Hi Guys,
Ive grown hundreds of different varieties of Chilli plants over the years but Id never come across anything as weird some of the plant which have sprung up this year.
The plants came from seed taken from pods of a Jamacian Red Hot plant (a Chinense) which grew in the middle of my Tomato plants last year (or so I thought). Although Tomato & Chillis are from the same botanical family (Solanaceae or nightshade family) I had never heard of them crossing before and was getting kinda excited thinking I created some kind of cross.
The plant appeared to share some of the charactertics of the apparent parent plant having 'Tomato like' leaves but 'chilli plant like' flowers & pods. All very weird. I have 4 plants all of which are growing like wild fire and are loaded with pods. Here are some pictures:
The Plant (some specimens are nearly 3ft high)
The Flowers (note the chinense like multiple nodes but white flowers - tomato plants normally have yellow flowers)
The pods (these are tepin size small spherical pods some of which are starting to ripen to black!)
Unforunately it turns out it is from the Solanaceae family, but unfortuantely its Solanum nigrum or Black Nightshade and its the berries are poisonous, at least while they are green. Oh well, theres always next year.
Ive grown hundreds of different varieties of Chilli plants over the years but Id never come across anything as weird some of the plant which have sprung up this year.
The plants came from seed taken from pods of a Jamacian Red Hot plant (a Chinense) which grew in the middle of my Tomato plants last year (or so I thought). Although Tomato & Chillis are from the same botanical family (Solanaceae or nightshade family) I had never heard of them crossing before and was getting kinda excited thinking I created some kind of cross.
The plant appeared to share some of the charactertics of the apparent parent plant having 'Tomato like' leaves but 'chilli plant like' flowers & pods. All very weird. I have 4 plants all of which are growing like wild fire and are loaded with pods. Here are some pictures:
The Plant (some specimens are nearly 3ft high)
The Flowers (note the chinense like multiple nodes but white flowers - tomato plants normally have yellow flowers)
The pods (these are tepin size small spherical pods some of which are starting to ripen to black!)
Unforunately it turns out it is from the Solanaceae family, but unfortuantely its Solanum nigrum or Black Nightshade and its the berries are poisonous, at least while they are green. Oh well, theres always next year.
just imagine that'd be the only plant you'd need to grow for making salsa 
that just aint right! but it'd still be a very cool plant to grow & eat.