I have a question concerning plant genetics if a brown/chocolate pepper crosses with an yellow pepper would the F1 peppers form that cross be red?
Plantguy76 said:I have a question concerning plant genetics if a brown/chocolate pepper crosses with an yellow pepper would the F1 peppers form that cross be red?
Thanks HAJHAJ said:
Yes red, provided that both are stable varieties.
The 2 traits in play:
Brown is recessive to not-brown (from yellow parent).
Yellow is recessive to red (from brown parent).
Have tried it with a cross of Chocolate Hab. and Lemon Drop.
Genetikx said:I have 6 chocolate habs plus an over winter from last year. All of my choco plants are from seeds I saved last year. One of the choco habs is kicking out red pods.
The only plants I grew last year was red Caribbean, mustard hab and chocolate hab. Based on what I had, do we think the choco crossed with a caribe or is it possible it reverted to red on its own? Could it have crossed with a mustard since those have some yellow? The pods start dark green like my chocos, have the same shape, but turn red. Tons of oil in these too, more than I've seen in any of the 20+ varieties I have this year.
Thanks, that is what I expected. Due to the oil content this is definitely a strain I'm going to keep. Need to get a better taste test compared to the normal chocolate hab but I don't recall it tasting like caribe. We'll see how the f2's turn out. I'm calling it Red Hot ChocolateHAJ said:
Getting complicated here
First, since brown is recessive, it should not be possible to revert to red, unless crossed.
Second, the only candidate should be the Red Caribbean, since both Mustard and Chocolate hab. has the brown trait.
This is my guess. But who knows what the plants are up to, when we are not looking ...
HAJ said:
Yes red, provided that both are stable varieties.
The 2 traits in play:
Brown is recessive to not-brown (from yellow parent).
Yellow is recessive to red (from brown parent).
Have tried it with a cross of Chocolate Hab. and Lemon Drop.
Thank you John I would much appreciate that if you would pleaseTrident chilli said:Jason I growing this season West Indian Red/ Caribbean Red selected seed which had a great shape .... more than happy to post you
D3monic said:
Anyone have links on the subject. This is something that I should be looking into further while doing my crosses. Preferably pepper specific. I'll google as well. Reading http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/vc221/pepper/PEPPERrd.htmright now
HAJ said:
Somebody posted a really good, detailed description/link a few years back. I'll see if I can locate it.
Edit:
Ok here we go: http://thehotpepper.com/topic/40168-color-geneticsbreeding-colors/?hl=genes#entry846134