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Heck. I thought the title was about chili made from penguin in French.

lol mescan dude

When I was growing up we had a chili pequin plant (as identified by my mother) that grew right in the fence between our and neighbors backyard. My mother would would pick 2-3 greens ones which were shaped like tiny eggs for huevos rancheros in the morning. Those suckers were HOT but great flavor. I never heard of the longer tapered ones until much later.

To me Tepins (turkey peppers)


Pequins

Any chiltepin plants Ive ever seen had the typical small almost round pod, not quite as big as a pea. There's lots of various kinds of peppers though, with just as many regional names? Wife finally got some seed to start, and has two fair sized plants out back, lots of tiny white blooms now, with fruit just starting to set, be interesting to see how they make it?

Thanks for the pictures.
I used to grow them.
I ran an orchard and put in a LOT of tomatoes and all kinds of chilies
Told the pickers they could take what they wanted and just leave a few for me.
They took great care of the garden and had all the vegetables they needed.
It worked well.

chiltepin:



chile pequin:



At least that's how I grew up knowing them, round vs oblong. Both relatively hot and tasty

Geno

Billy, the ones you know as pequins are what I grew up knowing as Chile de Arbol. Usually found ripe, red, and dried .

Geno,

There is a lot of mixed usage of terms with different terms often used for the same plant.

fwiw - here is a link to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Research Center, which focuses on research on native plants in Texas.

Capsicum Annum, aka "chile pequin" is the small round pepper you call "chilitepin," and is also called "turkey pepper," which is yet another name for the same plant.

They all are the same species of plant, just different common names for Capsicum Annum.

Within that species, there are different varieties, but the small round pea-like one is called "chile pequin" and/or "chile petin" here, but they are the small round ones.

https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=caan4




Same plant, but called "chilitepin."

https://statesymbolsusa.org/symbol-official-item/texas/state-food-agriculture-symbol/chiltepin


[img]https://statesymbolsusa.org/sites/s...ltepinPeppersCowboyWok.jpg?itok=gYKf_nQL[/img]


Both terms used for the same plant, the official pepper of Texas.


http://www.centraltexasgardener.org/resource/chile-pequin/

http://www.chile-tepin.com/home

jeffbird,

Texas is weird, just look at the way Bob (kaywoodie) dresses.

The way I learned them is they right way. Always!

If one wishes too, one could call jalapenos, serranos, and many others by different names because they are all the same Genus and species.

I'll stick with the way I know them, the little round ones are chiltepin and the small, but not as small pointier ones are chile pequin. Taught to me by Mexican folks from Mexico...............................not Texicans from Tejas

You folks down there in Texas probably call bluegill "bream" or "brim" or who knows what.

Geno

PS, whatever you do, don't take me so seriously......................but I've mostly been found to right

these are coming along good

This is what I grew up calling chili pequin also.

My chiltepin is doing very well this year i have had the same one alive under my back porch for 18yrs now. I harvest it and dry it and grind it in a spice grinder to make shake.

these are doing good, got some smaller ones coming along.

Why don’t you shoot Turkey’s? What are the other 2 critters you won’t shoot? Just curious...that’s all.

That’s a well camouflaged caterpillar on that plant.

plants getting some blossoms.

getting peppers

Bob, if you could be so kind.... I'll take a couple of quarts of them... Dried please.


Owl

I bet you would! Hell I ain’t pickin’ em!

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