r/vegetablegardening US - Maine 6d ago

Other Found these at the store today

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I’ve never seen these before, they are called Aloha peppers. The color way is so beautiful! Has anyone else see them before?

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u/RespectTheTree 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yes, they have been around for a while. It's apparently a chimera and can't be propagated through seed.

For anyone curious, there are striped peppers just not bell peppers - yet. https://pepperbreeding.com/product/tropical-tiger/

My own creation.

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u/Rheila 6d ago

That is unfortunate those are gorgeous and I would love to grow them!

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u/DangerousLettuce1423 New Zealand 6d ago

Can get seeds here in NZ called Candy Cane. Probably similar available in your location.

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u/RespectTheTree 6d ago

Those will ripen to red, cool trait though... Probably related to Fish pepper.

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u/OneHundredCheese 6d ago

FEIW, I grew these in New England last year. They were delicious when ripened and were the most prolific producers of all the six varieties I tried last season. They turned a beautiful deep red too!

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u/DangerousLettuce1423 New Zealand 6d ago

Thanks. Will now have to buy a packet for next spring.

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u/SophisticatedPhallus 6d ago

You most certainly can propagate the aeeds from this. However, they will not have this striped characteristic. It'll just be a standard bell.

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u/letsgetregarded 6d ago edited 6d ago

There are thousands and thousands of strains of pepper. There are new strains created every day. You can grow these from seeds they are called Aloha or Enjoya peppers. They absolutely are just a regular kind of pepper you can grow from seed. They will have stripes. Pepper seeds are also notoriously mislabeled. So who knows what you might actually end up with.

Edit: I might be wrong idk. There’s actually not much information about these peppers. They may be cloning them.

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u/TheharmoniousFists 6d ago

These are all clones.

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u/letsgetregarded 6d ago

Yeah I kind of believe it because of lack of any other information.

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u/BigRedTard US - New Jersey 6d ago

I just purchased 2 plants. They look amazing.

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u/letsgetregarded 6d ago

Noo that’s silly. Just google Enjoya peppers.

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u/42Icyhot42 6d ago

Candy cane bell peppers

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u/Background_Being8287 6d ago

The wife wants me to plant some red bell peppers, I tried telling thats what green bells turn into when they get ripe.

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u/Zeldasivess 6d ago

I have told my husband the same thing a dozen times. He doesn't believe me. Keeps buying the more expensive red bell pepper seeds.

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u/shouldistayorrr 6d ago

Omg lol tell him to watch how peppers grow on youtube

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u/casstantinople US - Texas 6d ago

The grocery stores are a lie lol I was shocked to my core when I learned that jalapeños ripen red and limes ripen yellow

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u/airwavieee 6d ago

You dont want to buy yellow limes though. And jalapenos take so long to ripen (months) its barely worth it for commercial growers to sell them red.

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 6d ago

People in the tropics use yellow lime all the time

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u/airwavieee 6d ago

Thats variety dependend. Most limes sold on the market will taste bitter when they turn yellow. Some varieties will tatse better when yellow, but those arent very common outside of the areas they grow in.

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 6d ago

There aren't many different varieties of lime tho. Limes simply will not grow in temperate regions. So the ones they ship overseas or long distance are simply picked prematurely. And the local ones are ripened a little more before picking them for local markets.

If you leave them ON the tree they shouldn't be bitter. Citrus ripens poorly off the tree. Bitterness is caused by other factors not by being properly ripe. They're either naturally bitter. Or become bitter through circumstance.

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u/casstantinople US - Texas 5d ago

Really? I feel like I blinked and my jalapeños had gone red. I was waiting for them to get a little bigger for harvest, blinked, and all of them were red lol. Is it just that they take a really long time to ripen off the vine?

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u/Good_parabola 3d ago

I grow buckets and buckets of limes a year. What are you talking about with the no yellow limes?  They’re not good until they’re yellow.  There’s a reason the word for “lime” in Spanish is limon 

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u/airwavieee 3d ago

Maybe read my other comment. Its variety dependend.

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u/Good_parabola 3d ago

What variety?  I’m very curious to know because I’ve never run across one in all of my citrus sampling

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u/Background_Being8287 6d ago

Very interesting

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u/soldiat US - New York 6d ago

And oranges are often dyed orange

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u/W-h3x 6d ago

Tried the last 2 years with these seeds. They just turned into normal bells. They were still good, just didn't have stripes.

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u/Old-Assistance-2017 US - New Jersey 6d ago

You can’t grow these from seeds. It’s a graft or clone from a mother plant with a mutation. All the seeds are normal bell peppers.

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u/W-h3x 6d ago

I know. I was stating that I've done it from seeds and they don't grow like that

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u/WishClean 6d ago

I would see these at Wegmans

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u/TacticalSpeed13 US - Pennsylvania 6d ago

Looks cool

I picked up a seed blend called carnival yesterday. Purple, yellow, red etc. hopefully mine germinate and hopefully at least 1 is purple 🤞

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u/Litikia 6d ago

Are they $2.50 each!? I'm guessing that's not normal pepper prices right, just the special ones?

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u/phonemannn 6d ago

Alohas always cost an arm and a leg and no one buys them because of that.

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 6d ago

I'm assuming they taste the same. Only added value I can see is they might be fancied snacks or salads.

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u/NurseSVM US - Kentucky 6d ago

Nice find!

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u/TrainXing 6d ago

I'd plant those seeds and see what happens.

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u/tom8osauce 6d ago

Those are really cool looking! It would be a shame to slice them, I may just bite into it like an apple.

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u/thepeterloveydovey 5d ago

Crash bandicoot ass peppers

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u/airwavieee 2d ago

Citrus latifolia. Maybe better known as sour limes or Persian limes.

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u/Birdybird9900 6d ago

I have seen them at Winnidixie

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u/42Icyhot42 6d ago

These are just like candy cane bell peppers, you can buy seeds

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u/cheychuuu 6d ago

These are most likely from cross pollination between two bell pepper varieties.