aropupu 3 Posted May 31, 2012 Solanum Dulcamara One of the two solanaceae species that one can find naturalized in Finland. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted May 31, 2012 CGN 19198 (C. sp / C. eximium?) CGN 19198 (C. sp / C. eximium?) This variety from CGN is from an unstable accession that proved to have some rather interesting traits, like the so-called "CGN 19198#2" that has several flowers per flower node. My plant has completely white flowers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted May 31, 2012 CAP 498 (C. praetermissum) A praetermissum curling it's petals backwards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted May 31, 2012 C. galapagoense It seems rather hard to get any fruits from this species. I have several plants that are almost two years old and haven't had a single fruit yet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted May 31, 2012 CAP 470 (C. eximium) CAP 470 (C. eximium) A C.sp. from IPK that turned out to be a nice C. eximium. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted May 31, 2012 CAP 214 (Not C. baccatum var. baccatum but C. praetermissum) Marked as a wild baccatum in the IPK database, but this one turned out to be a white-flowered form of C. praetermissum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted May 31, 2012 CAP 1455 (C. frutescens) A frutescens with ridiculously small fruits. That's my middle finger in the picture, look at your own and you'll understand the size of the fruit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lonewolf 18,622 Posted May 31, 2012 Again ... WOW! About C.galapagoense, I got a lot of pods during the second year and with the plant in full sun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stefania 4,333 Posted May 31, 2012 Very nice plants and photoes! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miciomiao 3 Posted May 31, 2012 What a nice pictures! (And sure, what a nice plants!!) Congrats mate! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted May 31, 2012 Just one more post, my Tzimbalo (Solanum caripense) suffering from one of the worst pests there is for any solanaceae: Look closely to the middle of the picture and you'll find this hairy pest there. It's probably hard to make out anything of the plant itself from the picture so here's a better one. Tzimbalo (Solanum caripense) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cyberbass 3 Posted May 31, 2012 WOOOOOW!! :huh: the love and passion you give to your plants are absolutely stunning!!! ...maybe the "pest" is a little bit jealouse Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cxx 51 Posted May 31, 2012 Tzimbalo's fruits,look like miniatures of watermelon...amazing !!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Piccantilly 15 Posted May 31, 2012 many many congratulations a great Capsicum collection and wonderfull pictures about C.galapagoense, with your camera you can document branched thichomes from a i s p e s collection Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mario 7 Posted May 31, 2012 beautiful photos and chillies Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nipotastro 1,440 Posted May 31, 2012 great! what else?? have you tried the hot lemon cross? what is its flavour? tzimbalo is edible? have you tried? how is? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toolshed 4,341 Posted May 31, 2012 hey, I apologize for this clever question but...are you growing chiles outdoor in finland? I thought you have a little bit too low temperatures up there in finland, even if you live in the south! beautiful plants, indeed!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lonewolf 18,622 Posted June 1, 2012 Great work, Aropupu. In your photos and descriptions we can feel a great passion! About C.chacoense, it would be very interesting to see them in their natural habitat (and chiltepin too!) ... maybe, one day About C.praetermissum-like; the pods are similar to those of a C.annuum (Numex twilight for example), green to red; they are not deciduous when ripe. We gave seeds to a gropu of botanist working in a University; they will grow this plant and study it. Candle-light mutant is awesome! Very nice photos! Which camera do you use? PS. By the way, did you gave a glance at our Brasil 3 report? http://www.pepperfriends.com/forum/topic/7737-wild-capsicum-brasile-3/ (at the moment photos are visible only for a i s p e s members, but will be available to everybody within few months) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted June 3, 2012 Thank you all for the warm welcome! great! what else?? have you tried the hot lemon cross? what is its flavour? tzimbalo is edible? have you tried? how is? I'm still waiting for the cross to ripen. Don't want to (yet) pick them unripe as i want to make sure that i get seeds for the second generation. After i get at least some seeds, i can also start trying how it tastes in the green stage. Tzimbalo is edible, wikipedia says the fruits resemble pepino. I haven't had the change to taste them myself though. The plant started fruiting very late in the fall and just after taking