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!

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Lots of flowers still, lots of green berries still. Season running 6-8 weeks behind last year

C.rhomboideum

CAP 1530 C.eximium

C.tovarii with lots of berries looking like they are about to turn

How are all the US folks doing this year?

 

[CaneDog]

I see things are looking good a CC's place! Mine are also well behind last year due to the poor early season weather.

I lost both my last OW Rhomboideum and last Tovarii this past overwinter, but everything else is doing great. For replacements, I planted about a dozen Rhomboideum seeds - and now have about a dozen small Rhomboideum plants - and a half-dozen Tovarii seeds which are still keeping me waiting.

I moved all my non-AVG wilds to a new location this season, which is shadier than where they were last year. Most of them seem to be enjoying it. I haven't taken pictures in a while now. Maybe I'll try to get out and do that.

 

[Drunken Bee]

My first flexuosum flower. I’ve only one plant so hoping it will still set fruit….

 

[CaneDog]

Nice, DB. The reddish flower variation is an attractive one. Good luck with getting pods!

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Last years C.rabenii x C.tovarii F1 now back to where it was last year before the chop.

Spot all the ripe berries? Nope, me neither

Half wild - domesticated C.baccatum x C.tovarii F1 doing ok for now

Still waiting on those variegated pedicel flex berries too

 

[PaulG]

I feel small and insignificant after seeing these fine images but
I'll post anyway

c. flexuosum started late Spring, spent until receently in a beverage
cup. Seems to be handling transplant okay. Unfortunately no partner
for this one:

Should be some open flowers soon.

 

[CaneDog]

I feel small and insignificant after seeing these fine images but
I'll post anyway

c. flexuosum started late Spring, spent until receently in a beverage
cup. Seems to be handling transplant okay. Unfortunately no partner
for this one:

Should be some open flowers soon.

Hey PaulG. That's how I feel this season, too. It's been a tough one for we PNW folks and just about everything I have growing is well behind schedule. Your flexuosum looks happy and healthy though!

 

[PaulG]

Thanks for the boost, CD! W will definitely be moving it in
under the lights this winter.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

@PaulG @CaneDog you aren’t alone, I’m easily 6+ weeks behind this season. There’s a reason I’ve posted mainly green berries…..and it’s not because it’s my favourite colour

CAP 1530, C.eximium

and some red ones just for you guys, C.rhomboideum

a C.flexuosum cross of mine, intraspecific

 

[PaulG]

c. flexuosum:

c. chacoense, purple flower:

 

[CaneDog]

That flex is a beauty Paul!

 

[talas]

Plants are looking superb Paul and super healthy.

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Traffic light says go-stop-ready I think?

First of the variegated pedicel berries now ripening eventually

Some more C.tovarii on the way in the cold weather

A square C.flexuosum flower just because

 

[ahayastani]

Traffic light says go-stop-ready I think?

Where I live, that's three times "go".

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Where I live, that's three times "go".

‘What lights officer?’

 

[Drunken Bee]

So the red rocopica I grew this year is not in fact red. I had hoped to produce a yellow rocopica through crossing and ultimately a mustard form. It would appear the first step is already complete. It also seems this one is deciduous once ripe. Second pic shows it with mini olive and de la selva arequipa

 

[ChilliCrosser]

@Drunken Bee got any berries setting on your C.flexuosum yet?

 

[PaulG]

The c. chacoense purple flower just starting to ripen some berries:

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Far from certain this leads anywhere interesting but worth trying. Now starting to get ripe berries on the variegated parts of a C.flexuosum plant. Some variegated leaves, some striped branches, some white pedicels, some variegated pedicels. Collect all the white/variegated ones, mass sow to see what happens.

Example of a variegated pedicel (left) and a normal one from elsewhere on the same plant (right)

 

[ChilliCrosser]

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