Wild Baccatum - 'Fragilis'

[cmpman1974 503]

Claudio asked me to post some information about this plant.  This is a very unique C. baccatum that was a one-off plant grown from seeds from Jukka in Finland.  It got the nickname 'fragilis' as the leaves are extremely brittle and leaves/branches can break by barely touching the plant. Note the flowers are some of the smallest I've ever seen on a capsicum. 

 

It grows unusually slow at first and is quite unique in appearance.  I am waiting on fruits to ripen.  This has been the first time I had success with it.  I started very early (mid-2018) to be able to get a plant that could produce pods for the 2019 season.

 

I find everything about this variety intriguing.  Not many have grown it based on my knowledge. 

 

 

[Lonewolf 18,106]

Interesting.

I think that this kind of leaves is caused by a mutation.

I saw something similar in Gabor's mutants collection.

 

[cmpman1974 503]

Claudio, how many forms of 'mutants' did you see?  It makes you wonder how many genetic things can occur.       It definitely is a very interesting plant. It seems to get a little sturdier as time goes on.

 

Chris

[Lonewolf 18,106]

14 hours ago, cmpman1974 said:

Claudio, how many forms of 'mutants' did you see?

 

The collection of Gabor that I saw in Hungary had about 300 different kind of mutations.

 

[Devabriel 95]

Interesting looking plant!

[Devabriel 95]

On 9/28/2019 at 2:41 PM, Lonewolf said:

 

The collection of Gabor that I saw in Hungary had about 300 different kind of mutations.

 

What is this collection? Does it have any site one could look it up as it sounds fascinating!

[Lonewolf 18,106]

No website, it's a collection of live plants (in three different greenhouses).

It's in Hungary, near Szentes, South-East of Kecskemét.

 

You can find presentations and articles about it searching online for "Gabor Csillery mutants".

For example here:

https://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/Pepper2012/Presentations/1 Sesson one/am/0955 Gabor CSILLERY.pdf

 

[Lonewolf 18,106]

You can also find some photos here:

https://www.pepperfriends.com/forum/topic/15389-eucarpia-2016-commenti/?tab=comments#comment-451217

 

[Lonewolf 18,106]

Also, here a discussion about another kind of mutation which I saw in Gabor's collection, the "filiform":

 

https://www.pepperfriends.com/forum/topic/15309-pimento-del-sahara/?tab=comments#comment-451134

 

It's interesting because this mutation is well know among the keen on Capsicum, even if with other (wrong) explanations ...

 

[Devabriel 95]

On 11/9/2019 at 2:38 PM, Lonewolf said:

No website, it's a collection of live plants (in three different greenhouses).

It's in Hungary, near Szentes, South-East of Kecskemét.

 

You can find presentations and articles about it searching online for "Gabor Csillery mutants".

For example here:

https://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/Pepper2012/Presentations/1 Sesson one/am/0955 Gabor CSILLERY.pdf

 

Thank you I'll do that👍

[Pr0digal_son 1,395]

Here is information on this mutation. I am working on an entry for our database also. 

 

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Characterization-of-the-brassinolide-sensitive-tomato-bst-mutant-a-Shoot-apex-derived_fig2_332431954

 

 

 

[Lonewolf 18,106]