when I grew them they went right from green to brown. that video was only 1:16 but it seemed like it took forever for that color to change, just like real life.

Here are photos of the orange fruit that was supposed to to chocolate:

showing flowers, which are almost white.

Here is the regular old Habanero that has been making mild tasting chilies that are very pale, but now how chilies that are turning from green to black:

It does not have any flowers left. The top chili is a good example of how it turns white at the top, and these chilies are not hot.

Here is a different chocolate Habanero, showing the leaves only:

This one does not get quite as much sun as the rest, and unfortunately, there are two plants in the pot. I was unable to separate them when I transplanted them. The red chilies in the background are on a Scotch Bonnet plant that is over two years old. The chilies still have good heat but not as good a flavor as the Habanero.

Here is yet another chocolate Habanero, showing flowers:

These flowers are more yellow than on the first plant, and the leaves are large like on the plants shown with leaves only. I'm not sure how much of an indication leaf size is, as it may have to do with the size of the pot. The plant that is supposed to be chocolate that has orange fruit does not have leaves the size of the other chocolates, and so I think a stray seed may have gotten in.

tbonesny: was that your video??

My HABANERO CHOCOLATE from went from green to brown.> HABANERO CHOCOLATE

I'm stumped. Are the orange pods and black pods on two different plants? (Sorry, can't pinch and zoom on pics on my phone) If so, I'm wondering if the black pods are taking an extremely long time to ripen to orange/red/whatever, and just have a wicked case of sunscald. Are the pods black all around or just on one side?

Like NECM, any chocolate peppers I've ever grown have gone straight from green to brown. I'm definitely curious now, haha

Here's another photo of the older plant, which has older orange chilies plus new ones that are turning black (or chocolate). The single orange chili in the first two photos is a different plant, and that is the first chili on it to get ripe. I find it somewhat strange to get two different types of chilies on one plant, but I'm not complaining about it. The older chilies on this plant were not that good and had little heat. I do not think they are suffering from sunburn, since it is now September, and the older chilies were getting ripe when there was a lot more sun, and they did not turn black - in fact they got a bit bleached out instead. The ones that are turning black are getting darker on the side facing the sun, but they are turning dark on all sides.

I got my seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and I also got Tobago seeds from them, which I was very careful to label and keep separate. Here's how one of those looks now:

These chilies have no heat and not much flavor either, and are thin skinned, and so I will not be planting these again. However, this plant did grow from a seed I planted outdoors in a pot in April, and I never repotted it. It seemed to do better than the seeds I sprouted indoors, but I planted several seeds outdoors and only got one plant, whereas almost all of the seeds I started indoors sprouted.

I still do not know what the dark chilies are on my plant that has orange Habaneros, but one of the Chocolate Habanero plants finally has an identifiable chili:

I was very happy to discover this yesterday. Several of the plants that are supposed to be Chocolate closely resemble this plant, but others from the same seed packet do not.

This is the plant that had a mantis on it last week.

Sorry I'm so late to the party here, I'm having a similar issue. I had what I thought were chocolate habanero seeds I've been trying to grow the past year. Finally managed to grow a beautiful plant and the first ripe Hab just turned orange. Not sure if this is a weird fluke that can happen or if they in fact sent me the wrong seeds. The unripe Habs are a darkish green. Thanks for any help!

The black is sunburn, it does not affect the pepper pods they will eventually ripen orange. Looks like you got a mix up of seeds or a cross where the orange is a dominant trait over chocolate. My chocolate Habs turned from green to chocolate.

Thanks for the info! What do you mean by "the black is sunburn"? And if it is a cross, does that mean they will still have qualities of the chocolate in terms of taste?

The green Habanero pods that have the black coloring is just sunburn, I've seen it plenty of times and it does not matter late summer or early fall they get it especially with not much leaf protection.

As for crosses it depends, I crossed a white bullet Habanero with a ghost Chili and first year grow from the cross all peppers were red and elongated like a long skinny jalapeño, seeds saved from those in year two grow, most were shorter not as long and over 1/2 the plants had white pods very few red pods. For the most part they carried the Habanero flavor over the ghost flavor. So it's possible if it's a cross you may taste all or some of the chocolate Habanero flavor. IMO It's a crapshoot as to what traits comes across in crossed peppers.

I used this guide to cross my peppers

https://fatalii.net/Growing_chile_peppers/Breeding

Very interesting, don't have much experience with crossing. The plants are grown hydroponically indoors so it's hard to imagine they'd get sunburn, but I'll look into it. Thanks again for the info

I apologize the sun burn were for the pics in the thread not your video and not your peppers. Plants indoors can get a purple tint to them especially on the stems the same reaction they can have towards the sun.

as for chocolate Habanero in your video it looks to be correct in color if you let it over ripen it may be possible that it could change color. I recall a chocolate Habanero plant of mine that had a reddish tint to the top, but I picked it before it would have gone bad.