Banana Pepper

Description

Parental Lineage

Peanut Marmalade #5 = Trop F2 x Peanut Butter Breath
Breeder: Vine Supply
Synonyms: PM5, PM, The Peanut

Chemstar BX3 = Deathstar x [Mos Eisley]
[Mos Eisley] = (Chemdog 91 x Deathstar) BX2
Breeder: Buckwheat
Synonyms : Chemstar BX3, Professor’s Chemstar, CS

Cultivators Report

This is an excellent cross for more experienced, intermediate growers. She is a medium-height plant that tends to push side branches straight out parallel to the ground. She pushes purple glazed flowers with a unique spicey, citrus flavor. The aroma is almost identical when compared to fresh-picked banana peppers but with an additional, subtle citrus kick. Professor has been told by an experienced breeder this is such a rare aroma, that it would take going through dozens of cultivars and thousands of seeds to find again. Warning this one can pack an absolute punch and has made even some heavy smokers “green out.”

About the Male

The male group used on this project consisted of 3 banging “resin males.” A resin male has a particular expression that produces trichomes across the male flowers. This is a sign of a high trichome density plant and I’ve almost always seen this trait translate to the female progeny as well. Back to the reason I used these males, the female Chemstar BX3 #393 is an absolute winner and has many of the growmies raving recently. This cross from the experienced breeder, Buckwheat, brings together two classic giants on the pungent acrid spectrum.

She develops a big frame with the vigor of the Deathstar and the metabolic/nutrient tendencies of the Chem 91. The aroma is a melding of the Deathstar with strong chemical influences from the Chem 91. Typically, she and her progeny will not like feeding too heavy in veg/early flower, easily burn leaves from light intensity, and will be finicky when too cold. She doesn’t like to have high temps of the day less than high 60’s or she will develop dark green leaf color with interveinal yellow/white spots that look like variegation (but are not).

Although this behavior is classic of most plants with Chem type constitution & metabolism, it makes up for it in absolute top-tier trichome coverage and bone-crushing potency with a huge yield to boot if you adjust conditions just right. Rarely does she get bud rot or mold as well, which can be a sign of overfeeding or too much light at the end of her 9 week cycle. She also can sport sparkly, sandy, plump trichomes with giant wiffle ball bat-sized tops. I have pulled 3.5-4lbs off an HLG Scorpion fixture and she has a potential to have medium-high (~3-5%) returns from wash tests.

Her offspring come out with a broad range of aromas from strong chemical/fuel smells to more of a funky, spice, earthy, wood aromascape similar to the Deathstar, as in the Goobstar. There is also some berry, sweet, pungent examples from the Professor’s Star. However, the Banana Pepper is an outlier with some rare aroma profiles of sweet citrus with spicy pepper tastes. Professor has pulled multiple keepers from the Chemstar crosses lines for top-notch breeding stock.