Ornamental peppers 2007

[habman]

Looks great and tastes good sounds like you got a winner POTAWIE.

This weekend I tasted my pretty purple(attached pic).
It tasted like raspberry.
Kinda weird they're not suppose to taste good.
And the Orange Thai tasted like carrots.


Pretty purple

 

[herne_the_hunter]

I am growing Pretty Purple this Year. I am planning on eating the pods (rasberry sound nice)

They just caught my eye in the local garden center.

 

[willard3]

Nice yellow bird....fruit is the size of a small pea:

 

[imaguitargod]

To answer the question, Black Perl is a hybrid:

"It resulted
from a cross between a purple-foliaged plant (94C27) and a green-foliaged plant
bearing clusters of small round fruits (86-Arb-1). The purple-foliaged parent
was selected from an open-pollinated population of 'Royal Black', a bushy,
variegated purple, green and black cultivar. Selections were made for vigorous
plants with dark foliage pigmentation and clusters of upright fruits. Following
a series of controlled pollinations to stabilize seed production, 'Black Pearl'
was then trialed under field conditions in IL, MD and FL and nationally in the
All-America Selections trials in 2004."

 

[POTAWIE]

Sort of contradicts itself. Its a hybrid but a stabilized hybrid. So when is it no longer considered a hybrid. Pretty much every plant was hybridized at some point. People are successfully saving BlackPearl seeds. Confusing anyways.

 

[POTAWIE]

Here's a couple of Royal Blacks

And a Filius Blue

 

[Turkey]

I wanna grow some peter peppers..!

But does anybody knoe a place where to get relaible peter pepper seeds? or if anybody in here has some..dat is willing to sell..?

 

[POTAWIE]

Here's another cool looking plant thats new for me this year. Its a Diavolicchio that I got from my Italian friend Luigi. It grows compact, almost like a Medusa but is a good eating pepper too.
http://www.babbonyc.com/in-peppers.html

 

[Pam]

The Royal Black is beautiful. How do the pods taste?

 

[POTAWIE]

The Royal Black is beautiful. How do the pods taste?

No pods even started yet. I need to start taking better care of them. They are the only ones that photograph well in the long grass.

 

[willard3]

Same yellow bird chile with ripe fruit. I ate a ripe one the other day and they taste typically chinense and very picante.

 

[bd1965]

This year I'm growing a lot of different ornamental peppers, what about everyone else? Anybody have a favorite for looks? So far this year I'm loving the Filius Blue as well as some others I'll post later(No broadband out here in the country, slow eh!)

Thats a pretty plant... Thanks for the image.