Sweetest Pepper??? - Page 2

Lomatia · April 10, 2008

Paul, I grew Giant Aconcagua this year and will certainly do so again. I think that it was my best pepper (although I found Sweet Cayenne pretty good as well)
Allowed some to go red and grilled them. Nice, sweet and quite large.

Andrey_BY · April 10, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by mayax68

Andrey, so is cheese pepper a what we used to call "gogoshar" in Moldova?

Maya.

Yes, Maya. Gogoshary is a typical cheese (or tomato) type sweet pepper. There is also Novogogoshary sweet pepper and some other flattened sweeties like that of Russian origin (Solnyshko, Sadovoe Koltso, Yaroslav)...

sm1nts2escape · December 2, 2014

I grew the Giant Acongagua, Red Marconi, Corno di Toro, carmen hybrid, Sweet apple pepper, Topepo Rosso, Red cheese and Jimmy Nardello. Out of all the ones listed the CDT was still the sweetest I have had with a tie for 2nd between the rest with the jimmy nardello being my least favorite beacause there isn't much meat to the pepper and it is full of seeds. I will be growing all of them again next year minus the jimmy nardello carmen+red marconi (late producers,susceptible to black spot and low on production). I am trying shepherds ram horn next year with high hopes for it.

peppero · December 2, 2014

Dang it, I wish I could grow them all.

jon

DeanRIowa · December 2, 2014

I prefer Alma Paprika only thing is they are pretty small.

Dean

noinwi · December 3, 2014

Ddsack, I grew a cheese type called Greygo(seeds from Alex...got some Elephant Ear seeds from him too)when living in Wisconsin, zone 3/4. They did well in containers and in a raised bed, so don't give up on trying the cheese types. I have yet to try them here in the PNW, but I really liked them...very sweet.

Cole_Robbie · December 3, 2014

Early Sunsation was my best bell, and I really liked both Corno di Toro Yellow and Red.

I have a pic of my peppers from last summer as my desktop background right now, maybe because it's winter and peppers make me think of summer:
http://i.imgur.com/H9l5C1B.jpg

peppero · December 3, 2014

THAT IS ONE NICE PICTURE! ENVY, ENVY AND MORE ENVY.

JON

Cole_Robbie · December 3, 2014

thanks

sm1nts2escape · December 3, 2014

Nice pic! Here is one of mine

roper2008 · December 4, 2014

Although Jimmy Nardello's are not that big, I haven't found one sweeter or tastier.
Not that I've grown a whole a lot of different varieties. Also very sweet to me was
Carmen F1.

b54red · December 6, 2014

I have grown a lot of sweet peppers but the sweetest by far was a hybrid called Early Thickset. It made rather small bells that had incredibly thick dark red walls. Karma and Socrates are the sweetest large bells I have found but I no longer grow Karma because of the brittle limbs that tend to break every time we have high wind or heavy rain. Another really sweet pepper is Slonovo which is an oblong pepper with a pointed tip and it also has thick walls. I have not found an exceptionally sweet yellow pepper but I like to plant a few for the variety they offer.

Bill

Zeedman · December 8, 2014

Two of my favorites have already been mentioned:

I grew the conical Elephant Ear this year; it ripened completely in a cooler than normal summer. I liked its earliness, weight (avg. over 5 ounces), thick walls, glossy appearance... and of course, its flavor. It kept pretty well after harvest, too, much better than Cubanelle, which I also grew. Of the two, though, Cubanelle was sweeter immature, and more productive as a green pepper.

Greygo is the largest cheese pepper I've grown, and is one of the few peppers I grow every year. It too is only OK to me when green, but when ripe, as sweet as an apple, without the aftertaste I get from many ripe peppers.

Orange Bell is one of my favorites for sweet flavor, but it is temperamental in my climate.

My favorite green pepper, Pizza, is technically a 'hot' pepper, which it will be if picked in warm weather. But if harvested green just before frost, it becomes almost completely sweet. If not growing it for seed, I generally plant it a little bit late for that reason. The peppers look like over-sized jalapenos, with very thick walls. They have delicious flavor, with a surprising crunchiness that they maintain in storage... and they keep for an incredibly long time with only minimal loss of quality. I am still eating the peppers I harvested October 5th. Can't say enough about this pepper, IMO it is truly gourmet quality.

