Sure, but will all of our favorites be there? And will that be available to everyday small scale hobby growers? Or are we gonna have to grow all these scorpion x habanada x Bell x reaper x pickled jalapeno five-way crosses, desperately trying to get back what we have lost?Ghaleon said:Surely chilis are included in seed vaults.
ÂBicycle808 said:So weird that so many ppl's chile goals involve crosses, especially crosses from a recent cross...
I can't imagine it'll be all too long before we're lamenting the loss of classic & landrace strains, which we're trading for unstable levels of generic diversity...
I think the hobby, and probably the entire industry, needs both the tried & true favorites as well as some hot new strains and crosses. But I think that the half-informed, barely committed approach to crosses is risky. I'm happy to grow the "normal" stuff, and I get most stoaked about esoteric landraces, although my knowledge isn't vast enough to know which of these are legit...SmokenFire said:Â
It's part of the reason why I am so interested in landrace peppers. Been growing mostly those for the past 4-5 years. I'll always eagerly read about new strains and crosses and usually grow a couple each year, but most of our pepper space is used for landrace peppers.
I wouldn't worry. A huge amount of people still think the ghost pepper is the hottest and haven't had very many different peppers of any heat level other than the popular ones.Bicycle808 said:Sure, but will all of our favorites be there? And will that be available to everyday small scale hobby growers? Or are we gonna have to grow all these scorpion x habanada x Bell x reaper x pickled jalapeno five-way crosses, desperately trying to get back what we have lost?
I know i'm paranoid, but it ain't impossible, with all these ppl making crosses and saving seeds without committing to a 7+ generation process to build a stable strain.
Congrats bud.Peppermafia said:I crossed the habanada with the aji delight last year and hope to use it as a bridge to bring baccatum traits to bell peppers.
ÂBicycle808 said:I can't imagine it'll be all too long before we're lamenting the loss of classic & landrace strains, which we're trading for unstable levels of generic diversity...