Morning all,
I've re-potted my seedlings today, and rather than keep all of them in the house, I've bought a little greenhouse thing to put in the garden, which fits them all.
Now, there are 3 shelves. There are 6 varieties going in the greenhouse. There will be 6 pots of each variety, so a total of 12 pots on each shelf.
With me so far?
My concern is this: The chili pepper itself is produced by the female flowers of the plant, as I understand it, becoming pollenated by the other flowers (the stamens? I forget). When I had just the one numex plant, it would be numex pollen pollenating a numex flower, so I'd get pure strain numex chili peppers.
Can they cross pollenate if I put 6 varities in the greenhouse next to each other? Can a Ring Of Fire pollenate an Early Jalapeno?
If so (and here we get technical), will the pepper itself still look like ring of fire/ e jalapeno (depending on which one is pollenated), or a mix of the two? Will the seeds within the chili peppers produce a hybrid, or a pure strain?
Hope I've made that clear enough. If they DO cross pollenate, and that messes with the nature of the fruit, then the only answer seems to be to buy 6 greenhouses
I've re-potted my seedlings today, and rather than keep all of them in the house, I've bought a little greenhouse thing to put in the garden, which fits them all.
Now, there are 3 shelves. There are 6 varieties going in the greenhouse. There will be 6 pots of each variety, so a total of 12 pots on each shelf.
With me so far?
My concern is this: The chili pepper itself is produced by the female flowers of the plant, as I understand it, becoming pollenated by the other flowers (the stamens? I forget). When I had just the one numex plant, it would be numex pollen pollenating a numex flower, so I'd get pure strain numex chili peppers.
Can they cross pollenate if I put 6 varities in the greenhouse next to each other? Can a Ring Of Fire pollenate an Early Jalapeno?
If so (and here we get technical), will the pepper itself still look like ring of fire/ e jalapeno (depending on which one is pollenated), or a mix of the two? Will the seeds within the chili peppers produce a hybrid, or a pure strain?
Hope I've made that clear enough. If they DO cross pollenate, and that messes with the nature of the fruit, then the only answer seems to be to buy 6 greenhouses