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Brown can sometimes be a transition colour before turning red. I have a plant that does this. Often it turns red so fast that I don't see much brown but sometimes the whole pepper turns brown before starting to turn red.

Check this out: http://thehotpepper.com/topic/48020-strange-fatalii-plant-my-plants/page-2#entry1022677   One of the downsides with the Internet is that whenever you discover something cool there is always someone that has discovered the same thing, just 1000x more extreme.   What you got is...

I think the "tail" is actually the remains of the pistil.

Sometimes cold temperatures affect the colour.

The hottest I grow is habanero so I'm not going to argue.

I don't think you will find such a book. First of all, the parentage of many varieties are uncertain. And even if you know which varieties were crossed to create the variety that you're interesting in it's not as easy as just repeating the cross. In the generations after you've made the cross...

They are fine now. The earliest leaves are a bit deformed and one of them is branching already. Not sure what caused it. Only thing I can think of is that I used the "paper towel method" except that I used some squared shaped paper that we normally use for cleaning. I guess there is a...

Maybe you're right. I just thought it was interesting that the growth looked a bit unusual but maybe I'm just seeing things. I don't usually study young plants this closely. I didn't want to use more than one pot for each cross but I thought it was safest to save more than one plant of each in...

A few weeks ago I planted some crosses that I made. Three pots with three plants in each. In one of the pots two of the plants have been especially slow to grow their first true leaves. When I look closely the growth looks a bit unusual. This is how one of them looks like close up. From the...

If the parent Ghost plant grew next to a chocolate Bhutlah it is possible that what you have is a cross between the two.

You mean non-capsicum species, like the black pepper (piper nigrum)? Horseradish is called "pepparrot" in Swedish (similar in other scandinavian languages) which literally translates to "pepper root". It was probably introduced into Europe a bit too late to have been widely cultivated by the...

Crosses are often said to be "unstable" and some people seems use that as an explanation for why their pods on the same plant are so different. I have always thought this was a misunderstanding.   The question is how much the pod variation on one and the same plant is affected by epigenetics...

Very interesting (the crossing, not the gene splicing). I don't think one of the parents being an F1 is going to be a problem. It probably just mean you'll get a bit more variation in the F1 generation than what you otherwise would get.

If you're not happy with the size you might have to wait for the next generation. There should be potential for larger pods if the parents had larger pods.

It wouldn't be very scientific. I have a suspicion that many of the varieties labeled as one species have at least some degree of interspecific parentage.