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]

Strange pair of c. flexuosum. The plant on the left
looks peaked, but is setting some berries. The plant
on the right has had curled under leaves all season,
flowers like crazy, but I have not found one berry on
it, yet. They just didn't seem to like the weather, no
matter what it was like.

 

[PaulG]

Comparing berries .

Upper left, wild Glabriusculum, Seguin, Texas,
bottom right, Chiltepin Rojo from CPI. Lower left,
wild Cumari annuum from Brazil, upper right,
c. chacoense, both 2nd year OW.

Volunteer purple flower c. chacoense and c. eximium.
Should get a lot more from both plants before freezing
weather comes.

 

[PaulG]

The Pequin 'Uvalde' purple cross on its last round of ripening.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

@PaulG @leo72 Even my backup C.lanceolatum plants indoors are staying happy in small pots & cups. I have 3 like this. The outdoor plant is now starting to suffer from the wind and rain.

 

[leo72]

Wild C. Rabenii

 

[CaneDog]

Wow, Leo! Looks like you've grown a monster right in time for Halloween! What a fantastic healthy and happy looking plant.

How long has it been growing?

 

[Tinkerbelle]

that's a beauty

 

[ChilliCrosser]

C.tovarii now getting more ripe pods gradually

C.galapagoense is still happy but needs to get ripening!

C.rhomboideum very happy in the exceptionally mild weather we're having

 

[leo72]

Wow, Leo! Looks like you've grown a monster right in time for Halloween! What a fantastic healthy and happy looking plant.

How long has it been growing?

It is a 2 year old plant

 

[CaneDog]

Nice pic's and your plants look in great shape still for so late in the season, @ChilliCrosser.

That blue sky looks pretty great as well!

 

[PaulG]

Progresss happening in the greenhouse.
Getting close to picking off more berries.

Tepin, @pshngo. The next round will do it for this one.
Most of the ripe berries are hidden by foliage
in this top half of the plant.

Dwarf Chiltepin Rojo, Semillas la Palma.
This one has ripened up a lot of berries in
the past couple of weeks.

 

[PaulG]

I picked these c. Flexuosum berries because
they are translucent enough to see the black
seeds inside.

With a quarter for size comparison.

A closer look.

What color should the flexuosum pods be when ripe?

 

[CaneDog]

Those look awesome @PaulG! Nice work.

Translucent orange, in my experience.

 

[leo72]

I wasn't hoping to see any flowers, he gave me a gift before winter

 

[leo72]

Flowers with green spots many months a year, then with the cooler they have new darker colors

 

[CaneDog]

Very cool flowers, Leo! Great that they came through for you before the season ended. You could have a whole bouquet from just that one cluster!

 

[thoroughburro]

What is the current situation with the original Uvalde Wild AnnG? The larger-fruited variants look very promising, but I’d love to get hold of something closer to the source plant shown here. Is that still around?

 

[CraftyFox]

What is the current situation with the original Uvalde Wild AnnG? The larger-fruited variants look very promising, but I’d love to get hold of something closer to the source plant shown here. Is that still around?

I still have a clone of this plant.. And her sister, her sister's clones. Also still have some original seed from 2019. I need to get her sister out of the airpot before it kills her.

 

[thoroughburro]

I would love to grow a few containers of it in 2023, if possible! Would you be willing to part with seeds from the original or your clone? I’d be happy to then share part of the resulting harvest on the 2023 seed train, to help keep it available.

 

[PaulG]

I can also provide some seeds from the 'purple'
and 'green' variant crosses if you are interested.