the photo of the fruits, i had to carry the plant inside to continue ripening the fruits, as it was getting too cold outside. The "pest" and it's friends (we have five cats of our own and from time to time we works as a temporary home for homeless kittens as we take part in an animal rescue organisation) immediately ripped all the unripe fruits off the plant and used thm as cat toys. I tasted one unripe and it didn't really taste much anything, something like "tasteless greenhouse cucumber crossed with a tasteless kiwifruit" would be close. I still have the plant and it's pretty huge in size now, hopefully i'll get to taste some ripe ones this summer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted June 3, 2012 hey, I apologize for this clever question but...are you growing chiles outdoor in finland? I thought you have a little bit too low temperatures up there in finland, even if you live in the south! beautiful plants, indeed!!! Yeah, it's pretty cold up here. Most people use a heated greenhouse for growing chillies, i don't as i simply don't have one. I start germinating seeds around christmas and grow the plants inside up until june, and to do that i need high-powered electric lights as the amount of natural light is so low during winter. I have a seperate room for the plants that has a 600W High-pressure sodium vapor lamp hanging from the ceiling, plus a collection of fluorescent tubes and shelves on the walls around the room. The plants spend their first 3-6 months there (depending on the species, six months for rocotos, 2-3 for domesticated annuums) and they're pretty much full-grown when it's time to transplant them outside. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted June 3, 2012 Great work, Aropupu. In your photos and descriptions we can feel a great passion! About C.chacoense, it would be very interesting to see them in their natural habitat (and chiltepin too!) ... maybe, one day About C.praetermissum-like; the pods are similar to those of a C.annuum (Numex twilight for example), green to red; they are not deciduous when ripe. We gave seeds to a gropu of botanist working in a University; they will grow this plant and study it. Candle-light mutant is awesome! Very nice photos! Which camera do you use? PS. By the way, did you gave a glance at our Brasil 3 report? http://www.pepperfri...icum-brasile-3/ (at the moment photos are visible only for a i s p e s members, but will be available to everybody within few months) Thank you. I've seen quite a bit of passion in your posts too Yes, it would be great to seem them in their natural habitat. Would take quite a bit of travelling though, as the distribution area of the species is several times larger than, say, Italy or Finland. Even larger area for tepins, as far as i understand. I've shown pictures of the praetermissum-like to a few fellow finns who seem to know their wild chillies and they've concluded that everything in the plant falls under the natural variation of the species praetermissum, except for the (claimed) non-dediousness of the fruits. Can't say anything about that though as i haven't had any fruits yet but we'll see. Could the answer maybe be as simple as a hybrid between C. praetermissum and a small-fruited variety of a domesticated C. baccatum? As for the photos, i use a "toy-store DSLR" (EOS 450D) with it's kit lens and a six euro extender piece i ordered from a chinese web shop, plus a used 50mm/f1,8 lens. I read a bit of your Brasil 3 report but it seemed too interesting for me to read it without pictures, as i'm a pretty visual person. I'll wait until i can read it with pictures Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted June 3, 2012 about C.galapagoense, with your camera you can document branched thichomes Yeah, maybe i could? i'll try this when we get some sunshine, doing macro shoots on this level requires ridiculous amounts of light and we've had only rain and cloudy weather for a week or so. If i get any decent pictures, i guess i should also do the same with C. pubescens, C. praetermissum etc other hairy species and see if there's any real difference between these! This actually sounds like a very interesting experiment! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted June 14, 2012 many many congratulations a great Capsicum collection and wonderfull pictures about C.galapagoense, with your camera you can document branched thichomes from a i s p e s collection Today i went ahead and tried this: Trichomes of C. galapagoense Trichomes of C. galapagoense Trichomes of C. galapagoense Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted June 14, 2012 Trichomes of C. pubescens (Rocoto Peru Cusco) Trichomes of C. pubescens (Rocoto Peru Cusco) Trichomes of C. pubescens (Rocoto Peru Cusco) Trichomes of C. pubescens (PI 593622) (note: the long hair in the middle of the picture is transfer, probably either from me or the cats) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aropupu 3 Posted June 14, 2012 Trichomes of C. rhomboideum (PI 645680) Trichomes of C. rhomboideum (PI 645680) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
