I usually grow birds eye chillies each year and picked up some new seeds for this year's crop. However, now they've started fruiting I'm pretty sure I've got a type of cayanne chilli instead, seems wayyyy too big to be a birds eye? Will have to wait for them to ripen and the taste test to get a better idea but wondered if anyone else had any thoughts?
Also NB, had just given them a water so excuse the slightly wilted look, tend to keep my chillies on their toes with watering so I don't lose the heat treating them too nicely!
by Mammuthuss
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Serrano ?
Yo, we got what we thought were carolina reaper seeds and now that they’re fruiting they look exactly like these. no idea what they are. will be interesting to try them; i’m letting them ripen as long as possible before i taste to see if they change color. peppergate strikes again
You’ll probably get better results on r/HotPeppers.
It looks like some type of chili, although I’m not sure which. I don’t think it’s a Cayenne, though. From my experience and what I’ve seen, Cayennes are usually straighter and wrinklier than that.
‘Green’. – Sir Percy Percy, probably.
I have the same ones. I believe it’s labeled Burpee Cayenne 2.
Italian long hot, Chinese dragon tongue, heirloom cayenne are my guesses
Cayenne