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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.
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Happy New Year, 2021!
 
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ChilliCrosser said:
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.
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I wasn't aware that they were more tolerant of
cool temperatures, that gives me some hope!
The plants themselves are vigorous and bushy,
although the past two days of 30+mph winds
beat the larger plant up pretty good. Blew over
several times and lost some smaller branches,
but still lots of plant left. Looking forward to a
decent Fall grow season here :pray:

Thanks for the info, @ChilliCrosser.
Pr0digal_son said:
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.
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No apologies necessary, John. I thought that was
just the phenotype on this variety. I don't consider
it a waste of time, the pods are awesome. Several
varieties produced larger-than-normal berries this
season, Yellow Pequin, Pequin Uvalde along with
this Tepin. Perhaps due to vagaries of weather? Or
maybe just crossed. The other two were volunteers,
so very possible for them.

Anyway, I appreciate the seeds you sent, and still
looking for more c. flexuosum berries after CC's
comments. Hope you are having a good season,
my friend!
 
PaulG said:
CAP 524 c. chacoense. Sat through the Summer
heat with nary a flower. Now that temperatures are
dropping, it is flowering profusely and setting berries.
Purported to be cold tolerant, so maybe we’ll get
some ripe berries! Seeds from Semillas la Palma, 2021.
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My CAP 524 did something similar, has always been a good looking plant though with dark green foliage. Don't think I have anything ripe on it yet, it's a smaller plant than yours.

Biggest C.lanceolatum has been continuously flowering, a few signs of ripening now showing. Ignore the photo-bombing CGN 20497 pods in the first picture, it's branches are everywhere!
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If only all plants with small pods grew like this, it'd make harvesting easier :lol: CAP 500 (C.eximium)
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PaulG said:
Great to see those wilds getting their ripe on, CC!

Causing me to be impatient for some of my more
'exotic' varieties to do the same, although the
c. cardenasii has a couple of ripening berries at
the moment.
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I've had some ripe from:
  • CAP 500
  • C.rabenii (unknown accession)
  • CGN 20497
  • C.rhomboideum
  • One of the three eximium x cardenasii hybrids I'm growing
  • C.flexuosum
  • CAP 1445
Waiting on first ripe from:
  • a different C.rabenii
  • C.tovarii
  • C.lanceolatum, virtually there
  • C.galapagoense
  • CAP 872
  • CAP 524

Liking the growth pattern on the other C.rabenii I'm growing this year. Not great photos!
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C.galapagoense, I keep staring at it but it stays green :lol:
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Worth making a note, I guess.

Plants with ripe pods:
Pequín 'Uvalde'
Pequín 'Chihuahua'
Wild Cumari annuum
Volunteer Pequín Amarillo
Tepin
Tepin Rojo (large pod)

Getting started:
c.chacoense, purple flower
CGN 20497, c. cardenasii
CGN 22795, c. praetermissum, white flower

Not yet:
c. tovari
CAP 500, c. eximium
CAP 524, c. chacoense
Chiltepin 'Hermisillo'
c. flexuosum
Chiltepin Rojo 'Seguin'
Cappuccino Chiltepin 'Sonoran Desert'

Just for fun, c. chacoense 2nd year plant. The larger
berries on the left from the 'Seguin'.
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Keep an eye on those Tovarii. I went outside and found several ripe berries on the ground as they seem to always drop quickly after ripening - unlike the last batch of rhomboideum which have been hanging ripe for months now.

Here's a few pics from the deck

Chacoense Most Prolific has a few red pods now, but I think the transition pods look pretty cool
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Forget ripening, my galapagoense has only just started flowering and setting pods. Curiously, all the sets have been under the isolation bags rather than on the open branches
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Wild Brazil Orange has a decent number of pods, a few of which have ripened so far. They seem to go through orange to an almost red and are super deciduous, coming easily as soon as they ripen. My Wild Brazil Yellow are also deciduous, though not to this extent.
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Wild Brazil Orange at the more orange stage of ripening.
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My Wild Brazil 203 which took it's time first flowering then setting pods has gotten busy at the latter, including good sets under the iso bag. The pods are a bit bigger than I expected. I'm curious about their taste and heat profile.
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Lastly, I didn't get a good representative pic, but the Tuxtlas is tearing it up with solid pod development. I have some pods under iso on this guy too, but no ripening yet.
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