Was labeled Douglah, obviously not

KingLeerUK · May 6, 2015

Was labeled as a Douglah (and I did grow 2 plants that produced phenotype true last year) but this one has pods ripening directly to orange from green.

Possible contenders from my grow list last year, as this was an overwinter:

7 Pod Brain Strain Yellow
7 Pod Jonah
7 Pod Primo
Naga Morich
Naga Viper
Olive Primo Hybrid
Trinidad Scorpion - but I grew a LOT of scorpions last year and they looked nothing like this

Thoughts?

juanitos · May 6, 2015

more closer pics, kinda looks like moruga scorp / brain

KingLeerUK · May 7, 2015

As requested, additional pics:

Now, I'm sort of thinking some kind of Naga, but... green > orange?

One other possibility is that these could be early-season Carolina Reapers, but all of my Reapers from last year where heavily blistered/bumpy and all grew the distinctive tail; including the early season ones.

KingLeerUK · May 9, 2015

OK, so I picked these:

Still no guesses as to ID?

JoynersHotPeppers · May 9, 2015

It does not appear orange as you state and I do have a douglah red strain.....

Early pods are always hard to tell

wildseed57 · May 12, 2015

It looks a bit like a Naga cross, leave one of them on the plant longer to see if it will go red. Peppers are like rabbits if you don't cover the flower buds and have some other plants near by you could end up with a cross and not know it till you grow it again the following year.

mrgrowguy · May 12, 2015

wildseed57 said:
It looks a bit like a Naga cross, leave one of them on the plant longer to see if it will go red. Peppers are like rabbits if you don't cover the flower buds and have some other plants near by you could end up with a cross and not know it till you grow it again the following year.

I agree, it seems to have the correct vertical contours, but the base is different. It could be a mutated version, a cross, or its own variation of a non-inbred/herloom genetic. Just a though.

Hopefully it tastes good and hits the correct fire note!

KingLeerUK · May 13, 2015

The seeds that I planted for the Naga Viper, Naga Morich, 7 Pod Brain Strain Yellow, 7 Pod Jonah, and 7 Pod Primo all came directly from seed vendors (PL, FFF) so they would not have resulted from crosses from prior years.

I will watch the new pods and let them ripen fully.

Ian S · May 13, 2015

Scorpion in my opinion

RobStar · May 14, 2015

Naga - either Viper or Morich.