Bounty: Corbaci/Bullnose Albino Pepper (2/4/18)

[jcosmo]

AG sponges and nutes
Seeds: Baker's Creek Heirloom Seeds
1 pod w/3 Corbaci pepper seeds
1 pod w/2 Albino Bullnose pepper seeds
7 pods w/3 Merlot lettuce seeds

Baker's Creek's description of Corbaci peppers:

80 days. A unique and wonderful sweet pepper. Very long 10-inch fruit are curved and twisted, very slender, like a Turkish sabre. This rare heirloom from Turkey has a very rich flavor, perfect for pickling or frying. One of the most productive of all peppers, out-yielding all others in tests by the University of California.

Putnam Farms describes it as:

Corbaci is a rare Turkish heirloom chili with long slender sweet peppers that grow in 10″ spirals. Peppers grow long and straight or curl around each other in spirals. They start out light green, then yellow to orange to bright red. They can be harvested at any stage. The plants only grow about 15″ tall.

Description from Mary's Heirloom Seeds:

75 days. Uniquely slender, sweet, 10 to 12 inch fruits change from light green to yellow and finally to bright red. A perfect choice for fresh eating, pickling or frying, this rare heirloom is from Turkey and has a very rich, sweet flavor. Harvest edible green fruits in as little as 55 days or allow to fully mature at 75 days. WARNING: Plant should be staked as very heavy yields will cause the plants to fall over.

Baker's Creek describes the Albino Bullnose peppers:

Beautiful, blocky 3-4 inch peppers are a lovely cream color. They have a nice mild, sweet flavor and ripen to a beautiful reddish-orange. They produce loads of fruit from early summer until frost on very compact, dwarf plants. They are very popular here at Baker Creek and used in our restaurant. This is one of the first varieties I read about when I first became interested in heirloom seeds.

From myfolia.com:

Albino bullnose is part of the Capsicum genus and is a Sweet pepper variety. Its scientific name is Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Grossum Group) 'Albino bullnose'. Blooms appear in these approximate colours: Anti-flash white. Leaves appear approximately as a Grade 1 Paint Green colour. This variety is an Vegetable that typically grows as an Annual, which is defined as a plant that matures and completes its lifecycle over the course of a single year. Albino bullnose is known for growing to a height of approximately 1.79 feet (that's 55.0 cm in metric).

Merlot lettuce is dark red and high in anthocyanins. Pictures will be coming as soon as there's something to see.

those albinos caught my attention and is something I would try later on for sure, for fun!

[Kate]

These two pepper varieties look amazing. Please do update with images as they mature. I have young heirloom cherry tomato plants in my Extra, but my next project will be peppers, either in the Extra I have now, or perhaps I'll buy another.  I use my Sprout LED for herbs, and have to beat them into submission, daily. I've always gardened in a hothouse and ground, depending on the plant. Our growing season is short, (Memorial Day to early-mid September), but fierce with so much sun in the summer. Crops are plentiful and grow to insane proportions. I love the idea of growing year-round, inside.

[Shawn]

Feb 5, 2018 9:59:52 GMT -5 Kate said:

These two pepper varieties look amazing. Please do update with images as they mature. I have young heirloom cherry tomato plants in my Extra, but my next project will be peppers, either in the Extra I have now, or perhaps I'll buy another.  I use my Sprout LED for herbs, and have to beat them into submission, daily. I've always gardened in a hothouse and ground, depending on the plant. Our growing season is short, (Memorial Day to early-mid September), but fierce with so much sun in the summer. Crops are plentiful and grow to insane proportions. I love the idea of growing year-round, inside.

I love year round growing as well.  My thumbs was always black for outdoor gardening but the Aerogardens it is on its way to being bright green.  Not quite there yet 

BTW, glad to see you post, please don't be a stranger

[MaryL]

Very intriguing peppers.  And gotta love the rapid growth of the Turkish one.

[jcosmo]

It's Day 9 and I'm finally seeing signs of life in both pepper pods. The lettuce is growing nicely as well:

[MaryL]

Excellent start!

[jcosmo]

The pepper pods now have 2 seedlings each, though the roots are growing much faster on the lettuce pods. I'm afraid the lettuce roots will get tangled with the pepper roots and will damage the peppers when I eventually remove those pods. Can that happen? I might end up moving the lettuce in the back row to another machine.

Look how much they've grown in just 2 days:



Next pic when the first true leaves come in.

[jcosmo]

I forgot that I was going to post when the first true leaves came in. Since I can't see this garden from the kitchen, I keep forgetting to pick some of the lettuce for my salad in the morning and the peppers are slowly being swallowed up by a forest of lettuce:




It's good lettuce, though!

[MaryL]

Oh yes, that’ll happen with the lettuce, lol.  It grows soooo fast.  I’m glad you’re enjoying it when you have it

[jcosmo]

Yesterday was Day 28. First rinse/refill and first dose of Mooch. The corbaci pepper is getting taller than the bullnose albino:

[jcosmo]

After reading Mike's post saying he doesn't want to see buds before 45 days, I found 9+ buds on the bullnose albino! I cut them all off between last night and this morning, so I'm hoping it will start to catch up to the corbaci pepper.

[jcosmo]

It might be a little early, but I took 3-4 leaves off of each last night, taking the ones that were most in a position to block light from the new growth closer to the stem. This is my first time pruning peppers, and I'm still not convinced that I didn't screw it up, but they were still standing today:

[Shawn]

Removing the lowest largest oldest leaves should be fine.  They are looking like they are doing well.

[jcosmo]

In retrospect, I probably should've pruned just the Bullnose pepper (the smaller one). Had to raise the hood again this morning for the Corbaci pepper.

[jcosmo]

Help! I'm raising the hood every other day for the corbaci pepper (left), which is now starting to form buds. After cutting off the buds on the bullnose albino, they're now starting to form again, but the plant is still only half the size of its companion... I'm not sure what I need to do with them at this point.

[jcosmo]

It's Day 47. I've pruned the one on the left twice, and have raised the hood several times over the last 10 days. The corbaci pepper now has 3 open blossoms and the bullnose albino has 2.

[Kate]

It's shocking these were started together. This is a great teaching thread. Who could know that one would grow so much faster or taller than the other, especially since the Bullnose description (1.79 ft) stated a taller plant than the Corbaci (15in)!

[MaryL]

Mar 24, 2018 10:37:41 GMT -5 Kate said:

It's shocking these were started together. This is a great teaching thread. Who could know that one would grow so much faster or taller than the other, especially since the Bullnose description (1.79 ft) stated a taller plant than the Corbaci (15in)!

I agree , a great teaching thread. 

[jcosmo]

It's Day 58. I'm amazed by how easily the Corbaci pepper buds are pollinated. The petals drop the very next day and the peppers are growing quickly. It's the opposite with the Bullnose buds. The petals are still securely attached after the flower is pollinated daily for several days in a row, but I'm finally starting to see the peppers forming.