D3monic's Crossing Project/Community Grow

D3monic · Jun 15, 2015

I was thinking White Bhut X aji omni color as well. Love the omni colors for their appearance. Just ate one this morning and wasn't thrilled with the taste though. Not horrible but not great either

D3monic · Jun 16, 2015

First round of seeds hit the dirt. 20 seeds between 9 pots on the heatmat

HAJ · Jun 16, 2015

D3monic said:
First round of seeds hit the dirt. 20 seeds between 9 pots on the heatmat

Looks good Why are you growing so many F1's ?

D3monic · Jun 16, 2015

I got plenty of space for it, it's only 9 pots all together

HAJ · Jun 16, 2015

Ok. If nothing else, it can be used to test if the parent plants are stable/homozygous.

D3monic · Jun 16, 2015

That and no garuntee on germination rates. I could very well only end up with a couple plants. Not to mention my bolsa de dulce weren't very stable concidering I had three plants and all where diffeeent phenos

D3monic · Jun 19, 2015

MAN DOWN!

God damn birds attacked my peppers yesterday, ruined about a dozen including my not a 7pot yellow that was crossed with aji limon. Think a little duct tape will hold it over until it ripens?

I had to resort to bird netting over the plants (which was and is going to be a pain in the fcking ass)

My pollen vials came today! I'm excited for them... except now I have to deal with bird netting in the way every time I collect pollen.....

Got a 100 of them and a case that holds 100 Think I paid $14 for all of it including shipping and a fancy marker

Using a grain of rice as a desiccant. Hopefully it works good

Now to go collect some pollen and create a recording system for it.

D3monic · Jun 19, 2015

CGN-21500 pollen

Current spreadsheet of the pollen i've collected today. I'll go out every few days and collect more depending on what has pollen. A few of these I didn't get very much. CGN had the most

https://www.dropbox.com/s/voawtyfsiiizdxk/Pollen%20spreadsheet.xls?dl=0

D3monic · Jun 20, 2015

Used some the newly collected pollen and dusted White Fatalii with CGN-21500 again since last round didn't take. This time it was in the hydro instead the small plant outside.

Also hit Bahamian goat with Aji Pineapple.

D3monic · Jun 20, 2015

Dusted a few flowers while waiting on the smoker

If bahamian goat and goats weed cross takes i'm calling it Totes mah goats :rofl:

chocolatescotchbonnet · Jun 21, 2015

D3monic said:
Dusted a few flowers while waiting on the smoker

If bahamian goat and goats weed cross takes i'm calling it Totes mah goats

i hope it takes! "Da Goat"

D3monic · Jun 21, 2015

More pollen collected, crossed a few more plants today.

Serrano with Aji Pineapple 3 flowers

Mao Bonnet with Bahamian goat 2 flowers.

A few of the crossed pods

Not a 7pot yellow bs X Butch T yellow

Aji Amarillo X Caribbean red habanero

Lemon Drop X Inca Berry

Fidalga Roxa X Aji Limon

Went ahead and picked the Not a 7pot x Aji Limon, it was starting to get mushy and close to ripening. Smelled hot, like a 7pot but also like a bell pepper... didn't taste it since it was contaminated by the damn birds.

Fairly thick walled

Got 30 seeds out of it. Going to soak some and plant them out tonight. Probably not very many.

D3monic · Jun 24, 2015

Sometimes is frustrating the rate that crosses don't take. All I can do is keep trying though. Pollenated a few more last night. Really hoping the serrano x aji pineapple takes looks promising but every time I get my hopes up and think it's developing they turn around and abort on me.

Dusted trinidad giant congo yellow with aji amarillo and aji amarillo with bolsa de dulce last night. Getting ready to hit bahamian goat with more goatsweed and will hit goatsweed with some bahamian goat. See if I can get something to take
No sprouts from the white fatalii x bolsa de dulce or the not a 7pot y x what ever it was yet.

D3monic · Jun 26, 2015

Did the lift test on a few of the Fidalga roxa pods. They came off easy so I went ahead and picked a few of the crossed pods.

The D: Fidalga Roxa X bolsa de dulce was still a little under-ripe inside.

F: Fidalga Roxa X Aji limon was perfect though none of them had very many seeds.

Got some soaking in a hydrogen peroxide solution and will try germinating in paper towels this time around instead of straight to soil.

D3monic · Jun 30, 2015

Finally!

First crossed bean finally popped, been having really low success rates with these germinating.

This one is Fidalga Roxa X Bolsa de Dulce

D3monic · Jun 30, 2015

Just collected seeds from the Fidalga Roxa X White Fatalii

Only got 5 seeds from it, going to soak those tonight. Hopefully at least one pops.

chocolatescotchbonnet · Jul 1, 2015

i'm doing some research on doing some crossing now, nice to see you showing us all your progress!

D3monic · Jul 1, 2015

chocolatescotchbonnet said:
i'm doing some research on doing some crossing now, nice to see you showing us all your progress!

Did you find the link showing how to do it?

So far the butterfly tags that I found in the jewelry section at Michaels craft store work nice for labeling flowers. Just make a spreadsheet and assign a number or letter to the cross.

Don't be discouraged if your first attempts don't take. I have way more fail than successful

http://www.fatalii.net/Growing_chile_peppers/Breeding

D3monic · Jul 1, 2015

Collected pollen from Champion today, really tasty peppers, no heat.

Re-pollinated a few crosses that didn't take first attempt and a few new ones.

I hit 4 flowers from Large orange thai with Aji Omni Color

3 flowers from Paper Lanter hab with Butch T yellow

Re-pollinated 2 flowers on Mao Bonnet with Bahamian Goat

3 flowers on Serrano with Aji Pineapple.

1 flower on Butch T yellow with Bahamian goat (outside )

Yellowfin2na · Jul 1, 2015

Enjoying every bit of this