Identifying Pepper Plants - Tips To ID A Mystery Plant - Pepper Geek
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In this video, we go over some methods for identifying different pepper plants. It is fairly common to have a "mystery" pepper plant so we're focusing on some of the unique traits that different species and cultivars have. From the different leaf shapes, to the flowers, and the flavors of the pods.
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"The Field Guide to Peppers" by Dave DeWitt (affiliate link):
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:09 Leaves (foliage)
2:51 Flowers
4:02 Appearance of the peppers
6:15 Flavor and aroma
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I just started growing pepper plants this year. Have a few ghost pepper plants, habanero and jalapeño. I also have one Trinidad scorpion and a Carolina reaper. Your videos have been a big help. Thanks dude
That is great, so glad we've been a help!
When I'm a beginner and think "I'll remember which is which" then forget one week later. I made a lot of mistakes, but have learned a lot from your videos! Now to see which is Ghost Pepper and Carolina Reaper once they fruit xD
This is my first year growing anything at all, but I am growing a number of peppers successfully so far. Your channel has been SUPER helpful with that! When I bought my seeds I got a "random superhot mix" that I decided to plant. I know they are all chinense varieties and luckily there's a list of possibilities, but I'm so excited to see what grows!
So glad our channel has been helpful! That is interesting, hopefully you can figure out what each plant is by the end of the season :)
This is an awesome video because I accidentally dropped my flat of pepper starts in the Spring. All the labels fell out, so I have peppers growing that I have no idea what is what!
Well that's too bad, but hopefully this can help a bit! Sometimes it is fun to have a mystery garden :)
I watched the intire video and prolly have to watch it 30 times to grasp all the info he provided ! Thanks for the info , I can finally name some of my mystery plants !
That was hands down the most interesting video about peppers I have seen this year! Great Job!
NICE! I am really waiting for this video! Thank you Pepper Geek!🔥👌🏻🌶️
Some very helpful tips in this video! probably my favorite video you have made to date. thanks
I was gifted a small plastic bag of mystery seeds, but they are very tiny and have just come up. One seed was red.
I fell in love with peppers last year (partly because of your channel). Decided to grow many more than I could handle. And lost a lot of labels - so have plenty of mystery plants. This video really really helps, thanks so much!
So happy you got into growing peppers! It's okay to have a few wait-and-see plants in the garden 😁
Mystery peppers! I had one from seed I saved from a Scotch bonnet. The pods turned out way hotter than I expected, so I figured they might be a scorpion or bhut cross. I named them Rob's Evil Red Thing after they guy who gave me the pod to grow from.
I love geeking out on peppers! Glad I found your channel!
glad you found us too! ☺️
Lots of good info here!
Grow Hot or Go Home! 🤘
The different types of plants can also be recognized by the shape of the seeds. Useful before planting, less useful afterwards...
I labeled all my peppers this year only to realize that I might have planted one type of pepper seed on top of another. If seeds didn't germinate within 3 weeks, I planted other varities on top...and now I'm thinking the seeds that I thought hadn't germinated actually did. Oops. Maybe I'll be more patient next time :)
Haha! That is a new one, sometimes those older seeds take their sweet time coming up
I had a seed come up after 3 months.. slow bugger haha
Some varieties, especially more exotic ones, really take a long time, depending on temperature and so on.
Another great video! Thank you! I love peppers so much, and I'm glad to find other people with this obsession lol. 11 species this year
Thank you! There are quite a few of us pepper people out there...it's awesome :)
Only my second year growing peppers (I LOVE cowboy candy and had to try) and last year the weather didn't cooperate and this year my cat decided to pull all the tags and I have no idea about anything. I assume all jalapenos look the same and no other pepper looks like it? I keep looking through the catalogues for pictures as I have lots of plants and want to get some sweet peppers but do NOT want to test by tasting them. LOL I'm 76 and too set in my ways. I know I wanted the hungarian pepper they make paprika from and it will probably turn red - my only clue. This video is very helpful and so glad you shared this. Problem is I started over 12 varieties and at least 6 or plants - I think the Lesya is a weird shape so may find it. I found one plant with very small purple birding peppers but they turned out to be hot. I finally took all the peppers that I had picked, cut them all up and froze them or treated them like cowboy candy. I knew some had to be jalapeno. There is always next year and tags will be TIED to the plants!
