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!

 

[Pr0digal_son]

@ChilliCrosser

Heavy biomass in the lowlands and plants dwindled at higher elevations. At 3100 m and above a random plant or two would pop up. Fits the narrative of them accepting more heat and sunlight than other species from that Clade

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Mother plants of the ground cover.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

@ChilliCrosser

Heavy biomass in the lowlands and plants dwindled at higher elevations. At 3100 m and above a random plant or two would pop up. Fits the narrative of them accepting more heat and sunlight than other species from that Clade

Looks even crazier in the video. Great to see the in-situ context on both of those videos though, thanks for taking the time to upload.

 

[ahayastani]

An beautiful "hedge" in the Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca

No, no seeds Explicitly forbidden, and guards following the group

 

[CaneDog]

That's so cool. There's a lot of red showing in that hedge!

 

[ChilliCrosser]

More fasciated berries from C.rhomboideum

 

[ChilliCrosser]

C.Lanceolatum drinking up the heavy rain and making the most of the mild weather at the end of the season. Looking pretty hungry now.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

C.flexuosum

C.rhomboideum

Where are all the other wild growers this year? Show us your trunks

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Where are all the other wild growers this year? Show us your trunks

Awaiting the inevitable follow up post from @Pepper-Guru showing the spare plant he generously donated for the demonstration event at a local lumberjack convention.

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Flex stump

 

[Pr0digal_son]

I'll have to go into the garage and look at some tonight if I can. Currently 22F -5C at night this week. Everything is dead except for a few lucky Solanaceae.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

How old are the plants in those last two pictures? A few years?

 

[ChilliCrosser]

The first C.rabenii x PI260567 F1 berry now ripening, several hundred still waiting.

Small C.flexuosum harvest

Still nothing ripe on the C.rabenii x C.tovarii F1 plant, must be real soon now. I’ve moved it into the safety of my glasshouse just to give some weather protection.

Probably have another week here before possible freezing temperatures at night.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

C.flexuosum variegated pedicel, taking pollen as and when flowers open on this section

Earlier in the year I took pollen from this flower which was on the variegated section that appeared on one of my C.flexuosum plants. There were also some flowers with white pedicels, I took pollen from those too.

This most highly variegated section of the branch died off as the temperatures increased outdoors and was too small to sensibly clone.

Anyway, back to the pollen. I used several pollen batches to cross into some other C.flexuosum plants. I then collected and labelled all of those harvested berries.

I started a selection of those recently to get some F1s underway. Multiple as I don’t know which pollen sample, if any, might pull the variegation trait through. I also won’t find out until F2, so it’s a long wait. First of the F1s appeared after 18 days.

 

[PaulG]

All glory to the venerable ones,Clayton Ribeiro and Chris Fowler! Their dream of saving rare Capsicum from extinction is alive and well. Since I am done harvesting C.friburgense,it's time to start some sort of seed train for a vetted group of folks on THP. It's probably a good time to get this moving in the near future as you'll need to be sowing these no later than the start of February in order to get ripe pods in a season.

To the individuals linked: If there are members you feel are not total clowns,thieves,reprobates or in cahoots with the Pepper Darlings or Brazilian Mafia then link them here and we will dig through the names. It has been a very long time since I have saved or shared seeds of peppers and I'm hoping that this will have an old THP following,maybe even a community Glog. And hope that it steers completely clear of the what have you done for me lately mentality,or canning of good friends for simple seeds with literally no value. Cheers!

P.S. Any PM will get you barred from the offer.

@PaulG
@CaneDog
@ahayastani
@ChilliCrosser

A very fine idea, Pr0d! I would be honored to participate if
seeds are available. Glad to see you participating in the
Wild Indeed thread. I appreciate your knowledge base and
willingness to share it. Thank you.

I don’t really follow or frequent places where any drama happens so can’t really comment. I just grow things to learn, share where I can and try to make not-quite-as-nice-as-nature new things

Back to the pictures as I need to catchup.

PI260567 (C.baccatum var. baccatum)

C.flexuosum

C.rabenii x PI 260567 F1 hybrid

C.rhomboideum, love growing these. Must look amazing in the wild when established as a big, dense, plant covered in flower and fruit clusters

CAP 1445 (C.chacoense), really like the flavour on this one

Really awesome reporting. CC! ,Loving the fine photographs
you have been posting. We were in Spain for a couple of months,
and I missed them. Carry on, my friend!

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Really awesome reporting. CC! ,Loving the fine photographs
you have been posting. We were in Spain for a couple of months,
and I missed them. Carry on, my friend!

Glad to see you here :-)

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Always amazing how small some seedlings can be

 

[ahayastani]

Some images from my chiltepín "Norteño". The weather has been particularly bad the last two weeks, and I've noticed that someone-who-isn't-me has been eating some hot berries. Losing a few here and there isn't the end of the world...

 

[Pr0digal_son]

How old are the plants in those last two pictures? A few years?

I took a photo of it today in the end of year 3

 

[PaulG]

Whoa, impressive stalk on that plant!