Peppers from store bought seeds?
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I couldn't get my store bought Yellow Manzano seeds to germinate. No problems with the other pubes that I aquired through other sources tho.
Fresh seeds right out the pod should germinate easily if seeds are viable
Sizzle Lips
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I use seeds form store bought peppers all the time.....right now I have Red/Orange Sheppard,Yellow/Green Bell,Sweet long Orange,...and a few others that I just transplanted today....these were from beautiful store bought.....but I do let mine dry first.....not sure if that makes any difference or not.....but at the time I had the peppers it was to early to plant.
I have had good luck with seeds from store-bought produce. The fresher, the better, but I also let the seeds dry out first.
Try either way, direct sow or dried and sprout later, what do yo have to loose? Best of luck!
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Try both ways, direct sow and dried later, What do you have to lose with all those seeds from one pod?Chorizo857_62J said:
I'm not sure there is a sure-fire way to know, but you should have better luck with these seeds as long as the pepper wasn't a commercial hybrid.
Commercial hybrids are great for farmers and gardeners because they often have hybrid vigor and hopefully some other useful traits.
But saving the seeds from a commercial hybrid can be frustrating because of potentially adverse recessive traits.
A Monzano pepper may not be popular enough to justify the effort for a commercial seed company to produce a custom hybrid.
Commercial hybrids are great for farmers and gardeners because they often have hybrid vigor and hopefully some other useful traits.
But saving the seeds from a commercial hybrid can be frustrating because of potentially adverse recessive traits.
A Monzano pepper may not be popular enough to justify the effort for a commercial seed company to produce a custom hybrid.