Finally, I have something to show. 
I am working mostly on my crosses, top priority has been developing cold hardier varieties, since I am not able to grow chinense plants at all outside due to low temperatures. This summer has been historically cold, we only had 1 so-called "summer day" in July with temperatures above 25 degress Celsius (77 degr. Fahrenheit), it's been in the range with max. temps of 18-22 C. (64-72 F.)
I started my breeding with the Naga Morich, which I crossed with an early flowering dwarf Pequin variety called Pequin da Ischia, this year I have 5 plants in the F7 generation, last year all 4 plants looked identical, so it seems stabilized. The plants started flowering about 6-7 weeks ago, by comparison most of my chinense varieties started a couple of weeks ago, MA Wartryx just began... I expect ripe pods in 2-3 weeks.
The "Nagaquin F7" (Naga Morich x Pequin da Ischia):
I have other crosses too and have crossed my best selections to get something special and at the same time more grow friendly for my cold climate. I love the cluster varieties and I am trying to develop some early, dark leaved varieties with chinense aromas. I have selected 4 plants till now this year from the following cross, which involves 7 different varieties, it is at what you could call "F2-stage" between an F2 and an F3 selection:
((Sarit Gat x Black Pearl) F2 x (Aribibi Gusano x Pimenta Morango) F3) F3 Cluster Selection
crossed with
(Naga Morich x Pequin da Ischia) F3 x (Thunder Mountain Longhorn) F2 Chinense Aroma Selection
First one is special: very compact, never made any branching but has extremely many pods coming from the top (as you may be able to see there were even more, but I used a lot of flowers for collecting pollen and till now unsuccesfully tried to bag flowers)
No. 2 also has many pods set at branching point, but it did branch out, you can see two black stems in the background, I removed two others due to lack of growing space in front of the plant.
No. 3 was very early with blackish leaves and umbrella branching. It went through a long and beautiful ripening pattern to orange. It is very hot and has Naga Morich-like aroma
No. 4 seems to be what I was looking for originally and the reason why I included Thunder Mountain Longhorn in the cross - but does it have the aroma I am after? Time will tell...
I am working mostly on my crosses, top priority has been developing cold hardier varieties, since I am not able to grow chinense plants at all outside due to low temperatures. This summer has been historically cold, we only had 1 so-called "summer day" in July with temperatures above 25 degress Celsius (77 degr. Fahrenheit), it's been in the range with max. temps of 18-22 C. (64-72 F.)I started my breeding with the Naga Morich, which I crossed with an early flowering dwarf Pequin variety called Pequin da Ischia, this year I have 5 plants in the F7 generation, last year all 4 plants looked identical, so it seems stabilized. The plants started flowering about 6-7 weeks ago, by comparison most of my chinense varieties started a couple of weeks ago, MA Wartryx just began... I expect ripe pods in 2-3 weeks.
The "Nagaquin F7" (Naga Morich x Pequin da Ischia):
I have other crosses too and have crossed my best selections to get something special and at the same time more grow friendly for my cold climate. I love the cluster varieties and I am trying to develop some early, dark leaved varieties with chinense aromas. I have selected 4 plants till now this year from the following cross, which involves 7 different varieties, it is at what you could call "F2-stage" between an F2 and an F3 selection:
((Sarit Gat x Black Pearl) F2 x (Aribibi Gusano x Pimenta Morango) F3) F3 Cluster Selection
crossed with
(Naga Morich x Pequin da Ischia) F3 x (Thunder Mountain Longhorn) F2 Chinense Aroma Selection
First one is special: very compact, never made any branching but has extremely many pods coming from the top (as you may be able to see there were even more, but I used a lot of flowers for collecting pollen and till now unsuccesfully tried to bag flowers)
No. 2 also has many pods set at branching point, but it did branch out, you can see two black stems in the background, I removed two others due to lack of growing space in front of the plant.
No. 3 was very early with blackish leaves and umbrella branching. It went through a long and beautiful ripening pattern to orange. It is very hot and has Naga Morich-like aroma
No. 4 seems to be what I was looking for originally and the reason why I included Thunder Mountain Longhorn in the cross - but does it have the aroma I am after? Time will tell...
