These are Chocolate Beauty sweet peppers, which are a lovely chocolate brown when ripe. I've never even seen these before, let alone eaten them, but I couldn't resist trying them out. Aren't they a great colour?
Monday, 22 February 2010
Chocolate Beauty peppers
Last year we had a dismal pepper (capsicum) harvest - we grew our plants outdoors, but they failed to thrive and only produced one measly pepper between the lot of them. So this year I split the risk and grew most indoors in the conservatory and a few outdoors in the garden. Surprisingly, both lots have been doing quite well, but the indoor ones definitely have the edge and today we got our first ripe ones.
These are Chocolate Beauty sweet peppers, which are a lovely chocolate brown when ripe. I've never even seen these before, let alone eaten them, but I couldn't resist trying them out. Aren't they a great colour?
These are Chocolate Beauty sweet peppers, which are a lovely chocolate brown when ripe. I've never even seen these before, let alone eaten them, but I couldn't resist trying them out. Aren't they a great colour?
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how long did it take for your peppers to ripen? did you leave them on the vine for a while?
ReplyDeleteIm growing some chocolate beauty peppers in my hydroponic system and they were green for about 2 weeks, now some have been orange for a week, yellow for a week... will they continue to change to purple?
I don't remember mine going through orange or yellow stages. I think they went from green to a muddy red colour to brown. Hope your seeds don't turn out to be from some other variety!
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