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Thanks Rob. Today I tried the first ripe one. Its a time bomb! At first it was hot, but nothing too wild. Then after about two minutes I realized it is nou exploding in my mouth. Even long after it was all chewed up and gone. Made me sweat for at least a few minutes.
Not very tasty. There are about 300 fruits now and many more to come. I will have to dry or make salsa.
Only two seeds in it.
You're welcome Hannes!
Ya it's an introgressive cross. Pity that it doesn't taste great. Goat's Weed tastes amazing - just like other annuum var glabriusculum - especially when unripe.
But at least you have a very productive hot chili that you can use to add heat to salsa/hot sauce without changing the flavour. Sometimes uninvited guests bring the best gifts.
Ya it's an introgressive cross. Pity that it doesn't taste great. Goat's Weed tastes amazing - just like other annuum var glabriusculum - especially when unripe.
But at least you have a very productive hot chili that you can use to add heat to salsa/hot sauce without changing the flavour. Sometimes uninvited guests bring the best gifts.
This first fruit was only just turning redish so maybe if it gets really ripe it tastes better. I am not someone that tastes all the fine flavors anyway.
When its all boiled up or fermented it changes anyway with the spices and other chillies
Hi Rob, shouldn't Goat's weed be C. annuum var. annuum?
Apart from taxonomy, glabriusculum should mean "hairless", goat's weed is pubescent
Ya it's a very odd choice of name as var annuum is not pubescent either.
The defining characters are the small flowers with a crook-neck pedicel (the pedicels are erect with the flower bud facing down and then horizontal upon anthesis) and fruits held erect. All the wild annuum have this in common.
The defining characters are the small flowers with a crook-neck pedicel (the pedicels are erect with the flower bud facing down and then horizontal upon anthesis) and fruits held erect. All the wild annuum have this in common.
true... also looking at the names of the other species (e.g. chinense, baccatum..), it seems that they often made a mistake or chose the first thing that came to mind as the name
BTW, very interesting information
You're welcome!
The centre of botany was Europe and these dudes generally had no idea what the habitat looked like or where the eff it even was. And generally they had a piece of a plant to work with.
Taxonomy of our local plants is littered with these crazy names - two examples highlighting just the above scenarios:
Brunsvigia orientalis - because the ships sailing to Europe from the East Indies rounded the Cape of Good Hope they stopped in Cape Town for refreshments and often picked up collections of plants. Some dude thought that the plant was from the East Indies hence "orientalis" (from the East).
Protea repens - an erect tail shrub but the specimen that was used to describe it was a flowering side (horizontal) branch. So the dude named it "repens"
The centre of botany was Europe and these dudes generally had no idea what the habitat looked like or where the eff it even was. And generally they had a piece of a plant to work with.
Taxonomy of our local plants is littered with these crazy names - two examples highlighting just the above scenarios:
Brunsvigia orientalis - because the ships sailing to Europe from the East Indies rounded the Cape of Good Hope they stopped in Cape Town for refreshments and often picked up collections of plants. Some dude thought that the plant was from the East Indies hence "orientalis" (from the East).
Protea repens - an erect tail shrub but the specimen that was used to describe it was a flowering side (horizontal) branch. So the dude named it "repens"
true... also looking at the names of the other species (e.g. chinense, baccatum..), it seems that they often made a mistake or chose the first thing that came to mind as the name
BTW, very interesting information
I find that annuum taste crap when red (ripe) either eat them unripe (crunchy) or dried.Here I tried a ripe one now. It is about 2" long and still nt very tasty, but not bad at all. Hot for sure. The good thing is that the plant produces a lot of fruit. I will dry some and see how it comes out.
Thanks for all the replies.
Will give it another try with the green ones. Raw they taste soapy like the green chacoense from this area. Maybe cooked or fried it will be good. I like trying all the ways. There is another fenotype of this that looks totaly different. Like Jalapeños but erect. Strange looking stuff.
The seeds came from the same envelope.
The chacoense here grows all over under the bigger plants and trees. Not very tasty but we eat them anyway. They grow like weeds.
Hannes were those seeds from me?
The only annuum I grow is annuum var glabriusculum - except for "Chile Rayado".
Bolivian Rainbow, Goat's Weed and Petit Piment Rouge (Isle de Réunion) grow adjacent to each other but very rarely do I have bees on my chiles.
It is possible that Goat's Weed and Petit Piment Rouge have crossed. All that changes is the fruit shape. The bullet shape is typical of PPRouge. The flavour is identical. Goat's Weed is just hotter though.
When unripe they have a "soapy" or "perfume" flavour - which I really enjoy BTW.
I grow annuum var glabriusculum because it is identical in flavour and heat to frutescens (Tobasco/Peri-Peri) but easier to grow in a temperate climate.
The only annuum I grow is annuum var glabriusculum - except for "Chile Rayado".
Bolivian Rainbow, Goat's Weed and Petit Piment Rouge (Isle de Réunion) grow adjacent to each other but very rarely do I have bees on my chiles.
It is possible that Goat's Weed and Petit Piment Rouge have crossed. All that changes is the fruit shape. The bullet shape is typical of PPRouge. The flavour is identical. Goat's Weed is just hotter though.
When unripe they have a "soapy" or "perfume" flavour - which I really enjoy BTW.
I grow annuum var glabriusculum because it is identical in flavour and heat to frutescens (Tobasco/Peri-Peri) but easier to grow in a temperate climate.
I have it as from you in my notes. I am not saying its impossible that I mixed things up on my side. I have done that before.