Cool video. I originally tried to germinate these with a wet paper towel and failed. Abuela said to let the pepper completely dry out then plant into shallow soil. I planted 8 seeds this way hoping one would work. After almost 4 weeks I was about to throw in the towel after checking everyday. Skipped a day and all 8 popped up at once. Just transplanted them and gonna give some away.
i’m near mcallen and we’ve had our chili pequin tree ever since i was little, even survived our “freezes”. i’m planning on planting another one with our peppers. thank you for this video!
Oh that's awesome! Yeah, you might be in one of the perfect spots in TX for it to remain year after year. Mine remain small bushes because they die back each year (San Antonio). Thanks for watching (and sharing!), -Cory
Great video. I just tried some dried ones which were put in a blender. They were excellent, hot and spicy. I asked for some seeds and wow that had some spare. So I'm going to try growing them in Southern Australia.
@@CoryAmesYT I'm in Phoenix AZ and I'm growing my plant indoors. I got the seeds to germinate with a heat mat and grow light with a 12 hr timer from 7am/7pm. My plant still seems to be growing and filling with more leaves but no sign of flowers yet.
To propagate them, soak them in a 1:10 bleach/water solution for 5-10 min, rinse them, keep them moist folded in a damp paper towel. This helps weaken the hard seed coating and does the same as the stomach acids in the birds digestive system. Works great for me. Before learning this trick I had very little success getting them to sprout.
good tip! thank you for sharing. i have them sprouting around my yard because of the birds so i don't think to sow from seed. but very helpful for others!
I've been growing them since the 70's. Got my start in Big Lake, TEXAS. Looks like yours are the Phno Piquin. The ones I grow are the Phno Tepin. They are a great little pepper. 🤠
1:20 Note that inaturalist page seems to conflate Chile Piquins and the smaller+hotter Chile Petins. I've only seen Petins in the wild up here in Austin.
@@CoryAmesYT TH-cam restricted my last post for linking to a gardening site I guess, but yeah, I bought a few Piquins from HEB and none of the peppers visibly resembled the tiny round chiltepins I've found in the wild around here since the 90s. However by taste, the wild dried chiltepins and the HEB dried pequins are similarly flavorful and about the same spicyness. Makes me wonder if the difference is simply growing conditions...
@@moofree I do notice that the peppers that spring up randomly in my landscape versus the parent plants I purchased and planted grow a bit differently. However the peppers are the same. I don't know though - interesting!
@@CoryAmesYT Planted one of my wild chiltepin seeds yesterday, I'll let you know how it turns out. Though I guess I should plant a Pequin seed too for comparison.
What ph level do pequins need for them to grow. My chilie pequin plant was full of flowers with ONE SINGLE chilie on it. After 4 days, it dried up.😳 We use miracle grow dirt and use a hydration meter, so we won't over water it. They are in pots. Thank you for your advice on this. It is much appreciated.
Mmm, interesting. They dried up? First off, as far as I know, Chili Pequin prefer moisture locations for planting. They grow naturally in woodlands and low areas. Second, Chile's can sometimes prefer more acidic soil, but not by that much. ~6-7.5. However, I'm here on San Antonio with a balanced ph and ours are thriving... can you tell me more?
Interesting, I have a handful of these growing around my backyard, and ive been tending to them since the weather first started to turn from the winter. I am curious though, Out of all of them, the one that is doing the best, and is also the only one to be producing at the moment is the one that gets almost a full days sun. It is absolutely covered in peppers right now. The next healthiest one and one that is about the same size, is in maybe 6/8 hours of sun. But is only just now starting to flower. then the rest are in the most shade, maybe only receiving a few hours a day of direct sun, still aren't even flowering! I always thought this was because maybe they needed a lot more sun. Now I am confused again as to whats up with them. Ill have to dig around some more and try to see why.
Always an experiment! Yeah, I would say that my chili pequin that fruit the best get the most sun, however, in peak summer they can wilt a bit. Mixed bag! Also would imagine that it depends on the moisture levels. I know the city of San Antonio planted a bunch of chili pequin near the river here, in direct direct sun. I haven't seen them recently, but I remember last summer they were doing great. However, I do believe they were on some reasonable supplemental water (from rain collection).
I don't believe so - and tbh, I'm still not convinced that they are different plants. I believe they are the *same* but one has been cultivated for nursery trade, while the other is "wild." www.centraltexasgardener.org/resource/chile-pequin/ So! I don't believe they require many different conditions. However, the nursery-adapted versions might be more forgiving.
