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seeds Viable seeds from hybrids?
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What specifically do you mean? If you self pollenate a stable hybrid (generally a hybrid is considered stable after 8 generations of self pollenating) it will give you seeds that grow up to be essentially the same plant. Unstable varieties can give you interesting variations between generations.
just grow 1 plant and clone it by taking clippings......
or you can grow a bunch. Replant the 2nd generation and keep the ones most like the traits you like, then keep replanting each year until you have "de-hybridized" them but keeping the plants with the traits you like...
The easy way is just clone a mother plant and root them in plugs, and plant them all that way, and they will all be identical. They should produce the same peppers.
The other way would be tissue culture, but that is a big process and requires lots of work.
or you can grow a bunch. Replant the 2nd generation and keep the ones most like the traits you like, then keep replanting each year until you have "de-hybridized" them but keeping the plants with the traits you like...
The easy way is just clone a mother plant and root them in plugs, and plant them all that way, and they will all be identical. They should produce the same peppers.
The other way would be tissue culture, but that is a big process and requires lots of work.
In other words---if it's a stable hybrid, self pollination will produce mostly the same plant.
If it's unstable, only cloning will produce mostly the same plant.
Though the farther up the generations of a developing hybrid, the more likely you are to get a mostly similar plant.
With the vast amount of pepper breeding programs by amature (meaning not industry based) growers, throwbacks and wierd results are fairly common.
If it's unstable, only cloning will produce mostly the same plant.
Though the farther up the generations of a developing hybrid, the more likely you are to get a mostly similar plant.
With the vast amount of pepper breeding programs by amature (meaning not industry based) growers, throwbacks and wierd results are fairly common.
This link is helpful.
http://www.thechileman.org/guide_crossing_peppers.php
if you breed two stable strains, say, a red ghost with a yellow bell pepper, the result will most likely be Red and Spicy, these are dominant traits. The F1, even if self pollinated will be all over the place when you plant the F2 ranging from red and spicy to red and sissy to yellow and sissy and yellow and spicy. You simply select seeds from the plants with the traits you want to keep and keep it rolling. I believe some people back-breed to different plants (not the parents) of the original strains before reaching stabilization just to keep the gene pool healthy. If you keep self-pollinating the same lineage over and over again, just like with people, they tend to become unhealthy and mutated...could be good, could be bad though depending on how attractive/unattractive the mutation is...lowered disease resistance is pretty unattractive IMO but could make for a challenging grow
Punnet squares come in handy, I dunno if you remember those from 7th grade science class
http://www.thechileman.org/guide_crossing_peppers.php
if you breed two stable strains, say, a red ghost with a yellow bell pepper, the result will most likely be Red and Spicy, these are dominant traits. The F1, even if self pollinated will be all over the place when you plant the F2 ranging from red and spicy to red and sissy to yellow and sissy and yellow and spicy. You simply select seeds from the plants with the traits you want to keep and keep it rolling. I believe some people back-breed to different plants (not the parents) of the original strains before reaching stabilization just to keep the gene pool healthy. If you keep self-pollinating the same lineage over and over again, just like with people, they tend to become unhealthy and mutated...could be good, could be bad though depending on how attractive/unattractive the mutation is...lowered disease resistance is pretty unattractive IMO but could make for a challenging grow
Punnet squares come in handy, I dunno if you remember those from 7th grade science class