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What is a really tasty "hot red cherry" pepper to grow

I grew the trini cherry last year, and while it's super-productive and a tasty pepper, I didn't find it resembled the classic cherry pepper much at all.  Pods are quite small with a thin flesh.  They'd be difficult to stuff, if that's how you'd want to use them.  The cherry pepper I usually grow grows upright with 2-3" diameter, thick walled peppers.  Sweet flesh with a little bit of heat, mostly in the placenta.  They were labelled cherry bomb, but many of the cherry bomb plants I see don't have the upward facing pods.
 
jblo said:
I grew the trini cherry last year, and while it's super-productive and a tasty pepper, I didn't find it resembled the classic cherry pepper much at all.  Pods are quite small with a thin flesh.  They'd be difficult to stuff, if that's how you'd want to use them.  The cherry pepper I usually grow grows upright with 2-3" diameter, thick walled peppers.  Sweet flesh with a little bit of heat, mostly in the placenta.  They were labelled cherry bomb, but many of the cherry bomb plants I see don't have the upward facing pods.
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Did you grow the anuum or chinense?
 
Isn't the annuum cherry bomb just an oddly shaped cayenne? I grew them last year, not very interesting.
 
Hard to say what Cherry is cool.
I'm talking about the C.Annuum.
 
There are a TON of Hybrids out there.
I've found a lot are very productive but are nothing special in general.
 
A lot I think are really close to the same thing,just named different because different companies have crossed the same thing to get similar peppers or got a similar pepper crossing different peppers.
 
I think they all are interested in the same thing as far as hybrids go- production and looks for the most part.
 
I'm growing a version Scotch Bonnet Steve developed called Cherry Moon.
 
He developed it through selective breading rather than crossing stuff.
He saved seeds from plants that fruited early and were golf ball sized and had the taste and heat he wanted.
 
I grew them before and it put out a lot of hot cherries in a reasonably short time.
 
Since it wasn't supposed to be a hybrid (from what he told me).
 
I think it is stable or whatever.
 
I should have seeds to share soon.
 
My plants are going outside soon.
 
I have a few seeds from my indoor,isolated plant but don't want to part with them until I have more isolated seeds or healthy producing plants.
Steve isn't around anymore.
I don't have a source for pure seeds except what I grow.
I don't know what variety he started out with,I just know the times I grew it,they are a really cool for cherry peppers.
 
Pm me about possibly getting seeds in a while if you want seeds,and I have them after spring harvest.
Yes,I do grow stuff here all year round when I can.
We usually don't have what a lot of people consider winter temps.
I have C.Frutescens podding up outside right now.
 
Try a Chocolate Cherry. I grew some last year and they were very productive. Heat is mild but had an outstanding flavor. I believe I got them from Peter at Semillas, but good luck getting anything into the States from him this year. I have a few seeds left If you want to PM me.
 
I prefer the pimienta cereja and the peperconcini tondi. Especially the first one, looks a bit like the hot large cherry, but then with all the pods growing from the Main stem (looks very strange).
 
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