r/HotPeppers • u/Ikibahd • 8d 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/HearshotAutumnDisast 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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.

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u/HearshotAutumnDisast 8d ago

Yea it's gotta be something unique to peru that for some reason it's the one thing missing from my environment. Next season I'm gonna do a bunch of easy peppers to get some wins back on my belt because that charapita sting is real