Purple Tiger coming...

Two of my Purple Tiger seeds that I sowed in germinated. Purple Tiger is a Trifetti variegated chili ie they have leaves that have purple, green and white variegation and are sometimes referred to as tricolor variegata. Strangely, one seed has green cotyledon and hypocotyl, whereas the other is totally purple, cotelydon till the roots. Wonder which is the right one?

Purple Tiger seedlings... the one on the left has green cotyledon whereas the one on the right
is all purple.

So should this variety be considered having anthocyanine cotyledon - anthocyanine hypocotyl or green cotyledon - anthocyanine hypocotyl? Will sow more seeds to see what is the norm for this variety.

UPDATE: I was informed that the cotyledon and hypocotyl should be purple. So the green one on the left could possibly be an off-phenotype seedling. Will mark it and keep an eye on it.

Cute seedlings of Bishop's Crown - Multicolored

These are just adorable, the seedlings of Multi-coloured Bishop's Crown chili. Bishop's Crown chili are Capsicum baccatum, which I love as they have a different, more fruity flavour than Capsicum annuum or C. frutescens. For this variety, the stem are purple, that is they have anthocyanine in them. They were a tad slow in germinating, taking more than a week. However, germination rate was 100% for all the seeds that I have sown.

Purple stemmed seedling of Capsicum baccatum
'Multi-coloured Bishop's Crown'.

Seedlings before the true leaves emerge.

Notes on Multicoloured Bishop's Crown:

1. Anthocyanine containing hypocotyl; green cotyledon.

Seed saving - NOID chili CAA1

After ignoring the pods for some time, I finally got to removing them from the NOID CAA1 aka PhD chili (read here). The pods do not naturally detach from the tree and most of them have started to turn wrinkly and brown.

The yellow pods of NOID CAA1 that became semi-dried on the plant.

I was quite surprise to see that around 40% of the seeds are 'bad' seeds ie aborted or failed to developed properly. Not too sure if this is due to genetics or growing condition. Still, the percentage is very high and consistent in all the pods harvested, pointing to a genetic component.

This time, I remembered to wear gloves, so I didn't get finger burn after doing this.

Almost half of the seeds were aborted or poorly developed seeds.