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Plant ID, Please
In early 2002, I had a packet of mixed pepper seeds. I planted several,
mainly out of curiosity. I was rewarded with a nice jalapeno plant which has given me several peppers. But another plant grew up with it, that I have no idea what it is. For two and a half years, it did nothing but get taller and broader -- never so much as a blossom. Around last August I started giving the plants more water, and suddenly it burst out in tiny white blossoms. I don't know if this was the result of the increased water, or just coincident. The blossoms developed into tiny, round fruits, which never got very large, and are now beginning to ripen. Anyone know what this plant is? http://www.holotech.net/10140002.JPG -- Methuselah "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." -- Diane Ackerman |
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Methuselah Jones wrote in
. 97.132: In early 2002, I had a packet of mixed pepper seeds. I planted several, mainly out of curiosity. I was rewarded with a nice jalapeno plant which has given me several peppers. But another plant grew up with it, that I have no idea what it is. For two and a half years, it did nothing but get taller and broader -- never so much as a blossom. Around last August I started giving the plants more water, and suddenly it burst out in tiny white blossoms. I don't know if this was the result of the increased water, or just coincident. The blossoms developed into tiny, round fruits, which never got very large, and are now beginning to ripen. Anyone know what this plant is? http://www.holotech.net/10140002.JPG Looks like a bird pepper, one of the wild chiles. This page says it gets about 1 foot tall, but don't be surprised to see it 4 times that high. http://home.att.net/~larvalbugrex/birdpepper.html Sean |
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Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Sean
Houtman of sci.bio.botany make plain: Methuselah Jones wrote in . 97.132: But another plant grew up with it, that I have no idea what it is. For two and a half years, it did nothing but get taller and broader -- never so much as a blossom. Around last August I started giving the plants more water, and suddenly it burst out in tiny white blossoms. I don't know if this was the result of the increased water, or just coincident. The blossoms developed into tiny, round fruits, which never got very large, and are now beginning to ripen. Anyone know what this plant is? http://www.holotech.net/10140002.JPG Looks like a bird pepper, one of the wild chiles. This page says it gets about 1 foot tall, but don't be surprised to see it 4 times that high. That does indeed look like it. Thanks! The one I have is over 3 feet tall. It isn't getting much taller, but is continuing to spread out, with some very long branches. Apparently the peppers are quite hot. I'm looking forward to trying some! -- Methuselah I intend to live forever. So far, so good. |
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They're called chilipetins in Texas; Chiltepin in parts of Mexico. I love hot
peppers, and once was about to speak at a rose growers' conference, and the host, knowing my love for peppers, gave me one of these. I crunched it down as I walked to the podium. From among the tears and sweating face, I whispered into the microphone (lost my voice) "Mike has just tried to kill me!" It brought the house down. I recovered quickly. If you like hot peppers, this kind is quite good. I much prefer them to the "Florida Grove Peppers" which are long and pointy, and are also known as bird peppers. It seems that all of the tiny-fruited types get called bird peppers. |
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