It's the way it grows all by itself.

Warning-it grows as wide as it is tall if not wider.

Gets so full of pods it will droop down and in the wind knock the snot out of any plant under it or within reach.

I didn't have a camera until I had trimmed my tree.

It was an easy 10-12ft. X 12 ft. the second or 3rd year.

It liked a true 20 gal. pot and didn't get re potted for years.It liked being root bound.

Mites killed it last year.

The mother plant was a monster and 15 or so years old when I got my first plant from it's seeds.

Mine grew 7ft the first year.
Second year it got out of control.Little shop of horrors...

In Southern Ca. we have no winter to overwinter a plant in. Pods year round.
I just picked some Black Cobra , Tree Hab. and Manzanos today.

I got a couple plants last year from the original grower.
One puts out red pods instead of orange.
Same tree etc.
I've got seeds for both colors but haven't tried growing the red one yet to see if it grows true or if mine is just a mutant.

Trade seeds?
E mail me.

My seeds aren't isolated but Beth at Peppermania has grown them out pure and sells them if you want to buy isolated seeds.
Couldn't buy from a nicer person.

Smoke, I have both the orange and red versions growing now. I will let you know how the red one turns out.
Bruce

Cool.
Orange has always grown true except the ones I crossed with an Aji Red that then got re crossed with a yellow 7 pot or yellow scorpion by a friend.

Cool cross.
Has long 7 pot looking pods but Baccatum buds with the gold specks in the flower.
Not a tree though,big bush.

Okay, so its some kind of oversized plant to begin with, didn't do anything special to a normal pepper to get it that way.

Still, I think I'm going to try seeing how tree-like I can get a regular pepper by pruning and training. Should be interesting.

There are several Tree type Chilli varieties.

Black Cobra,Cabai Tree chilli to name a few.
Not as tall as the Habanero De Arbol though.

Why mess with all the plant training,sounds like a lot of work and I doubt it would get 10+ft. tall...
Bonzi would be a different story though.

For the same reason as doing a bonchi, they're not normally supposed to do that. Will be interesting to see how far I can stretch it.