i'd love some of them, i have some of them habenaro's, i will never use them, we just saved them for trade! LOL my sil told me they were bell peppers, hmmm not so funny when your biting into them babies!! onery sil!!! LOL :'))

As a matter of fact, I DID make a nice Goulash (and misspelled the name, too, hehe)! Thanks, Rick and Bruce :-) I got the recipe from somewhere, and then I just used the Hungarian Wax peppers and the paprika powder + the dried Hungarian powder/flakes from my own stock. Here's the basic write-up that I did: "Hungarian Goulash - beef pepper stew :-) Chuck beef, beefstock, onion, potato, carrot, Hungarian hot wax pepper, parsley, caraway seed, garlic, paprika, olive oil, seasalt and black ground pepper to taste.Olive oil or bacon fat in pot, low cook the onions until translucent, salt to make tender. Add cut beef, sear all sides, add beefstock and water about one inch above the beef. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until meat is tender - could take 1 to 2 hours. Bring back up to a boil, add potato, carrot, pepper, caraway seed, paprika powder, and the parsley bunch (tied with butcher's twine). Reduce heat, simmer until vegetables are properly cooked. Salt and pepper to taste."

Yah, they are actually "Cold Canned". It is simple, with no heat so the peppers stay crunchy, but they need to be kept in the fridge after canning. This is my third harvest this year so I have a fridge full and my family and friends have been lucky recipients as well. The ones you buy in the super market are hot canned the regular way but that makes them all mushy. These come out of the jar just like they go in. They are awesome on sandwiches.

It all depends. But the first pod is usually a runty mutant that has poor flavor. They tend to grow from the first fork, i usually snip those off. Personally i think this is what you are dealing with. But, the original plants could have been an F1 commercial breed labeled as "Hungarian Hot Wax". That would mean you have an F2 generation on your hands. If so, then if you had planted 10 of them, all 10 could have come out looking different. F2 is where crosses begin to change, sometimes revealing their parentage. The F3 generation will keep showing variance, by about F5 is when things begin to stabilize. The changes end around F8 or so. But, if the greenhouse starts were accidentally crossed in your backyard last year, then you would have an F1 cross on your hands. F1 plants almost always turn out looking the same as one another. Steve.