Great talk for college horticulture class. My unsorted pepper seed packs said nothing of annuum, barticle, or cirminstackum. Still don't know if they're Jalapeños, bell, banana, or ghost
planted some peppers from a Japanese nursery. The plants are about 18 inches tall. the peppers, almost full grown are about 5 or 6 inches long. The are dark green, shiny, 5 inches long, fairly smooth. There is very little curnve in them. The have several down hanging peppers on each plant. Mike
Fantastic video thanks 😊 👍
Thanks for watching! ☺️
I love your channel!!! My favorite peppers to grow are scotch bonnet, weri weri and habaneros.
Thanks! Those are some great cultivars indeed.
Really interesting video!
Some brands of Fish peppers (c. annuum) have dark seeds (I would say unfortunately, as one of the purposes for Fish peppers originally was to add heat to light-colored sauces).
Do c. pubescens plants readily grow adventitious roots like tomatoes? Their hairy stems and sprawling growth pattern would suggest it, but this is the first year I've grown them.
Very good flower color advise - was finally able to recognise if i have ring of fire pepper or aji pineapple. (There is no green spots on flowers so ring of fire it is!)
So happy to have helped!
I'm a long time fan of peppers, but only recently started expanding my knowledge about them. I understand they hybrid/mutate when around different plants. Will this trait stay within a single species, or can they cross between species of peppers. I.e. a Fresno pepper crossing with a C. pubescens variety yielding a Fresno looking pepper with black seeds?
Love to hear your informative videos. I started out this year with 6 varieties. Most are producing fruit, but the plants grew very tall & spindle. I think I gave them too much nitrogen at their early growth, I'm in growing zone 9 a/b. Trying to decide if I can keep the plants through the winter. I have Fushimi, Tangerine Dream, Pepperocini, and Cerbaci.
i noticed you have a NuMex Lemon. Do you have any experience with the NuMex Orange Suave? It's the only variety I have that doesn't grow well. wondering if they need specific care.
Hi, so m wife and I went to the Maldives last October. I brought back 2 Maldivian chilis, and harvest the seeds and planted them, they were supposed to be “scotch bonnet” but when they grew they grew to be completely different. Any way you can help identify them for me? Thanks!!
Got my first Cajun Belle pepper one of the three plants they're growing upright
This video is mad helpful. I started a whole tray of peppers when I was drunk one night. Of course I didn’t label lol. They all grew beautifully tho. Thanks!
😂 perfect example of why this can be useful
I have a black Thai pepper fruiting plant with hairy leaves and stems. What does that mean?
That's great timing because I noticed this weekend that one of my 3 explosive embers pepper planta is clearly not an explosive embers as the peppers aren't purple and the plant is about 3 times the size of the other 2
Hahah, I wonder what you've got! Hope you can narrow it down
What is the pepper with the black leaves at 3:48?
Nice and informative video. My tip is to not lose your labels 😊 When I pot up I do them one by one just to be sure I don't mix up or lose a label. Also, nice to see the beard back! 👌
My labels were fine. Right up until I was planting in a wild rush, as darkness fell. That was the problem this years. ;) It's been interesting filling in the plant variety map of those beds as the peppers come on. Watching the video though for a group of foliage volunteer IDs, which I'm assuming, for now, are ghosts. Many dozens them. More plants than I could possibly need, seeing how prolific they always are. lol
Awesome vid. I noticed that the Cubanelles I started from two different seed sources, have yellowish leaves with a lot of purple on them. I didn't notice this on the parent plants. Is this color variegation normal?
Sometimes young seedlings will get some purple coloration, but it should fade as the plants grow. Yellowing is not usually healthy, and could be nutrient deficiency or over/under-watering
@@PepperGeek Thanks! The funny thing is that's only the Cubanelles; no others, and both seed sources are doing this. I'll just have to wait and see I guess. Thanks so much for your feedback!
