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Mystery pepper

Muckyai

Muckyai

This pepper plant isn't like any of the chinense I've grown before. It had a sturdier build - thicker stems - and the foilage is darker green. Pepper pods have some dark mottling on them but obviously it's still growing. Any ideas? The seed was in a mystery pack.

Foilage

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Flower


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Pods

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Variety packs are the bane of my existence-never again! I'm dealing with the same problem on a few from 'variety packs' and I just hate the uncertainty especially if they end up being the same plant!! Your plants look healthy though!

Regards,
-Tristan
 
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YAMracer754 said:
Variety packs are the bane of my existence-never again! I'm dealing with the same problem on a few from 'variety packs' and I just hate the uncertainty especially if they end up being the same plant!! Your plants look healthy though!

Regards,
-Tristan
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It is fun to have a surprise.. a great deal of my gardening is both intended and unintentional surprise... Tags bleached by the elements and mystery packs. It's nice to be able to eventually identify these things though.

I'm using cut up old vinyl blinds now to mark my seedlings.. hopefully these will hold up a little better than the lightweight store bought plastic tags.
 
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Muckyai said:
It is fun to have a surprise.. a great deal of my gardening is both intended and unintentional surprise... Tags bleached by the elements and mystery packs. It's nice to be able to eventually identify these things though.[emoji3]

I'm using cut up old vinyl blinds now to mark my seedlings.. hopefully these will hold up a little better than the lightweight store bought plastic tags.
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Love love love the repurposing of "junk". That's the way I do it too! Yeah you have an optimistic side that I see.. Silver lined coffins lol! You're doing a good job though. It's such a good feeling to hang out with zee plants isn't it? I used to think my father had a bummed out life growing up as after divorce he would sit out and hang with the Kitts in the backyard but now I totally get it as I do the exact same thing and it feels nice!!

Regards,
-Tristan
 
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YAMracer754 said:
It's such a good feeling to hang out with zee plants isn't it? I used to think my father had a bummed out life growing up as after divorce he would sit out and hang with the Kitts in the backyard but now I totally get it as I do the exact same thing and it feels nice!!
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Absolutely. It's a less stretchy mental form of yoga.. it is relaxing to the soul.. the plants don't argue or complain. They just sit there all green and serene.
 
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Muckyai said:
Absolutely. It's a less stretchy mental form of yoga.. it is relaxing to the soul.. the plants don't argue or complain. They just sit there all green and serene.
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Especially when you look at them in their dark period they look even more green :) plus you get your pilates fix with all the extended bent over periods while working on them and making it all happen! Double win-mental yoga + pilates :)

Regards,
-Tristan
 
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Muckyai said:
It is fun to have a surprise.. a great deal of my gardening is both intended and unintentional surprise... Tags bleached by the elements and mystery packs. It's nice to be able to eventually identify these things though.

I'm using cut up old vinyl blinds now to mark my seedlings.. hopefully these will hold up a little better than the lightweight store bought plastic tags.
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Permanent marker and clear nail polish. 
 
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Muckyai said:
It is fun to have a surprise.. a great deal of my gardening is both intended and unintentional surprise... Tags bleached by the elements and mystery packs. It's nice to be able to eventually identify these things though.

I'm using cut up old vinyl blinds now to mark my seedlings.. hopefully these will hold up a little better than the lightweight store bought plastic tags.
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Just a side note but I found some wide white zip ties and i write on them with a fine sharpie then put it around the stalk about 3 wide. No more lost / damaged tags. Just passing that along.
 
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It's a pretty nice sized calyx, I'm thinking the peppers are going to get to be a good size.

Yes on the jungle. Lol. That area is my container garden and the plants seem to thrive in the combination of shade and sun.

Here's how mystery pepper is looking today

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In the top pic of your last post, I can clearly see two pods from that node...a sign it's not an annuum. Do all or some of the other nodes have multiple buds/flowers/pods coming out of them? Just wondering because it kinda looks like an annuum to me. I've had annuums with multiple pods per node, but only at the first node...the initial fork. I haven't seen myltiples anywhere else on an annuum except Hogleg's GoatsWeed. I'm just guessing at this.
 
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The leaves, growth habit, flower, and the large calyx all look annuum to me. Multiple flowers per node is unexpected in an annuum but I have seen it before. I had a couple of "Super Serrano" plants that I got from a nursery last year that had multiple flowers on some nodes. 
 
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