Recent content by FloridaChiles

Thank you as always, CaneDog. I should have mentioned that I've failed with my other tabasco too. I wish I had another fish to try, and I wish I had more fish flowers so I could try the reciprocal cross (but my understanding is that it would be much more likely to take as Tabasco x Fish than the...

Thanks CaneDog, but I'm a big enough dork I've already read that one. (I'm an academic myself, but only a hobbyist botanist, and these are my first efforts with crosses.) I actually do have a question about the academic studies. They report things like "`15% fertility" and I haven't dug in...

Yes, this is a Greenleaf Tabasco (I wasn't aware the original variety still existed in any real sense).   If I understand CaneDog's answer, I have run up against a prezygotic barrier, and this is just what it looks like when you do that. I think that's neat, and honestly, if all my crosses had...

I've recently been trying to pollinate a tabasco pepper flower using pollen from a fish pepper. This exact tabasco plant has happily accepted pollen from numerous other annuum and chinense varieties, but in around ten attempts so far, will not set fruit with fish pollen. Can anyone offer any...

Thank you so much for your elaboration, CaneDog. I did not know about the hidden genes in commercial varieties, although it makes a lot of sense.   If anyone who reads this happens to have some seeds from a Mad Hatter F1 they would like to share, please message me and I'll be happy to send you a...

CaneDog, thanks for such a thoughtful response. Obviously I asked in the right place. I realize a lot of the productivity may be coming from hybrid vigor, which obviously a stabilized version of the plant wouldn't possess (although I think I've read in the past that self-pollinating plants don't...

There is a baccatum variety named Mad Hatter F1 that was a 2017 AAS winner. The fruit has a bishop's crown shape and is said to be mild in heat, perhaps even bordering on sweet. There are also reports that it is pest resistant and highly productive. I haven't grown it yet, but I look forward to...

Hi all, I have a tabasco plant growing in a pot outdoors. I think it is having some bacterial problems that is causing it to lose some of its leaves, but on one of the undersides of the leaves it dropped, I noticed something else. Can anyone help me identify it? Thanks!  

Hello everyone. My name is Vince, and I am growing chiles in central Florida (zone 8b/9a).