I married one.
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Mario,

Hard to tell from your photo, how many peppers per node? (looks like 2-3 on some nodes, but I'm not sure, could be the angle of the photo)
How long are the peppers - about 1/2"?
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It is believed that peppers that grow upward vs downward are said to be hotter than others. If I had to guess... they are "birds eye" peppers and they WILL light your ass up.
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The up/down thing is a myth. Dorset naga & bhut jolokia are the two hottest peppers in the world, 100x hotter than habenero, and all three of them grow down. Peruvian purples, grow upward and are almost totally devoid of any heat, they just look neat. That being said, there are a number of very popular varieties of hot peppers that do grow vertically, so I can see how that fallacy could get started.

I tend to agree with you that they do appear to be birds eyes, just trying to figure out which ones though, hence why the extra questions for Mario in my previous post.
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I still believe in Santa. :-)
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Hey, santa is real. I met him at the mall once.
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Adam, they range from 1/4" to just under 5/8" so far. I see up to 8 buds and a "pepper" per node. I just looked up node so I'm not 100% sure though. That's how many are stemming off in a general area.

Thank you for all of the responses everyone.
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We would like to see a youtube video of you eating your first one... or atleast a picture.

I sliced up some habaneros out of the garden today and put them on my sandwiches for lunch. They get me all choked up, everytime. :-)
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Ya, maybe I can chase it with a Gorilla Finger.
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:-)
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If I do make a video I'll do it just for you bro.
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Yes, those are chili peppers. I have a very similar plant in my backyard that is now about 7' tall. Those pppers will start out black, turn green, and then mature to red. They are definetly hot. My wife is Thai and they are hotter than any Thai peppers according to her. She uses them for cooking and it dosent take many to bring the heat on.
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Guatemala

http://www.g6csy.net/chile/var-g.html
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Thank you Kelly! Maybe I will do the video after all!
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Awesome link! Dang, that's a lot of peppers.... :-)
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I'll try and either find or shoot some photos later to give you an idea what I mean.

Chances are, it's in or related to the general birds eye family somewhere, but the sunburn (the black marking) of the pod is a bit odd. A lot of the birds eyes and most of the thai peppers (about 4" long, very thin peppers) don't typically sunburn.

Remember, if this just started growing on it's own, it's from a seed that was left in the garden, probably from dropped fruit that was grown the year prior, which in turn might have been sown from peppers grown the year prior. Under these home grown condtions, each of these generations is going to reduce the probability of a genetically pure seed.

Try one when it's green, is it hot or just sour and icky vegiteal tasting?

BTW, the lack of heat up here this year so far has been keeping the pepper heat levels way down.


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I see Kelly ID'd it while I was writing off and on while working. Thanks. That's one I haven't grown before.



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Mario, I'll trade you some cigars (or Mexican Coke) for a bag of plant ripened peppers.
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