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Name This Cool Looking Pepper

Dshlogg

Dshlogg

A friend at work gave me this pod the other day and he doesn't know what its called. I think it may be a Bishops Crown but I'm not sure. It's about 2 inches wide and 1 1/2 inches high. I'm trying to ripen it as much as possible to get some viable seeds so I haven't tasted it yet. Any ideas?

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the heat is almost theyre on the ones i grew very faint. almost a little bitter compared to sweet but if u get a big one u can stuff it easy and lookscool.
 
Looks like a Bishops Crown. About 5000 SHU... maybe just a mark off the old Jalapeno... very juicy and very fruity! Should go red. Beauty!
 
the pods are really boring when green, they taste like a mildly, tangy green bell pepper, the excitement comes when they turn red.

i had to eat a green one a few days ago as the pod got tangled with a hot lemon plant as i was moving the containers and fell off.

once red, the pod has a really nice flavour, it has a low heat value but the flavour and heat builds in your mouth, so it is one of those pods you want to just keep chewing.

the plant itself is a tall, branching type being baccatum it appears to be cold weather tolerant. my baccatums are in my garage and the temperature is 8C/46F. once growing, don't be fooled by the size of the pod in its early stages, they appear small but then seem to grow as the pod take on that crown shape and grow they do, over all about the size of a golf ball. they just seem to take so long to ripen.

hope the seeds are viable for you. good luck.
 
I have two strains that have some slight differences between them. The size of the pods from the big plant never hit 2 inches across. The heat of the pods depended on the temperatures while they developed. The heat wave resulted in some pods that had added kick.

I second stuffing them with cheese.

My big plant produced 160 pods.
 
Bishop Crowns appear to have a dull green flat sheen look when unripe, and also when ripened, not the usual "wax on" appearance that most other peppers have

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patrick said:
If you read the description of the Balloon pepper you'll see it's just another name for "Balloon, Pimenta Cambuci, Campane, Peri Peri, Ubatuba Cambuci, Nepalese bell, Aji Flor, Orchid and Bishops Hat to name a few!!"
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So was I wrong ? The one that is in the picture looked to me more like what is pictured as the Ballon than the Bishop as labeled - I read the description and they are all a variety on that page. So call it a Balloon Hat -
 
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