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Pepper Names and DNA

AJ Drew

AJ Drew

Using Butch T Reaper Scorpion because it is the most recent example.  Mr. Taylor crosses the Butch T Scorpion with the Carolina Reaper.  The cross is fruitful and pods are created.  Before growing the thing out, he shares some pods with folk to ask what they think.  Someone gets a hold of some of the pods grows the thing and offers seeds for sale.  Mr. Taylor continues to grow it out, selecting the dna he wants and discarding what he does not want by selective seed saving.  So does the other person.  Each narrows the dna as s/he deems best.

Considering the depth of that initial gene pool, I have to figure that the two different people growing the thing out are likely going to wind up with two different peppers.  The world winds up with two different peppers by the same name.

Thoughts on how to create a system that would keep things a bit more straight?
 
don't release to anyone until you are f8 =]
 
don't trust anyone, especially people you've only met on the internet.
 
don't sell seeds unless you are comfortable with mrduffy and others taking your seeds n reselling them.
 
educate customers that the seed packets need to have some unique sticker from you or they are not getting the real deal.
 
absolutely wait till a species has stabilized!  I mentioned on another post hows theres no way to know if the ghost your eating tastes like the first ghost ever grown.  Dont even bother to name a pepper if youre not going to make sure it breeds true.  I had a natural jalapeno/bell cross that i was working on for three years.  It was really interesting, I split it into two varieties a small sweet pepper and a hot bell pepper.  I would say the "babybells" were more successful.  The "Bellapenos" got bigger and hotter(very hot) but the heat was all in the placenta, so you seed it and its gone. A year ago my kid poured one container of seeds into the other, experiment concluded! 
 
Honestly, there's nothing we can do. I just sit back, watch the drama, and grow peppers that I know are stable
 
Juanitos, I was thinking more along the lines of avoiding confusion than protecting the breeder's intellectual property.  I don't see anything wrong with wanting to protect intellectual property, just not my thing. 

Topsmoke, kids are great aren't they?  I have pint mason jars lined up on a shelf.  Each has seed from experiments and weird things that showed themselves.  Most dont go anywhere or do anything, but have enough of them that I gotta start numbering them.  Currently, I write a description on label and stick it to the side.  The other day, my daughter got to looking at them and announced in front of company: "I found dad's butt plugs".  Yep, the description of a weird moruga scorpion varient was written 'butt plug' cause that is what the damn thing looks like.
 
why does every post on this forum end with something either coming out or going into someones anus!! Smokin' Hot thats your own fault, that is the absolute worse name for a pepper Ive ever heard! LOL. Nobody wants to eat Smokin' Hot's buttplug.
 
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