We grew the plant by accident, and while the usual harvest is just a handful at a time, they taste really fresh and great.

Edit: Thanks for the attention to this post. There’s a lot of insistence that these are jalapenos and not bell peppers. They are in fact bell peppers, for the following reasons:

  1. They’re sweet and not spicy.
  2. Jalapenos tend to have a more elongated shape.
  3. Green jalapenos tend to have a much brighter color.

I’m also in Southeast Asia so our pepper varieties are different.

Hope this helps!

    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
      2·
      17 hours ago

      It’s hard to get grocery store size bell peppers in a home garden. Plenty of people (me included) also like to grow small varieties of some veggies. If a plant can get me 4 huge tomatoes or 50 tiny ones, I’d rather have the tiny ones cause there ends up being less waste if a pest gets into one.

      • faltryka@lemmy.world
        4·
        17 hours ago

        Yeah I’ve grown both bells and jalapeños and a variety of others and size is not what has me saying those are jalapeños, it’s their shape.

      • FeloniousPunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
        31·
        15 hours ago

        I’ve grown many a bell pepper, never have I had one that looked like a jalapeño. I think you are mistaken.

            • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
              2·
              13 hours ago

              That must be a language thing, cause I would call any pepper that’s not spicy a bell pepper. Whoever wrote the Wikipedia article on bell peppers said

              bell pepper is the only member of the genus Capsicum, that does not produce capsaicin

              So if it’s not spicy, it’s a bell pepper (at least where I live), but they can be in different forms. Not that any of that matters.

              • FeloniousPunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
                1·
                13 hours ago

                Ha I was about to post a similar thing - there are colloquial differences for sure. I’ve heard bell peppers called sweet bell peppers in the Deep South. And in op’s defense, some people say bell peppers are spicy in their opinion. AND there are varieties of jalapeño that can have little to no heat in flavor so, that may not be a measure to go by. But a jalapeño does have a different flavor from a bell pepper, heat notwithstanding.

                But like you said, it doesn’t matter. Just eat them because they taste good!