get a second variety, and found a woman who was selling some Chi-Chien plants, already grown a couple of weeks. I went for them, but she had to leave the city, so her husband gave me the plants. Turned out he had not a slightest idea of what was she selling, but gave me some plants. More than I needed, and more than one variety. I have them all together now in one big pot (picture 5).
There are five plants, and at least two different varieties. Let´s call plant n.1 to the bigger, already having a green pepper (pictures 6,7&8). First and obvious question: what is that??? It´s obviously not a chi-chien, I know they look completely different: they grow upside and are as big as the pinky finger, while this one grows downside and is longer. Plus, the chinese ones turn from green to orange to red, and this one is turning some darker colour, as you can see in the bottom of the only fruit growing (picture 6). Unluckily the plant has no flowers right now: after the first flower turned into pepper, the second one fell off (picture 8; btw, is that a problem or some sort of bad sign?). Second question: plants 2, 3, and 5 look all the same thing, but are the same thing as the n.1? (pictures 9,10&11). The leafs are similar, but the n.1 looks not so leafy, despite it´s the bigger one. That makes me think they´re different. But of course, no fruit and no flower makes things really complicated. And I don´t think I´ll be seeing them ´till spring (beginning here in september), because it´s really cold now (around 10º-50F during the day, dropping to half during nights).
And no, I´m not gonna ask about the n.4, because I think I know what that is: a "ají putaparió", which would be something like a "motherf*cking chilli". They call it so because that´s what one is supossed to say after eating them because of the heat (it´s not THAT heat, in comparison, but we are not used to it). The proper name would be kitucho chili, and it´s typical from the north argentinean and Bolivia region.
So, let´s summarize, because you´re probably a little confused right now.
First question (pictures 1-4): jalapeño or what?
Second question (pictures 5-8): what?
Third question (pictures 5, 9-11): plants n.1, 2, 3 and 5 all the same, or n.1 different from the others?
And fourth question: how is it that you are still here and reading? Thank you!
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