Re: [CH] Guero- Means hot!?

Michelle DeWitt (michelle@wildpepper.com)
Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:22:31 -0500

I really don't think this pepper was cross-pollinated or mislabeled. It
looked just like any picture of a Hungarian Wax that I have seen. It WAS
on a very small pepper plant. Maybe the plant put all it's work into the
fruit instead of the leaves. All I know is that it was powerful! 
Michelle in KC

Ray Pfaff wrote:
> I end up growing 4-5 different kinds of peppers every year and I always
> assumed this was due to cross-pollination or something.  

> Dave Drum wrote:
> > A couple years ago I bought some plants advertised as banananana peppers
> > and some others tagged as Hungarian Wax... Both were listed as "mild"
> > and the peppers produced were fairly close in appearance... 

> > Michelle DeWitt wrote:
> I believe it to be a Hungarian Wax (Guero?). 
> > > It was as hot as any HabaneroŸ