midwestchilehead
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I lost the tag on this one. Is it a purple bhut?
Purple Bhut?
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Not sure what that might be, but I'm thinking it's probably not a Purple Bhut. All the Purple Bhuts I have grown had purple flowers, not white ones. Also the plants themselves were more green, and were not nearly as dark as the plant in your picture. The pods also tended to be a little more rounded on the bottom and were a lighter shade of purple. The pod in your bottom photo looks much darker to me, almost black. My Purple Bhuts looked a lot like the pictures on the Buckeye website: https://www.buckeyepepper.com/bhut-jolokia-purple.html?search=purple%20bhut. To me, your plant resembles some of the Bhut x PDN crosses more than it does a Purple Bhut. Just my opinion though.
My first thought would be Yaki Blue Fawn. I've never grown a Purple Bhut (other than Pimenta Leopard), but Yaki is a cross between a Bhut and Filius Blue. According to Mojo, they have white flowers...but the pods look more 7 Pot-ish than yours do to me.
http://chilipepperseeds.tictail.com/product/yaki-blue-fawn
http://chilipepperseeds.tictail.com/product/yaki-blue-fawn
Sorry to dump a bunch of pics in your thread, John, but your plant looks awfully close to the Purple Bhut plant I got from Sheila (ajsmama) back in 2015. Your pods look much pointier though. I've never grown Piment de Neyde, so I can't comment on that.
Anyway, this is what mine looked like. Foliage started out a nice dark purple. As the leaves got bigger (and older) they started going more green
It was a really gorgeous plant to watch grow throughout the entire season. Very prolific too
Anyway, this is what mine looked like. Foliage started out a nice dark purple. As the leaves got bigger (and older) they started going more green
It was a really gorgeous plant to watch grow throughout the entire season. Very prolific too
midwestchilehead
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Thank you all for you input.
Mike, after seeing your purple bhut, I remember that the ones I grew in the past were rounded on the bottom too. The pods on this plant look a little more scorpion or bhut - like. They are definitely more pointy.
I tend to agree with those that suggest some kind of de neyde cross. The leaves are really dark, and the pods are a dark, dark purple for a long time, until they start turning red.
I'm not sure I ever had any Yaki Blue Fawn seeds, but I know I had several marked as PDN crossed with something else. I'll go through my seeds from that planting period and see if I can figure it out. It is a cool-looking plant and the pods are cool too.
Mike, after seeing your purple bhut, I remember that the ones I grew in the past were rounded on the bottom too. The pods on this plant look a little more scorpion or bhut - like. They are definitely more pointy.
I tend to agree with those that suggest some kind of de neyde cross. The leaves are really dark, and the pods are a dark, dark purple for a long time, until they start turning red.
I'm not sure I ever had any Yaki Blue Fawn seeds, but I know I had several marked as PDN crossed with something else. I'll go through my seeds from that planting period and see if I can figure it out. It is a cool-looking plant and the pods are cool too.
My latest yaki blue plant produced 2 or 3 chillies very similar to that of the one in your second picture (a dark red in colour and pointy end) last March, from then on until now i get dark purple pods both rounded and with the pointy ends from the same plant (not dark red), just going from the amount of variation I get from mine, I would definitely say Yaki blue. I think I still have the tag for it, if I find it I will post.
This is a Yaki Blue I grew last season.
Purple pods with a pointy end that went green-purple-red. Flowers were white, as in this pic.
Hope this helps.
SR.
Purple pods with a pointy end that went green-purple-red. Flowers were white, as in this pic.
Hope this helps.
SR.
midwestchilehead
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Thanks for posting pics. I have convinced myself that my plant was probably a PDN X Trinidad Scorpion. The later pods looked more scorpion like, and it had a scorpion taste to it.
