Hello Everyone!
I started growing hot peppers in 2007 when my wife came home from a master gardeners plant sale with a Chocolate Habanero seedling for me to add to our vegetable garden. Why a Chocolate Habanero? Well, because it's chocolate.
We soon found out that "chocolate" just described the color and the keyword in the name was actually Habanero. But these were unlike any Habanero pepper I'd ever eaten before. We both became big fans of the flavor and the heat. Though we really had to be careful because it was easy to add too much with these peppers.
I harvested seeds from this plant and grew these peppers again in 2008 and 2009. I shared the pods with a lot of my friends and co-workers, developing a reputation as the "hot pepper guy". Then in 2010 a friend gave me some Dorset Naga seeds and I grew them right next to my Choc. Habs. The following year, in 2011, I was given a Bhut Jolokia plant that I again grew next to my Chocolate Habs. Once more I wintered over the Choc Habs and had a great crop of pods in 2012.
Now when the 2013 season rolled around, I could not find my seeds and only one of my Chocolate Habs made it through the winter. I was worried that I wouldn't have any pods if something happened to the plant. So, I asked my friends and co-workers if any of them had saved seeds from the Chocolate Habs I had shared with them and one person did! They had saved seeds from every year I grew them but had saved them all in the same bag. So here is what I have coming up from those seeds. Maybe you can help me figure out if they are some sort of hybrid or maybe my friend got his seed labels mixed up.
1st Plant
Flowers from 1st plant.
Pod from 1st plant.
2nd plant.
Flowers from 2nd plant.
Pods from 2nd plant.
It's going to be fun watching these pods ripen and even more fun to eat them and see what they taste like. Anyone care to venture a guess as to what I've got growing here?
Cheers!
I started growing hot peppers in 2007 when my wife came home from a master gardeners plant sale with a Chocolate Habanero seedling for me to add to our vegetable garden. Why a Chocolate Habanero? Well, because it's chocolate.
We soon found out that "chocolate" just described the color and the keyword in the name was actually Habanero. But these were unlike any Habanero pepper I'd ever eaten before. We both became big fans of the flavor and the heat. Though we really had to be careful because it was easy to add too much with these peppers.I harvested seeds from this plant and grew these peppers again in 2008 and 2009. I shared the pods with a lot of my friends and co-workers, developing a reputation as the "hot pepper guy". Then in 2010 a friend gave me some Dorset Naga seeds and I grew them right next to my Choc. Habs. The following year, in 2011, I was given a Bhut Jolokia plant that I again grew next to my Chocolate Habs. Once more I wintered over the Choc Habs and had a great crop of pods in 2012.
Now when the 2013 season rolled around, I could not find my seeds and only one of my Chocolate Habs made it through the winter. I was worried that I wouldn't have any pods if something happened to the plant. So, I asked my friends and co-workers if any of them had saved seeds from the Chocolate Habs I had shared with them and one person did! They had saved seeds from every year I grew them but had saved them all in the same bag. So here is what I have coming up from those seeds. Maybe you can help me figure out if they are some sort of hybrid or maybe my friend got his seed labels mixed up.
1st Plant
Flowers from 1st plant.
Pod from 1st plant.
2nd plant.
Flowers from 2nd plant.
Pods from 2nd plant.
It's going to be fun watching these pods ripen and even more fun to eat them and see what they taste like. Anyone care to venture a guess as to what I've got growing here?
Cheers!
