Variegated Jalapeno Grow Log

So a couple years back when I was working on a commercial grow for a greenhouse I spotted this guy when I was sorting through a few dozen of our Jalapenos in 512 cell trays.  It wasn't likely to be a cross, as the seeds came from isolated seed stock from a company that only sells to nurseries. None of the other plants we had ended up looking like this. I was keeping a close eye on them.  We didn't offer any variegated peppers there at the time, so I had a hunch it was something special.  I took it home with me and tossed it in a SOLO cup.  
 

 
 
Where I found him:
 

 
 
A bit later on that season I snapped a few more pics of the plant.  
 

 
I waited for the pods to ripen and saved seeds, hoping for good things.   They took a long time to ripen and were quite corked.  Unfortunate that I didn't think to take better photos at the time:
 

 
 
Shortly afterwards I started some of those seeds and these guys turned up:
 

 
This is about as far as I managed with them, as I moved three hours away and started a new job.  Many of my plants were severely neglected for a span of a few months and all but one of them kicked the bucket.  I'm happy that I sent out seeds for these to several folks (who did have success with them!) and I am starting to grow some more thanks to Paul G and Chris Phillips. 
 

 
That's where I am right now!  Hopefully Canedog, Paul and Chris will chime in with their experience growing them.

Cheers.

 

[b3rnd]

Did you guys notice the corking is almost exclusively on the red parts? Thought that was pretty interesting.

 

[PaulG]

Planted out two of the 'Mattapeños'. White
pod seed, left, and ivory iso pod seed, right.


Two more ivory variegated pod seed plants
will go into #2NC containers very soon.

 

[PaulG]

Two Variegated Jalapeño ‘Mattapeńo’ in
#2NC containers, for a total of 4 this season.


edit: several days later, canopies of same plants.

 

[SineNomine]

Variegated Goliath Jalapeno in 2l pots.

 

[PaulG]

Alright, Vivian! I can see a bit of variegation
on a couple of those pods!

 

[ChilliCrosser]

The whitest F4 getting whiter

A few selected Mattapeno x Mutant F2 seedlings grown from Matt's seeds

 

[PaulG]

That's awesome. My F4's are not showing
any white branches at all on any of the four
plants.

 

[SineNomine]

My white-leafed plant had begun to degrade, so I cut off the top and the variegated green leaves grew. She also had flowers, but aborted them.

The other plant ripened a pod.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

The four plants I have with varying degrees of whiteness

 

[ChilliCrosser]

A few more colours coming out in these two Mattapeno x Mutant F2 seedlings now

 

[PaulG]

Nary a white or ivory branch on any of my four
Variegated Jalapeño ‘Mattapeño’ plants. I keep
hoping some will emerge soon, but it is getting
late in the season.

The first two are in #2NC pots. These pics from 5
days ago. There are a lot of new pods on each of
The four plants.

H x W: 32“ x 18” (86 cm x 46cm):

H x W: 34” x 18” (81 cm x 46cm):

These two plants in 7-gallon containers.

Left, H x W: 40” x 20” (100cm x 50cm)
Right, H x W: 45” x 24” (114cm x 61cm)

 

[ChilliCrosser]

A few more colours coming out in these two Mattapeno x Mutant F2 seedlings now

Update on one of these Mattapeno hybrids, shaping up nicely

 

[PaulG]

Nary a white or ivory branch on any of my four
Variegated Jalapeño ‘Mattapeño’ plants. I keep
hoping some will emerge soon, but it is getting
late in the season.

The first two are in #2NC pots. These pics from 5
days ago. There are a lot of new pods on each of
The four plants.

H x W: 32“ x 18” (86 cm x 46cm):

All of the main stalks of the plant above
are fasciated, and the branches grow up
at very steep angles.

 

[PaulG]

The Variegated Jalapeño ‘Mattapeño’ White
pod seed plant and the Isolated seed plant
have packed on the pods. Still no white or
ivory branches.

The pods aren’t large, but many of them
have ever-so-light traces of variegation.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

One of my selected F2s from the Mattapeno x Mutant grow out looks surreal! Ignore all the other different plants around it, although they give a nice green contrast.

 

[francisp]

Simply beautiful.

 

[PaulG]

That is awesome, CC! I hope you actually
get to collect some seeds from those.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

That is awesome, CC! I hope you actually
get to collect some seeds from those.

That one has lots of buds and flowers starting to open. The anthers look OK and pollen present, should be good :-)

 

[PaulG]

That one has lots of buds and flowers starting to open. The anthers look OK and pollen present, should be good :-)

Just wondering about the progress on this one...

 

[PeriPeri]

Those are some cracking variegated plants in this glog.