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Nice. It's always interesting to see the variety of growth habits in the wilds, I've grown some tepins before and they stayed pretty short and bushy like yours. This year I'm growing a wild-harvested specimen from Tex16 (doesn't look like he's been active in a while), growth is more upright and...

Sooooo I'm a bit late on this, haven't been on the site too much in a while. I moved halfway across the state in June last year which put the entire garden in limbo. Since my roommate was still living there, I decided to just leave my plants and come back for them later. Let's just say not much...

I agree with AJ. In short, I defer to "it depends." Containers allow for a more controlled environment, which can be good or bad depending on how able you are to control said environment. I travel occasionally for my job, sometimes a week or more at a time, and not having any fancy equipment...

This year I noticed several pepper volunteers in the "compost pile" (more of my dumping ground for all food and garden scraps, I don't really maintain it). There is no chance of them being naturalized here, way too many invasives to contend with. I weeded the area a bit to see what happens...

All of mine popped in 3-5 days. Didn't realize how weird this was at the time... but like you said, I kept mine at a constant temperature. Much as I like pubescens, I don't think I'll be starting any more in the future. The lower Midwest is brutal. With the drought this year my wild annums were...

I've been growing Rocotos for two years and to this date I have only harvested 5 ripe peppers between 4 plants. Last year they had no chance of setting pods through most of the summer, but once temperatures stayed below 90 during the day/70 at night (they were planted in shade) I got a flurry of...

I had an eastern black nightshade pop up in one of my wild trays. No idea how it got there but it became pretty obvious that I wasn't dealing with a capsicum. Just be careful when you're buying seeds from unknown vendors. In most cases you'll just be dealing with the wrong variety, I can't...

I have not been staying on top of the garden or updates, so the garden has suffered. The drought hasn't been helping. Now that we're getting more rain things are perking back up. It's not a total loss, some points worth highlighting: I've decided in the future I am going to grow fewer plants...

Oh, and here are some of the not-Butch Ts. They look rather Hab-ish to me.

I'd wager on it being a cross, depending on how reliable your original source is. Datils have always been on the very low end of Hab in terms of heat for me, so anything hotter than that is suspect. Shape is less reliable as my pods have been anything from squat, blocky, and triangular, to more...

I've seen people mistakenly call pequins tepins and vice versa, may just be mislabeled. Part of the problem is that when a tepin crosses with something the resulting cross may resemble a pequin at a passing glance, since there's a lot of variability to pequin pod morphology to begin with. My...

I think the best you can say is that it's some sort of Cayenne-type, definitely looks like an annum, beyond that who knows. Prik chee fah grows upright in clusters, so it's not that. If it's as hot as you say, it's probably one of the Asian types. Sorry to hear about the scam, all too common...

Haven't been updating much because the garden is just puttering along at this point... the lack of rain is really hurting things. Haven't quite got my fert schedule right, I'm almost certainly under-fertilizing with the almost daily watering to contend with. Ah well. A few things worth noting...

Found a surprise in the garden today. One of my Rocotos must have not produced any ripe fruit last year, as I sure as hell don't remember having Orange Rocotos...

The point I was making is it's not like it's unnatural... bugs crap on your plants all the time, any passing animals may piss in your garden (I think the amount of bird crap on my plants is a testament to how gross nature can be), we like to think of agriculture as a carefully controlled...

I used to pee on the compost pile all the time, it can't really hurt anything to do it on your plants once in a while. Now that I live in town though it'd be a little more awkward... "Howdy neighbor!" :rofl: My only reservation about peeing directly on your plants is the sort of diet you...

Depending on the actual physical volume of peppers you need, you might just want to look into the smaller-podded varieties. Compared to the large guys, you don't get flushes throughout the season but more a relentless stream of small pods. For example, I can go out every single day during the...

Yep, I think so. So my extra plants were, not surprisingly, planted too close together, and it's quickly turning into a bloody deathmatch. Wiri Wiri in the front, Brain Strain Yellow in the back, with the Brain Strain yellow cross in the middle. The Serranos off to the side are starting to get...

Cayenne do just fine in pots in my experience. I had a whole bunch in cat litter buckets last year and they were loaded with pods. The one that bothered me was supposedly the Ring of Fire cultivar, it grew to be nearly 5 feet tall but never, no matter how many times I moved it around the yard...

Here's another shot of the two Pequins (front) and the Tepin cross. The second photo is a better picture of the colors on the Tepin cross. Almost 4 cups of peppers today. Not including the serranos, Big Jims, and bell peppers.