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  Thanks about the flowers!    There's a pod on that baccatum x Cumari Pollux F2 with the lilac (and  most snowflake-like) flowers that should be pollinated with CAP 1151.  1151 has the biggest flowers on a baccatum that I've grown so far.  The initial cross was not for just for flowers, but...

Thank you PaulG!   Have a Happy Thanksgiving as well!   - Tick

Very late season update -   Thanks about the white pods (and some stayed white!) and yes, the heat set back many plants and once it finally cooled, it did so too much and too quickly!   Some pictures from the last few weeks up to last night:   Chaco CAP 212 has ripened:   Purple-flowered chaco...

Thanks - 100 would be the way to go but I'd be happy just growing 20 of each F2!   Some year I'll do that (was hoping for at least 15 of CXC4), but hopefully backcrossing will help me get plants with the traits I like without having to screen larger numbers of each cross.  But yes, the...

Thanks Spicegeist!   I finally had a Saturday calm enough to play with my camera and post - It's been hard to just find time to do much gardening, I have to kind of sneak it in.  My kids were worn out from a sleepover so I took the opportunity to get some closer shots - I was lying on my back...

I don't know if it's been the heat this summer, but most of my plants haven't done much in terms of producing pods - especially the chinenses.  The only far along chinenses are the CAP 691 x bhut F1 and F2 which have plenty of ripe pods.  I'll soon bring them to work for a taste testing to...

Belated glog 2016 – finally time for an update on my peppers!   I started sowing seeds in early March, and I've had less time for the peppers until recently than in other years. Despite that, germination was very successful at first. Then I started overthinking things and that, combined with a...

Hey Juanitos,   Thanks!  I am growing this year, just haven't had time to post yet.   I have a decent number of plants including F2s and F3s of some of the above crosses and a couple of new varieties, including one CAP 1151 (baccatum), a variety I couldn't get to germinate last year.  At the...

  Hey Runescape,   Here's a better pic I took of the plant you asked about:   It's an accidental cross, CXC2 x CGN 21566.  Thought it was a CXC2 F2 at first as it's in the earlier picture with all 14 F2s together. I thought maybe some recessive genes came together for increased anthocyanin...

Well, It's supposed to not only be the first frost but also a freeze tonight.  It's late and the temp is 42F at the moment, so I'm not sure if it will happen,   Anyway, the plants that I hope to ripen pods on and/or possibly overwinter are in the basement as it's going to be cold the next 2...

It's been an odd growing year - many of my plants stalled earlier.  However, last week was very warm here for this time of year, in the upper eighties if not nineties, as was the week before.   The above average temps have given a late season boost to the plants and many are quite big, at least...

The 3 Star of Turkeys were among the dozen or so plants that got a nasty disease this spring.  It was a shame because they were very attractive seedlings and my daughter had picked them, from among some extra seeds that came from Pepperlover, to grow.  They've recovered and are again attractive...

Labor Day update:   CAP 546:   The IPK database describes its immature pods as white as you can see above.  It also says it's a frutescens - I think it's a annuum and a nice one at that!   Now some hybrids: frutescens (either Malagueta or Bradley's Bahamian) x CAP 691 F1 has pods after 2...

Thanks - it's redder than I expected, but makes it all the more angry looking.

7 pot caramel:

Thanks aj!   Here's the normal (on left with a pod) and quad Moruga:   Both are underpotted at this point

It's more than about time for another update!  Lot's of other stuff going on and computer issues were part of the delay.   The other part is that many plants were stalled for quite a while and I was becoming quite unimpressed with my gardening attempt this year.  The conditions have maybe been...

Update on the 2 Moruga siblings -   Quad on left:

All hybrids in this update!   First some F1 fun -   Cumari Pollux F1:   CXC5 (chinense cross, CGN 21566 is dad):   CXC4 (chinense cross, half-superhot):   Now a few F2s - 3x Chiltepin Sonoran Orange x CAP 691 F2s (F1 parent on right):   Biggest F2, sort of looks like CAP 691:   Its flower...

So I finally have the time (and a working computer of my own again at home) to post a quick update - mostly of my wilder plants.  The weather quickly warmed up in May, especially during the days but, of course, this last week had record cold temps again.  Even so, the plants have done well...