That was my realization, too. My family eats peppers like they are regular veggies. Raw, cooked, baked, boiled, preserved, etc. When I realized that, with my limited amount of yard space, I decided to focus on peppers and the occasional other kind of veggie (just to get experience of learning about them). Propping up pepper plants just depends on how big they can get for you, including their pepper quantity and size. To say that a small pepper variety doesn't need to be staked might be bad when you wake up one day and the branch is broken from water weight of an overnight storm or strong winds, or maybe just your awesome gardening methods that produces a plethora of peppers.

Now that I think of it, it is probably a habanero. Most of the pods on the plant look like a habanero. Tastewise, I have absolutely no idea how to tell. It's just way to spicy!

Definately NOT a jalapeno. Wrong size, position, and color. Another friend directed me to this variety on Dave's Garden, which looks to be the one: Chili Pepper, Hot Pepper, Chile Petin, Chile Piquin (Pequin), Bird Pepper Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum Apparently Garden Web fears the competition from Dave's Garden and blocks any mention. Sad.

Actually I was thinking it looks more like the Pequin (Piquin) pepper. Another sad possibility is that it doesn't have a name yet other than a number. I found this site http://www.thechileman.org/results.php?page=1&chile=1&find=&heat=Any&origin=Colombia&genus=Any and a lot of them are just listed with a number.