Mad Hatter--Has anyone grown these?

nmlarson

• Jun 19, 2018

• #1

Hi all,
 
This is my first time growing this variety of pepper, which is a bishop's crown type and is marketed as a capsicum baccatum.  Today I noticed some sort of hairy growth on the leaves, mostly along the center vein of the leaf, ending near where the leaf joins the it's stem, on the underside of the leaf.  It doesn't seem to rub off like a film or fungus.  Some of the peppers I'm growing do have hairy leaves, but none look like this.  I have two questions I'd love to have answers for:
 

1. Has anyone grown this variety of pepper? and,
2. Is this a normal characteristic of a baccatum?

 

 
Here's the mature pepper:
 

 

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Chilidude

• Jun 19, 2018

• #2

More or less hairy leaves are quite normal for a lot of c.baccatum i have grown, so no worries.

 

bongcloud

• Jun 19, 2018

• #3

I've planted 3 mystery plants this year from an old pod that seemed to be something like a bishop's crown. The plants are over a foot tall now and started flowering. Leaves look pretty much identical to those. Don't know if it's a general characteristic of baccatums, though.