4 harvests per year means that the peppers must reach maturity of at least one completely ripe pod in 3 months. If 3, then it's 4 months per generation. Ok, so far, possible, but HIGHLY unlikely. I effin wait for the pods to get completely ripe for nearly that long, and that's if I count only the time after I plant them outside.
By waiting for one or two pods on at least ten plants to at least have a chance to get a good phenotype, is another thing - if you have two plants, you can just rush them into fruiting, give them 24h day light, 30°C and nutrients. Not much nutes. To keep the plants inside or in a greenhouse and keep it effective it's better to keep peppers small - you would need just a pod or two, right..?
You could do that and the result would most likely be stable...
... but the final result would be just a randomly generated pepper of questionable flavor, heat and even possibility of lousy disease tolerance and shitty pod production. You need to plant at least I don't know, 10 seedlings. I'd grow at least 20 and closely monitor the plants and only took the best looking plants, the healthy ones with good lookin' pods. Heat and especially flavor would ofcourse be a primary concern.
BTW: When you leave the F1 hybrids which usually look quite similar and enter F2, there will be all kind of different looking pods. You can not rush and just stabilize one and only randomly selected seed from the first ripe pod - crossing require time and a lot of effort.
By waiting for one or two pods on at least ten plants to at least have a chance to get a good phenotype, is another thing - if you have two plants, you can just rush them into fruiting, give them 24h day light, 30°C and nutrients. Not much nutes. To keep the plants inside or in a greenhouse and keep it effective it's better to keep peppers small - you would need just a pod or two, right..?
You could do that and the result would most likely be stable...
... but the final result would be just a randomly generated pepper of questionable flavor, heat and even possibility of lousy disease tolerance and shitty pod production. You need to plant at least I don't know, 10 seedlings. I'd grow at least 20 and closely monitor the plants and only took the best looking plants, the healthy ones with good lookin' pods. Heat and especially flavor would ofcourse be a primary concern.
BTW: When you leave the F1 hybrids which usually look quite similar and enter F2, there will be all kind of different looking pods. You can not rush and just stabilize one and only randomly selected seed from the first ripe pod - crossing require time and a lot of effort.
