Hot Pepper 'Tg Mures'

Assuming this is Targu Mures, I've had good success growing it in Ontario Canada (Zone 5).

The pods are hotter than descr...Read Moreibed, I would say around 50,000 scoville - much hotter than a Jalapeno, it feels closer to a habanero than a Jalapeno to me, heat wise. Thin fleshed, small pods, narrow and about 5-8cm long, so they're good for drying for powder or hot pepper flakes.

No issues with the pods getting damaged or attacked by pests in the garden. So far no disease. Plants are sturdy, stems don't snap easily and don't really require staking. I started most of my peppers 3 months before transplanting them into the ground, and these produced their first ripe peppers about 40 days after transplanting - making them the second earliest to ripen out of the 24 varieties I started from seeds this year (first was Time Bomb).

That's always a plus, considering the short summers here, as May is still too chilly to put peppers the ground, and the first frost is usually late Sept/early Oct. Summers are cool here too, this year, Jun/Jul/Aug has averaged 23.8C in the day and 12.3C at night, but they don't seem to mind.

The plants are of moderate size, mine are about 60-70cm tall. They are currently being a bit smothered by taller adjacent Rocoto and Aji Santa Cruz peppers, but I don't mind because I've already harvested enough Targu Mures for my purposes (I can only eat so many hot peppers) and want to try those other two varieties (which are much later ripening). Despite the lack of sun from being crowded out, they are still ripening, and I should get about 1lb of ripe fruit per plant.

A 2 ½ x ¾ inch Romanian Pepper.