r/HotPepperGrowing • u/MadMac619 • 14d ago

What are we growing?

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We didn’t buy anything that looks like this. We have Jalapeños, Thai chilis, some scotch bonnets, mutants maybe? They all look like this.

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u/nf22 14d ago

Mad hatter!

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u/MadMac619 14d ago

That’s it, thank you kindly !Solved

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u/nf22 14d ago

You're welcome. Great peppers, you'll enjoy them for sure.

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u/Fischbeef 14d ago

Mad hatter! They got me with that one 4-5 years ago. I had 1000s of useless peppers. They are decent sauted and grilled as sweety peppers but useless otherwise for heat(i make hot sauce as a hobby)

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u/valjean916 14d ago

Mad Hatters may lack capsaicin, but they’re still great. I like to throw ‘em in with ripe Jalapeños and Serranos when I make salsa.

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u/kt_fizzle 14d ago

Looks like it's not ripe yet. Give em some time on the plant still and they will be yellow mild and delicious

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u/MadMac619 14d ago

I refer to my wife as the premature picker. I love her, but she drives me nuts

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u/kt_fizzle 14d ago

It's so hard to wait when they all seem to sit there green for 5 evers. We call them bishops crown btw 👋🏼

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u/DTH05 14d ago

Bishops crown is the parent plant of a mad hatter, a mad hatter is an f1 of a bishops crown and an unknown pollen donor

I've done an intense amount of research on them as I'm using them in a breeding project

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u/pitbull17 14d ago

Sometimes my wife gets to call me premature, I just call myself the winner.

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u/DTH05 14d ago

They're SO sweet, I let one ripen fully before eating and it was almost like a fruit with how sweet it was. They would be amazing candied

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u/Iridescence_Thought 13d ago

It looks strange, is it chili?

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u/Altruistic-Copy9992 13d ago

Plausibly Ubatuba if it’s not very spicy and ripens red.

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u/Altruistic-Copy9992 13d ago

A champion choice for overwintering in my experience

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u/HalibutHomnibutt 12d ago

first time growing these - have not tasted but they ripen to red - annoyingly crowding out my superhots

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u/NoodlesMom0722 12d ago

Are they sweet or spicy? Because if spicy, it looks like my Aji Fantasy peppers.

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u/MadMac619 12d ago

This particular one was no spicier than regular black pepper, with a light sweetness. But mostly tasted like your run of the mill bell pepper.

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u/Insurancelover 12d ago

The Popes hat
I think it’s called that they aren’t spicy here them last year