Lee's 2010 WildChilli Grow season

[lee]

Lee, pardon the question if you have already posted the answer before as I am 3 days as a member, but where have you obtained the seed for all of those wilds..government germplasm collections? A second question is do you save seed and if you do, do you "bag" the unopened flower bud to avoid outcrossing so to preserve the genotype?

Most seeds came from fellow Wild Chilli lovers..
I save seeds and I use some sort of plant covers to preserve the type. Looks like this http://thrivingplant.com/. Will post some pics later of my wrapped plants


The weather is good and the plants are doing fine. Most varieties are flowering. Some pics. from last week

C.flexuosum. The plant on 1 liter that I have growing under lamp produced no pods. C.flexuosum is self-incompatible and for that reason I exchanged pollen from two C.flexuosums on 11 Liter that are outside. After 3-5 days I noticed that the pods where getting bigger and that fruit has been set. Before the pods where very small with the stigma still attached before they fell off

C.rhomboideum

C.lanceolatum

 

[lee]

C.tovarii

C.chacoense PI260433

C.parvifolium

 

[lee]

C.buforum. The flower looks amazing..

 

[lee]

Some plants with covers to prevent cross pollination.. Will have to do more plants soon. C.tovarii is flowering.., will post some pics

2 different C.praetermissums

 

[lee]

C.praetermissum CGN 22795 (Notice thew purple-ish spots, the spots will be darker eventually on new opened buds)

CAP 1478

 

[lee]

C.frutescens (Duke pequin),

C.chacoense CAP 501

 

[lee]

C.tovarii

 

[915river]

Gorgeous images of your wild peppers plants & flowers, I'm breathless Lee

 

[Brito's Pepper]

Hi Lee,
I have no words to say how beautiful your wild are.
Congratulation, I can not wait to see many wild pods from them
Success

 

[capsidadburn]

Lee, Absolutely beautiful plants.

Mike

 

[cmpman1974]

I thought this thread may bring Vladan out. Gorgeous plants too!!! I'm amazed.

Chris

 

[patrick]

Some great photos of beautiful flowers Lee. The C.buforum flowers are stunning.

 

[Geosojda]

just awsome! i love this thread

 

[jjs7741]

That Buforum and tovarii both look fantastic. You going to cover them as well for the seed? That tovarii looks to be quite productive.

Keep the updates coming!
jacob

 

[lee]

Hey guys, really appreciate the comments. Just love this stage of growing when plants reveal there flowers. Other vars. like C.cardenasii, CAP 1491, C.eximium, tepin are flowering too, will post some pics.. Have to do some more wrapping this weekend.. .

btw, Who will win Holland or Brazil? (Sorry Brito but we must win the World Cup this year. .).

 

[charlesNYC]

btw, Who will win Holland or Brazil? (Sorry Brito but we must win the World Cup this year. .).

GHANA!!!!!!!!!

 

[lee]

GHANA!!!!!!!!!

Don't think so... hehe

Some pictures..

C.buforum

C.buforum flower with 6 petals. Noticed some flower variations..

C.cardenasii

 

[lee]

CGN 19198#2

 

[lee]

C.rhomboideum

C.tovarii

CAP 1491

CAP 1144 C.praetermissum

 

[millworkman]

Damn Lee, those things are looking very impressive. Keep up the good work.

Some of those flowers are downright gorgeous too.