Chili Pequin pepper growing guide | my experience growing peppers in a Texas Cross Timbers garden
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2022
- This video is all about the Chili Pequin shrub ( Capsicum annuum L. var. glabriusculum ). Chili Pequin #pepper is very hot, often 5-8 times hotter than jalapeños on the Scoville scale (30,000 to 60,000 Units). It is extremely drought tolerant, and it will survive the Texas winters, unlike most any other pepper. I grow these for my personal use, and sell them, when I get too many to fit in my grow space. This is a delightful addition, to any Texas #garden .
Chiltepin is another pepper that is VERY good to grow in the cross timbers of Texas, and one that I also grow. However, I have less experience with them, and will have to do a grow guide after my experiments finish.
This is in my relatively new #permaculture nursery/ #farm in the Cross Timbers ecoregion of #Texas created by converting my grass #lawn into a productive native garden.
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For those that are interested - the experiment of microclimate combined with planting a more mature plant for the woody stem, worked well. We had 12° F(super odd for this area and have been to 0° F the year before), and ~1 foot of growth on the pepper made it through the winter rather than completely dying back to the ground. For comparison, I have had die back to the ground on this plant at 30° F.
If any pepper is goin to make it in the winter it’s goin to be this wild variety they do amazing in the desert climates cold windy temps
@@Fredough94 For the reason you named, this pepper, and the chiltepin, are the only peppers I grow now. Just so much less hassle.
It’s one of the few pepper plants that just enjoys being left alone and almost forgotten about. They do excellent in the ground but last year I had mine in a pot and it did fantastic 👍👍
That is a good point😃. Part of permaculture is to choose crops that reduce long term maintenance, and this plant is perfect for that in most parts of the state.
A beautiful plant you've been giving it lots of love. My brother would throw dry leafs on top of it. Completely cover it and it did well but you are right if a strong freeze comes it will die out till the following year. I am going to keep up with you and keep up the good gardening.
Thank you for sharing your comment, and thank you for sticking around to check out my channel!
This is one of my favorite peppers 🌶 I love them so much that I brought my plant from San Antonio to Grand Forks, North Dakota, with me. It's literally part of my family 😅😅
I am glad I am not the only one that treats my plants like dear old friends that I can't be parted from😄
Our Chilitepin plants have done well even with the terrible year this year. I need to grab some pequin seeds and get some seed starts going for next year.
Our chiltepíns did very well this year as well. Almost as well as the chili pequin plants. So far, my chiltepín plants don't self seed as easily as the chili pequin do. Nearly all of my chili pequin are from self seeded plants I dug up. Maybe once I hit critical mass the chiltepíns will self seed though. Critical mass for self seeding is a topic I touch on in another video. I find these plants are similar to trees, in that, the first year, they need help getting established. After that, they need little to no care. Though they need no care at all, like I said in the video, more water/more soil drainage = more yield. To a point of course lol. Thank you so much for checking out the video, and good luck with your peppers my friend!
Really gorgeous plant. Pretty colors. Thank you for sharing this information 👍🏼
Thank you for your kind comment, and you are MOST welcome, I hope you enjoy my little channel!
San Antonio here. Ours grow natively in the same type of under oak tree. Microclimate. Die back every year. It freezes. Vigorously come back in April. If you want to push the limits, put a doubled layer plastic sheeting over it, translucent to allow sunlight in around winter time low temperatures. Ours are growing in absolute dog soil. Very heavy clay. Good eye on the heavy wood stems. Those stay alive. It will produce much faster. And backyard gardeners tomato trellis helps it grow up and hold its form until it's stiffens up. I'll toss some water on it whenever I think about it, but it's never a priority. Early spring to give it a boost. But it's not going to die. If you don't water it at all. It just produces less. We get way less than 50 in of rain down here.. That's a great specimen. Keep it up. I'm going to do a few pots too. Has anyone ever tried propagating cuttings off of it instead of growing it from seed?