I've grown quite a few peppers that were very sweet when ripe, but had thin walls (which I am not fond of) such as Apple and some of the long thin 'frying' peppers.

sunshine33 · December 23, 2014

That pic is so colorful and wow!

April 10, 2008	#16
Lomatia Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 147	Paul, I grew Giant Aconcagua this year and will certainly do so again. I think that it was my best pepper (although I found Sweet Cayenne pretty good as well) Allowed some to go red and grilled them. Nice, sweet and quite large.

December 2, 2014	#18
sm1nts2escape Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: MD Posts: 18	I grew the Giant Acongagua, Red Marconi, Corno di Toro, carmen hybrid, Sweet apple pepper, Topepo Rosso, Red cheese and Jimmy Nardello. Out of all the ones listed the CDT was still the sweetest I have had with a tie for 2nd between the rest with the jimmy nardello being my least favorite beacause there isn't much meat to the pepper and it is full of seeds. I will be growing all of them again next year minus the jimmy nardello carmen+red marconi (late producers,susceptible to black spot and low on production). I am trying shepherds ram horn next year with high hopes for it.

December 2, 2014	#19
peppero Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: selmer, tn Posts: 2,944	Dang it, I wish I could grow them all. jon

December 2, 2014	#20
DeanRIowa Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: 5a - NE Iowa Posts: 416	I prefer Alma Paprika only thing is they are pretty small. Dean

December 3, 2014	#21
noinwi Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: PNW Posts: 486	Ddsack, I grew a cheese type called Greygo(seeds from Alex...got some Elephant Ear seeds from him too)when living in Wisconsin, zone 3/4. They did well in containers and in a raised bed, so don't give up on trying the cheese types. I have yet to try them here in the PNW, but I really liked them...very sweet.

December 3, 2014	#22
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	Early Sunsation was my best bell, and I really liked both Corno di Toro Yellow and Red. I have a pic of my peppers from last summer as my desktop background right now, maybe because it's winter and peppers make me think of summer: http://i.imgur.com/H9l5C1B.jpg

December 4, 2014	#26
roper2008 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Virginia Bch, VA (7b) Posts: 1,337	Although Jimmy Nardello's are not that big, I haven't found one sweeter or tastier. Not that I've grown a whole a lot of different varieties. Also very sweet to me was Carmen F1.

December 6, 2014	#27
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	I have grown a lot of sweet peppers but the sweetest by far was a hybrid called Early Thickset. It made rather small bells that had incredibly thick dark red walls. Karma and Socrates are the sweetest large bells I have found but I no longer grow Karma because of the brittle limbs that tend to break every time we have high wind or heavy rain. Another really sweet pepper is Slonovo which is an oblong pepper with a pointed tip and it also has thick walls. I have not found an exceptionally sweet yellow pepper but I like to plant a few for the variety they offer. Bill

December 8, 2014	#28
Zeedman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 313	Two of my favorites have already been mentioned: I grew the conical Elephant Ear this year; it ripened completely in a cooler than normal summer. I liked its earliness, weight (avg. over 5 ounces), thick walls, glossy appearance... and of course, its flavor. It kept pretty well after harvest, too, much better than Cubanelle, which I also grew. Of the two, though, Cubanelle was sweeter immature, and more productive as a green pepper. Greygo is the largest cheese pepper I've grown, and is one of the few peppers I grow every year. It too is only OK to me when green, but when ripe, as sweet as an apple, without the aftertaste I get from many ripe peppers. Orange Bell is one of my favorites for sweet flavor, but it is temperamental in my climate. My favorite green pepper, Pizza, is technically a 'hot' pepper, which it will be if picked in warm weather. But if harvested green just before frost, it becomes almost completely sweet. If not growing it for seed, I generally plant it a little bit late for that reason. The peppers look like over-sized jalapenos, with very thick walls. They have delicious flavor, with a surprising crunchiness that they maintain in storage... and they keep for an incredibly long time with only minimal loss of quality. I am still eating the peppers I harvested October 5th. Can't say enough about this pepper, IMO it is truly gourmet quality. I've grown quite a few peppers that were very sweet when ripe, but had thin walls (which I am not fond of) such as Apple and some of the long thin 'frying' peppers.

December 23, 2014	#29
sunshine33 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: woodstock,mn Posts: 2	That pic is so colorful and wow!