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seeds Mixed my labels, any chance of identifying seedlings?

G

Gilthefish

So I mixed up acouple of my trays, but I do know the order I planted them in. Is there any chance at telling the seedlings apart? Maybe the different species? They are just starting to pop so i wont upload any pictures just yet but can you tell Baccatum from Chinense?
 
my list goes like this:
 
Tray A:
 
7 pot yellow long   (CH)
Scotch bonnet WHP  (CH)
Bahamian goat  (CH)
Bahamian beast  (CH)
yellow Nagabrains (CH)
7 pot brain strain (CH)
Bahamian goat pepper 7 (CH)
Bradley's Bahamian (FR)
aji puira (BA)
chocolate hab  (CH)
 
Tray B:
 
Roatan pumpkin hab  (CH)
guyana pepper (BA)
Dulce sol (BA)
aji dulce long (BA)
zavory (CH)
malaga bird (FR)
capsicum galapagoense long (GA)
red savina hab (CH)
tabasco (FR)
farm/potato jalapeno (AN)
aji omnicolour (BA)
white hab (CH)
 
Tray C:
 
Aji colorado (BA)
Aji Cito (BA)
aji rainforest (BA)
aji finlandia (BA)
aji mango (BA)
mustard hab (CH)
yellow hab (CH)
olive hab (CH)
chocolate hab (CH)
aji pineapple (BA)
brazillian starfish oragne (BA)
peter pepper (AN)
 
Are there any differences in seedlings of the different species?
 
thanks
 
Not a chance, small plants may have different leaf shapes or grow to them, if they are Baccatum or a habanero kind. When they make pods, then you can id them more easy.
 
My pup got on my grow table with 40 plants last year during a storm.Black plastic all around,he must have thought he was in outer space.Tags,pots dirt mixed up everywhere.I figured it all out 2 months later.lol

Here is some of the carnage
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And the little weasel
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I disagree or maybe the response did not read the post carefully. You can tell seedlings apart - especially the species.  I gather that you can't tell which tray is which.  So Tray A will have mostly C. chinense (with one frutescens) = this tray will be the most uniform.  One thing about C. chinense and bacatum is that they are generally slower to germinate and grow  Tray B - this one has Tabasco and a Jalapeno at spots 9 and 10.  These should be easy to ID from the others.  Tabasco seedlings will have much more narrow leaves (and be generally darker green - though they may be as slow as C. chinense).  Jalapeno will have narrower leaves, but not as narrow as Tabasco, but will grow much faster so should look much bigger than the other peppers. Tray C, the peter pepper is on the end - will be much more vigorous than the other peppers - looking much like the Jalapeno. I have much harder time distinguishing C. baccatum (some baccatum can look like annuum a bit too, but will not be as quick to grow) from C. chinense seedlings, but you don't have to.  Mark your trays - and right and left ends, label the rows with a plastic stake, separate the rows (with labels or bamboo skewers - or whatever), and make a tray map (you must have done this).  I have learned the hard way!
 
randyp said:
My pup got on my grow table with 40 plants last year during a storm.Black plastic all around,he must have thought he was in outer space.Tags,pots dirt mixed up everywhere.I figured it all out 2 months later.lol

Here is some of the carnage
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And the little weasel
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya2xifdO_l0
 
Last year I found the chinenses are squat and stocky at first (i.e. not much stem between the leaf nodes) whereas the baccatums grew much taller, much quicker so had bigger gaps between.
 
I'll see if I can find a picture.
 
[SIZE=medium]First pic shows an annuum (Peter Pepper) on the left, with chinenses to the right (Reaper, Choc Hab, SB MoA.)[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=medium]Second pic shows three baccatums on the left (all Aji Omnicolor) and a chinense (Reaper) on the right.[/SIZE]
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Well here a pic from the grow log, I'm pretty sure the one with all the bacs germinated first, the other two i thought had figured but then the galapagense would have already germinated 3 out of the 6 cubes. I'm thinking maybe C and D are mixed?
 
In the pic, the first date is when the seeds were sown, the last date is when the first germinated.
 
 
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How big are the galapagoense seedlings? you should be able to tell pretty quick which ones they are cuz they'll look "hairy" and have a slight aroma to them.
 
Acouple of pics of the trays
 
All 3 side by side:
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tray A
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tray B
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tray C
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what i believe to be C. galapagonese  (could also be a yellow hab or a bahamian goat)
possible galap.jpg
 
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