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I keep trying to figure out what's going on with my peppers.

I planted Caribbean red habaneros and Jamaican red Scotch bonnets. The first variety is supposed to be habanero-shaped. The second should have a pronounced ridge around it and a classic Scotch bonnet shape. But they all look like habaneros. Or so I thought. Anyway, I was confused.

Earlier in the year I had too many plants for my pots, so I put a couple of peppers in the yard. A prig ki nu and--I thought--a Tobago seasoning pepper. This is a very mild chinense pepper. Should look more or less like a habanero. Today I checked the plants in the yard, and I'll be damned if one of them isn't producing bonnet-shaped peppers. So naturally I'm wondering if I screwed up somewhere down the line.

I also have some pretty orange peppers shaped like pumpkins. The ends are kind of flat, and they pooch out in the middle. They're supposed to be either yellow habaneros or Tobago seasoning peppers. But they're not yellow, and they don't look like seasoning peppers. What the hell are they? Some of the seasoning peppers in the photo at Seedsavers.org have the boxy, nearly hexagonal shape my peppers have, but they're red, and mine are orange.

I regret doing so many transplants. That's how I lost track of the plant names.

I suppose I should eat one of these things and see if it's hot.

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I would not call this a mild pepper, but it's not as vicious as the others I grow. Maybe it IS a Tobago seasoning pepper. Lots of nice fruit flavor. Could be sweeter. Strong apricot smell.

Great pepper, regardless of what it turns out to be.



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