What's missing here?

Shorerider · Dec 8, 2014

While making my most recent batch of sauce I came across something I had never seen before.

When I cut through a capsicum it didn't have any seeds, and I mean not one!! Two or three were like this.

And.

Is this common?

SR.

Jamison · Dec 8, 2014

Sensimilla! Oh man you got the good shit!

No not very common. Seems like early season and late season pods do that once in a while.

Pfeffer · Dec 8, 2014

Here they tend to do that if the pods set during cold, wet weather.

queequeg152 · Dec 8, 2014

shouldnt there be aborted seeds still though? like with the seedless melons?

its a wierd little evolved tactic.

according to some NPR radio radio program i heard years ago, some plants keep growing the fruits even though the seed embryos abort because it provides the animals that usually feed on the fruits, continued food. If the plants did not do this, the animals that normally eat the fruits, and thus spread the seeds around, would migrate or die out.

im guessing it aborted the seed embryos due to some extreme conditions? IDK ive not learned much about biology.

oldsalty · Dec 8, 2014

Only thing missing here is that pepper and my mouth!! beautiful!!

Hybrid Mode 01 · Dec 8, 2014

Maybe it's a heritable trait. Save seeds!

Pfeffer · Dec 8, 2014

Hybrid Mode 01 said:
Maybe it's a heritable trait. Save seeds!

Haha so lame, but it put a smile to my face..

Daedra · Dec 8, 2014

thats interesting ive least amount of seeds ive had was 3 seeds in a ghost

Hybrid Mode 01 said:
Maybe it's a heritable trait. Save seeds!

haha

Shorerider · Dec 8, 2014

Hybrid Mode 01 said:
Maybe it's a heritable trait. Save seeds!

You beat me to it.

There weren't seeds of any kind, not even aborted ones.

For sale: Hot sauce made from the rare "Seedless" Capsicum. Only AU$150 per bottle! :party:

SR.

Pfeffer · Dec 8, 2014

We do have seedless snack peppers in the supermarket, but those are GMO..