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Not a Ghost Pepper...Red Savina Habanero maybe?

Ezekiel

Ezekiel

So I was all excited because three of my plants which have pods are finally starting to show some color...just a bit. I thought my Ghost Peppers were finally coming in! Then I looked up photos of ripe Ghost Peppers and saw that mine don't look like that at all. Possible I got the seeds mixed up between the Ghost Pepper and the Red Savinas? That's my best guess...what do you think?
 
Here's what I've got at the moment...
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Looks like I ordered from Seeds Direct off of Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZTU09E/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
 
 
Orange Habanero huh? I'd like those too, guess I'll have to try again next year with a different seed vendor for some ghost pepper. If they turned out to be Red Habanero like I say, maybe I did some mislabeling somewhere...but if they are Orange as you say well...that wasn't one of the varieties I ordered. Appreciate the knowledge!
 
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kgetpeppers said:
Seeds direct got me NOTHING what they advertised. 7 pot yellow was ceyenne. TS was jalepeno. and ghost pepper was a good ol bell.. NEVER AGAIN
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That's so sad it's funny. To not get a single thing right out of all of those shows some serious levels of incompetence! :)
Now I know, next time I'll be getting some seeds from some vendors here instead.

I'll update the thread with photos as these things ripen to make identification easier.
 
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A lot of those eBay and Amazon vendors buy whatever peppers are sold at their local supermarket and Wal-Mart, cut them open, dry the seeds, and sell them as exotic varieties. It's a con.
 
Still, Orange Habs are good peppers, nice flavour, decent heat.
 
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ZenPepper said:
you really want it to be something hot dont you?  its most likely a habanero
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Well yeah, it would have been nice but if you're poking fun at my guesses I went with Red Savina originally because that was supposedly one of the varieties I planted and Orange Hab this round because someone else mentioned it.
 
I'm a newbie. A lot of varieties look the same I'm noticing...or the differences are so small my newbness isn't picking up on them. So tell me, how do you tell an orange hab from a regular one? More to the point, when someone just says habanero, is that the same thing as an orange habanero? Is orange the "common" variety? 
 
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Ezekiel said:
 
More to the point, when someone just says habanero, is that the same thing as an orange habanero? Is orange the "common" variety? 
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Habañeros are very common heirloom type of pepper from Mexico. Pretty good heat, anywhere between 100,000–350,000 SHU. Heirloom means the seeds are stable and they will keep reproducing the same peppers year after year from seeds. As opposed to hybrids which are made when you cross two types of peppers and something new is made which won't be stable. They come in a bunch of colours, orange and red, white, brown, yellow, and even pink.
 
Check out the Wikipedia page:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habanero
 
And yes, Orange Habañeros are pretty easy to find. Even Wal-Mart sells them in a lot of places. That said they are great tasting peppers. Nothing wrong with growing them! Good luck.
 
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Ezekiel said:
 
Well yeah, it would have been nice but if you're poking fun at my guesses I went with Red Savina originally because that was supposedly one of the varieties I planted and Orange Hab this round because someone else mentioned it.
 
I'm a newbie. A lot of varieties look the same I'm noticing...or the differences are so small my newbness isn't picking up on them. So tell me, how do you tell an orange hab from a regular one? More to the point, when someone just says habanero, is that the same thing as an orange habanero? Is orange the "common" variety? 
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Im not poking fun, maybe you misunderstood me, I can understand how you feel, but habs are still good. My habs make better cooking pepper than my super hots.
 
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GreenTea said:
 
 
Habañeros are very common heirloom type of pepper from Mexico. Pretty good heat, anywhere between 100,000–350,000 SHU. Heirloom means the seeds are stable and they will keep reproducing the same peppers year after year from seeds. As opposed to hybrids which are made when you cross two types of peppers and something new is made which won't be stable. They come in a bunch of colours, orange and red, white, brown, yellow, and even pink.
 
Check out the Wikipedia page:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habanero
 
And yes, Orange Habañeros are pretty easy to find. Even Wal-Mart sells them in a lot of places. That said they are great tasting peppers. Nothing wrong with growing them! Good luck.
 
 
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Thanks! I looked up the info, learning a lot here.
 
scotchnaga85 said:
Maybe it's the light in the photo but these don't look very orange. I would say red savina or red habanero.
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Could be, I do think they are orange, although there is a dark tint to them. For comparison I put the Habanero (on the right) next to some Thai chillies and what I believe is a litle Trinidad Moruga Scorpion(on the left) ...
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ZenPepper said:
Im not poking fun, maybe you misunderstood me, I can understand how you feel, but habs are still good. My habs make better cooking pepper than my super hots.
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Could be and I've got no problem at all with having some habaneros...happy to have them in fact! Just wanted to know what it was I was growing :)
 
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