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How many generations can be grown out from one seed?

Peppergator

Peppergator

So as the title states. You plant seed "A" grow it out wonderfully harvest pods plant their seeds for generation "B". You continue the cycle. Eventually say 8 generations down the line you have successfully raised 100's of plants but all from 1 intial parent. Thats a pretty weak blood line. So the question remains how many generations would you safely grow out from one seed. This is assuming no cross pollination or introduction of new genes.
 
cruzzfish said:
8 is just to make sure it's a stable bloodline. Once that's hit, you can grow many more assuming you, as jsschrstrcks said, keep the weirdos out.
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quoted for truth. once selected, seed stock does not diminish over time, rather it continues to adapt/adhere to your own micorclimate.  planting successive generations only makes for better plants/pods if done correctly.  :)
 
Your genetic quality will only diminish through poor plant selection to take seeds from into the next generation and if your looking for purity .. Accidental cross pollination. Peppers are a plant that gain through generational stability not lose over time.
 
Just to make the point, When I got seeds from Trinidad and Tobago years ago for the Seven Pod, one plant stood out from the rest and that became the mother plant of the Brain Strain line.  All seed you see today that have Brain Strain in the lineage originate from this one plant.  Sure the best plants were selected with each successive generation to further stabilize the variety.  Agree with the SmokenFire above that peppers adapt and with each generation as we selective chose the traits that best represent that variety thus improving the strain not diluting it.
 
Pepper Ridge Farm said:
Just to make the point, When I got seeds from Trinidad and Tobago years ago for the Seven Pod, one plant stood out from the rest and that became the mother plant of the Brain Strain line.  All seed you see today that have Brain Strain in the lineage originate from this one plant.  Sure the best plants were selected with each successive generation to further stabilize the variety.  Agree with the SmokenFire above that peppers adapt and with each generation as we selective chose the traits that best represent that variety thus improving the strain not diluting it.
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SmokenFire said:
quoted for truth. once selected, seed stock does not diminish over time, rather it continues to adapt/adhere to your own micorclimate.  planting successive generations only makes for better plants/pods if done correctly.  :)
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Thanks for the info guys. Glad to hear their isn't a diminish in the gentic code as the generations are grown out. Lot easier to work on stable crosses us only a handful of plants instead or 100's to have a strong blood line.
 
Pepper Ridge Farm said:
one plant stood out from the rest and that became the mother plant of the Brain Strain line. 
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Another example of this would be the Pimenta de Neyde. Today, PDN seeds are sold by various vendors around the world. But all the PDN plants out there, and the crosses derived from them (Pink Tiger for example) are descended from that one volunteer plant that cropped up in Neyde Hidalgo's garden in Brazil. 
 
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