I've got a few wild ones going.
C.Chacoense-couple varieties
C.Galopagoense-2 varieties
C.Eximum-couple varieties
C.Praetermissum-couple varieties
Seems there might be something else I can't think of right now...
Can't get charapita to germinate.

I've got one from my garden. The Thai Chile pepper.

Here is a link that might be useful: different kinds of pepper

Hi I've grown the C. praetermissum several times, the one I have been growing off and on makes a six foot tall plant in one season, I have overwintered one just cutting it back some and grew it again and ended up with one close to ten feet tall with hundreds of very hot little peppers, great plant. I have grow C. chacoense, which is a tough little bushy plant the tiny pods are quite hot and somewhat oily, I haven't had any luck growing pure C. galopagoese from seeds yet, maybe I will get lucky and get more than five seeds and get one to grow for me, I got one that was supposd to be a cross of galopagoense and a purple pepper the plant was nice and so were the little peppers, but it didn't have any of the galopagoense traints. I still have plants that come up from the seeds it drops each year.
George W.

Got a few plants here;

c. Rhomboideum
c. Cardenasii
c. Exile
c. Parvifolium
c. Tovarii

Galapagoense should also have been on the list, but left in a corner, I forgot to water it... Guess I'll have to try again next year. Tovarii is quite small, it seems it will need to be overwintered and hopefully bear fruits in 2010.

Also in 2010 I'm planning to grow Buforum and (Dare I downgrade these to only "semi-wild" and "semi-rare") Eximium, Praetermissum and Chaoense.

How the heck did you all procure these seeds?
I contacted a research facility but they did not let me have any of their seeds. I don't trust sources from ebay, though honestly I've never seen anyone on ebay offer any of those seeds. If anyone knows of a place where I could procure some of those types of seeds, I would like to try my hand at growing some.

Most of those that you all listed, I believe are non-edible. Is that correct?

If you have tasted any of them, what are the ones you have tasted and how do they taste?

I got the charapita peppers I got from the Amazon Jungle of Peru to germinate in about 7 days and am quite happy about it, but unfortunately I don't have any more seeds to share at this time. I expect to have seeds next year so that I can share

Got mine from people who grew them first...
Also from people from wherever the plant comes from in trades.

Let's get some pictures of here folks. I'm interested in learning more about these odd varieties.

Most visitors to this forum have grown C. Annuum, C. Frutescens, or C. Chinense. These encompass a broad range of sweet and hot and super hot pepper varieties.

A few will have grown C. Baccatum or C. Pubescens.

Mostly dedicated chiliheads will be growing other species.

I've grown the first 5 species and really enjoyed some of them. Chapeau de Frade (baccaturm) has been a big hit here where I live. I sold plants to local clients out of the greenhouse. Several have now come back asking specifically what is the name of that "bell shaped" pepper. The point being that it is nice to try different species to see what you like.

DarJones

I got C. Galapagoense to germinate in record time. My plant is about 3 foot tall now. It produced blooms but blooms fell due to the heat and don't see any signs of a second bloom right now.

I also have 6 chacoense plants. 100% germination rate for me - out of 6 seeds I got 6 plants. No blooms. I intentionally stunted the plant this year as I ran out of room/soil due to the many plants I have in pots on my patio.

I normally grow chiltepin. I so love this pepper. It's heat is perfect and love the flavor.

I couldn't get my other wilds to actually germinate. I'll try again next year!

I have about 5 seeds of some of the wilds but have not grown them yet. Do NOT have tovarii, still working on that one.

Well well well...if the pros would like to share some of their exotic pepper wizardry, I offer myself as a sacrifice to receive some odd variety seeds. I would offer some of my pauper level seeds but I doubt it would be anything of much interest to the upper echelon. Some chiltepin seeds from a wild source is about the most exciting I can do... Do I need to beg, wash the feet of the Knights of Capsicum??? I was just hoping a pretty please with sugar on top would suffice...

Pictures for redtailforester

No pods yet on C. parvifolium. I have tried and failed several time with c. toavarii

http://www.pbase.com/chiles400/some_wild_ones

Great photos! Thank you for posting.

If anyone has some spare seeds that they are just itching to share, once again, I offer myself to further the cause ;)

Hello!

I returned to (a) this forum, (b) growing peppers, and (c) growing wild peppers after some number of years! I'm happy to see that the wild pepper community is growing! :)

For those of you who haven't come across it yet, there's a great European forum dedicated to wild peppers (can't post the link here, but email me for it, if you cannot find the site). I'm wondering whether something similar exists for North America? A forum dedicated to chile peppers, or possibly even wild chile peppers?

Looking forward to hearing from you guys.

Cheers,
Marcus

I will be growing my first wild pepper for 2011. It is c.parvifoum.
Never grown a wild before.
Marcus, will e-mail you for that wild pepper sight.

Linda

And I was all excited about growing my first C. baccatum this year!

Uh, as far as wild peppers go, I have a chile pequin in my yard, but that's C. annum and not particularly rare, just the wild version of regular old peppers.

This winter it's looked very pretty and Christmassy covered in little red berries.

Linda,

You found seeds of a C. parvifolium?? :-o

The very best of luck with it. I hope it's the real deal, and that you get many seeds out of it---for sharing... :-D

Best,
Marcus

im growing

"ARABIBI GUSANO" AND "CAFE" IN 2011

http://www.rainbowchiliseeds.com/catalog/c11_p1.html

There are a couple listed here. I think he is going to allow the web site to go down but will remain in business selling seeds.

he has a lot of other seeds on the web site.

Here is a link that might be useful: rare seeds

I feel the need to grow some rare varieties, like burforum, cardenasii,parvifolium, geminifolium, and so on does anyone have any that they could share with me ive been all over the network trying to find the really rare varieties