pubescens Scottish pubescens trial

[Englander]

Hi Guy's

Given the cooler climate the pubescens are from and can tolerate I decided to make 2023 my Scottish capsicum pubescens trial.............grown outside here in Scotland !

I've 7 contenders in my trial.............I've a winner in respect of being the first to fruit outside in a Scottish summer.

" Rocoto long " from seaspring seeds in Dorset (the Dorset Naga people)

My first fruit Rocoto long..........the flowers of the pubescens are simply spectacular !

Stephen

 

[Pr0digal_son]

I'm going out on a limb and saying that these Scottish Pubes will be orange?

 

[Daibhidh]

Hi Guy's

Given the cooler climate the pubescens are from and can tolerate I decided to make 2023 my Scottish capsicum pubescens trial.............grown outside here in Scotland !

I've 7 contenders in my trial.............I've a winner in respect of being the first to fruit outside in a Scottish summer.

" Rocoto long " from seaspring seeds in Dorset (the Dorset Naga people)

My first fruit Rocoto long..........the flowers of the pubescens are simply spectacular !

Stephen

Hi Stephen,
Which other Pubescens did you include in your trial ? How are they getting on ?

 

[Englander]

Hi Guy's

My Scottish pubescens trial and when I say trial I mean "bung" 7 different pubescens into 15/20Litre pot's and pretty much neglect except feed now and then.

I'm looking for "bonus" low maintenance out door chillies for my wee Scottish garden as I'm really concerned with my superhot greenhouse trial this year the pubescens have been neglected and not really monitored idea being at the end of the season something may so promise that I concentrate on in the future basically I figure the neglect will so the wheat from the chaff so to speak.

Re your query regarding which pubescens has made me pop out to the garden this morning between heavy rain showers bright sun then black sky's which seems to be cycling round and round ! Good old Scottish summer

2023 Scottish pubescens neglecttion trial:

1. Chocolate locoto (realseeds)

2. Rocoto long (seaspring seeds)

3. Yellow traveller (realseeds)

4. Turbo pubes (la palmas)

5. Costa Rican red ((la palmas)

6. Albertos locoto (realseeds)

7. Aji Largo ( uk site ?)

Chatting with my buddy in Wales who grows alot of pubescens outdoors he reckoned the Rocoto long and Aji Largo to likely be one annd the same........? Or possibly a selection of the later ........

They do look very similar but from what I've seen to day one certainly is out doing the other !

The Costa Rican red despite the neglect has managed to produce not a huge amount but a few nice pod's

Likewise my Aji Largo has survived the neglect and produced a few nice pod's

However Rocoto long has thrived in my neglect it has the biggest and most pod's and is way ahead in number of pod's.

Everything else has either no real sign of pod's despite being covered in flower's or has a few ting pod's

2024 Pubescens trial will involve likely one or two subjects much bigger pot's and alot less neglect

Hope this us of interest and help

Stephen

 

[Englander]

If your interested in growing pubescens here in the UK take at look a www.spicemad.com go to his growlist scroll down to pubescens he's got great info growing down there in hot sunny Wales.....

 

[Englander]

Hi Guy's

My "Rocoto long" has been in the lead of my capsicum pubescens trial 2023 from the beginning and although similar to the Aji Largo it has out performed my Aji Largo plant.

My Rocoto Long grown outside in Scotland ! Seed from seaspring seeds uk

Stephen

 

[Daibhidh]

Thanks Stephen,
Your list is very useful to me. I am about to start a similar trial for 2024 season. I hope that it will be as successful as yours.
Daibhidh