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What is this chili?

bongcloud

bongcloud

This is one of the varieties I'm growing this year. All three plants below are of the same variety. I'm not sure what they are, but they look like a mild kind. I'm late on transplanting them, and didn't top them before or after they started flowering, so now they're fruiting. I'm mostly wondering about the containers I'll need for them. They don't seem like they'll grow huge, so I want to know what size pot and how much soil I should get for them. I'll be growing other varieties in 5-6 gallon pots, but if these three can be optimally grown in smaller ones, or several in a bigger one, that would be welcomed. Emphasis on optimally. I wasn't sure which sub-forum to post this in, so I hope this is the right place. Still learning my way around here. Thanks!
 
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The_NorthEast_ChileMan said:
 
Single fruit per node with different characteristics on the first 2, straight & curved, multiple fruit per node on the 3rd.
 
 
 
?Crossed?
 
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First two have multiple fruits on top as well, it just doesn't show very well on the picture. They are definitely the same thing. They all came from a single chili pod I was given 5 years ago.
 
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Look remarkably like some mystery Chinese imports I grew this year
 
Wrote mine off to being a hybrid of sorts
 
No real heat to speak of and tasted like pants
 
Pot size - That one is in 10ltr. I had one in a 2ltr and one in the garden. They do scale in size and production depending on shoe size.
 
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tasted like pants
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Read that as "plants" at first glance :D
 
They do look alike. These were labeled "Habanero", but it's probably safe to say they're not. These are just bonus plants on my grow list, so I don't mind them being whatever they want to be, as long as they don't taste like pants. Would you say there'd be a significant difference for these, between a, say, 20 and 13-ish liter containers?
 
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bongcloud said:
Read that as "plants" at first glance :D
 
They do look alike. These were labeled "Habanero", but it's probably safe to say they're not. These are just bonus plants on my grow list, so I don't mind them being whatever they want to be, as long as they don't taste like pants. Would you say there'd be a significant difference for these, between a, say, 20 and 13-ish liter containers?
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I would try one of the peppers to see if they worth investing time, effort and money (compared to the sub par flavour of mine) before going too big on pot size.
 
For my variety bigger pot size made a difference, but probably more important is the number of potential node points available for the cluster of pods that form. It seems this variety would benefit from early topping/multiple topping to force as many forks to form.
 
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I'd like to start by posting, obviously not "Habanero", and the above pic is what I've traditionally seen of this Species, upright clustered fruit that are long & thin unlike the first 2 pix in your post which appear a bit squat & short, still thinking "cross". You have to remember if the parent plant is "crossed" the seeds can grow different variations of the parentS.




bongcloud said:
OK, so it's probably a C. annuum? Thank you, appreciated. Do they need 5 gallon containers as well? Or should I ask this in the growing sub-forum?
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bongcloud said:
Would you say there'd be a significant difference for these, between a, say, 20 and 13-ish liter containers?
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My experience, see below, as a general rule the bigger the pot the bigger the plant unless it's an "ornamental" and that generally determines a "compact" growth pattern. As I believe this is a cross why not grow each in a sequentially larger pot with the same media & give them "like" care....then report back here with results.
 
 
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5 gallon pails in the back row...3 gallon restaurant delivery tubs middle.... 1 gallon nursery pots out front....
 
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Thank you The_NorthEast_ChileMan! Very informative. I might play around with pot size, if I allocate enough time for it. By the way, I thought the green container read "Monsanto" at first glance :D Cheers
 
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