I have a plant that is supposed to be an habanero red long. The leaf pattern and growth characteristics are unusual to puzzling. I have yet to see any buds or flowers. Originally from Karl Hendrix, I have no reason to suspect he misidentified or erred in any way as 100% of his seed to me thus far has been spot on. So, what do I have? a variant? a strange phenol? a mutant?
Habanero red long ?
- Thread starter CAPCOM
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Or is this what the habanero red long looks like?
Last year the seedling succumbed to the aphid infestation and I was never able to rear one to maturity. All of my other plants have at least buds if not flowers and pods. this one seems to be doing nothing. Some of the remaining primary leaves look pepperish as well as the seedling did after it sprouted. I just does not look very habaneroish now. Yeah, I know. those arn't words. or I mean ain't words. ya get my drift though.
Last year the seedling succumbed to the aphid infestation and I was never able to rear one to maturity. All of my other plants have at least buds if not flowers and pods. this one seems to be doing nothing. Some of the remaining primary leaves look pepperish as well as the seedling did after it sprouted. I just does not look very habaneroish now. Yeah, I know. those arn't words. or I mean ain't words. ya get my drift though.
OK.
I posted this thread some time back and got no feedback. Have wondered why. I even thought that it may be because no one thought it was a pepper plant. It did grow rather odd as it matured. I seen no indication it was going to put forth buds at all. Nothing formed at any of the plants nodes until around August 17th at its further most nodes and still it looked very peculiar as in the first 2 pics below.
This is today
Its the damnedest thing Ive ever seen for a pepper plant.
Any ideas?
I posted this thread some time back and got no feedback. Have wondered why. I even thought that it may be because no one thought it was a pepper plant. It did grow rather odd as it matured. I seen no indication it was going to put forth buds at all. Nothing formed at any of the plants nodes until around August 17th at its further most nodes and still it looked very peculiar as in the first 2 pics below.
This is today
Its the damnedest thing Ive ever seen for a pepper plant.
Any ideas?
Very strange indeed, i had the same happen to a chocolate scorpion that never produced anything, it would set mini pods and then just drop them after a while.
Good luck, i'm just going to chop mine down, the frost will probably be here in a couple of days in belgium anyway.CAPCOM said:
Looks like it is a mutant - some peppers I've seen grow deformed in crazy ways. If that is the case the mutation doesn't seem too intense.
Said it was weird. Leaves do that on this one.D3monic said:
Point is, it will have offspring for next year. Going to be interesting to see what these turn out to be. Hope it will have been worth all the effort.
This plant is over 2 1/2 feet tall, no new growth from nodes, multiple branches at will. very late in flowering.
last year it flowered so late the frost came before pod maturity and I had to clone it.