Nursery said giant jalapeño, but looks like a banana pepper.

by analogbasset

10 Comments

  1. analogbasset

    Can anyone help identify this pepper? The nursery said they were giant jalapeño, but it looks like a banana pepper. Any help is appreciated!

  2. Looks like banana or hungarian wax depending on size and heat. Side note that is the pepper i pull off immediately so the plant grows more before it puts all its energy into peppers.

  3. nite_skye_

    I think it’s Hungarian wax peppers. I’m growing some this year but so far a critter has chomped into the ones that were ready. I have a bunch more in various stages. I have been letting them ripen to red in the vine. I heard they’d be sweeter.

  4. beermaker1974

    yep banana or hungarian wax and you will know when you bite into it

  5. Same exact thing happened to us! I posted yesterday with an identical pepper from our “jalapeño” plant and we received the same consensus. Good peppers but was really hoping for jalapeños.

  6. analogbasset

    Thanks for the help everyone! And for the person who downvoted, I am a pepper newbie, thought there was a chance it would start turning dark green

  7. bzbsteve

    My nursery sold me two mislabeled plants this season: my sweet bananas were actually Hungarian wax and my black krim tomatoes turned out to be small, red tomatoes.

  8. StressedNurseMom

    Our Hungarian wax seeds this year turned out to be a really spicy jalepeño. And I have a jalapeño plant with peppers that are too pointed at the end and that are growing with the end pointing up to the sky… no clue what it is

  9. FullMeltxTractions

    Also, looks like my sweet gypsy peppers that I’m growing this year. If it has no heat it might be that. Even sweet banana peppers have a little bit of heat.