Two plants grown next to each other both are from same seed stock, the first peppers from each plant are strikingly different in appearance, any Ideas?
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This hits on something I have been wondering about. Corn has silks and each is attached to an individual kernel. I have been wondering if the pollination of a pepper is the same in a sense. I am thinking this could lead to each seed being slightly genetically different. I have found isolation and self pollination give me more consistent results. Of course this could be and probably is totally off, but I am sure there is someone on here with the knowledge of the microscopic workings involved.
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You actually have that spot on. Each seed is pollinated by one individual piece of pollen. You could possibly have 20 different crosses in a pod that has 20 seeds.
You actually have that spot on. Each seed is pollinated by one individual piece of pollen. You could possibly have 20 different crosses in a pod that has 20 seeds.
if it is an f1 hybrid, it should grow significantly faster than a stable variety. just thought i'd throw that out there.
looks cool whatever happened sometimes i have different looking peppers on the same plant
My theory is the gnarly one is from a plant that got hit by mites, while the other one next to it wasn't.
I am just curious why mites would cause gnarly bumps. I have had gnarly pods here, but as far as I know, never mites. So I am curious.
The mites distort leaves, I had an outbreak when these plants had flowers and pods starting to form, out of 8 or so Bhuts 3 plants got hit hard(had to cut em back) 2 no damage 3 others, moderate the 3 with moderate damage produced the most distorted pods. Its just a theory, this didn't happen on other plants(mostly Annumm) that blossomed after I had eradicated the mites even though their leaves where still distorted the new peppers looked normal.
Lol this is my bhut
Think it been scorp x
Think it been scorp x
I think you could be right, or it could have just been a flower ring?
yeah that one looks like a scorp x
Was that CPI seed? I had a lot of variation from their Bhut seed in 2011...
Is CPI cross pollinated intentionally ? No it wasn't but I know it woz grown with scorps a few meters away