I am growing Butch T's and I have some at my partners place in a grow room still in gallon pots never been outside sure to be root bound producing perfect Butch T pods with tails every single pod, but the ones here in my yard in 7 gallon pots given the best of everything spoiled if you will look more like Douglah pods, no tails at all none of them and the pods are bigger. A few look like they kind of want to form a tail but at the last min changed their mind.
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Butch T's tail or no tail
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salsalady
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Spanky, I processed 50 pounds of 7 Pots, all from the same grower in CA, and from what I understand from the same field, and only about 1/3 of the pods had the distinctive tail. The rest just looked like habs. I have no idea if your different growing environment would influence stinger production or not, but I know you cannot base a determination fo whether a chile is a scorpion or not based on whether it has a tail or not.
Somehow I posted this topic twice oops
I know my Butch T plants, in the height of the drought and heatwave, produced all but 10 pods without stingers. That was about 95% with stingers. The next round are just starting and growing conditions are much better so I will probably see a lot less stingers. From what I have been told, people see get a lot more stingers when the plants are stressed.
Hmm. So stressed plants result in the stinger, that from my limited knowledge. Is a distinct marking of a scorpion. The reason I thought it was called a scorpion.
Ok I screwed this topic up. Lol.
You guys are not talking about scorpions. Lol.
So a stressed butch t can have a stinger..
Got it.
Ok I screwed this topic up. Lol.
You guys are not talking about scorpions. Lol.
So a stressed butch t can have a stinger..
Got it.
Last season i grew butch T from seeds i got from the hippy seed company , when they first poded up i thought i must of been sent the wrong seeds as the pods looked like what salsalady said not the scorp shape and no tail , , then after the first lot of pod were picked it started to throw out another lot of pods that did have the perfect scorp butch t shape , the same thing happnd with my yellow 7's they didnt show the true shape till they were well into there second lot of pods , but towards the end of the season and when it was a bit cooler they shape stayed the same but the pods were not as big.
Maybe the amount of sun , or the extream heat of summer that we get here in perth wa has something to do with it im not sure.
Maybe the amount of sun , or the extream heat of summer that we get here in perth wa has something to do with it im not sure.
I don't know that any of us know for sure at this point. I don't feel comfortable saying it is directly related to stress, but I also haven't had any cool weather pods yet. I should start seeing them in a couple of weeks though.