Thank you for your comment and for sharing your growing experience. I myself have not grown it from cuttings. Thanks for bringing that up, it never dawned on me to try(they grow from seed for me very easy), but I think I will try it just to see what happens.😄Thanks for checking out my little channel!
I've got one one growing underneath canopy of my oak tree
I have mine in a pot on the porch. Reasons being the seeding and being able to relocate the plant if need be especially if there is a freeze coming. I come out to the porch every morning and harvest peppers for my breakfast.
That is a good strategy for keeping this plant, particularly through very hard freezes. Thanks for taking the time to comment, and spending a little time on my humble little channel🙂
Thanks for the info. I'm growing several varieties of peppers this year and these are doing the best by far. Subbed
I am so happy that you found something useful in my video and thank you so much for the sub! If I had it to do over again, I would shoot the video more structured. So far, this is the only pepper I have that has self seeded. My chiltepins have done well, but not as good as the chili pequin, and no self seeding....yet. BTW - the experiment of microclimate combined with planting a more mature plant for the woody stem worked. We had 12° F(super odd for this area), and ~1 foot of growth made it through the winter rather than completely dying back to the ground.
I think my seeds were mixed up. I was supposed to have Bailey Pequin peppers seeds, but the peppers growing are about 3x the size of ones I'm seeing on others plants. They are the same shape though and stand upright. Oh well still can't wait till they ripen.
I am not familiar with Bailey Pequin peppers, but I know on my chili pequin, I can get larger fruits with the right mix of shade, water, and fertilizer. Though, not quite 3x larger. Should be interesting for you once they ripen though, good luck and thanks for the comment!
Thank you for the growing tips. Can’t wait until my seeds sprout 🌱 😊
You are most welcome, and good luck to you! Thank you for your comment and I hope you find some enjoyment in my little channel😃
@@crosstimberspermaculture I love your channel. Can’t wait for my seeds to sprout. Gonna start them inside during the fall and then move them outside in spring. 😊
@@PsychoPlantLady You're so nice, thank you so much for your kind words. I wish you luck with them peppers 😄
I am planting to feed the birds ❤,,the seeds are germinating nicely😂
I truly hope it goes well for you! I love that you are helping the wildlife😄 I hope you enjoy my little channel!
I planted 3 of these Chili Pequin Shrubs, and I live in Texas, w/the heat this summer, 2023, they have grown more than I expected. I am having to give away a lot of the Red Chiles that have grown. I have cooked w/them, and I am very careful not to use to much w/in my dishes. It is amazing to me that as small as they are, how hot they are to taste. Thank You.
I'm glad to hear your gardening endeavors are going well, and thank you for stopping by my little corner of the internet. I hope the video was at least a little useful, and that you find some use in my channel.
You can dry them and they stay good for long time
They dont take alot of water either here and there yes
I also grow the chili pequein plants I got one from my grandma and one from my mom I also found a couple of them in the woods at my grandma's house...the wild ones are huge and they can tolerate the cold...the ones that I got from my grandma and mom are not as tough as the wild ones
Very precious, getting plants from family. I have several plants from my Dad. I lost him in 2020. Now, when I walk my woods, I get to visit his "friends". Hope you find something to enjoy on my channel, and thanks for sharing.
im here down in south texas, i live in a cole-de-sack and they grow on everyones yards. i had 3 all seperate from eachother far in the backyard, and 2 in the front yard, no touching, the birds and wind do it haha. they arent as hot for me though, i eat about 4-5 thai chilis when i eat a meal with meat and rice and veggies crazy how my tolerance went up with age.
It would be awesome to see these growing everywhere. Alas, not to be in my location. Thanks for commenting and I hope you find something on the channel to enjoy.
