The plant was looking absolutely fantastic for a while. It was growing like a tree, was loaded with pods and flowers, and the leaves had turned a darker shade of green. Unfortunately, the wind and heavy rain knocked it over during the monsoon. It still lives, but it doesn't stand up...
Same here. Not a single pod off one of my superhots, or, come to think of it, any chinense varieties. Bad seeds and forgetfulness made me start too late this year. At least my chiltepins are loaded!
We found a plant a year or two ago, over at Harlow Gardens, I believe. I really know very little about the ancestry of this one. The pods aren't nearly as hot or flavorful as the Sonora natives, but the plant's visual beauty makes up for it!
Don't most chinense varieties take about 90 days or so to ripen?
Pods will also ripen off the plant once picked if you get them close enough to ripening naturally, sunlight speeds this up.
Good luck, ob
Finally an update about this plant worth sharing!
I have four Cayenne x BC plants, and one of them has set pods.
The flowers are quite beautiful, white with purple tipped petals.
As you can see, the pods themselves are erect and black [insert penis joke here] (I know, its technically a...
Both root binding and nutrient deficiency are usually marked by yellowed leaves rather than healthy green ones. ConMan, what do the leaves look like, are they wrinkled, etc.?
Pictures always help.
This may also be an issue with watering.
In case you hadn't read this somewhere before, 7 pots have their name because they supposedly have enough heat to spice seven pots of chili or stew, though I know of some people on this forum that would use seven chiles for a single pot!
They do look like annuum, strongly resembling cayenne. I have not heard of this variety before, but google image search gives me lots of different-looking peppers all called Kashmiri. Perhaps instead of one specific variety, Kashmiri refers to any species from the Kashmir region? Just my two...