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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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PaulG said:
Another late starter in the Blue Mystery pot, 59 days  :rofl: :
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Wild, untamed, stubborn. Cultivated varieties are selected for (by?) their compliance :D
 
PaulG said:
Some of the wilds enjoying some dappled shade:
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Those plants look very nice. I would be happy to add them to my own garden if you grow tired of them :)
 
Galapagoense again :) This is quite an impressive plant! Most of my pepper plants were clearly and understandably suffering today as the sun lashed them at 37°C. Solar altitude is ~80° at noon now and will slowly but steadily rise to 90° by the first of May. And this plant seems to cope with it pretty well. Off course, since the Galápagos Islands are located around the equator, they can be expected to tolerate/withstand this amount of solar energy - though not necessarily the heat.
 
Some tiny flowers. Quite a heavy branching habit.
 
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I believe this will be the first fruit the plant will produce. I hope I can beat the birds  :confused:
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ahayastani said:
 
Wild, untamed, stubborn. Cultivated varieties are selected for (by?) their compliance :D
 
Those plants look very nice. I would be happy to add them to my own garden if you grow tired of them :)
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I like all those adjectives, D.!
 
At season's end, I will save some
seeds for you, buddy!
 
Your Southern grow is looking great
so far.
 
That c. galapagoense is looking lovely.
The soft foliage is really unique in the
pepper world.
 
A few of the wilds under the shade cloth
during these nice days. Two Chili ‘Seguin’
plants and the ‘Tolito’ Glabriuscuulum from
Guatamala:
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Purple flower c. chacoense. If you look close,
you can see the flower:
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A beautiful little flower:
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My chiltepin is more interested in branching and getting bigger around, rather than growing in height and becoming taller. The mother plant is not that tall but rather broad. However, I don't know the history of the mother plant and perhaps a neighbour (has) tended to it. With almost daily temperatures of 36-38°C, it is remarkable to see that this plant does not seem to care. Most of my pepper plants can deal with it, but they are not exactly thriving. This chiltepin, together with a galapagoense and the local heirloom chile chocolate, seem to be naturally adapted to these circumstances. Today is a cloudy day and temperatures have dropped to a meagre 32°C.
 
 
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ahayastani said:
My chiltepin is more interested in branching and getting bigger around, rather than growing in height and becoming taller. 
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May have something to do with the
fact mine are still in 2.6 qt. pots?
 
Sounds like yours has a great growth habit.
 
PaulG said:
May have something to do with the
fact mine are still in 2.6 qt. pots?
 
Sounds like yours has a great growth habit.
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Possibly... I feel that the next 2-3 weeks will be important to tell. The plant is absolutely burgeoning now and full of life, I see it growing by the day. I was somehow assuming that it would grow tall and then develop its branches, but this plant has decided different. Every morning, I see how its volume has increased, but its height not that much. Just look at the size of those branches at the bottom compared to the main stem's height. I'm not a specialist, however, so perhaps I'm exaggerating :)
 
Most of my wild this season are OW's, but I have a few I started from seed.  With the days getting longer and sunnier I'm starting to see the OW's get things into gear.
 
Here's a few new ones.
 
Heatmiser's Texas Tepin.  I have 3 of these from his 2014 seeds collected in the wild.  I had all 3 in one container until a recent transplant.  Now it looks like they've rooted in and are starting to grow more quickly.
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Chacoense Most Prolific
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Perola Laranja
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Tolito - hiding in back.  I have 5 of these guys, but they sprouted late and are all playing catch-up.
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And here's a few of the OW's
 
OW USDA Cardenasii.  I started this late last season then cut it back before OW, so it hasn't bloomed. It's from a different source than my other USDA Card so I'm curious whether they'll be very similar or show differences. 
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My last of 3 original Lanceolatum, going into it's 3rd growing season.  Just got a big haircut and needs some new soil.  I'm trying to get this guy back to a well shaped plant as they're such a great looking variety.
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Last one is a Baccatum Fragilis - not sure it belongs in the "wilds" thread.  Maybe.  I'll stick it in anyway.   These guys seem to grow very (very) slowly at first, then speed up a bit as they get bigger.  That's been my experience anyway.  I'm hoping this one is far along enough to produce outside this season, versus having to transition it back inside.
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Big shout out to Devv and wiriwiri for the seeds
for these awesome wild varieties...
 
Devv's hand-collected wild seeds near Seguin,
Texas. The one on the right is a triple fork:
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Nice brace of c. galapagoense courtesy of wiriwiri:
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These were stubborn germinators, almost
exactly one month to hooks.
 
Some impressions from my chiltepin :)
 
The branches near the bottom keep on growing. The scale on the knife might give you an impression of their size. Looking at the plant, I observe many signals that indicate further growth and that the plant is still not interested in flowering.
 
 
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Nice plant, alright. I notice most ofd my wilds have
the same growth habit. A tall central stalk, with
robust branching down low. I suspect that when
your plant's roots fill the container, it will start
reaching up.
 
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