Wild, Indeed, Community Thread

Just getting this started so I can get a url.
I will post more about this in a couple of days.

Happy New Year, 2021!

 

[PaulG]

Very nice @thoroughburro! I'm not sure if
I will get a berry off of mine. I may have to
let grow all winter indoors

Kudos, brother!

 

[PaulG]

The volunteer 'Yellow Pequin' has really loaded
up in the Summer heat. Berries are large, and
sunny sides are purple. Pods beginning to turn
totally green as ripening is getting close.

 

[PaulG]

CGN 20497 (@Mr.joe ) white flower c. praetermissum.
Looks like some berries starting to ripen.

 

[PaulG]

The c. eximium has become a graceful mature
plant. Has been setting berries at a decent pace.

This plant is in a #2 NC container.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Various from today

CAP 872 (C.annuum var. glabriusculum)

CAP 524 (C.chacoense)

CAP 1445 (C.chacoense) - like this plant, will keep going or grow again

Still lots of CAP 500 (C.eximium) pods to ripen up on various plants

Happy C.galapagoense

One of the C.rabenii accessions

C.rhomboideum

C.tovarii - nothing ripe yet

Also waiting on some pods to ripen on one of the eximium x cardenasii hybrids

 

[CraftyFox]

CP-203 is a little more picky about setting pods, it would seem. I think two have set, and I've lost like 3-4 so far. The one that's trying, that is.. 'A' is still putting on buds, but none have flowered yet. It seems to be doing a little better indoors, but time will tell. The isolated Uvalde is doing about the same.

 

[PaulG]

First few wild berries ripening in the Summer heat. 100*F
and a couple of mid-90’s this week, but looks like we will
be dropping down to the mid-to-high 80’s after today.
Long range forecast for more normal temps for the next
month. Hopefully we will see more of these:

These are larger than the berries in past grows. The Red Tepin
seeds came from @Pr0digal_son, the Yellow Pequin is a volun-
teer from 2021. Never seen Tepin pods like these, dwarfing the
Tepin berries on the Tepin grown from @pshngo seed train seeds.

 

[ahayastani]

CGN 20497, c. cardenasii, pic 8/6, #2 NC container.
H x W: 33” x 55” (82cm x 137cm):

Sometimes backlit is the only way to see the whole plant!

That cardenasii reminds me of orchards. Perhaps an espalier trellis?

 

[PaulG]

That cardenasii reminds me of orchards. Perhaps an espalier trellis?

No kidding. Not my favorite growth habit, but it makes
an interesting plant in the landscape. It has probably
doubled the foliage since that pic, and is setting lots
of small, dark green berries; their stems are dark purple.

 

[ahayastani]

No kidding. Not my favorite growth habit, but it makes
an interesting plant in the landscape. It has probably
doubled the foliage since that pic, and is setting lots
of small, dark green berries; their stems are dark purple.

Don't tell me a whole orchard of cardenasii revolves your mind with abhorrence...

 

[francisp]

Beautiful picture.

 

[PaulG]

Don't tell me a whole orchard of cardenasii revolves your mind with abhorrence...

It's just I don't have 40 acres to grow on

The Spring weather here was so crappy,
it's probably not a fair appraisal of the card.
The USDA version I grew several seasons
ago was nothing like this one.

 

[PaulG]

Two capsicum flexuosum plants.

One berry.

One seed.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Ripening now underway on my main C.rhomboideum plant, the other two are flowering as well.

 

[PaulG]

Nice to see the Rhombo berries making it
to the ripe stage, CC!

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Nice to see the Rhombo berries making it
to the ripe stage, CC!

Ta-da!

 

[Tinkerbelle]

Nice!

 

[PaulG]

Second Berry on the larger c. flexuosum!
This is getting ridiculous. Perhaps it won't even
get ripe at this point. There have been hundreds
and hundreds of flowers that drop their corollas
with no surviving berries.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Stick with it @PaulG at least you know the flex can keep going outside when others struggle with temperatures!

I have 4 C.flexuosum growing this year and three of them have done the same with flowers initially. Hundreds of dropped flowers but then they've flipped to converting 80%+ to pods. Lots of small pods initially but plenty putting on size now.

Surprisingly even some of the smaller pods have given me seeds this year when in the past they'd have been seed free. 10+ seeds from the first two tiny ripe pods yesterday.

 

[Pr0digal_son]

First few wild berries ripening in the Summer heat. 100*F
and a couple of mid-90’s this week, but looks like we will
be dropping down to the mid-to-high 80’s after today.
Long range forecast for more normal temps for the next
month. Hopefully we will see more of these:

These are larger than the berries in past grows. The Red Tepin
seeds came from @Pr0digal_son, the Yellow Pequin is a volun-
teer from 2021. Never seen Tepin pods like these, dwarfing the
Tepin berries on the Tepin grown from @pshngo seed train seeds.

Jeez!! I aplogize for wasting your time and resources. All I had growing with those tepins were galapagoense,pubes,one baccatum and the rest were small podded plants that mostly were not capable of crossing due to chromosome numbers.