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]

CAP 524 c. chacoense, 3’ diameter, profuse
flowering and many berries set since the
Summer heat abated. Hopefully it will handle
the cooler Fall temperatures and produce
some ripe berries.

 

[PaulG]

Pequin Rojo ‘Uvalde’, purple variant, has produced
an amazing amount of berries over the Summer. A
really nice plant, overall, producing three nice harvests,
and probably at least one more.

 

[PaulG]

Not Capucinno Chiltepín Volunteer from 2022,
but still a nice plant. Berries are dark orange,
tending toward red.

 

[PaulG]

CGN 20497, c. praerermissum, white flower,
in an 8” clay bulb pan. Late onset berry-setting,
but there are a few. One ripening one visible in
this pic.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

More rhomboideum on the way

 

[PaulG]

Volunteer not Capucinno Chiltepin. Lots of berries
getting their color on. Lots of the larger leaves have
dropped off. Twiggy growth habit.

Volunteer Pequin Rojo 'Chihuahua'. Has grown true
to the parent plant. Productive but a bit slower to ripen
up the berries than the parent.

 

[PaulG]

The c. cardenasii and the c. eximium are really
dragging their feet as far as ripe berries go. A
few of these had fallen off the plants.

 

[PaulG]

The var. Glabriusculum are chugging right along.
Should get just about all the berries off of them.

Size comparison of some of the berries

Left to right: Giant Red Tepin, Pequin Uvalde green. Pequin Uvalde purple, Tepin, Chiltepin, Diente de Perro.

 

[PaulG]

Purple Flower c. chacoense. Picked a lot of these yesterday.

Last few pods on the Cumari annuum.
Lots of 'candlesticks' left behind.

 

[PaulG]

Last year's Capucinno Chiltepin in the jar.
This year's volunteer's berries to the left.

 

[PaulG]

The c. eximium has finally started to ripen berries
more than one at a time. Starting to see some of
the larger berries getting some color, not just the
early, Spring-dampened runty ones. Some of these
had fallen off the plant.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Nice to see you getting some ripe ones @PaulG
Meanwhile, my biggest C.tovarii outside is still clinging on to all those green berries. Surely red ones soon

 

[CraftyFox]

Wild Brazil 203 Baccatum Baccatum has started to produce.. Maybe a day early, but I was tired of waiting.
Same flavor as the Bird Aji, but maybe not quite as hot.. Very similar though. The Bird Aji definitely has a softer feel to it than these do, more mushy. I was able to cut the flesh around the seeds and pop it off the heart, like you would an avocado. The heat is definitely all in the pith on these, and none at all in the skin.

At about 3 dozen seeds, like the Bird Aji, this pepper doesn't seem to meet the requirements of Baccatum v. Baccatum according to the Monograph.. Is this just because they are a cultivated wild? Symptomatic of some loss of genetic purity? Or is the Monograph maybe off?

 

[CaneDog]

That's a lot of seeds for the size. The pepper flesh looks great though and reasonably thick walls, too.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Meanwhile, my biggest C.tovarii outside is still clinging on to all those green berries. Surely red ones soon

As if by magic the first one has now appeared. The plant just seems to be a machine and is in constant flower mode. It's handled the summer extremes and the cooler nights with no issues. Even now in late October it's the healthiest looking plant in the garden along with the C.flexuosum plants.

 

[PaulG]

My Tovar's are behaving just like yours, CC!
I have one outside in the Fall weather and the
other in the greenhouse.

 

[leo72]

C. Lanceolatum, the cool October weather favored its development, new flowers and fruits appear

 

[PaulG]

Nice lanceolatum, @leo72.

I have one that has had a tough childhood. Poor root
development to begin with causing stunted growth,
then dug up twice by squirrels. Finally got it to take
hold in a #2 nursery pot. Brought in out of the weather
last week, a little drippy for some reason. Doesn't really
seem to like sun much. It should do better under the
grow lights. Plant will be six months old on Nov. 7

Will add an updated pic soon.

 

[PaulG]

The c. cardenasii has finally started to ripen. Just
orange so far, I hope the weather is good enough to
see some red pods develop. Nights are getting
pretty cool, down to around 45˚F.

 

[PaulG]

Alright, post #1000 in the Wild, Indeed thread

@CaneDog's Rocopica (c. eximium x XL Brown Rocoto)
has finally set a few berries in the greenhouse. Not many
so far, but decent size. Lots of flowering going on. Hoping
for some more berries.