Hybrid Chillies (forum)

TMary starts with ...
This morning I was excited to see two very different chillies on one of my seedlings. The pointy one is the expected shape so the other is the alien. A little bit scary.
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Time: 27th April 2014 7:21am

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Brain says...
maybe you can name the new strain as the MaryT strain. :)

I recall from your other pics, you grow some round chillies as well, so maybe that's the other parent?

I am most curious, as to if there is a certain way to identify hybridised plants, as like you, I grow a few types and don't 'isolate' them.





Time: 27th April 2014 5:39pm

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vlct says...
looks like Hungarian hot wax

Time: 27th April 2014 10:27pm

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TMary says...
Here they are in scale. So cute. I'm sure someone somewhere knows just how to determine its parentage but they are so fecund that I don't think anyone would want to bother. Brain I read that they need to be at 400m apart to be effectively isolated.
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Time: 28th April 2014 4:29am

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TMary says...
I suspect this is the culprit.
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Time: 28th April 2014 4:41am

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TMary says...
Then again this may be the one. I hope not; the little guy is HOT.

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Time: 28th April 2014 5:14am

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Julie says...
Mary, that looks very like a Habanero. I tried a chili that looked like that last year (though it was orange, not red)and it nearly blew the top of my head off! I only added a small amount to a heap of lentils.

A friend, stupidly, tasted one straight from the plant. It actually blistered her lips and she could hardly breathe.

Time: 28th April 2014 7:13pm

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MaryT says...
Yes, Julie; very hot. From Mike, I think. One of his jokes :)

Time: 28th April 2014 7:47pm

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Mike Tr says...
Mary it is all a bit hazy now which varieties I sent around, but it was no joloke. They got the bhut and are just so 2012.Even moruga scorpions are a bit old hat. The king of sting is now Carolina Reeper.

Seriously it looks kinda familiar.

Time: 28th April 2014 7:57pm

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MaryT says...
Very funny, Mike - now it's terrorising the harmless citizens in my chilli patch though I have no proof thus far. Will carry out taste test tomorrow to see if the hybrid is hot or mild. Phil's mild bell chilli might be the co parent.

Time: 28th April 2014 8:10pm

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Mike Tr says...
Mary those darn bees have a lot inter-chili hanky panky to answer for. It looks like a hybrid.

Time: 28th April 2014 8:24pm

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MaryT says...
Thank goodness that bees do what bees do, Mike :) If chillies attract bees then I'm happy to grow them, whatever weird fruit they want to throw up.

I tried them this morning; the taste test is inconclusive because though the hybrid is hot, so was its mother. A sliver of the 'new chilli' well munched numbs the mouth and tongue and caused my scalp to itch. So anyone could have been the Dad. The flavour is so so, but fragrant; I think I picked it too early.

Time: 29th April 2014 4:07am

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MaryT says...
Thank you, vict I picked up the 'hungry hot wax' today; had to laugh when I saw the label.

Time: 1st May 2014 12:35pm

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Mike Tr says...
Hot whacks?

Time: 1st May 2014 12:43pm

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MaryT says...
It's all in your mind, Mike :)

Time: 1st May 2014 1:15pm

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vlct says...
the stamp. lol.


Time: 1st May 2014 1:49pm

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