@@CoryAmesYT I am new to these peppers, but everything I can read says that chiltepins are the original wild variety that produce almost spherial pods while chili pequins are the cultivated variety that have elongated pods.
i do not sell the seeds! i'd check out etsy listings if I were you - www.etsy.com/listing/835124404/pequin-pepper-seeds?gpla=1&gao=1&&Cj0KCQiAire5BhCNARIsAM53K1gUFBlz1laWS3MKxqIFQsynLH37MdzCaSIAF2LJBupzAzO6ekOXEfQaAoPGEALw_wcB_k_&:pla-293946777986_c__835124404_159846765&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAire5BhCNARIsAM53K1gUFBlz1laWS3MKxqIFQsynLH37MdzCaSIAF2LJBupzAzO6ekOXEfQaAoPGEALw_wcB
Fire cider!!??! Tell me more!!! Recipe please! I'm also in NY and had zero luck cultivating from seed. Will try the bleach trick next year. My pland have the dark green/black color and uts September, so I'm getting worried. Its getting cooler in NY now, so I moved my plants (in very large containers) to a neighbors greenhouse that is still over 100 in the day, hoping to stress them a bit to make up for the cooler temps.
Hey there, Mine have been producing peppers since early summer, and I suspect they will continue until the first freeze in winter (like they did last year!). Might also depend on where you are at. Hope that helps, -Cory
That is exactly what I do with mine. Chiltepins made a great favored sauce. I am from East Texas where pepper sauce made with hot peppers is used on fried eggs, turnip green and field peas. Making the sauce is simple: put peppers in bottle and pour vinegar over them. I use apple cider vinegar.
I planted chile piquin for the first time. Is it normal for the green peppers to turn purple/black? Will they eventually turn red? I'm not sure when to harvest. Thanks!
@@CoryAmesYT Yes, they get full sun most of the day... when it's not cloudy. I'm in central Mexico. The rainy season started about a week ago. The plants look very happy. I was surprised by the super dark color.
I planted one this year and mine turned from green to a deep purple and then red. During the summer here in utah (slc area) they turned quickly but as it got colder they stayed the people color longer. It froze last night so I went out today and picked the rest and plan to dry and make flakes out of both the red and the still green ones.
I have two chili piquin one gets morning sun the other gets afternoon sun (in South East Texas) they are about 6 feet tall but no pepper, I seen flowers a few times but no peppers now they started to turn brown (the ends)
The original cultivators of these peppers are birds. They lack heat receptors. Over the years peppers that grew upright attracted birds and the plants that provided easy to remove pods grew more. Even more interesting bird poop stratified pepper seeds increasing germination rates.
Awesome pepper. Great favor to hotness balance. They will spread in warm climate lol cool video
They certainly have spread in my yard. It's sort of fun to see where they'll pop up next.
Thanks for watching!
Cool video. I originally tried to germinate these with a wet paper towel and failed. Abuela said to let the pepper completely dry out then plant into shallow soil. I planted 8 seeds this way hoping one would work. After almost 4 weeks I was about to throw in the towel after checking everyday. Skipped a day and all 8 popped up at once. Just transplanted them and gonna give some away.
Oh wow, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing. Good tip from the abuela.
-Cory
i’m near mcallen and we’ve had our chili pequin tree ever since i was little, even survived our “freezes”. i’m planning on planting another one with our peppers. thank you for this video!
Oh that's awesome! Yeah, you might be in one of the perfect spots in TX for it to remain year after year. Mine remain small bushes because they die back each year (San Antonio).
Thanks for watching (and sharing!),
-Cory
Ours in full Texas sun no shade and grows well barely water at all. Freeze did not hurt it at all so far.❤
Awesome! How was the fruiting?
Great video. I just tried some dried ones which were put in a blender. They were excellent, hot and spicy. I asked for some seeds and wow that had some spare. So I'm going to try growing them in Southern Australia.
best of luck!
I'll be curious to hear how it goes. I have them all over my yard now because of the birds. haha Hoping the same for you!
Haven’t you Australians learned that introducing non native species is bad! Lmao
yeah, i have those growing wild in my yard, taste good!
Awesome. That's lucky!
Thank you for great video! Very informative!
Thank you for watching!
I'm going a pequin plant as well and its a bout a month old.. can't wait for it to fruit.
awesome! where are you at? Mine have green peppers starting to show. 🤠
@@CoryAmesYT I'm in Phoenix AZ and I'm growing my plant indoors. I got the seeds to germinate with a heat mat and grow light with a 12 hr timer from 7am/7pm. My plant still seems to be growing and filling with more leaves but no sign of flowers yet.
