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Bailey's Jalapeno x (Knight's Blood) is a Lee Hamm hand pollinated project which was filmed when the cross was first made.

Cuban Candy is pure fire for an annuum

If you are interested, I have more methods of marking my plants for cross pollination as well as videos on how to store and collect pollen for later use on my youtube page. Make the crosses you want to make and don't let what is currently blooming dictate your crosses.

Found this video of mine showing multiple ways I have had success with marking my crosses. These are not my only techniques, but they do work very well.

You want to remove the petals as that attracts insects to pollinate your flower in the first place. Emasculating a flower is a must for any serious hybridizer. Handling the flower repeatedly can accidentally damage the pedicle as well. You have to learn to be very gentle and support the pedicle...

Another beautiful creation

There are a limited number of ovules in any ovary. Once each one is pollinated by a separate pollen (gamete) any more pollen added will be a waste of time.

The video above shows one method I use to mark my hybrids so I don't loose track of which ones I pollinated. Those plastic straws on the stem and pedicle aren't actually growing on the plant.... They were added to keep track of the cross.

I think the rule of thumb is when in doubt you rename and take credit for the hybridizing efforts claiming the progeny are f4 or better. Or you could simply claim the hybridizer is unknown....

f2 or second generation should see a return of variegation with this cross. Nice flashy variegated cherry fishbombs

Natural cross pollination is how many of the old pioneers in the hobby made crosses. They simply placed a bunch of different plants together in the same area and then boom... C. chinense x C. baccatum Wartryx was born and many others...

Thank you, the idea here was to show the basics on how to hybridize aka breed in video format while also showing a bit about the genetics of what is being attempted. The desired phenotype will retrieve 2 different recessives so this is technically a dihybrid cross which is why a dihybrid punnet...

If we are looking at a simple dihybrid cross it would look like this in the next generation. However, we know that there are many more genes at work in a cross like this and some are not working in a mendelian fashion making the need to grow out many seedlings a must... if I am to make good...

I love this idea, but the truth is many crosses are simply insect cross pollinations like the famous Wartyx. There is nothing wrong with that as bees can work some awesome magic and always have been able to do so. The problem however is trying to determine which pollen was used by the bee. Most...