Mutant Candlelight

simonpepper · Mar 31, 2015

Where can I find the seeds of MUTANT CANDLELIGHT?

KrakenPeppers · Mar 31, 2015

Sounds like a one off and possible sterile too

Phil · Mar 31, 2015

Is that a pepper? Internet search shows nothing.

simonpepper · Mar 31, 2015

Capsicum annum is a very special

chilli whisperer · Mar 31, 2015

Gnarly looking plant

RobStar · Mar 31, 2015

It is a mutation of Candlelight - an ornamental varity - similar to Numex's Chili Institute's range of ornamentals but looking more like a very compact Poinsettia or Jap Hot Claw.

It appeared in a Finnish grower's batch of seedlings - it has yet to fruit so I would say it has very limited appeal - a chili that doesn't produce chilis. "Hi, welcome to my apple orchard that doesn't produce apples" "So it's just an orchard then." "Actually more like a woodlot"

Pr0digal_son · Mar 31, 2015

Aropupu was the first person I saw grow this. Not sterile,many people are growing it this season.

*edit* It was bluesman who proved this plant wasn't sterile. My appologies. This is his photo.

RobStar · Mar 31, 2015

Well I'll be.........

Thanks Pr0d! I retract my statement. It is now an apple orchard.

Alchymystic · Mar 31, 2015

Very interesting plant! Great for novelty - possible breeding experiments. More great pics here on the German site http://chiliforum.hot-pain.de(and throughout the thread...some pics over at http://www.wildchilli.eu as well..)

The last 3 or so pages have the best fully mature plant & pepper pics - http://www.chiliforum.hot-pain.de/thread-23567-page-11.html

I thought it looked like dried out Tarragon at first, or even a very dwarf species of a pure Cannabis Sativa variety (ie: Pure 'Haze', or some pure land race strain - an African/Swazi/Bush varietal) I like this one-

Hybrid Mode 01 · Mar 31, 2015

Interesting plant. All of mine look like that for a while every spring when they get hit with herbicide drift.

juanitos · Mar 31, 2015

wow that's interesting... not sure how practical / beneficial

simonpepper · Mar 31, 2015

Pr0digal_son said:
Aropupu was the first person I saw grow this. Not sterile,many people are growing it this season.

*edit* It was bluesman who proved this plant wasn't sterile. My appologies. This is his photo.

is good is just mr bluesman, you know how I can contact him?

Trident chilli · Mar 31, 2015

Bluesman real name Rauno if you look on the UK chilli forum " Chillis Galore" on the grow log thread you will find him lurking there .... very knowledgable and his hydroponic chilli jungle is always worth a look

Hope this helps Simone

Bluesman · Apr 3, 2015

Pictures from March 2015

Almost like growing the herb dill. Upper left corner is the real Candlelight.

Bluesman · Apr 3, 2015

23.1.2010; the first pic ever taken of this "thing". I let it grow because I couldn´t identify what species this was. It took a long time before I even realized this could be a Capsicum. Even when the first flowers appeared (the plant was 6-7cm in height) I wasn´t able too tell what genus this could be.
I got the Candlelight seeds from a fellow hobbyist in Finland. 2014 I received 1000 seeds from the original 2009 batch and screened if there were more like this.

Now that I know what to look for the mutants were easy to mark.

The screening revealed that about 2% of the seeds were mutated. Or a bit more since the germination rate was poor; ~20-30%.
This screening was done with 5 year old seeds but the result is, at least I thein it is, only one pod contained the mutation.

simonpepper · Apr 4, 2015

Bluesman said:
23.1.2010; the first pic ever taken of this "thing". I let it grow because I couldn´t identify what species this was. It took a long time before I even realized this could be a Capsicum. Even when the first flowers appeared (the plant was 6-7cm in height) I wasn´t able too tell what genus this could be.
I got the Candlelight seeds from a fellow hobbyist in Finland. 2014 I received 1000 seeds from the original 2009 batch and screened if there were more like this.

Now that I know what to look for the mutants were easy to mark.

The screening revealed that about 2% of the seeds were mutated. Or a bit more since the germination rate was poor; ~20-30%.
This screening was done with 5 year old seeds but the result is, at least I thein it is, only one pod contained the mutation.

Good morning Mr. Rauno, its plant is spectacular, congratulations! I wanted to know if I can buy some seeds, I would be very grateful

Bluesman · Apr 4, 2015

PM sent.

danish · Apr 4, 2015

Bluesman, she is a beautiful plant. I adore the pictures.

If I may, how well does she set pods? Did you have to do anything special?

Bluesman · Apr 4, 2015

danish said:
Bluesman, she is a beautiful plant. I adore the pictures.

If I may, how well does she set pods? Did you have to do anything special?

Thanks, I think it looks like a dill or something awful but it´s quite peculiar and rare. The plant starts to set pods when less than 10cm tall and it doen´t need anything special. The other thing is to get seeds which are pretty hard to get. 10 pods this year ripened without a trace of seeds.

Bluesman · Apr 13, 2015

8 pods, 6 seeds. It´s a start. Haven´t checked the other plants but soon I will.

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