Not so Pequin- Chocolate?

D3monic · Aug 23, 2016

I started some pequins late in season
The one I have going in a pot was throwing large, long pods white a few others are normal sized.

Well today while watering I noticed not only are they large but they appear to be chocolates as well.

There's 4-5 plants going, each one looks a little different. This one I think is closest to growing true?

Here's two plants next to eachother, can see the big difference in leaves, size pods ect.

Curious to see how they taste.

hogleg · Aug 23, 2016

Whoa thats trippy? Kinda looks like a chocolate goatsweed? is the plant kinda fuzzy? It looks kinda fuzzy, hard to tell though. Is that two pods out of one node in the top pic?

D3monic · Aug 23, 2016

not fuzzy but yea there are two pods out of that node.

Your right though, that last plant is fuzzy, that's probably the cross. It's a different plant than the one throwing brown pods but all from the same dried pod you sent me.

The one that has browning pods also has a hint of red to the pod so i'll give them a few more days. Maybe they will go green, brown then red.

hogleg · Aug 23, 2016

All this time I've been waiting for you to make a goatsweed cross and you get one outta seeds I sent you. :rofl:

maybe?

Were they out of the kinda long pequin pods I sent you? I remember my regular pequin throwing 3 or 4 long pods that year, curious if those were the crosses??

D3monic · Aug 23, 2016

There was long and short pods in the bag, don't remember which I used. I'll send you a sfrb once they all start ripening

hogleg · Aug 23, 2016

Stoked!!

Yea I remember sending you a couple those odd long ones. The couple pods out of one node and the brown make me curious about a chinense cross as well though? Jah choc hab, choc bhut, and a brown moruga cross are still possibilities too I reckon. sorry bout not growing true

D3monic · Aug 23, 2016

as long as they taste good i'm happy. I gave a plant to a mexican buddy of mine because he killed his dads overwinter. He's getting long pods too. Not sure if they brown or not. Could just be part of a color change.

D3monic · Aug 26, 2016

Yea the pods went red. Nice looking pods though. I bet they taste good. I'll give one a try this weekend.

hogleg · Aug 26, 2016

D3monic said:
Yea the pods went red. Nice looking pods though. I bet they taste good. I'll give one a try this weekend.

The more I look at the pics the more I'm leaning towards a goatsweed being the father.

D3monic · Aug 27, 2016

Yea i'm leaning toward goatsweed as well. I'll give these a taste here in a bit.

D3monic · Aug 31, 2016

I tasted these, never had a fresh pequin so can't compare yet but I really like the taste. Has a very sweet taste, around serrano heat. Tasty pepper. Some the juices have a red tint to them,

D3monic · Sep 3, 2016

Finally got a ripe pod on one the other plants.

From left to right.

The plant that is fuzzy like a goatsweed, The potted plant that I already taste tested, the smaller what I would expect to be a pequin size and far right an actual goatsweed for comparison.

Shorerider · Sep 4, 2016

I once had a Rocoto throw out a few Chocolate pods, it was just part of the color change from green to red.

In my case, I think it was the way in which the sun and temperature affected these particular pods which turned them brown.

Nice looking pods either way D3.

SR.

D3monic · May 27, 2017

Growing 3 plants this year of the pequin x goatsweed. 3 different phenos

Pheno 1

Pheno 2 with mutant pods

Pheno 3 with black pods

hogleg · May 27, 2017

I'm diggin on pheno 3 Those are really cool looking. I like the somewhat blunt end on em.

D3monic · May 27, 2017

hogleg said:
I'm diggin on pheno 3 Those are really cool looking. I like the somewhat blunt end on em.

I like 2 because it was a really early producer and covered in pods. And they have those weird curly que things on the sides.

I like pheno #3 because the pods are black and they grow upright.

Curious to see how they taste.

karoo · May 28, 2017

Thanx ,
great pics and write-up.
I love to explore different phenos of one cross or even stable pepper.