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Single 4-petal flower on Pequin (pic)

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All the other flowers that its had/has have had 5 petals. This one has 4, and its not just missing a petal, its a perfectly formed whole flower, completely symmetrical with no gap. Pretty neat :hell:


Oh yah, my pequin has a metric assload of peppers now. It's really enjoying all this rainy weather that's keeping the temps down.
 
cliff n york said:
what kind of pequin plant do you have,mine only has a few peppers. i have the ones that come from Wimberly
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I bought it at a local organic nursery, it was simply labeled "Pequin". I'm from Texas and down here the pequin is a native perennial. You can find them growing wild in south Texas, and they will survive the winter in most of the state.
 
Actually, that looks like a Tepin.
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The pods do look more like a chiltecpin (tepin) than a pequin and the branch growth is not as tight and shrub-like as the pequin. Since you live in Texas, you might be able to get them to go wild in a semi shady spot, like the north side of your house, under some trees. I think there's a few posters from down your way that have found 'tepins on their property. Having perrennial wild chiles would be a very cool thing!
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Don't tepin peppers stay round like a bb though? These grow pointy once they get bigger, kinda like mini tabasco peppers. I'll have to take a picture of a more mature one.
 
We had Tarahumara Chiltepin plants from Cross Country Nursery (chileplants.com) that had bullet-shaped (not round) pods in 2005. They had the normal chiltecpin growth habit but the pods were bullet-shaped, not round. They had that taste which is unmistakeably chiltecpin, and, to me, quite distinguishable from the pequin, Bailey harvestable or otherwise. (a true tepinero is not fooled by the pequin!) So I wouldn't worry until you harvest the pods, see how it turns out. Pequin or 'tepin, those pods'll spice up yer pemmican right quick!
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setzuanfire said:
They had that taste which is unmistakeably chiltecpin, and, to me, quite distinguishable from the pequin, Bailey harvestable or otherwise. (a true tepinero is not fooled by the pequin!)
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I grow pequins for vinegars and drying mostly, and I figured tepins were close enough for there not to be much differnce. Now I'm going to have to grow some tepins to see if I can tell the difference. And, like I need more peppers to grow!
 
Is that really your closet?(ha ha)

The pepper may be a mutant, make sure you let it ripen and keep an eye on it! It may be one of a kind.
 
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