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Little update, I was at my parents house yesterday and I think there was a start of some pollen in one of the plants. Also I'm doing my masters in Biology so we have a guy who is an expert in flowering and pollination, I talked to him and he told me to get him a few flowers to look at, I'll see...

My 2 bhuts are growing great and have tons of flowers but neither of them produces any pollen. I can see the pollen pods but there is no pollen. Anyway I could make them fruit or induce pollen maturation? I thought about using pollen from another pepper plant but I couldn't find any around...

I have exactly the same thing happening on my bhut with every single bud that's popping. I'm guessing it's related to the heat and the plant type, because my explosive embers is starting to flower just fine. Hopefully by the end of the month the weather will finally start dropping below the...

Oh thanks good to know but it's weird that only a part of the main stem died. Update my previous post: OK I just looked, nothing seems to be broken, just above a certain point everything died, I also trimmed the leaves with scissors because they were still hook up pretty strong and I didn't want...

I didn't notice any broken stem but I'll go take a look, the leaves dying started 2 weeks ago or so it started from a certain point and kept going up towards the new growth. No new growth there anymore but the other parts are growing great as can be seen. What do you mean a section of the roots...

For some reason the top of my main stem is dying, all the leaves there dried out and the new growth also dried. The side shoots are growing crazy tho. And idea what could cause this weird pinpoint death? And the dead leaves are not dropping by themselves, should I simply cut them off?

Cloning should also work, people are using it a lot for peppers. Basically it's like with any other plant, get some rooting hormone for better results. Didn't get the chance to do it myself yet since I'm still on my first year and still learning but I read a lot about it.

Use teabags to isolate a few flowers, make sure you mark them. Afterwards you can take seeds from these pods, the rest of the pods may be hybrids but it wont effect the pods themselves. I'm pretty sure a few teabags should be enough for self use.

Yes I know but you can't really see anything from those picture it's best if he just looks at the plant himself and try to find a pattern that may give us an idea. Of course it could just be environmental effects that caused some genes to be on/off.

There's a chance that plant is chimeric, check to see if the different pods are split between 2 specific areas, which could explain the phenomena.

If you want speedy ripening try sticking it between a few bananas and covering it with a plastic bag. Bananas are champs at secretion of ethylene which is the chemical which usually causes fruits to ripen. I'm not sure if pepper are affected by it but if they do it should ripen pretty fast.

Check this site out: http://www.learn2grow.com/plants/

I know clear cups are bad outside because the dirt heats, I'm only using it on my desk with white fluorescent, when it goes out it gets a nice pot for itself. With the clear cups I can tell what's the root status and if its time to move to a bigger container in case they cant find the holes at...

I asked it only because the parent plant, which died a horrible overwatering accident death looked different. At least there was one ripe pepper to take seeds from. But it was probably because it was my first time growing and I used yellow light, 2 light bulbs one was 50W incandescent light bulb...

For some reason my explosive embers went nuts on side shoots from pretty early. It's also growing pretty fast I think, Friday I watered it in the morning before I left for 3 days, when I came Monday it was all dried up, and had pretty long roots going out of the bottom on the glass it was in...