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🌶x🌶=🌶? Making new ones & enjoying the wonder of wild capsicum #hybrid #plantbreeding #chilli #chili #pepper #wild #Capsicum #Solanaceae

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Capsicum Flowers
#chilli #hotpepper #capsicum #wild #domesticated

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@ChilliFowler We need more C.galapagoense in this world 🌶️

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@ChilliFowler Certified ‘Royal Mail’ proof

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84 days for fresh seeds to germinate, welcome to my world of C.rabenii x C.tovarii F2s 🫠🌶️🌱 Started on 14th Dec 2025

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Optimised to have one anther per stigma @ATinyGreenCell 😅

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3 species from 3 clades, successful cross confirmed. C.baccatum, C.tovarii & C.eximium rolled into one F1 🌶️🪄

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@ATinyGreenCell What piece of DNA do I need to take a scalpel to? I need this to have a 40 day cycle 😅

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3 species from 3 clades, successful cross confirmed. C.baccatum, C.tovarii & C.eximium rolled into one F1 🌶️🪄

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@ChilliFowler Have you tried talking to it nicely? 😁

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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.

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C.galapagoense underway 🌶️

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Wild capsicum seedlings appearing. C.lanceolatum native to southern Mexico, Guatemala & Honduras. C.cardenasii native to Bolivia 🌱🌶️

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@DurandA23 Yes, typically the Purple Corolla clade is the easiest to cross with C.pubescens. That covers C.cardenasii, C.eximium and C.eshbaughii species.

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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.

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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!

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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
#TimelineParody

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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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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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@ChilliFowler @mychilligarden From 2022/2023, same plants still growing outdoors at the moment, live outdoors all year in ground or in pot

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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.

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@thebiologistisn Bag-based floor charts are underrated 🙂

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@ChilliFowler Took your time 🤣