🌶x🌶=🌶? Making new ones & enjoying the wonder of wild capsicum #hybrid #plantbreeding #chilli #chili #pepper #wild #Capsicum #Solanaceae
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Small C.flexuosum harvest from a plant that grows outdoors in-ground all year round regardless of the UK weather. Lots more on the plant that I’ll probably leave there! 🌶️
From 1 tiny stem (2022) to 9 stems and counting (2026). Year round outdoor UK resident, C.flexuosum 🌶️
84 days for fresh seeds to germinate, welcome to my world of C.rabenii x C.tovarii F2s 🫠🌶️🌱 Started on 14th Dec 2025
3 species from 3 clades, successful cross confirmed. C.baccatum, C.tovarii & C.eximium rolled into one F1 🌶️🪄
C.lanceolatum has been flowering under lots of layers of fleece all winter, who says 🌶️ need lots of warmth and heat 🙂 Protection from rain as it’s under glass, no air heating, only gentle bottom warmth from a heated tray.
Wild capsicum seedlings appearing. C.lanceolatum native to southern Mexico, Guatemala & Honduras. C.cardenasii native to Bolivia 🌱🌶️
C.galapagoense, one of my favourite wild Capsicum species, emerging after 28 days and from my older seed stock. I’d take that speed even with fresher seeds!
This guy literally shows you how to post only photos of peppers.
I quit my $350k/yr job to research how to do this and here’s what I learned.
1. Don’t subscribe to any SaaS or AI services
2. Plant seeds
3. Let them grow
4. Take photos
5. Post photos
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Attempted introduction of C.eximium wild Capsicum into a heatless C.baccatum var. pendulum cultivar. F1 seedling looking good so far for a valid cross.
Hopefully three Capsicum species cross showing plenty of wild trichomes. One of my own C.baccatum var. pendulum lines crossed previously with C.tovarii and now combined with C.eximium. Flowers will be needed to confirm.
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My F2 runner bean population seems to be producing six color classes. I still have many pods left to process as they dry before I can estimate the ratios of the different seed colors needed to estimate the genetics ratios.
ALT Twelve large bean seeds are resting on my palm. There are two each of six different colors: black, blue, brown, orange, purple, and pink.
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The superhot that scorched empires: From Trinidad's ancient Kairi (Land of the Hummingbird) to colonial "Devil's Pepper" sins, this chili's 7,000-year rename game birthed Scorpions, Reapers & Jolokias. Unmask the theft in my new blog.
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Second from left, a possible candidate F2 selection from my Mini Stripey Starfish project which is an interspecific spin-off from my main project. C.flexuosum to the left, Biquinho to the right for scale. More F2s next year for other flavour and colour options but a good fallback
Not a serious attempt as I only did a single manual cross per pollen batch. However, just for fun and home grower science, defrosted pollen samples I collected around 4 years ago.
