seeds pods and seeds

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ipepper

Just wanted to check with you if something is correct.
 
If you have a plant with pods with different looks, say you are growing a mushroom red or a classic jamaican scotch bonnet (tam o shanter hat), and one pod looks correct
and the other does not really look correct.
 
Is it better to just use the seeds from the one that looks correct to have a greater chance of getting correct pods on the next plant or does it not matter?
 
If you are isolating flowers to be sure of self-pollination, it doesn't matter genetically. An ugly pod will have seeds with the same genetic information that a perfect one will have. That said, it might be a good practice to use good looking fruit for seed stock to make sure the seeds inside developed correctly; a deformed pod might have a poorly developed placenta. 
 
I think most of us believe that the seed will or most likely will originate the pheno of the pod you collected it. I like to save seeds from the best looking pods
 
Peter_L said:
If you are isolating flowers to be sure of self-pollination, it doesn't matter genetically. An ugly pod will have seeds with the same genetic information that a perfect one will have. That said, it might be a good practice to use good looking fruit for seed stock to make sure the seeds inside developed correctly; a deformed pod might have a poorly developed placenta. 
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pretty much, perfectly said
 
 
Genetics will not change from pod to pod on the same plant, only thing that might differ is that each flower (prior to being a pod) may get pollinated by who-knows-what, causing each pod to devleop different seed variants. However, if the plant is isolated and only self pollinates, there will be absolutely zero difference in seeds from pod to pod, just a bunch of siblings from the one parent plant. That being said, not all siblings will necessarily look exactly the same, but that gets into the world of probabilities and stability in breeding.
 
 
 
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