Trying to ID a purple bell pepper cultivar with unusual growth habit
Trying to ID a purple bell pepper cultivar with unusual growth habit
by cowsruleusall
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cowsruleusall
Hey folks, I’ve been gardening since the 90s and have never come across a purple bell pepper cultivar this productive or weird in growth habit. It was also the first pepper I ever tried to overwinter – was remarkably successful and got it to survive 3 years and a cross-country move (shipped it >2,000mi and kept it alive, and then my brother killed it…).
I’m trying to figure out what the cultivar was specifically because of its unusually rapid growth and odd growth habit. Planted 5 of them, got them from a garden supply in Raleigh. They were fast growing, with small purple bell peppers with relatively thin walls that were dark purple-black in the summer and lightened to lavender in the fall. The stems were unusually brittle and would snap rather than bend even a little bit. The internodal distance was short and the nodes were prominent and nodular. Pruning led to multiple branches growing from multiple proximal nodes.
You can kinda see the weirdness in this video. The plant was dug up after one growing season, and it required aggressive pruning even during the regular growth season because it got so damn congested and overloaded with fruit. This video was taken about 3 months into the indoor season and you can see that it gave zero fucks – flowered and fruited heavily anyway.
Would love to ID this cultivar and greatly appreciate any thoughts.
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Hey folks, I’ve been gardening since the 90s and have never come across a purple bell pepper cultivar this productive or weird in growth habit. It was also the first pepper I ever tried to overwinter – was remarkably successful and got it to survive 3 years and a cross-country move (shipped it >2,000mi and kept it alive, and then my brother killed it…).
I’m trying to figure out what the cultivar was specifically because of its unusually rapid growth and odd growth habit. Planted 5 of them, got them from a garden supply in Raleigh. They were fast growing, with small purple bell peppers with relatively thin walls that were dark purple-black in the summer and lightened to lavender in the fall. The stems were unusually brittle and would snap rather than bend even a little bit. The internodal distance was short and the nodes were prominent and nodular. Pruning led to multiple branches growing from multiple proximal nodes.
You can kinda see the weirdness in this video. The plant was dug up after one growing season, and it required aggressive pruning even during the regular growth season because it got so damn congested and overloaded with fruit. This video was taken about 3 months into the indoor season and you can see that it gave zero fucks – flowered and fruited heavily anyway.
Would love to ID this cultivar and greatly appreciate any thoughts.