My thai pepper plant

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These are beauties. Is this thai pepper a multi-year plant that gets overwintered? Is that like a 5 gallon pot, or even bigger?

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Oh wait, I think I messed up the country of origin, the thai peppers grow down, the Philippines one grows up.

Red bird's eye chili are commonly mislabeled as siling labuyo in Philippine markets. But they are actually a chili pepper cultivar from a different species (Capsicum annuum) that came by way of Thailand. Their fruits, unlike C. frutescens, are borne on the plant drooping down.

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I remember reading that from when I still hadn't identified my goat weed peppers, and thought they were as Thai as the Kim I got them from. Kim spoke no English, and was a tiny, ancient Thai woman.

https://www.amazon.com/Goats-Weed-Hot-Pepper-Seeds/dp/B079R2JXVP

Shows the transition from green to black to red. It's harder to see, but the stems and leaves are fuzzy with tiny hairs.

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It's a perennial, it'll produce for years as long as me or Gizzie doesn't kill it, but it also doesn't usually produce the first year. That's why when Gizzie killed my plants I was broken, they took a year just to grow before they produced.

I believe it is 5 gallons although it wasn't listed on the planter, it seems as big as my 5 gal buckets. It's not bigger, there's a bit of decorative facade around it that makes it seem bigger.

The species I believe is actually siling labuyo because the peppers grow pointing upwards instead of hanging down like normal. I got the seeds from my wife's coworker and she didn't know what they were so that's totally my identification but I think I'm right.