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hybrid Cross pollenation?

Morning all,
I've re-potted my seedlings today, and rather than keep all of them in the house, I've bought a little greenhouse thing to put in the garden, which fits them all.

Now, there are 3 shelves. There are 6 varieties going in the greenhouse. There will be 6 pots of each variety, so a total of 12 pots on each shelf.

With me so far?

My concern is this: The chili pepper itself is produced by the female flowers of the plant, as I understand it, becoming pollenated by the other flowers (the stamens? I forget). When I had just the one numex plant, it would be numex pollen pollenating a numex flower, so I'd get pure strain numex chili peppers.

Can they cross pollenate if I put 6 varities in the greenhouse next to each other? Can a Ring Of Fire pollenate an Early Jalapeno?

If so (and here we get technical), will the pepper itself still look like ring of fire/ e jalapeno (depending on which one is pollenated), or a mix of the two? Will the seeds within the chili peppers produce a hybrid, or a pure strain?

Hope I've made that clear enough. If they DO cross pollenate, and that messes with the nature of the fruit, then the only answer seems to be to buy 6 greenhouses :D
 
Shooty* said:
With me so far?
Yes, but I have no clue where we are...

Shooty* said:
Can they cross pollenate if I put 6 varities in the greenhouse next to each other? Can a Ring Of Fire pollenate an Early Jalapeno?
Yep, peppers cross polinate like no ones business.

Shooty* said:
If so (and here we get technical), will the pepper itself still look like ring of fire/ e jalapeno (depending on which one is pollenated), or a mix of the two? Will the seeds within the chili peppers produce a hybrid, or a pure strain?
This is where it gets trickey. One really does not know what to expect, you could get a hotter Jalapeno or a Jalapeno that is a little wrinkely like a Ring of Fire Cayenne. The seeds will produce a hybrid.

Shooty* said:
then the only answer seems to be to buy 6 greenhouses :D
Cheese cloth and a q-tips are your best friends in this situation.
 
Shooty* said:
WTF is cheesecloth? :D

From Wikipedia
Wikipedia said:
Cheesecloth is a loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
Cheesecloth was very popular as a material for blouses and shirts during the 1960s and 1970s.
Cheesecloth is available in at least seven different grades, from open to extra-fine weave. Grades are distinguished by the number of threads per inch in each direction. Some examples are listed here.
 
Just joshing with you, mullet :D

Have decided there's an easy way around it: I'm keeping one plant of each variety for myself, so I'll bring them indoors when they're grown, and put them in different rooms. Should minimise the chances. Going to sell all the rest for charity.
 
Here's another thing I heard and want to run by you guys. If you start with a hybrid (say, suoerchile) and save seed from them. You wind up with one or the other plant, not superchiles again. Is that true?
 
ChefEx said:
Here's another thing I heard and want to run by you guys. If you start with a hybrid (say, suoerchile) and save seed from them. You wind up with one or the other plant, not superchiles again. Is that true?
I know plants that were genetically modified only have a life expectancy of three or four generations and then the plant reverts back to it's original genome. As for cross polinated ones, I don't think this happens. But there are some crosses that die after the first plant because the seeds become unviable.
 
I grow in a greenhouse that has no insects/pollen vectors and I have not yet had a crossed seed.

I have 12 plants, all different varieties.

If you want to isolate seed outside, put tulle on a branch, fruit or the whole plant.
 
Muchos gracias, Willard. Time will tell...

I've got a new problem now! My numex twilight is still producing away, but I've just examined the plant, and I have some small aphids, and a spider (yay!) that I hope will eat the aphids. However, some of the stems of the peppers themselves are soft and droopy.

Normally, the twilight grows peppers upwards. Those affected have a purple colouration at the "cup" of the fruit itself (i.e.where chili meets stem) and at the stem junction where the stem meets the main branch. The purple does not come off.

I'm thinking it's either some kind of infection from the aphids, as not all chilis are affected, or lack of water. I've taken steps to remedy both, but if anyone's come across this, do let me know.
 
The purple is fine, that's a common thing. Aphid...kill then now! Squash them, or use an organic home made pesticide (I can post the recipe for it if you wish). The droopy leaves sounds like either too much water or not enough.
 
Just wanted to know, since winter is coming ... is it OK to grow a few chile plants inside during the cold weather? will they survive indoors??:) :clap:
 
chuk hell said:
I remember one year I ended up with hot bell peppers! Peppers are incestous!

hahaha i have wondered if this could happen! i bet that was great!

you could give those to some unsuspecting person :mouthonfire:
 
chuk hell said:
I remember one year I ended up with hot bell peppers! Peppers are incestous!

What did they taste like? A pepper that has the sweetness of a bell and the heat and flavors of a hot pepper sounds awesome.
 
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