@@enriqueaguiar4002 interesting! thanks for sharing.
I'm from Brownsville, TX and down here the bird that's responsible for spreading the seeds is the Chico. .(AKA THE MOCKINGBIRD)
Oh yeah. Same here in San Antonio.
To propagate them, soak them in a 1:10 bleach/water solution for 5-10 min, rinse them, keep them moist folded in a damp paper towel. This helps weaken the hard seed coating and does the same as the stomach acids in the birds digestive system. Works great for me. Before learning this trick I had very little success getting them to sprout.
good tip!
thank you for sharing. i have them sprouting around my yard because of the birds so i don't think to sow from seed. but very helpful for others!
1:10 bleach/water solution?? What does this mean
@@SilvianoValencia-z1w It means one part bleach, ten parts water.
I've been growing them since the 70's. Got my start in Big Lake, TEXAS. Looks like yours are the Phno Piquin. The ones I grow are the Phno Tepin. They are a great little pepper. 🤠
Oh, interesting!
1:20 Note that inaturalist page seems to conflate Chile Piquins and the smaller+hotter Chile Petins. I've only seen Petins in the wild up here in Austin.
My understanding is that those were the same thing, just different common names??
www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CAAN4
@@CoryAmesYT TH-cam restricted my last post for linking to a gardening site I guess, but yeah, I bought a few Piquins from HEB and none of the peppers visibly resembled the tiny round chiltepins I've found in the wild around here since the 90s. However by taste, the wild dried chiltepins and the HEB dried pequins are similarly flavorful and about the same spicyness. Makes me wonder if the difference is simply growing conditions...
@@moofree I do notice that the peppers that spring up randomly in my landscape versus the parent plants I purchased and planted grow a bit differently. However the peppers are the same.
I don't know though - interesting!
@@CoryAmesYT Planted one of my wild chiltepin seeds yesterday, I'll let you know how it turns out. Though I guess I should plant a Pequin seed too for comparison.
@@moofree yes, please do! Very curious. Ahhh that's a good enough experiment for me. 🤪
Have an old 6-7 foot tall one in yard. Formed like a tree❤ been thefd for 10+ years
wow! Where are you at?
What ph level do pequins need for them to grow. My chilie pequin plant was full of flowers with ONE SINGLE chilie on it. After 4 days, it dried up.😳
We use miracle grow dirt and use a hydration meter, so we won't over water it. They are in pots. Thank you for your advice on this. It is much appreciated.
Mmm, interesting. They dried up? First off, as far as I know, Chili Pequin prefer moisture locations for planting. They grow naturally in woodlands and low areas.
Second, Chile's can sometimes prefer more acidic soil, but not by that much. ~6-7.5.
However, I'm here on San Antonio with a balanced ph and ours are thriving...
can you tell me more?
Interesting, I have a handful of these growing around my backyard, and ive been tending to them since the weather first started to turn from the winter.
I am curious though, Out of all of them, the one that is doing the best, and is also the only one to be producing at the moment is the one that gets almost a full days sun. It is absolutely covered in peppers right now. The next healthiest one and one that is about the same size, is in maybe 6/8 hours of sun. But is only just now starting to flower. then the rest are in the most shade, maybe only receiving a few hours a day of direct sun, still aren't even flowering! I always thought this was because maybe they needed a lot more sun. Now I am confused again as to whats up with them. Ill have to dig around some more and try to see why.
Always an experiment!
Yeah, I would say that my chili pequin that fruit the best get the most sun, however, in peak summer they can wilt a bit.
Mixed bag! Also would imagine that it depends on the moisture levels. I know the city of San Antonio planted a bunch of chili pequin near the river here, in direct direct sun. I haven't seen them recently, but I remember last summer they were doing great.
However, I do believe they were on some reasonable supplemental water (from rain collection).
I have a couple that came up in the fenceline of my horse pasture. One single pepper makes my pot of chili so hot it was almost inedible.
ha! yikes.
Is there a diffrence growing between Chile Piquin and Chiltepin besida shape and size? We are from NYS.
I don't believe so - and tbh, I'm still not convinced that they are different plants.
I believe they are the *same* but one has been cultivated for nursery trade, while the other is "wild."
www.centraltexasgardener.org/resource/chile-pequin/
So! I don't believe they require many different conditions. However, the nursery-adapted versions might be more forgiving.
