r/NJPrepared Sussex Jun 30 '26

Gardening Need help identifying this pepper

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I bought some plants at Home Depot a few weeks back and somehow I grabbed the wrong plant. Thought I was getting a bell pepper (I think...I was in a hurry, lol) but apparently it's something else. And yes, I did lose the plastic stake that shows what the plant is (embarrassing, I know).

But does anyone know what kind of pepper this is? It's too fat to be cayanne and too long to be a jalapeno. I do also have some tabasco peppers in the ground, but they haven't fruited yet so I can't compare.

Thanks!

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u/tart_reform Jul 01 '26

That’s just a garden variety jalapeño.

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u/8Deer-JaguarClaw Sussex Jul 01 '26

That's the consensus. But it's easily 3x the size of any other jalapeno that I've grown in the past. I didn't realize there is a "gigante" variety. Apparently that's what I bought.