breeding-crossing Gorilla Chili Pepper Breeding Project

[HerbCasa]

Three pictures of
Three peppers from
Three different plants

One Two Three

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PODS ​

To be..selected for heat and flavors

 

[HerbCasa]

The results:


I started with number 3

Oops, I misspelled
"Slightly Sweet"




and the WINNER is...

The hottest pepper prize goes to number 3
With number 2 stuck in the middle

Also in the middle of posting this my phone decided to update and restart
So there's a few extra pictures below

 

[HerbCasa]

Here's a revisit of a culled pepper...
I mean a pepper from a plant that I removed and isolated in a different location

Good long lasting heat and nice amount juice
But that's it.
They don't have the flavor
And they look orangish
Plant Terminated

These seeds were tossed in the
" Anything Goes " planter, where I have a mystery pepper with Huge leaves .

 

[HerbCasa]

Gorilla Chili Pepper (G)​

Most unique color on one of the pods.

They grow taller

Gorilla Chili Pepper (R)​

Intense heat interesting flavor
They are little bit shorter

Ok

Let's go look at GCP "odd plant"

 

[HerbCasa]

The Attack on..​

Odd Plant

..from Above​

Seems like...

We're under attack!​

Thanks

Now I can start collecting seeds

GCP ODD PLANT or plants
(3 of them) to continue working with them I will have to kill two of the plants with less heat and leave me with
GCP (S) small plants and leaves with smaller fruit

 

[HerbCasa]

Now it's time to...

Harvest the G. C. P. (G)​

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Beautiful color on a few
Some look a little rough

Anyhow, the plant is already growing new flower buds, so I'm happy

 

[HerbCasa]

Gorilla Chili Peppers (R)​

Looking for a Hot Snack, I found some GCP's I need to take the seeds out.

In this picture you can see just how hot they are

They still have oil. The heat from these last a couple hours
They are my hottest Gorilla Chili Pepper and I will be growing more of these seeds.

They are slightly slower growing.

Waiting on the next round.

I'm feeling these

Burning still

 

[HerbCasa]

Gorilla Chili Peppers (G)​

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Round two
The plant is already putting on peppers and one is already getting red.

Growing nice flower buds

Great growing
They are not as hot though

 

[HerbCasa]

The Gorilla Chili Peppers Breeding Project

Some peppers grow upright

Also some peppers that grow downward

You can see the peppers are larger and easy to pick

Meet the "Breeder"

His work is NEVER DONE

 

[HerbCasa]

GREAT GROWING

This Gorilla Chili Peppers plant produces great yield

Long lasting heat

Look at this

It's even trying to make a tiny pepper false pepper
W TF

 

[HerbCasa]

Here's a few pictures of the newest Gorilla Chili Peppers

 

[HerbCasa]

I've found some new peppers I want to introduce into the
Gorilla Chili Peppers Breeding Project

Introducing:​

CERTAIN DEATH ​

Certain Death - Rare Blue Ribbon Pepper Seed Premium Packet - Thai Hot Peppers - Non-gmo HOT Pepper Seeds - Open Pollinated - Gardener Gift - Etsy

This Seeds item by EmeraldGreensSeeds has 46 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Costa Mesa, CA. Listed on Mar 9, 2025

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I'm looking for different Thai peppers. I would like my Thai peppers to grow upright like my GCP's
These do grow fruits upward.
I really like the size of the peppers. The plant had a nice structure and tight nodes
& good yield
They have long lasting heat which is another good thing.
Check out his store on Etsy.
Emerald Greens Seeds


Thanks for the seeds @CertainDeath

I will be trying to see if I can use these to intensify things.

 

[wiicek]

What is the goal of GCP Breeding Project? Do you have some traits you wanna achieve?
And could you show what did you cross, I mean parents (weapons A and B are f1 or did I get it wrong)? Or was it open pollination?
I am curious!

This darker one looks cool, so different I am scrolling through your soaknbeans topic and have to say, I am a sucker for those orangy ones... but must say that the variety is not my favourite.

 

[HerbCasa]

Thank you thank you so much for showing Interest in my breeding project.

Glad you went back to where I started posting it on soaknbeans

The first peppers I began the breeding project where just chiletepin (Shorties)and a Tabasco type frutescens (Crybabies)

I started noticing different phenotypes

Secret Weapon A,B & C were different F1s

Secret Weapon B has been saved to F3

C wasn't used

A became the base for the Gorilla Chili Peppers

Now I have different types of GCP'S
Shorties and Crybabies

I plan to collect pollen from new pepper plants and pollinate the Chili Peppers' flowers and saving those seeds for the next round of new seeds.

My goal is to improve the size, flavor , yield and growth of the peppers that I have
Making them big enough that they can be displayed better and make them more usable by people that like snacking on peppers but crave that heat and Love the Flavor

 

[HerbCasa]

The new peppers are outside in a grow bag.

Multiple plants in the same pot
Eh, I mean bag

The first 2 to produce peppers for the new year have been tagged.

They can be Early Flowering types.

Some different types of GCP'S
Let Us
Take a closer look.

And another one

 

[HerbCasa]

GCP Mix 2025

Gorilla Chili Peppers (RR)​

Second generation

As you can tell,
These GCPs are different because they are my hottest

 

[HerbCasa]

Certain Death​

Some pest and weeds problems

@CertainDeath​

I do like the branching structure & the plants' fast development.

 

[SatanicFlatIron]

hey Herbcasa, I like your enthusiasm. What is the history of seeds? If you have a list of possible parents you can think about what geneology these peppers could have

 

[HerbCasa]

Hey, I'm excited already labeled the pot RR
to plant the next generation of seeds.

These are from "BAGSEED"
you can say...

Because ...
I never planted the first two peppers that I started with.

Two different volunteers in pots with my other plants.
One was chiltepin type and the other was an unknown Tabasco type.

These are the ones that show more hotter phenotype, you can see in the shape of some of the pods.

 

[HerbCasa]

Wait, @SatanicFlatIron

Now that I think about it...
The original seeds could have come out of birdseed because they are Bird Peppers?