Do chocolate Habs turn red b4 the turn brown?

web_of_hair

16 years ago

Like the subject says....

I have a chocolate hab plant, or so it is supposed to be anyway, and wanted to know if they turn red then brown?

Thanks!

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shelbyguy
16 years ago
mine have always ripened to a deep deep green, then straight to brown with no red involved.
John__ShowMe__USA
16 years ago
Mine go from green to brown too. Some of the pods on the same plant go from green to a yellow/orangish edge and then brown as they ripen from top of pod to bottom.
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web_of_hair
Original Author
16 years ago
well then I suppose the seeds I got that were supposed to be Chocolate Habs arent C.H. at all :( maybe next year...
groovy1
16 years ago
It's funny that we are talking about this because I was talking about genetic instability the other day on another thread.

I think that there is something about the chocolate color that can be switched off genetically by some environmental factor.

If someone had told me this a few years ago I wouldn't have believed it, but last year I grew several strains of chocolate peppers in my garden (long chocolate hab, brown congo, etc) and they all turned red. Now here's the thing: I also had some chocolate peppers in pots (Jamaican hot chocolate, chocolate scotch bonnet) and they all ripened to brown.

Could it have been a pH factor in the soil or something else? I don't know. All I know is in my garden I got red peppers where I was supposed to get chocolate, but the container peppers stayed the same. It could also be the case that these two or three types that I had in the garden were cross-pollinated, again I don't know.

Just thought I would throw that out there as another possibility.
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16 years ago
Hmm- would be interesting to regrow using same seeds- some in pots and some in the ground.

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