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Chocolate CPS still looking very healthy after a long winter and oculto clef firing out new growth. Pubescens and Baccatum seem perfectly placed to do well in the climate the greenhouse provides here - hence my desire to build out my collection of them (and their wild relatives). Having big...

for what its worth, I've found flex very hard to germinate. I've tried fresh seed from berries, seed from a few different sources and I've really struggled, more so than I have with any other wild. I do have seed coming up at present though so perhaps there is or was something about my process...

The Flex is up and leafing out nicely. First annums went in this morning: - Thunder Cacho Brown - Pippin's Golden Honey (have decided I'm definitely gonna have a real think about doing a Horace Pippin tribute grow next year) - Petit Marseillais Still to go: - Capia - Romanian Sweet -...

Baby flexuosum after a load of failures. Please let the seed cap come off 🤞🤞🤞🤞

Wow that is quite a greenhouse! 😲 It’s pretty special - I’m just renting a bit of it but I’d love to someday own one and live out all my tropical plant dreams at once!

Not sure what’s prompted it but despite the cold snap this little Florida wild bird has decided to grow full speed ahead and he started pushing flowers in January!

A slight cold-fried dwarf Brazilian banana Some ripe turkey berries / devils figs / Thai pea eggplants. Poisonous at this stage as I understand it. We eat them green. slightly grumpy tamarillo and very grumpy red dacca bananas not enjoying this week's cold! You can see some physallis...

Since people expressed an interest in what else I’m growing I thought I’d share a few pictures…. The most successful thing are these physalis ground cherries/ physallis - they were here when I got here and are a massive pain to be honest… They take over and perennialise in the greenhouse and if...

alas frost today and snow last week. I've not dared look in the greenhouses yet!

It's a beast isn't it? I only have a little section - most of it is operated by someone who grows indigo commercially. My section has bananas, figs, tamarillo, mountain papaya and passiflora as well as a few other bits and is a sort of ramshackle foodforest in a greenhouse in design.

Some baby rocotos…. Mini olive and de la selva rojo Arequipa

That flexuosum loop has completely disappeared. 🤷‍♂️😭 I’ve got sugar rush stripey, charapita and chacoense up though

Did my traditional batch of new year’s eve seeds yesterday: Chupetinho black peach KS Lemon Starrburst Aji sugar rush peach stripey White Morouga And a couple more seeds of two of the rocotos that are showing no signs of life yet Whisper it as it’s a long way away from green leaves yet but that...

Just sowed batch 2: Chacoense purple flower Cap691 Aji charapita

A few pics from the tail end of the year - Aji melocoton chucking out pods by the dozen - this plant is probably 4 years old. Jalapeno Maylon - a pod I missed until this weekend which corked spectacularly Rocoto Oculto CLEF is about 8 foot high! The background here gives a good view on the...

It varies - some years we just barely get one or two light frosts a year, others we get minus five or six. Last year was bad enough to frost burn all the bananas in the big greenhouse (which is unheated) but all the chillis survived. Perhaps worth being clear I'm in the British Channel Islands...

Decided to drop a few seeds in december for next year so decided to start a '24 Glog early. I'm very lucky in that in addition to a small domestic greenhouse at our house I also have access to a significant space in a commercial greenhouse (our little island used to be the UK's leading tomato...

Not sure if rocopica fits the bill of “wild” but if it does I’m off to the races for 2024.

As I rummaged through a bag full of assorted envelopes and baggies yesterday I came to wondering - how do Hot Pepper users with big seed collections manage their collections? Specifically I’m wondering: - for those of you who don’t grow every variety in your collection every year, how often do...

Sowed next year’s pubes at the weekend and, more relevantly for this thread, some flexuosum. I’ve failed utterly in 2 previous attempts to germinate this variety so wish me luck!