Hot Pepper 'Peter, Red' (Capsicum annuum)

Hot Pepper 'Peter, Red'
Capsicum annuum

Peter Peppers

Now there's something you don't often see. Body part shaped vegetables! Too funny. Appropriately named for sure!

i was gonna say something too but desided not to lol

I'm laughing my head off, what do they taste like, what kind of food would you use it for? Annie

I think we need to use restraint with this pic......I can think of lots of funny things I really shouldn't say.....*giggling mercilessly*...Geo, please say you have a few seeds I can try....and besides the humor factor, are they hot, mild...?

Do you have to circumsize the peppers, or do they grow that way naturally?

::ducking and running::

Ohh goodness! Reminds me of a tomato I had this summer! Positively vulgar! :-)) Nature has a funny sense of humor!!! I will try to find the pic of the tomato - hopefully won't get the boot off DG for posting it - this would make an interested thread though!

Body part shaped fruit and veggies!

Geo this is most likely NOT the direction you thought this thread would go (or maybe so lol) so hope you're not rolling your eyes too much!!!

:-))

I tried and tried to grow these for two summers and could never get them to grow.

For those who want seed I only have a few for next year, but here is a link to a place that you can get them

( http://www.johnnypepperseed.com/html/hot_peppers.html ).

We have been growing them around here for years. A few years back we had a friend of ours from about 100 miles away come to our place just to get some of these peppers plants.

When I uploaded the picture it was just to add what I thought was a little better picture than what was in the database. I had no idea that people would have so much fun with it. Here a link to the DG Plants Database where you can get some more info on this pepper.

( http://davesgarden.com/pdb/go/84369/index.html )

That pic was cut from a picture I had taken this year to send to a friend of Peter and what around here is called Yo-Yo Peppers. Here is the full picture.

Have Fun
George

Thanks for the link to seed for these peppers! I'm sure they will be hearing from many of us. So, how are the peppers food-wise? Hot, mild? And how do you use them? The yo-yo peppers look hot!

Karen

(and we had lots of fun....LOL)

(edited....Oh! And anything we need to know culture-wise?)

This message was edited Dec 1, 2004 4:00 PM

Kachinagirl, all of those peppers are very hot, the Yo-Yo more so than the Peter. You can use them any way that you would any other hot pepper. Here is what I put in the DG PDB:
Color: Green maturing to red.
Shape: Thick, wrinkled curving pod tapering to a rounded head with a cleft in the end.
Description: Aromatic and medium hot pepper.
Scoville Heat Units: 35,000-55,000
Other Names: Penis pepper.

This pepper gets its name from its appearance. It's is usually grown as an ornamental pepper thanks to what it looks like, but lately some sauces made of it have appeared on the market.

Have A Great Day
George

P.S. A couple of years ago my wife (Thi-Chi) gave some of these plants to a Vietnamese friend of her's that lived in an apartment complex. She planted them outside of her apt. but never had any to turn red. The neibors kept taking them.

HoniBee, my husband tried to germinate these twice last year in the spring, but failed. Upon the third try when the temperatures were in the upper 80s and lower 90s, he had sucess. Maybe they will ot germinate unless the temperatures are this high ... just a thought.

I was actually scared to enter my photos that looked more like Geo1ThiChi's thinking that they may be rejected for being pornographic! So I uploaded a more "refined" photo.

hee hee!

Htop, to germinate seed (of all kinds) I got an old refrigerator, took out the door light switch, and wired in a thermostat to control a 100 watt light blub for heat. It also has a 4 ft. grow light in it that will stay on all the time if I want. For peppers I set the thermostat to hold the temperature at 80 - 90 degrees, for tomatoes 70 - 80 degrees. It will hold four 1020 flats in which I put 1201 inserts and could start as many as 12,000 (tomato or pepper) seed at one time for later pluging into other inserts such as 1206's, 809's, 1204's, 806's, ect.

We keep it just outside of the greenhouse, on the creek side so no one will see it and where it is not in the way, but easy to get to, We have used it for several years, it is not pretty, but it works just fine.

Have A Great Day
George

Now THAT'S what I call gardening inginuity! Awesome! Thanks for sharing it with us! :~D

the peter peppers definite look more like their namesake than the yoyo peppers do..hehehehehe

Woow, it takes a little time to reach Sweden I´ve got seeds to the red one, 5 seeds this winter, shall be funny to grow. I didn´t beleive my eyes when I saw a picture thought it may be manipulate, the photo, then I found that it is true. The nature is strange lol