Pimenta Morango (C.chinense)

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September 25 I've got my first Pimenta Morango seedlings.

13 days later the seedlings looked like this:

 

 

20 days seedlings:

 

35 days plants:

Some days ago first flower buds appeared:

 

Today the plants look like this:

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62 days, the flower buds keep growing...

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66 days. One flower bud seems to start blooming in a couple of days.

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69 days. The first flower opened.

 

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75 days. The first pod began forming

 

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78 days

 

82 days, some new pods formed

The first pod's still growing

[Lonewolf 18,126]

Very nice!

 

Peduncles in this varieties look quite unusual for C.chinense, strongly geniculate.

[Trinidad_Dog 674]

this is my morango from the season 2013

[Stefania 4,329]

this is my morango from the season 2013

 

 

Non sembra proprio il pimenta morango ...

[Trinidad_Dog 674]

 

 

Non sembra proprio il pimenta morango ...

lo so,

questa è una variante unica

[Lonewolf 18,126]

questa è una variante unica

 

Risultato di ibridazione, anche se si intuisce l'origine ...

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Very nice!

 

Peduncles in this varieties look quite unusual for C.chinense, strongly geniculate.

You're right as always.

IMHO, there's the same thing with Bode Roxa's peduncles.

 

 

It seems to me that the both cultivars are not 100% pure C.chinense varieties, IMHO, so to say spontaneous hybrids...

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Pimenta Morango, 86 days, pods are forming and growing:

[Rapace 9,606]

Great Varg.

 

Your plants grow up very quickly (and you live in Russia, not in Mexico or Brazil ).

What kind of lights are you using ? And what about fertilization and soil ?

Tell us something more about how you are growing up this plant..

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Great Varg.

 

Your plants grow up very quickly (and you live in Russia, not in Mexico or Brazil ).

What kind of lights are you using ? And what about fertilization and soil ?

Tell us something more about how you are growing up this plant..

Yes, you're right I live in Russia, Moscow but I grow peppers indoor, not outdoor! (it's about +1^oC right now outside).

These two Pimenta Morango "photo models" grow in a 3,5 l container containing only coco substrate in small particles. A lamp I use to illuminate them within 12 hours per day is a HPS 250W lamp with inner specular reflector. It looks like this:

Maybe this short illumination period of 12 hours per day make peppers to flower earlier than usual (but not all of them). There are many different speculations about light period duration. Once I read an article where a man wrote that he used to lighten his pepper and tomato seedlings first 3-5 days after their germination continuously round the clock (then the light period lasted 14 hours per day) and it gives him great results. But I can't say if it's true or not because I've never tried to do such experiment.

The room temperature is about +20-23^oC around the clock. I can't tell you about humidity because I don't have any hygrometer.

About fertilization.

When seedlings are 3-4 weeks old I fertilize them with Ca(NO₃)₂, after this I fertilize them with Valagro (usually Master 15.5.30+2) every 10-14 days. When blooming ends up and pods begin forming I fertilize plants with Ca(NO₃)₂ one more time.

P.S. When growing at home C.chinense pepper flowers have often minimal or no pollen at all. In such cases I pollinate them with pollen from other pepper varieties such as C.annuum/C.baccatum. I use a fan also in such cases when a C.chinense plant starts blooming. Usually (but not ever) it make flowers to form pollen...

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111 days, first ripe pod

121 days. All the fruits are matured.

Heat level is average (4-5 items of 10). Chinense aroma is average too.

[Hellas 5,545]

Beautiful fruits and very nice photo

[Lonewolf 18,126]

This variety is really very beautiful!