Harvested a few big Thai hybrid peppers with this mottled orangey color (they should be solid red). I have several plants, and only one seems affected.
Are the peppers safe to eat? Is the soil poisoned for future plants?
by brittaniwh
11 Comments
RecipeHistorical2013
I grow shitloads if Thais
All year
Never seen one go this hard with weird maturation blushing
It looks like candy lol. Like you put a fruit roll up over the pepper. Not sure what happened though sorry bout your peppers
StankBaitFishing
Have you cut open the fruit yet?
Emily_Porn_6969
The disease is early harvest
nonconsenual_tickler
No
Pretend_Order1217
I wonder if it something like mosaic virus? Looks very abnormal.
stl1jgt
Pieroni’s
Comfortable_Use_9536
My guess is damage from stink bugs. Its mostly cosmetic
speppers69
Hybrids can sometimes give you unpredictable and strange results. We get posts all the time of strange colorings from hybrids. One pepper out of ten gets some kind of mottling and then people want to reproduce them. That’s part of the problem with hybrids. They can be unreliable in both taste and coloration. It’s extremely difficult to tell if it is an actual problem or if that’s just how that one pepper turned out. When growing hybrids…you just need to wing it.
eikoebi
I think you plucked it mid maturation, looks like it was weird tho
11 Comments
I grow shitloads if Thais
All year
Never seen one go this hard with weird maturation blushing
I don’t think it’s diseased though
https://preview.redd.it/wsoxrdb9ibvf1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0275f98eb6111f3ff5eb0f9514736afffb81a2c
It looks like candy lol. Like you put a fruit roll up over the pepper. Not sure what happened though sorry bout your peppers
Have you cut open the fruit yet?
The disease is early harvest
No
I wonder if it something like mosaic virus? Looks very abnormal.
Pieroni’s
My guess is damage from stink bugs. Its mostly cosmetic
Hybrids can sometimes give you unpredictable and strange results. We get posts all the time of strange colorings from hybrids. One pepper out of ten gets some kind of mottling and then people want to reproduce them. That’s part of the problem with hybrids. They can be unreliable in both taste and coloration. It’s extremely difficult to tell if it is an actual problem or if that’s just how that one pepper turned out. When growing hybrids…you just need to wing it.
I think you plucked it mid maturation, looks like it was weird tho
https://preview.redd.it/8lpdplteicvf1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37a83c16e8bcbdc08a826a813f3669c297737623
This is what they look like next to the normal ones. No orange coming through on the others, just green to red.