Next to My Chair Revival
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Uncle Eckley
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The NSR x 7PY has set a pod. 7 Pot Purple?
Uncle Eckley
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Hardening underway. First trip outside yesterday. The Dragon's Breath plants smell scary already.
Something very interesting (I think) going on with the hybrid plant in growing, too. Waiting for a few more ripe pods to confirm.
Something very interesting (I think) going on with the hybrid plant in growing, too. Waiting for a few more ripe pods to confirm.
Uncle Eckley
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CaneDog said:
Correct. That first pod I pictured above ripened bright green - like the color of an immature pod on most any other plant. Waiting to see if later pods do the same thing.
Yep, those are they. The wife found the bottles on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D2OHBHU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_LR3RqdOswWKMh
I printed the shaker plug dealies to fit them.
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PaulG said:
Lol. Not today.
HeatMiser said:
Thanks, HM! I'm cheating a bit - nights are still cold. I forgot them and left them out overnight last night. Everybody seems okay.
PaulG
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Hey, Unc. How's that NSR x 7PY doing?
a month more, HM!
We seem to be in the last few nights
of freezing weather. The nighttime temps
look to be no lower than 38˚F and only
a few of those in Accuweather's long
term forecast for this area. I'm hoping
for some hardening off in the next couple
of weeks or month.
I hope you are right that it's onlyHeatMiser said:
a month more, HM!
We seem to be in the last few nights
of freezing weather. The nighttime temps
look to be no lower than 38˚F and only
a few of those in Accuweather's long
term forecast for this area. I'm hoping
for some hardening off in the next couple
of weeks or month.
Uncle Eckley
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PaulG said:
A bit yellow; I haven't been paying it much attention. I ought to get it in some dirt to go outside if I mean to keep it. Have confirmed that the pods start out purple then ripen bright green. Pretty weird.
Can see a ripe one just left of center in the shadow.
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stettoman said:
Thanks!
Glad to hear the limos performed for you. I haven't been at it too long, but they're easily the most prolific variety I've seen. I've still got jar after jar full of dried pods.
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PtMD989 said:
Daughter went out to take them down every morning. Wasn't unusual she'd come back with fifty.
Uncle Eckley
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The hybrid makes three colors. Pods start out purple, then go green, then finally yellow. Is that unusual? Dunno if I've ever heard of a variety that goes green and then back to a color..
CaneDog
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Hey E. I think what's happening is you have a yellow pepper with a green immature color that inherited the trait of anthocyanin in the immature pod from the NSR.
The presence of anthocyanin in the immature pod creates a purple color that masks the appearance of green from the chlorophyll. Without additional gene mutations, both the chlorophyll and anthocyanin in the immature pod will degrade as the pod ripens. When both have degraded, the ultimate ripe color is revealed.
If the anthocyanin degrades faster that the chlorophyll, then you'll see a purple immature pod revert to green before the chlorophyll degrades and reveals the ripe color. If they degrade in the opposite order, you'd see a pepper go directly from purple to the ripe color.
Peppers that mature green have a mutation that prevents the chlorophyll from degrading as the pepper ripens and they have a mature color lighter than green, typically yellow, which, even though present in the ripe pepper, is masked by the green of the remaining chlorophyll.
To answer your question, yeah, in my experience that's somewhat unusual. I don't remember seeing a pepper revert from purple to a strong green color prior to ripening - though some do come to mind that transition through more of a cream color. The certain pimenta de neyde derivatives and aji ayuyo come to mind.
The presence of anthocyanin in the immature pod creates a purple color that masks the appearance of green from the chlorophyll. Without additional gene mutations, both the chlorophyll and anthocyanin in the immature pod will degrade as the pod ripens. When both have degraded, the ultimate ripe color is revealed.
If the anthocyanin degrades faster that the chlorophyll, then you'll see a purple immature pod revert to green before the chlorophyll degrades and reveals the ripe color. If they degrade in the opposite order, you'd see a pepper go directly from purple to the ripe color.
Peppers that mature green have a mutation that prevents the chlorophyll from degrading as the pepper ripens and they have a mature color lighter than green, typically yellow, which, even though present in the ripe pepper, is masked by the green of the remaining chlorophyll.
To answer your question, yeah, in my experience that's somewhat unusual. I don't remember seeing a pepper revert from purple to a strong green color prior to ripening - though some do come to mind that transition through more of a cream color. The certain pimenta de neyde derivatives and aji ayuyo come to mind.
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I thought this pod was going to stay green, so I took it down. Just found it all bright yellow on my shelf this morning.
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Fruity this week.
Looks like a mini-citrus tree 