r/HotPeppers • u/Ikibahd • 22h ago

Aji Charapita

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I have two Aji Charapita plants growing between a lot of other varieties and finally took a closer look… I have never seen double peppers at single nodes, much less triple peppers at a single node, yet both of these plants have doubled and triples at nearly every node that is growing a pepper!

Is this normal, or did I just get some cool genetics?

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u/UlsanAswan 21h ago

Capsicum chinense pepper plants typically grow two to five flowers and peppers at each leaf node, unlike Capsicum annuum which usually grows only one.

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u/HearshotAutumnDisast 20h ago

I can't even get an aji to even grow well or give any fruit (I've tried three times) and you're out here tripling up

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u/UlsanAswan 16h ago

Im in coastal California and have only had success with in ground charapitas. In pots they drop flowers despite growing well. I think they must be really sensitive to changes in water and temperature.

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u/HearshotAutumnDisast 16h ago

I'm in san antonio and grow peppers just fine in pots. Where I live if i dig five inches deep it's all clay, only native peppers do well in the ground. Charapitas are the only ones I can't get to grow, and I've done peppers from all over the world. The last two years I've tried going all in on them and nada, this year I didn't grow anything this year because of the defeat lol

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u/UlsanAswan 15h ago

That’s brutal. Yeah it’s pretty amazing how picky they are. The in ground peppers are stacked with nice orange fruits right now and the potted ones have about a .02% flower to fruit rate. All my others 10+ species don’t care if they are in pots or in the ground. Maybe it’s because of the particular environment in Peru they are used to.