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Many statistics, formula, etc. try to figure out the probability of something happening. What has to be remembered is that probability, like flipping a coin, is often very random and actual results may very... especially when only one or two tosses of the coin are made versus making hundreds of...

There are DNA tests that can actually give you a true co-efficient of inbreeding rather than a paper/pencil test. Having paid for a few of the DNA co-efficient of inbreeding tests I can tell you that your actual results can and will vary from the calculations you might do. What is more...

Glad to hear the samples have gone out already. Hopefully some good feedback was or will soon be received. Much pepper love to you, Sincerely, Eric Knight

Fish free worcestershire sauce is like fish free fish sauce... it is just not going to be the same. I'm down to do a video review of any sauce you have. If you wanted to make it interesting, I could even do it blindfolded. If you are still doing this taste testing, my address is: Eric Knight...

I also look at the fact that some people may be overestimating their ability when they guess at what went into their cross.... such guess work has led some to claim that Wartryx was a C. chinense x C. baccatum hybrid... which may indeed be true, but it also may not be true as well. I'd be more...

I've wondered about the success rates as well as different studies using different plants within the same species to conduct the same experiment often get different results as well. Given how difficult it can be to cross pollinate some Capsicum in particular... I am just as inclined to look at...

The guide you are using isn't accurate as concerns anatomy of a flower. Stigma is the tip i.e. the hopefully receptive end of the style which is the long tube that the pollen gamete travels down through to arrive at the ovary. The ovary develops into the fruit we all love to eat called the...

If you have a true f3 in your possession I would grow the whole seed packet out. F3 can be highly variable depending of course on how different the parental generations were from one another. The more different the wilder the phenotypes can be. Pick the best plants fruits to go forward with. Too...

I see you have requested a hybridizer do this particular cross for you and then everything went silent. I'm here to tell you that I am going ahead with the serrano "Hot Rod" x Black Hungarian. There are so many different serrano out there that it was highly unlikely I was going to pick the one...

I took a calculated gamble one year and planted 500 different crosses out that I had made by hand. Lost them all! But you have me wanting to take another gamble with your wicked words.

I'm in Wendell/Knightdale area of North Carolina and I find that putting my plants out anywhere before April 15 is taking a gamble. When you are in the gambling mood or you have simply way more plants sown than you care to grow to maturity you can of course plant a few earlier and then if the...

Free seeds are something I try my best to accomplish, but with that being said... over the pond is a bit more difficult. I require a SASE most times (self-addressed stamped envelope) as a minimum so I don't go in the whole providing the whole world with my free seed. Overseas and in Australia...

This ship has sailed, but I am always making crosses and having crosses ripen. I am also always giving out free seed to those who make a donation to Disabled American Veterans and list me as an honoree. The donation remains tax deductible for the donor and I receive a letter stating the...

Serrano and Black Hungarian are not too different from one another and being that they are both Capsicum annuum, I'm betting you could stabilize this one in two generations, although it would take three generations to prove your f2 out and determine which of the lines you had at f2 was the...

When in doubt slap any name you want on the plant and its progeny. Of course, you are also free to rename if that suits you. Personally, I would grow it out for a few generations before assuming it is a hybrid... should be easy to tell if you grow out a handful of seeds for a few generations. If...

Here is another not a fish pepper for you. The seeds within, if mature enough, will be even more distantly related to the Fish Pepper.

Sow your Seeds out en masse and see if variegation returns. If variegation is seen in the seedlings planted then you have a naturally occurring hybrid. Welcome to the world of pepper art where the artist is often an insect and the hybridizer is the human who takes credit for the find.

Locopica if you are looking for great tasting small flavor bombs in your mouth. If you wanted larger flavor bombs... definitely go with the Capsicum pubescens. Capsicum baccatum would be a close 3rd, but flavors do manage to very a little within any species... so that can make it a bit harder...

Chili plants do not have an official registry like Hemerocallis or other plants. What that means is that the grower/hybridizer is free to name his/her creation any name they want without regard to any registration rules. This may mean that some names repeat themselves as well. For example, I...