As we know them, that type we called Japanese. Paquin is round as a sphere, and has a very distinctive flavor. But it won't grow from seed. A legend there says that the Chile's seed must be eaten by a bird and then pooped to grow. That why in my region they don't grow it, it's a wild fruit, hence super expensive compared with any other. Congratulations! Hahaha. 😂
In these parts, we call the ovate fruited plants, chili pequin(like the one in this video). The ones with the round fruits, we call chiltepin. For me, the chili pequin grows much better and easier than chiltepin. I can't speak for the chiltepin, but the chili pequin seeds itself just fine without first passing through a bird, or other animal😄
If you have issues with too many plants I would pay for shipping. I grew up in Texas and my great grand mother used to grow these but sadly her plants all died when my mom and aunts got ahold of them. There is something in the pequin that I cannot find in any other pepper.
I would love to sell you some plants! I started this endeavor to function as 2 businesses, a grow operation, and a nursery. In years past, I have sold plants, yard sale style. However, I am winding down my nursery operation so I can free time to go to school. As a result, I let my license lapse and am not authorized to sell plants until I renew it.
If you send me an email(in the about page) I will notify you should I resume sales. On any given year, due to my grow operation, I can have hundreds of native plants for sale.
Here in South Texas my dad would literally pluck them out or cut them completely. My father only tolerated one bush. The birds would eat the peppers like crazy and poop all along the fence line dropping seeds there and all over the place with plants sprouting everywhere. I have one bush in a pot.
My chili pequin I planted has shriveled up leaves? Last years plant did great here in east Texas...
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Ah man, I know that doesn't feel good. Losing a perennial can set one back years, and it is heartbreaking. I've had that happen on a couple of my pequins. In my case, it was due to too much rain/waterlogged soil. For what it's worth, in my experience, they can tolerate heavy moisture, but get finicky about it, unless you have crazy good drainage. I have land in East Texas, and I love it, because compared to here, it gets nearly double the rain(I have a video showing clips of my place on this channel). Though I have a lot less growing experience there.
I hope you find something useful in my channel, and thank you for sharing!
I'm going to give this a go, with overwintering indoors. No way it will survive where I live in VA.
Good luck to you my friend. I'm not familiar with VA climate, but I recon, if any pepper can overwinter indoors there, with maximum relative ease, then it will be this pepper. Largely, because it has a dormancy cycle you can tap into if you wanted to. I hope you find something useful in my little channel, and thank you for stopping by!
My chilipequin bushes died in the recent Texas freeze. Do I need to cut them back to give the plant a chance to come back in the spring?
I would wait to trim them back until they sprout back in the spring, then, just trim back the parts that do not sprout back. The reason, is that sometimes, the stems look dead, but instead they are dormant, particularly near the ground and/or on stems with substantial bark or thickness to them. I have some other videos(winter and tour vids) where I explain this, and show my techniques for reducing winter die back(in this part of Texas you cannot eliminate it completely). I hope you enjoy my little channel and thanks for watching!
Montagnard Jarai we called this chili is hang eh cim pleu
So cool thank you for sharing!
It's true. However, all ahey are delicious, sometimes too hot to handle. There is almost a pride for them. I'm talking about Nuevo Leon Mexico. Since they are too expensive and nowadays hard to find, people is accepting alternatives. If you find wild will be 20 to 30 times more expensive than cultivated. Even the round chilies, some have like a purple spot meaning is NOT authentic wild Chile so people won't like it. All oddities I guess. Congrats and good luck!😅
I had no clue that these peppers are so sought after. I've been taking them for granted since they grow easily for me.
Why not bring it inside during the freeze(potted plants)
I can, and have, done that for some of these plants. That's partly how I got them to age up, prior to planting in the ground.
However, once you expand the operation as I have, that no longer becomes a guaranteed option, due to the lack of floor space and indoor jungle that gets created.
It also gets expensive, fast, using indoor lighting.
Also, if the state of carrying pots back and forth during cold weather were to persist, it wouldn't be permaculture.
Greenhouses can offset this to some extent, if you have an optimal location for it(which I don't), double to triple layered transparency(like plastic or plexiglass), and passive heating(water battery, compost heating, etc).
Active/electric heating greenhouses, is as anti-permaculture, and anti-profitable, as it gets, so not an option.
