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Who has grown Solanum alternopinatum? I would like to know whether is recommended or required to have more than one plant for succesful pollinization and fruit set. Seeds are available in the US, someone must have grown this species.

When does the risk of frost pass in your area? A bushy basement you have :)

As a kid, I found it very confusing that "pepper" could be chile as well as peppercorn.

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Peppers sent into Space

Pepper pod is only wrong in a strict botanical sense, but not necessarily in other forms of language usage. The called-for "correction" of pod > berry based on botanical conventions is overzealous and unwarranted, especially because "pod" is a perfectly acceptable term to describe chile in...

That's just plastic plants to look impressive.

Growth will be bushy then.

Piper or Capsicum? :seeya:

Since we can only use Anglicized names, let us see what the OED has to say about chi(l)i:

Müller's whopper is just a regular-sized amorphophallus... If you want next-level whoppers: That's Amorphophallus titanum ☺️

If all goes well, that is... It takes a few years before the plants begins flowering. I'll be happy if I can taste a bulb in a year or so ☺️

Early March, I received some random mail package from Indonesia . It contained mostly palm seeds but also seeds of the aroid Amorphophallus muelleri (Müller's unsightly penis 🤡). I have absolutely no experience with Amorphophallus species. Seeds had begun to germinate in transit and seedlings...

That's right, Solanum schizandrum! At least one species that's doing well 😑 New growth shows spines on stems as well as leaves.

I hope not, because even as non-participant this game was/is fun to watch.