@@CoryAmesYT thank you for your response. I picked up the plants in Arizona, including a pencil planting and they are doing beautifully.
@@gigirossi8315 rock on! It's a fun thing to grow. Looks like I'll be getting a good harvest again this year, so, I'm pretty excited!
@@CoryAmesYT I am new to these peppers, but everything I can read says that chiltepins are the original wild variety that produce almost spherial pods while chili pequins are the cultivated variety that have elongated pods.
@@leemurrah278 interesting. Thank you! I have some that appear to be 'wild' and some cultivated I'll have to compare closely.
Where can I get the seeds for this plant I've been looking for them for a long time do you sell them seeds
i do not sell the seeds!
i'd check out etsy listings if I were you - www.etsy.com/listing/835124404/pequin-pepper-seeds?gpla=1&gao=1&&Cj0KCQiAire5BhCNARIsAM53K1gUFBlz1laWS3MKxqIFQsynLH37MdzCaSIAF2LJBupzAzO6ekOXEfQaAoPGEALw_wcB_k_&:pla-293946777986_c__835124404_159846765&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAire5BhCNARIsAM53K1gUFBlz1laWS3MKxqIFQsynLH37MdzCaSIAF2LJBupzAzO6ekOXEfQaAoPGEALw_wcB
Fire cider!!??! Tell me more!!! Recipe please!
I'm also in NY and had zero luck cultivating from seed. Will try the bleach trick next year. My pland have the dark green/black color and uts September, so I'm getting worried. Its getting cooler in NY now, so I moved my plants (in very large containers) to a neighbors greenhouse that is still over 100 in the day, hoping to stress them a bit to make up for the cooler temps.
Here you go! th-cam.com/video/l0FR-dV1HAo/w-d-xo.html
What months do they produce peppers? Please, I've been trying to get the answer to this for months.
Hey there,
Mine have been producing peppers since early summer, and I suspect they will continue until the first freeze in winter (like they did last year!).
Might also depend on where you are at.
Hope that helps,
-Cory
I just discovered a bush full of them, red and ready 9/5/24
Put them in vinegar to make pepper sauce. Add 5 or 6 when you can pickles.
Oh! Good tip. 👍
That is exactly what I do with mine. Chiltepins made a great favored sauce. I am from East Texas where pepper sauce made with hot peppers is used on fried eggs, turnip green and field peas. Making the sauce is simple: put peppers in bottle and pour vinegar over them. I use apple cider vinegar.
@@leemurrah278 great tip, thank you! I have tons ready to harvest right now.
How long do you let the sauce sit?
I planted chile piquin for the first time. Is it normal for the green peppers to turn purple/black? Will they eventually turn red? I'm not sure when to harvest. Thanks!
Hey there - I'm wondering, are they planted in full sun??
Thanks for watching,
-Cory
@@CoryAmesYT Yes, they get full sun most of the day... when it's not cloudy. I'm in central Mexico. The rainy season started about a week ago. The plants look very happy. I was surprised by the super dark color.
@@Alex-uz6bk hmmm, interesting. I'm wondering if it's too much sun for the chilis (not the plants), but the chilis! 🤔
Mine do that before turning red. They detach easily from their calyx once ready. You’ll be fine. 🌞
I planted one this year and mine turned from green to a deep purple and then red. During the summer here in utah (slc area) they turned quickly but as it got colder they stayed the people color longer. It froze last night so I went out today and picked the rest and plan to dry and make flakes out of both the red and the still green ones.
I have two chili piquin one gets morning sun the other gets afternoon sun (in South East Texas) they are about 6 feet tall but no pepper, I seen flowers a few times but no peppers now they started to turn brown (the ends)
hmmm, what kind of soil are you on and what sort of moisture conditions are we dealing with? not sure it's a sun issue. 🤔
cheers,
-Cory
I harvest the pepper. Let it dry. Remove all the seeds. Grind to a powder. Put in a shaker. Use it on eggs in the morning. Worth the trouble.
Love that, excellent tip.
The original cultivators of these peppers are birds. They lack heat receptors. Over the years peppers that grew upright attracted birds and the plants that provided easy to remove pods grew more. Even more interesting bird poop stratified pepper seeds increasing germination rates.
super interesting.
thanks for sharing!
-Cory
Only 15% germination rate. Might want to throw a couple more seeds in there than you thouhgt
good tip!
They grow wild all over where I live.
awesome! where are you?