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Tomatovillian™
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Great pics and helpful labels.
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Tomatovillian™
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Those are beautiful! Know you cannot wait to make a culinary creation!
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Beautilicious. Great pix.
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Tomatovillian™
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Location: Snellville, GA
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Nice peppers but I especially liked the way you displaid the pictures. Really gives one what they are like, instead of just one picture of a plant.
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Tomatovillian™
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That's what I love about peppers, they are so colorful.
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August 12, 2013
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Tomatovillian™
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Very beautiful, a pleasure to look at, and I bet they are so tasty!
Looks like bell peppers love California weather. Tatiana
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Beautiful! Congrats.
My peppers are finally trying to overcome the very, very, very wet season we have had. I doubt I'll get much Chinese Giants...here's hoping.
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Tomatovillian™
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Very nice!
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August 12, 2013
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Riding The Crazy Train Again
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: San Marcos, California
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I'm not into hot peppers so these are a feast for the eyes. Pretty !
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August 14, 2013
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: California
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More Sweet Peppers - Non-Bells
These peppers sprang for an accidental cross between Fire Opal and an unknown hot pepper that took place in 2010. The cross was discovered in 2011 and seeds were saved. Nineteen plants were planted in the ground in 2012. Eighteen produced fruit. They are shown below (the knife marks the place of the plant which didn't produce fruit (due to heavy shading by a rampant decorative bean plant)).
20120726-A-Peck-of-Pretty-Peppers-A.jpg Seeds were saved from the 18 that produced fruit. For 2013 seeds were selected from: plant 5 due to its brilliant red ripe color, plant 6 due to its length and girth, plant 14 due to its orange ripe color, plant 16 due to its deep red ripe color and plant 17 due to its yellow ripe color. In the first days of February 2013, seeds were sown in peat pellets over heat and under a dome. Germination wasn't as strong as expected. All survivors were planted into and grown in containers containing about 4.5 gallons of soil-mix in an area that gets from 5 to 8 hours of sun per day. They receive 15 minutes of drip irrigation each day and 1/2 strength Miracle Grow every three weeks or so. You can judge for yourself how well their progeny conformed to the parents. Offspring of Plant 5 from 2012 20130811-5.1.jpg 20130811-5.2.jpg 20130811-5.3.jpg 20130811-5.Group.jpg Offspring of Plant 6 from 2012 20130811-6.1.jpg 20130811-6.Group.jpg Offspring of Plant 14 from 2012 20130811-14.1.jpg 20130811-14.2.jpg 20130811-14.Group.jpg 20130811-14.Group2.jpg Offspring of Plant 16 from 2012 20130811-16.1.jpg 20130811-16.2.jpg 20130811-16.Group.jpg Offspring of Plant 17 from 2012 20130811-17.1.jpg 20130811-17.2.jpg 20130811-17.Group.jpg 20120726-A-Peck-of-Pretty-Peppers-A.jpg Last edited by dinca; August 14, 2013 at 12:59 AM. Reason: Don't move photos when composing, you'll lose them |
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Stunning diversity. Are you going to stabilize the selected lines? Which ones are best tasting and how hot are they?
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August 14, 2013
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: California
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They are all over the spectrum, aren't they?
The first photos are of named varieties well into their development. The second group are of the progeny of an unplanned cross of an ancestor of one of the peppers in the first group and an unknown hot pepper. They are not even close to stability. None are hot, all are sweet (I can't eat hot peppers (I get violent hiccups), so I cull them when found). Because these are very similar in flavor (at least, to me) I'll do as I did last year and select for color, size and shape. The only one I'm sure of growing next year is the red bell 14.2 (right hand pepper in the second group photo for 14). |
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August 20, 2013
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: California
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Fruit from all the project pepper plants - except Royal Purple Variegated plant #1 - were represented in photos attached to post #1.
Although it is not yet "ripe", here is the missing fruit in its "green" state. It's beautiful and it's long, almost 5 inches. So far, Royal Purple has uniformly finished as a ruddy red. 20130820-RoyalPurpleVariegated-1a.jpg 20130820-RoyalPurpleVariegated-1b.jpg |
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August 20, 2013
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: California
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Here are more photos of the 2010 Fire Opal cross originally shown in post #11:
5.1 102_7971.jpg 5.2 102_7972.jpg 5.3 102_7973.jpg 6.1 102_7974.jpg 14.1 102_7975.jpg 14.2 102_7976.jpg 16.1 102_7977.jpg 16.2 102_7978.jpg 17.1 102_7979.jpg 17.2 102_7980.jpg Last edited by dinca; August 20, 2013 at 07:51 PM. |
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