For anything part of the nursery operation, it has to be able to handle the native environment. That is the style of permaculture I have chosen, for a multitude of reasons. I have a video on it, but the core, is the "perma"/permanence in permaculture. The goal is minimizing human intervention.
I live in India....where can I get seeds?
I unfortunately, honestly couldn't say. I got mine sourced from plants growing wild.
@@crosstimberspermaculture I am looking for the seeds almost a year and half....most us based companies do not ship to India..it so sad ☹️
@@arijitpal166 I'm sorry. I wish I could help you. I have loads of seeds, but don't sell them. I don't sell any seeds due to regulation surrounding seed quality testing and weights and measures. It gets even more costly as a business when shipping out of state or out of country. I just lack the capital to get into that line of business. I only sell locally for that reason.
@@crosstimberspermaculture it's okay 😊😊..if you don't mind can you tell me few reputed seed companies who sells this chilli seeds and ships to India..
@@arijitpal166 I don't know any companies that both carry these seeds, and ship to India. Though I do know they are carried on Amazon, and I do believe Amazon ships all over the world. If I ever run across a company that sells in your area, I will come back and share it.
Fun fact even if u pull out the bush it'll still grow somewhere else
And if it does, the growth will be impacted negatively. If moving it is desired, best to keep it in a pot. In a permaculture farm, the goal, is to have no pots, unless it is product for sale. That's the "perma", in permaculture.
Sooooo what do you do oj a daily to get it to grow..what is the car you are just saying the weather conditions.
It is funny, how you literally cannot be more incorrect. I literally state far more than simply weather. I talk about soil types for instance. I talk about water usage. I talked about more than that. I even discuss a tactic for increasing plant size despite winter🤦♂🤦♂. **Thank you for proving that you didn't watch the video, and thank you for your self 0wn here**
I believe this is chile tepin, chile pequin is slightly bigger and pointier.
**What is shown in the video is chile pequin.** I have chiltepins in pots that I started from seed and they are different. The dead give away on identification is the fruit. My chiltepins are smaller, and rounder, and slightly more orange-ish, than this plant in the video, and the other 8 plants I have of chili pequin. My chili pequin, including this one, have slightly larger, more ovate, more reddish fruit than the chiltepin, as the video shows.
Some of my chile pequins were dug up in El Paso. Some were started from seed sampled from unmanaged(wildish) private land in Ozona. And I have one plant, that is from a friend of mine, a research botanist, who is trying to develop a cultivar of chili pequin that grows better in my eco region. Which is very useful, as chili pequin(and also chiltepin) are native to Texas, but not the cross timbers eco region.
Wild plants have more genetic variation than domestic crops. That is important to remember in identification.
Also, various environmental conditions cause phenotype expression to vary greatly. Shade, soil geology, nutrient availability, sun, etc...all can cause a shockingly large difference in appearance, especially of wild plants.
@@cliff7516 "that is a"Tepin" --> **The plant in the video is chili pequin** , and the fruit are clearly "pointy-ish", and oblong, about 1cm-1.5cm long by ~1/2cm-3/4cm wide. When compared to the chiltepins on my property the difference is obvious, as the fruits of the chiltepin are nearly perfectly round.
If the fruits look round in the video, then it is likely: poor video quality, immature fruit, shriveled overly mature fruit, deformed fruit, partially munched on fruit, **or, and most likely** , the camera angle is directly or slightly pointed at the tip of the fruit more than the side, which will hide the ovate shape of the fruit.
From Central Texas Gardener(one of the longest running Austin PBS productions):
"Chiletepins are small and round, while pequins are slightly larger and pointed."
Sandia Seed Company has side by side pictures of the 2 peppers in their blog, and the pequin, are identical to the ones in my video.
Freeze frame at:
00:07 - right side of screen, look at the orange colored immature fruit(along with several mature red fruits)..clearly ovate
00:11- right side of screen, more ovate red fruits visible in this frame, near the orange colored immature fruit
00:14 to 00:18 - The ones near my hand, index finger, ovate red fruits visible in these frames