Lidl sweet bite peppers

[sunloving]

Hello all , I'm always giving things I like to eat a whirl just in case and my sweet bite pepper seeds have germinated much to my surprise.
Now has anyone grown these.
I'm wondering if they are run of the mill peppers that are sprayed to be small ? Or an actual mini sweet pepper producing variety which would be great?

It is a positive that the small peppers carry mature seed but I'm unsure and wondered if anyone had tried them before! X sun loving, wishing my passion fruit seeds would also come to life!

[sunloving]

[johhnyco15]

i grow sweet bite peppers  every year they are actually small peppers nice and sweet snackbite are the same thing very nice indeed hope this helps

[Uncle_Filthster]

I've just sown some myself so will be interesting to see how they get on.  I'll probably overwinter at least one as I'm not expecting much of a crop with only sowing them a few days ago.

[sunloving]

i grow sweet bite peppers  every year they are actually small peppers nice and sweet snackbite are the same thing very nice indeed hope this helps

Brilliant!

[Vinlander]

I've encountered peppers of this type before - called either "mini sweets" or "chiquita" - they come in packs of 3 colours, red, orange and yellow.

Does this match? If so then a conclusive test is that the orange ones are much tastier than the other colours whereas with all other sweet peppers I've tasted (both pointy and blocky) the red ones are best, plus some of the browns.

I grow the orange ones every year, they germinate well, are identical to their parents in every way including flavour - they are the tastiest sweet peppers by a mile. (The seasoning chilies may taste even better but are much more difficult to grow).

I also bought a big orange "snack pepper" plant in 2014 for £5 and it was identical - and a very good deal because it came with fruit on it, continued to crop early and well in a 30cm pot and then overwintered at 4C without sulking in the spring. I planted it in the greenhouse and it gave bigger crops right through August & September. I wish I'd kept it in a pot, though asking it to get through a second winter is a very long shot.

I have its seedlings anyway and I'll be trying to overwinter all the different sources to see if they are equally tigerish. The only time I've seen this much enthusiasm before is from the C. pubescens species (locoto/rocoto/manzano).

Cheers.

[sunloving]

Vin lander many thanks for all the info I agree the orange ones are the tastiest ! I'm looking forward now to growing these with a bit more confidence. They are all pricked out and putting on biomass each day.

Here's to home grown sweet mini orange peppers!

X sun loving

I've encountered peppers of this type before - called either "mini sweets" or "chiquita" - they come in packs of 3 colours, red, orange and yellow.

Does this match? If so then a conclusive test is that the orange ones are much tastier than the other colours whereas with all other sweet peppers I've tasted (both pointy and blocky) the red ones are best, plus some of the browns.

I grow the orange ones every year, they germinate well, are identical to their parents in every way including flavour - they are the tastiest sweet peppers by a mile. (The seasoning chilies may taste even better but are much more difficult to grow).

I also bought a big orange "snack pepper" plant in 2014 for £5 and it was identical - and a very good deal because it came with fruit on it, continued to crop early and well in a 30cm pot and then overwintered at 4C without sulking in the spring. I planted it in the greenhouse and it gave bigger crops right through August & September. I wish I'd kept it in a pot, though asking it to get through a second winter is a very long shot.

I have its seedlings anyway and I'll be trying to overwinter all the different sources to see if they are equally tigerish. The only time I've seen this much enthusiasm before is from the C. pubescens species (locoto/rocoto/manzano).

Cheers.

[johhnyco15]

Vin lander many thanks for all the info I agree the orange ones are the tastiest ! I'm looking forward now to growing these with a bit more confidence. They are all pricked out and putting on biomass each day.

Here's to home grown sweet mini orange peppers!

X sun loving

I've encountered peppers of this type before - called either "mini sweets" or "chiquita" - they come in packs of 3 colours, red, orange and yellow.

Does this match? If so then a conclusive test is that the orange ones are much tastier than the other colours whereas with all other sweet peppers I've tasted (both pointy and blocky) the red ones are best, plus some of the browns.

I grow the orange ones every year, they germinate well, are identical to their parents in every way including flavour - they are the tastiest sweet peppers by a mile. (The seasoning chilies may taste even better but are much more difficult to grow).

I also bought a big orange "snack pepper" plant in 2014 for £5 and it was identical - and a very good deal because it came with fruit on it, continued to crop early and well in a 30cm pot and then overwintered at 4C without sulking in the spring. I planted it in the greenhouse and it gave bigger crops right through August & September. I wish I'd kept it in a pot, though asking it to get through a second winter is a very long shot.

I have its seedlings anyway and I'll be trying to overwinter all the different sources to see if they are equally tigerish. The only time I've seen this much enthusiasm before is from the C. pubescens species (locoto/rocoto/manzano).

Cheers.

i grow orange baby there taste and crop fantastic hope this helps

[Vinlander]

If you all like the flavour as much as I do then you might be interested in the larger version...

I can't remember what they were called when I bought them (or where I found them) but they were only about twice as long, an identical orange colour (no red or yellow options) and although they had a slightly different shape I had a feeling they were worth trying.

The difference is that they are slightly more pointed and they don't look "inflated" like the mini ones - in fact they usually have 1-3 longitudinal flats or concave channels or even occasionally soft 'creases'. They also appeared around mid-season whereas the mini ones tend to start appearing in Tescos very early in the year.

The flavour was identical so I was fully chuffed about them - it means I don't have to grow less-tasty corno types just because her-indoors wants bigger slices from less cuts.

The seedlings come perfectly true, the plants are slightly bigger but the yield per cubic space is pretty similar.

Good hunting!

Cheers.