Ají Amarillo

[Fatalii]

Aji Amarillo / Aji Yellow is a common name and as you surely know, it translates to "yellow chile", which applies to quite many different varieties.
Commonly it's used especially for C. baccatums, in _most_ cases, "Aji" means C. baccatum even it translates to "chile" etc.

Most often I see two different C. baccatums which are called Aji Amarillo, they're totally different and should taste different too.
There are also few C. annuums called "Amarillo" and often mislabeled as "Aji Amarillo".

And then Aji Cachucha.... (yes it's chinense, confusing, isn't it?)
I also notest that it's quite slow to grow, even when compared to other C. chinenses.
My Aji Cachucha seems to produce just few pods, but then again, I germinated it way too late and it's at too shady spot in the greenhouse.
Maybe it'll be one of the few chinenses growing in my greenhouse next year.

[luca]

I have some Ají Amarillo seeds available, if anyone is interested.

It's a nice variety, with excellent taste both when immature (fresh slightly citric taste) and when ripe (sweeter lemony taste).  I'm very happy with it! It is rather prolific, even under not-so-optimal light/temperature conditions, but the fruits mature very slowly (ca. 2 months).

Well, anyway, you can check the pictures I posted above and I'll be adding a few more fruits pictures here soon.

[Amd]

I have some Ají Amarillo seeds available, if anyone is interested.

It's a nice variety, with excellent taste both when immature (fresh slightly citric taste) and when ripe (sweeter lemony taste).  I'm very happy with it! It is rather prolific, even under not-so-optimal light/temperature conditions, but the fruits mature very slowly (ca. 2 months).

Well, anyway, you can check the pictures I posted above and I'll be adding a few more fruits pictures here soon.

dont happen to have a cutling? i sure am interested of those.pm if you see this and still have the beans.

[luca]

Now that I've been harvesting some fruits, I can post some pictures of them here ;-)

Almost fully ripe fruits:


Cross section (fleshy very tasty fruits):

[Aji Inferno]

There are few better tasting peppers than Aji Amarillo & Rojo, indeed... These babys grow fast, grow huge, and live very long as well.

[luca]

Yes, I'm starting to believe you more and more about this variety's taste :-)

This plant has certainly given me excellent results.  Its beautiful looks actually helped me convince my girlfriend that it should be an in-house plant and get a prime spot in our apartment ;-) I hope it keeps bearing as many tasty fruits and nice flowers as it's been doing in our balcony during summer!

My Ají Rojo, though, has not produced any flower yet (even though it has grown quite tall and bushy)... I'm a bit disappointed, but it could certainly be the lack of light.

I'm still in hope to get some fruits from my other plants moving them indoors later this year.  I still need to get some results from my chocolate habs, my ají rojos and my other amarillos and paper lanterns...

[JohnF]

This is a version called Aji Amarillo Mirasol ( J. L. Hudson Seeds)--don't know where the 'mirasol' came from as the pods are pendant. Slowest of all my peppers to ripen--started 4/13/05 and just now ripening

[JartsaP]

I have had similar experience, that Aji Amarillo and PI 290983 'Aji Verde' (which looks and tastes exactly the same as Amarillo) have been the slowest ones to mature. Green pods formed sometimes during the summer, unfortunately many of them were eaten by some stupid critters, and just a few weeks ago I got the first mature pod.  Meanwhile, the bushes had to be taken inside from the greenhouse. Sometimes I wonder whether I should just dump them and substitute with faster variteties, but then again, they DO taste pretty good.

Habaneros, Scotch Bonnets and Rocotos as well as some wild species have been quite slow as well, but they're slow to start flowering, not so slow from pod maturing point-of-view.

[luca]

It took my Ají Amarillos also quite a long time to ripen... Something around 3 months after the fruits set...  But I started quite early (january) and grew them under fluorescent lights for a few months, so I got some ripen fruits during summer time.

[Gekko]

unfortunately many of them were eaten by some stupid critters...

In fact, I would rather call them clever.  :wink:

My slowest variety to ripen so far has been "Aji Chivay". It is also a big, juicy, aji amarillo -type baccatum without any heat (I have collected the seeds at my semi-scientific botanical expedition (pisco drinking) journey in Peru ). Anyway, I think this slowness is the main problem with big baccatums.

[Jogi]

Hi @ all,

this is my Aji Amarillo 2007 (Plant from 2006)


All my chilli plants have grown very well and have many pods . After a fertilizer test Hakaphos was specially NPK = 16 + 8 + 22 + (3 MgO) for me the Champ.

Look at the fertilizer test  :arrow:

http://www.chili-balkon.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1310

Greez Jogi

[snu]

That's an impressive plant! If you can grow it for 5 or 10 years more, it will be huge!

Too bad I don't have the space to grow anything like that.

[gine]

Jogi, yours Aji Amarillo looks very nice!  

[Jogi]

Jogi, yours Aji Amarillo looks very nice!  

@ gine,

many thanks, oder einfach vielen Dank  :roll:
Now the whole work is fun if one the results sees.

The Starfish has also so become good. All C. pubescens also:-)



Greez Jogi

[Jogi]

In November the Aji Amarillo is ripe. Unfortunately only indoor because outdoor was frost .



Much greetings Jogi