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breeding-crossing Reinventing the wheel ! ? Pepper crossings

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Englander

Hi Guy's

My greenhouse is explodeding at present with fruit and flower's 😎

Lately I've been toying with crossing peppers again.......but I've never tried.......😗

My main concern is "Reinventing the wheel" i.e making a f1 cross that's already done by other's so kind of pointless.............

I've been wondering what to cross with what ?? Obviously I can only cross what I currently have in flower .

And of course then there's why ?

Currently I've have :

Dorset naga
Bengle naga
Peach ghost jami
Reaper Equis
Purple death
Hurtberry
Gator Jigsaw
Fatalii gourmet jigsaw
Chocolate Scotch bonnet
Scotch brains yellow
Zing
Tiberius mauler
Reaper x Moruga
Dragons breath

What's been before ?

Also thinking crossing varieties that are already crosses of crosses might not be a great idea due to already mix of genes ! ?

Thinking something stable Dorset naga would be a good start I love the heat and flavour at present I'm toying with Peach ghost jami which has been incredibly early to fruit, Purple Death as its so pretty and gnarly....but already a cross of a cross 🤔 chocolate Scotch bonnet not very hot but I'm assuming reasonably pure......🤔

I'd welcome any advice and thoughts experience on this subject like I said I don't want to reinvent the wheel but I'd like to try it 🤔😁
 
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I agree with what Annuchin said, from F2 you can go in many different directions. However, before I do some crossbreeding from time to time (I say from time to time because my crossbreeding projects often go in different directions than planned) I google "A x B" and "B x A" (with quotes) to see what comes up.

If you cross two hybrids that are not completely stable you will have more variability already in F1

Have fun! 🙂
 
Agree with sentiment above. It doesn’t matter if someone else has used the same parents, lots of potential outcomes available. That’s what makes it fun for me, you can keep selecting to find your own pathway.

If the parents are very diverse, shape/size/heat, then you can find so many interesting options.
 
I would suggest to pick two parents that you really like for completely different reasons, be it taste, (no) heat, look, growth, color, trendy or special mutations, size, thickness, earliness/no flowering suppression, habitus, or smell, just to name a few. And you don't even have to self-pollinate the offspring, you could also back-cross to one of the original parents at any step in order to stabilize your line...
 
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