plant I think the nursery sold me ornamental thai dragon chili plants...

[redgiant]

These are the thai dragon chili plants I bought and planted on June13. They are the three bushy plants in the first row and the single plant in the second row. I fertilized the new plantings with happy frog tomato and pepper organic fertilizer.

The following pic is from July 10. It show four original plants and three more planted on June 15. The have a lot of very small fruit qnd very little vegetative growth.

Next are the Thai dragon Chilli plants from the same nursery from two years ago.

These plants look way different from this year's.

They grew like weeds, never had a problem and produced a lot of great tasting chilis I used in thai food.

The nursery guys tells me that this year's micro plants are the same as from two years ago.

He says that sometimes they just grow differently. He said maybe the weather was too hot at some time.

I would like to hear from a knowledgeable person if these plants are the same or different varieties. Also is there a way to make the micro plants produce like the plants from two years ago.

Cheers,

Charles

 

[BlackFatalii]

The following pic is from July 10. It show four original plants and three more planted on June 15. The have a lot of very small fruit qnd very little vegetative growth.

The nursery guys tells me that this year's micro plants are the same as from two years ago.

He says that sometimes they just grow differently. He said maybe the weather was too hot at some time.

No. No amount of hot weather is going to make a tall, gangly pepper plant like the four in the back row suddenly switch to a short, bushy dwarf growth habit like the seven in the front of your picture. This is genetic. If your nursery says that their Thai Dragons "sometimes grow different" then I would question whether they are getting their plants from a reliable source.

To me, your plants most resemble Bonnie's "Thai Hot Ornamental". I have grown those myself, and they are prolific producers of small, seedy peppers. And they are actually pretty spicy for how small they are. But no, there is no way to make them produce larger peppers like a Thai Dragon. The plants' genetics are what they are.

 

[redgiant]

Thanks for your response.

What you say is what I suspected.

I'll do the best I can to make those toy plants produce.

I learned a lesson the hard way.

I'll start from seeds next year.

Please let me know if you would recommend a thai bird chili seed source.

Cheers.

Charles