Grandpa's Home Pepper

C. annuum. This is a medium-hot pepper that is also moderately sweet. The peppers have fairly thin walls and tough skin. They are small and conical shaped with a blunt tip and have smooth, glossy skin. The fruit matures from green to red. They have an erect growth habit. The plants also have an erect growth habit and are highly breanched and leafy. It can be difficult to find fruit because of the dense leaf canopy. Donated to SSE by Bill McDorman of High Altitude Garden Seeds/Seeds Trust in the early 1990’s. He got the seed while on a 1989 tomato seed collections trip to Siberia. Marina Riabova’s (his translator) grandfather gave Bill a sample of this variety that Bill brought home and vended through High Altitude Garden Seeds/Seeds Trust. SSE Accession # 116675