Re: [CH] Re:A case for the botanists or the X Files?

fragrantgarden (fragrantgarden@fastlink.com.au)
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:31:15 +1100

Amazing isnt it? I just don't understand. The fruit is on old wood that in
previous years has produced round fruit! Not a nuclear facility for 100K.
Cross polination?
>Are you living near any nuclear facilities? Tepins are round and
>Piquins are pointy. I'll be happy to send you some non-irradiated
>seed for each:-)
Thanks dave I would like that. Pequin is a name much debased here in
Australia. I think nurseries think it is a name that will sell. All sorts
of things are called Pequins. Although I gues setting the peramaters on any
chilli name is hard. When would you sat a pequin stops being a pequin and
becomes something else. Size?
>Warning: Both varieties were grown about 100 miles from Roswell,
>New Mexico.
Glow -in-the-Dark-Chillies would be something we could patent! We could
call it "windows"; use it to power computers and make Lots and Lots of Money
Mad King Michael The Wise In Oz
>Dave Anderson
>http://www.tough-love.com
>
>> I have a three year old Tepin Chilli growing in a pot.
>> Every year it has produced little, red-hot, pea-shaped fruit
>> ( A little smaller than a pea).
>> Today I saw it was fruiting up but with 1/2 inch long baby-sized classic
>> shaped chilli pods.
>> You know the little pointy ones that everone thinks is the only shape
>> chillies come in.
>> How can this be?
>> It is the same plant.
>


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