I could use help identifying a couple of pepper varieties, although it might not be possible yet.
Has anyone grown C. chacoense? I got some free seeds along with a purchase from pepperlover.com, "Most Prolific" chacoense. The description on her site is that it is a smallish plant. I got one seed to germ and it is a little over three feet already, and just starting to bud.
Another is PI281317. It is supposed to be a low-heat chinense from Trinidad. I grew two plants of this strain. One is definitely chinense, the other looks annuum-ish.
Here is what I believe to be the true PI281317. Looks chinense to me.
PI 281317 pods (haven't bulbed out in the center yet):
Here is the not-PI281317. Pretty sure it came from the same seed pack as it looks nothing like anything else I am growing, and looks like an annuum to me.
It had two pod phenotypes. The early ones were round-ish. Not shown here is that one ripened directly from green to red.
The later ones are more elongated:
I don't find another annuum like this on her website. I suppose it could be a cross with an annuum, but if the mother plant is a chinense, could the offspring plant display annuum characteristics? The only chinense feature I see is two to three buds per node.
Has anyone grown C. chacoense? I got some free seeds along with a purchase from pepperlover.com, "Most Prolific" chacoense. The description on her site is that it is a smallish plant. I got one seed to germ and it is a little over three feet already, and just starting to bud.
Another is PI281317. It is supposed to be a low-heat chinense from Trinidad. I grew two plants of this strain. One is definitely chinense, the other looks annuum-ish.
Here is what I believe to be the true PI281317. Looks chinense to me.
PI 281317 pods (haven't bulbed out in the center yet):
Here is the not-PI281317. Pretty sure it came from the same seed pack as it looks nothing like anything else I am growing, and looks like an annuum to me.
It had two pod phenotypes. The early ones were round-ish. Not shown here is that one ripened directly from green to red.
The later ones are more elongated:
I don't find another annuum like this on her website. I suppose it could be a cross with an annuum, but if the mother plant is a chinense, could the offspring plant display annuum characteristics? The only chinense feature I see is two to three buds per node.