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Chocolate Fatalii Savina (Pics)

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I picked up "Fatalii x Red Savina" from a member here. Two of the plants appeared to grow true, but the third looks more like a Chocolate Fatalii or Moruga? It's a dark chocolate brown, with almost a hint of purple, and slightly larger than the fatalli/red savina on average.  I have nothing else like it growing this year.
 
Here's the brown "chocolate" variant next to the ones that grew true.
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On the plant.
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Another closeup.
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Thanks for your thoughts!
 
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Not sure where you got the seed from. If they come from me in 2011 there were no chocolate peppers anywhere near them. I have only had 2 variants, red and yellow. Red starts with the Red Savina flavor with a dash of fatalii on the back end and the Yellow is just the opposite. I like the yellow because it starts wit Fatalii flavor and the back end is a mild Red Savina flavor that doesn't over power.

If they came from another source then it is hard to say. They look more Choc habish.
 
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Justaguy said:
Not sure where you got the seed from. If they come from me in 2011 there were no chocolate peppers anywhere near them. I have only had 2 variants, red and yellow. Red starts with the Red Savina flavor with a dash of fatalii on the back end and the Yellow is just the opposite. I like the yellow because it starts wit Fatalii flavor and the back end is a mild Red Savina flavor that doesn't over power.If they came from another source then it is hard to say. They look more Choc habish.
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Thanks for your thoughts. They are not yours. I spoke with the seed supplier, and the only possible crosses are choc bhut or choc hab (good guess). I haven't grown choc Habs before - these are larger and more wrinkled than my other habs (orange and caribbean red). I'm going to try one today to try and get more clues. Perhaps they are not a cross and just large choc Habs?
 
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have you any pics of them cut open?
the plant they came from what was it supposed to have been,
I think they look great, have you tasted them, what's the heat and flavour like?????
 
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JungleRain said:
have you any pics of them cut open?e
the plant they came from what was it supposed to have been,
I think they look great, have you tasted them, what's the heat and flavour like?????
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Here are 4 of them in the middle of bhut jolokia (left) and fatalii/red savina cross (what they were supposed to be) for reference.  Their size is pretty consistent with the fatalli/red savina.  Some are pointy, and some are fat and stubby.  I think it's either a cross or a straight up chocolate habanero - which I've never grown or had before.  The seeds came from someone who also grows chocolate habanero, so perhaps one got mixed in.
 
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Here is one cut open.
 
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I'm no expert taster, but it's definitely hotter than a standard habanero, and I like the taste better.  It also didn't have that distinctive orange hab smell.  What do you think?
 
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there's really no way of telling !00% what was crossed with what unless it was an intentional cross...
maybe a Habanero choc seed got mixed up or the plants could have been open pollinated
and the chocolate phenotype is showing up now???????????
 
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With all this talk of chocolate variants, I thought I'd bump my "Chocolate Fatalii Savina" post. The F2s are currently busy growing, and the F1 mother was an overwinter survivor. Now taking orders !!!! I'll be rich I tell you, rich beyond my wildest dreams!! :)
 
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