I'm trying to identify a sweet red pepper

[eleny]

My grocery deli dept. carries a marinated combo of sweet red peppers and whole garlic cloves. The sweet red peppers are skinny, long and flat. I thought they might be Italian sweet peppers but those are much longer at 10-12 inches long. These peppers are about 5 inches in length.

Any guesses? The people in the deli department don't know.

[Warpy]

1. Adriatico F1

A Marconi sweet pepper type from United Genetics. Adapted to the Italian Adriatical costal region. The 6in elongated fruit mature from green to red and with good disease tolerance to TMV. (Capsicum annuum)

This is my go to site for pepper ID: http://www.g6csy.net/chile/var-a.html

Supermarkets here have a dozen varieties of peppers, at the very least--more if they carry both fresh and dried peppers. Specialty stores can have up to 30 varieties. I'm always wondering just what the hell I've bought that week.

[eleny]

3. They look like this Dutch chili pepper in shape and color

[beac]

2. I second Warpy's "Marconi" id.

I grew some last year and though they WERE "disease-resistant" as advertised, they were not horrible, ravenous pest resistant. The buggies ate more than I did. :(

[Warpy]

4. Yeah, they're a good sweet pepper if you get any to harvest

I can see that they'd attract the bugs. Best thing to do is pick them a little green and ripen them in a paper bag with an apple.