Chilli / pepper Plant ID Help?

[fiskies]

All my seedlings are coming on fine now, some have been put in their final pots in the blowaway however I've noticed something that doesn't sit right with me. i have a few pepper plants, namely californian wonders, roberta f1, a purple variety and jalapeno, i'm only growing one type of chilli which is apache f1 and i think I've miss labelled the apache and the californian wonders. Most of the pepper plants seem to have a larger leaf spacing including the apache chilli apart from the californian wonders which appear to have a very close spacing of many leaves and it seems to be a shorter plant.

I've attached some photo's if anyone can help or confirm my suspicions...


Above is a pic of my roberta f1 and like the other peppers they seem larger and further spaced with the leaves.


Above is what I've labelled my apache chilli but i suspect may indeed be my californian wonders due to their similarity with the rest of my pepper plants.


above is a picture of my californian wonders which I suspect are Apache's. See how there are far more leaves, closer together and a smaller plant...

I've added another photo below of two plants to see the difference

[Two_Sheds]

lol, they all just look like pepper plants to me - ask me again when they're fruiting

[fiskies]

I'd really like to know now because unfortunately I'm running out of pots and space and I want to grow more of the apache as it's the only chilli i've got this year compared to the four pepper varieties I've got.

lesson learnt i think, next year a more rigorous labelling method, I hate being wrong or not knowing, next year will be different.

[Davyburns]

lesson learnt i think, next year a more rigorous labelling method, I hate being wrong or not knowing, next year will be different.

I think we've all done that. Despite my meticulous labeling system this year, I still have 2 toms with no name tags

[ginger ninger]

I've lost count how many time's I've got the labels mixed up on mi tomato plants. Luckily this year the one's I'm growing are all potato leafed and the same variety.

[ChrisG]

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I think the apache is on the left, see link looks similar to me.

Chris

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[BigShot]

...in the blowaway...

...lesson learnt i think, next year a more rigorous labelling method,

A more rigorous labelling method can go to waste in a blowaway if it blows away like mine did last year.

I had the variety names written directly onto the pots - but it didn't help at all when the contents of the pots were dumped in a heap on the ground with the pots themselves sat on top. Not a pretty sight.

Still, I learned a good lesson about how resilient tomato plants are... even if I had no clue which was which.

The lesson I learned was plenty of bricks on the bottom shelves.

[Two_Sheds]

the contents of the pots were dumped in a heap on the ground

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[BigShot]

Worse.
Take about 50 pots, dump most of the contents on through ground, roots up, and then make sandcastles on top with the remainder.
Finally, take a walk-in blowaway and arrange it in a tangled mess on top.

[bronwen]

It happened to me only two weeks ago! I thought I had weighed the bottom down enough with a bag of compost but apparently not! My 5 cabbage and 5 brussels sprouts got mixed up. Might post a pic to aid in their ID too!

[fiskies]

Well I'm still none the wiser, I hope someone could give me a definite answer, I've researched on tinternet and can't quite make my mind up. As for the other posts my blowaway is definately not going anywhere at least until after my house does with the amount I've secured it down with.

[taff]

if the main stem grows really tall without many sideshoots, it's probably a chilli. Other than that, good luck

[Florence Fennel]

Sorry Fiskies, I think the only way you will tell them apart is when they fruit. Oh and by the way, my three blowaways wot blew away were all weighted down with sandbags on the bottom shelf. The wind actually lifted the covers and the frames and the bases were left intact!

[BigShot]

It never ceases to amaze me how many creative ways blowaways find to dump their cargo of seedlings into an undignified heap.

You'd think the name... BLOWAWAY would give us a clue... wouldn't you!