Time to get the learning hat on
As some of you might have seen, and remember, I asked for some help a while back with a couple of plants that showed signs of some kind of disease.
They were diagnosed with BLS and I've been researching and reading up on it.
From what I've gathered BLS is a genetic disease. Once you get it you can't get rid of it but you can, to some extent, control it.
In my case I'm fairly sure that the seeds I planted had BLS genetics and that the plants started showing symptoms when the conditions favoured BLS(moisture & heat, lack of airflow).
Anyway, I'm curious as to how this would affect pollen, pods and next gen plants and would love to learn more about this stuff.
Basically, if I use pollen from a BLS-affected plant on a healthy plant, is there a chance that the disease is carried over in the seeds from chilis on this plant(I assume yes)?
Will a plant "know" that the pollen is bad and drop a flower that's been pollinated with "bad" pollen?
How does BLS affect pods? Is there a chance for me to get pods on a BLS-affected plant and will they be edible?
Since you can't see genetic changes in a plant until you plant the seeds from this years grow, am I to assume that a pod grown on a healthy plant, but pollinated with "bad" pollen, will be edible?
As some of you might have seen, and remember, I asked for some help a while back with a couple of plants that showed signs of some kind of disease.
They were diagnosed with BLS and I've been researching and reading up on it.
From what I've gathered BLS is a genetic disease. Once you get it you can't get rid of it but you can, to some extent, control it.
In my case I'm fairly sure that the seeds I planted had BLS genetics and that the plants started showing symptoms when the conditions favoured BLS(moisture & heat, lack of airflow).
Anyway, I'm curious as to how this would affect pollen, pods and next gen plants and would love to learn more about this stuff.
Basically, if I use pollen from a BLS-affected plant on a healthy plant, is there a chance that the disease is carried over in the seeds from chilis on this plant(I assume yes)?
Will a plant "know" that the pollen is bad and drop a flower that's been pollinated with "bad" pollen?
How does BLS affect pods? Is there a chance for me to get pods on a BLS-affected plant and will they be edible?
Since you can't see genetic changes in a plant until you plant the seeds from this years grow, am I to assume that a pod grown on a healthy plant, but pollinated with "bad" pollen, will be edible?