(At least) One of the seeds we planted from Donatello‘s harvest last year has now gotten chilies itself.
They don’t look like Donatello. They aren’t even approximately conical, but remain short round knobs. Also, they start out orange, then become dark purple later.
…we have a Michelangelo.
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* I never learned the colours of the Ninja Turtles when I was a kid because I thought they were interchangeable just like Huey, Dewey and Louie (Tick, Trick and Track in German). I had to look it up on Wiki to see what I should name them.
** It’ll be a while before I can breed a blue chili, I fear…
Perhaps Michelangelo is a hybrid? Chile pepper plants seem to hybridize easily.
The upright Donatello is a pequin chile. Michelangelo seem to be a tepin/chiltepin plant
I don’t know – do pequins get purple before they get red?
They don’t strike me as particularly hot, so I think both are some kind of hybrid. Michelangelo is probably the result of cross-pollination between Donatello and some other chile I own.
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Ooh, but Chiltepin could be – I had a bunch of dried chiles once that looked very much like some Google image hits on that name. I am certain I planted some of those some time. They were a little larger than Donatello, and pointed, but otherwise would fit very well.
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