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Wild Tepin hooks!

So I left my germinating cups sitting on a table on the porch yesterday while I was across town for a family get together. I should have checked the weather since it rained cats and dogs in the early afternoon. The problem is that table sits under the edge of the roof and it gets hit with some hard runoff when it rains..oops! When I got home I checked my cups and out of 8, 3 had been almost totally washed out :doh: On the plus side, there were hooks poking out of 2 cups, and a full blown seedling from another :dance:
I put these in about 2 weeks ago. Congo Brown from 2010, and wild Tepin my mom found down by a river bank in Bastrop Texas in 2011. I really wasn't expecting too much since they are so old, now my hopes are up that I might get that Tepin to grow. pics when I get home.
 
Pics
The Congo Browns got their cotyledons up
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3SKBRLcpAgIbUg2SUc5dzJoYjQ/edit?usp=sharing

One of the Tepin seeds just starting to uncurl, its just below and to the right of that tiny stick standing up. I covered it back up with some soil after this pic, there is at least one more starting to sprout in there but I couldn't find it again.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3SKBRLcpAgId0pNenZpcHFEVm8/edit?usp=sharing
 
Those seeds are not old. They are babies but congrats on the pops. The wild Texas Tepins are some of my favorite peppers.
 
6:6 germinated. I like the slender cotyledons on these.
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