Hi all,
I'm not sure if this should go in hot pepper talk or growing.. but.. I'm thinking about some crossings that I would like to experiment with. Now I only want to try some basic crossings (i.e. round red pepper x longish black or yellow pepper etc) to see if I can make it work with a clear visible result. I have no ambition to create a perfect pepper this season, but it's just a long term skill that I would like to develop.
However, as I notice that there are huge hypes around regarding great looking peppers (Who's not talking about Enrico's Pink Tiger, right?) I figure there is quite a market for a nice looking ornamental pepper that might see use in the kitchen. I don't want to gain a cent from the hype, but I thought the regular pepper folk might find it interesting as well. So I thought about a nice topic to do a collective brain storm on peppers that should come out as nice varieties.
The idea is to come up with a realistic crossing that might even work. On fatalii's site is a nice table what would work with what. Needless to say, in theory everything works.. Getting the result you want is a completely other thing. You can cross a super hot yellow scorpion type pepper with a black habanero type and get out a longish, non scorpion mild yellow type instead of the black haba scorpion you want.. or something like that. Phenotypes don't tend to listen to what the originator wants. And even if you get them to do what you want, you need to stabilize the strain.. which can take 5 seasons.
My idea;
Fish pepper (annuum) x Aji Amarillo (baccatum) = Striped, longish nice tasting orange pod
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (chinense) x Fish pepper (annuum) = Super hot striped pod, hopefully with a tail.
Cheiro or Fidalga roxa (chinense) x Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (chinense) = Pink scorpion
So just shout out some idea's, with the wished result.. Hopefully this thread gets some people interested and sparks soms great new varieties.
I'm not sure if this should go in hot pepper talk or growing.. but.. I'm thinking about some crossings that I would like to experiment with. Now I only want to try some basic crossings (i.e. round red pepper x longish black or yellow pepper etc) to see if I can make it work with a clear visible result. I have no ambition to create a perfect pepper this season, but it's just a long term skill that I would like to develop.
However, as I notice that there are huge hypes around regarding great looking peppers (Who's not talking about Enrico's Pink Tiger, right?) I figure there is quite a market for a nice looking ornamental pepper that might see use in the kitchen. I don't want to gain a cent from the hype, but I thought the regular pepper folk might find it interesting as well. So I thought about a nice topic to do a collective brain storm on peppers that should come out as nice varieties.
The idea is to come up with a realistic crossing that might even work. On fatalii's site is a nice table what would work with what. Needless to say, in theory everything works.. Getting the result you want is a completely other thing. You can cross a super hot yellow scorpion type pepper with a black habanero type and get out a longish, non scorpion mild yellow type instead of the black haba scorpion you want.. or something like that. Phenotypes don't tend to listen to what the originator wants. And even if you get them to do what you want, you need to stabilize the strain.. which can take 5 seasons.
My idea;
Fish pepper (annuum) x Aji Amarillo (baccatum) = Striped, longish nice tasting orange pod
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (chinense) x Fish pepper (annuum) = Super hot striped pod, hopefully with a tail.
Cheiro or Fidalga roxa (chinense) x Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (chinense) = Pink scorpion
So just shout out some idea's, with the wished result.. Hopefully this thread gets some people interested and sparks soms great new varieties.