I just planted the Pepper Joe's 5-seed superhots mystery seed packet. 🤩
what do you do with the left over soil after the plant has gone through its season?
You can re-use it. We're making a video about this on our other channel Geeky Greenhouse - it will be live next Saturday! th-cam.com/users/geekygreenhouse
Great video. My girlfriend bought a grow-your-own-pepper kit, and sadly it was only labeled as frutescens. Just gotten to flower buds now, so I guess I'll wait with the guessing game until I've seen flowers and fruits, but am I right in assuming that tabasco is the highest profile (commercially) frutescens pepper, and the most likely to be sold to a casual audience? Keep up the great work on your channel!
Oh for sure. There is the African peri peri frutescens as well
Am tired of my pepper plant that is making me doubt if it's pepper or not. It's been growing tall with flowers but no fruit. I hate it please help me
I have a seedling I started a while back , it was all purple at birth till the 4th leaf then green with purple veins, it's still really small and I gave it its first topping , I have no clue what it may be , I got mystery seeds from a place and labeled super hots , thinking it may be a purple reaper or maybe Chinese 5 color , any guesses on the green leaf and purple veins with purple bottom leaf?
Purple reaper is a chinense, chinese 5 color is annuum, so I'd look at the leaf shape/size to eliminate one as a possibility. Not sure, there are many types that have purpling, hopefully you have a list of possible varieties to narrow it down!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression having grown habs, bonnets, hot paper lanterns (a very non-pot pourri c. chinense), and datils is that you don't see the heavily textured almost pimply skin until you get into the super hots. This year, I'm hoping to give away a bunch of datils as I think they are one of the best tasting middling heat c. chinense peppers. My impression is that they have a very pleasant fruitiness without the hab funk I find a bit off-putting.
My ghost is producing it's first pepper. Do you think it's too early, should I pluck it? I live in Toronto similar growing season to New York city please let me know what you think..thanks
Hey there, so we have many plants producing early pods this time of year, so it isn't too early! As long as the plant isn't tiny, I'd let them grow up and mature at this point in the season. Even if it is tiny, there isn't really a ton of time left (at least in the world of superhots) for pods to grow and ripen up. Good luck!
I mixed up my banana peppers and bells. I dropped the tray they survived but still don't know which is which...
I did plant a ”Big mustard mama” plant this year, but the peppers turning red and look like a Naga Morish kinda pepper. This mama pepper is a hybrid so is it Possible that this plant kinda fall back to the naga morich style peppers where it comes from? (I hope you understand what i am asking about)
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It is possible, but I believe the big mama varieties are all pretty well established and stable at this point, having been created around 2014. It may just have been an unreliable seed source, or perhaps an unintentional cross with another variety that is causing the reversion.
I looked through the page, so I apologize if I missed something. Do you all happen to have a video of your favorite sweet peppers? I have five varieties of hot to extremely hot peppers, but would love to grow something sweet to help balance any hot sauces or powders I make next year. Even taking advice on bell peppers, they have never produced for me and it doesn't seem like they'll be interested in producing this year either. I like smaller peps anyway! Love your content!
We don't have a video on that _yet_, though we have it in the works. We'd really like to sample a wider variety of them before defining our "favorites," but we have quite a few to try this year. We _do_ have an article on the best tasting peppers, including a section for sweet varieties here: peppergeek.com/best-tasting-peppers
@@PepperGeek Thank you!
Hello Sir. May I know whats the ideal size of pot or PB for pepper? Thank you.
5 gallons is a good size for most varieties, some can benefit from more
@@PepperGeek is that equal to 12 inch?
Super. But UK has not too much sun.
3:57 - which is this flower belonging to?
My wife hates when I grow pepper plants. Well I got drunk an planted a bunch. I don't remember an she isn't happy but I think it'll be fun to see which is what. Watch it be a ton of the peter peppers
When I take a bite from a pod that immediately drops me to my knees while pouring with sweat …. I soon remember I grew a Chinense variety !
