Doe Hill was one of my biggest surprises this year. I'd grown it at least once before in a different climate, and it was tiny and unremarkable. But here, with hot hot summers, I got yellow 2-inch peppers that are, so far, the sweetest of 15 or so varieties.

What was your sweetest pepper, and what pepper did you like best this year?

Crunch sweet orange

Funny thing - probably the most colorful, and one of the sweetest, is also the hottest this year.
Death Spirals, all from one plant, 10-7 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

But then by sweet, you probably aren't referring to that sweet aroma and flavor that chinense peppers have, were you.

Blot. I snip when about 4"and have picked hard for 2 months. Good for stuffing but fresh is hard to beat.

Jimmy Nardello Italian is probably my sweetest.

My favorite this year is Canary Bell, although Coral Bell is a close second.

@bjbebs I had never hear of Blot peppers and was curious. Where did you find seeds for them?

Have to say a tossup between the Mama Mia Giallo, Atris, Sweet Sunset, and Carmen Hybrids, and it's been a fanbloodytastic year for all, with many stick hangin.!

All are très firm, thick-walled, and are absolutely SUPERB al dente from the grill.

From top Carmen (8 inch/20.32 cms), Atris, Mama Mia Giallo (8 inch/20.32 cms), and Sweet Sunset (9 inch/22.9 cms); to the right are Sweet Banana, which can't decide on a uniform color...
The Gotch

Chervena Chushka Pepper is my wife's favorite. Good production and my wife anxiously awaits them to turn red every summer.

I grew out the seeds of a store bought pepper I had really enjoyed last winter.
The pepper is called 'Sweet Crescendo'.
They came true and were fairly productive and delicious being sweet and smoky. I grew the black one rather than the red or yellow.
This afternoon I oven dried some and the house smells like pizza and nachos all at once.

They had 9, 11 and 18 peppers towards the end on the 3 plants I grew.






Delicious. Sweet & juicy.

I haven't been able to find seeds for sale.
I wonder if saved seeds from the grow outs would come true next generation. I may try one next year but it may have X'd with Lipstick.
Otherwise, a tasty and successful experiment.

All ripe peppers are fairly sweet to me, but the sweetest I had yet was Hot Emperor Nr1. It's a big long pepper, and really not much flavor unripe, so it's better to use it when deep red. Skin is quite tough, but not extremely so and takes forever to get fully red. Prolific, also, as the name says it's hot but the veins can be quite easily removed due to the big size and straight smooth shape.
Not sure if there's a definite relation, but the peppers that are darker green when unripe tend to be sweeter when ripe.
I have grown Doe Hill before, certainly up there in terms of sweetness, and a nice juicy texture.

The sweetest pepper for me is almost always a Store Bought Orange Bell.

Funny you should say that Tormato. The best-tasting one for me is a huge red bell from Walmart! I really ought to save some seeds........

Linda

Giant Concagua has always been the sweetest and most flavorful. One million on the sweetness scale.

I've had very good luck saving seeds from good tasting store peppers. So far, they have all come up as expected, and had an even better taste straight from the garden. I call them "M1" seeds for "mine" since I don't know if they are F1 or open pollinated. That way I can keep track if I save seeds from my garden and the type should go awry. Last winter I saved seeds from a pack of Aldi's mixed long sweet peppers, grew out the red and the chocolates, and the chocolates were outstanding!

The sweetest pepper I grow is Greygo, by far. It is a very large, very thick-walled heirloom pimento type. When fully ripe, they are sweet as apples - and almost as large. I grow most of my peppers in a 5-year rotation; but Greygo is DW 's favorite pepper, we grow those every year. Wish I could post a photo, haven't figured out how to do that here yet.

Melrose is sweet, very early, and bears heavily; but the thin walls limit its usefulness.

2nd runner up would be Orange Bell. Wish I could grow them, but they proved to be too temperamental & rot prone in the gardens.

Ah, I see, Greygo is a gogoshari type also called tomato type, those flat peppers. They are indeed generally characterized by very thick walls and good sweetness if ripened on the vine. That is actually one of the primary secrets to sweetness for peppers - letting them get dark red on the vine.

The sweetest ones for me are Jimmy Nardello, Chervena Chushka, and Tolli's Sweet Italian. I've been growing them for the last 9 yrs.

Dan