September 24, 2011 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a
Posts: 1,109
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Anyone recognise this?
I try new pepper varieties I'm interested every year, sometimes seeds are crossed or just the wrong thing. If they're obviously wrong I usually pull up the plants at the first sign and count it as a loss.
This year I had one that was just a weird plant. It was supposed to be a new chinense Caribbean seasoning variety, from a grower who said they had grown it out for the past several years after collecting the peppers on a trip to Trinidad. The other two plants look exactly what she said they would be, as are their peppers. The unusual plant stayed short and bushy, flowered 2 months after anything else I grew and has yet to ripen a fruit. It flowers in clusters of 6 or more, and the flowers appear to contain a small fruit with a distended pistil. The petals fall away and the fruit swells to about marble sized, but have none have turned color yet. I contacted the source and sent pictures, they said they didn't grow anything like it last year and don't have anything like it growing this year. If it's a cross, it's a weird one, or it's some stray seed from their collection that they just don't recognize. I have bagged peppers, so if it tastes like anything interesting or useful I'll see if the seeds come true next year. Flowers: Fruit: Anyone seen anything like it before? Last edited by Boutique Tomatoes; September 25, 2011 at 12:49 AM. Reason: Changed flower picture to closeup view. |
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