That's another distinguishing trait for sure 🥵😂
I noticed that I had 3 plants that the leaves were somewhat wrinkled. I thought I had an issue but the rest of the plants looks normal. Long story short the seeds were mislabeled and I have some yellow brain strain peppers. Jalapenos and cayenne are about my limit on the heat. Gonna pull them tomorrow morning and find some poor soul that wants to eat them.
Don't let them go to waste! Yellow superhots are the best.
Overcast makes for some beautiful camera lighting
We were happy to have an overcast day for this exact reason, thanks for noticing 😄
I bought my pepper plant from my local HEB last year and I have no idea what it is, it's peppers start out green and super narrow but fill up a bit into a 5in long red smooth pepper with a pointy end, it's leaves are slinderish and grows pretty tall. If anyone can help me identify it that would be appreciated if you need pics of it I can email you them.
5 inches? could be an Anaheim. if they are sometimes kind of flat on one side that's probably it. If they are roundish on all sides and are fat at the top it's probably a serrano. Anaheim green are more of a spring color, serrano are darker green.
Still completely stumped on two different plants lol. What species tastes a bit like ghee?
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I got a mystery pepper and the leaves are fuzzy! Never seen anything like it waiting for flowers
Hmm..I wonder! Could be something from C. pubescens, but there are some C. annuum types (such as Goat's Weed) with this trait too, and of course some of the more rare wild varieties
hi good t-shirt!! link to buy it?
Thanks! Here's where we have them available: www.etsy.com/shop/PepperGeek
This dude definitely knows his peppers. If he could only find me a source of legit Carolina Reaper seeds... I've tried 4 different sources and none of them were the real thing.
Sandia seed maybe? They have a wide variety of peppers
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I want to add from my experience Chinense flowers are generally smaller than Anuum’s
Please teach us how to grow peppers on small cups
Small cups grow small plants with few peppers, very hard to keep peppers in small cups watered properly especially on long sunny hot days.
@@raybod1775 well this is my only way of growing peppers..can you teach me?
@@shao1344 Honestly, I wasn’t too successful with small cups. If you must use cups, get the tallest cups you can and put holes on the bottom. Use something like a layer of pebbles at the bottom to allow water to flow out to avoid root rot. A little fertilizer would be nice, but decent soil is good. Allow top of soil to get a bit dry before watering. Don’t water every day unless plants are outside in a hot sunny spot. Try to keep in sun or behind bright window. Peppers seem to evaporate a lot of water, so it makes it difficult to keep them alive inside over winter if you live in a cold environment. Have fun and good luck.
Umm, what about if they grow up, down, and horizontal all next to each other? Biggest peps all 3" long, about an inch and a half at the top. Plant itself not even a foot high and 9" wide leaf to leaf so far. Not bushy as only taking up half its pot on a lean to the side currently. Peps have 6 bumps up top that taper to a point, smooth like bells. No not a chili 😉Counted 20 peppers in various stages... And have never seen a flower just always new peppers as tiny buds....I know it sounds crazy but......
Oof, and I just took a bunch of pictures to add then realized can't do that on here!! 🙄
Try sharing pics on the subreddit: reddit.com/r/peppergeek
The peter pepper looks like peter? oh my..
I'm drunk and eating chips so each time "chinense" comes up I'm reading it as "Chinese" like *crunch crunch "crazy all these come from China" *crunch crunch
@Pepper Geek - *I cringe every time you say "HONE in".* You have fallen into the common trap of the *egg corn / mondegreen* which is about hearing inaccurately, then reproducing what was mis-heard. Hearing them is like KNOWING that a certain bit of news is _not quite right._ It is almost painful. The phrase you are _trying to use_ is HOME in, like a homing beacon or a homing missile. Hone is something you do to a cutting edge. Otherwise, all good stuff, thanks for the tips!
Honestly, when eat a chinsense pepper it always taste like dish soap, kinda dissapointing.