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ShowMeDaSauce

Every single hab ive gotten off 3 plants looked 100% normal. I did not grow a single super hot of any kind. Not a single other garden as far as i can see at any of my neighbors.
 
So...how does one explain this and do you think i should save the seeds. It was not completely ripe.
 
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I grew two lemon habs this season from seed...one grew traditional hab shape pods....the other grew more translucent yellow pods with the stinger exactly like your pic.
 
I am over wintering the one with the stinger pods.
 
This really threw me a curve ball. I had to pick nearly all of my habs green the other day when i found this one hiding. I lost 1 hab to the cold sofar and will likely lose the other 2 this Saturday. My lemon drop is still giving me a few with some yellow that ripen quickly inside. Saturday night though is supposed to hit 25F so tomorrow im picking all the rest.
 
Im going to suffer through tasting this pod and save the seeds.
 
ShowMeDaSauce said:
This really threw me a curve ball. I had to pick nearly all of my habs green the other day when i found this one hiding. I lost 1 hab to the cold sofar and will likely lose the other 2 this Saturday. My lemon drop is still giving me a few with some yellow that ripen quickly inside. Saturday night though is supposed to hit 25F so tomorrow im picking all the rest.
 
Im going to suffer through tasting this pod and save the seeds.
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You won't suffer to bad its only a hab  :)
 
     Save the seeds if you want, but the shape of that pod has absolutely nothing to do with the genetic material contained in its seeds. I had a paper lantern hab throw a pod that had a tail similar to yours a few years ago. It was the only on the pod on the plant that looked different.
 
As previously stated, the seeds from this pod have no more of a chance of growing pods this shape as do the seeds from any of the other pods this plant produced. Your best bet to get more pods like this is to grow the seeds from the pod of the plant it grew from or better yet, clone the plant, and self pollinate it. 
 
ShowMeDaSauce said:
Every single hab ive gotten off 3 plants looked 100% normal. I did not grow a single super hot of any kind. Not a single other garden as far as i can see at any of my neighbors.
 
So...how does one explain this and do you think i should save the seeds. It was not completely ripe.
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Not sure where you got the three plants - if you purchased them or seeds, or if you took seeds from a prior grow and sprouted them. So knowing that I don't know that......
 
Keep in mind that crosses don't occur with the pods off of a plant, but can occur with the seeds within the pods, when the flowers are pollinated. If you have, say, a bell pepper and a habanero growing right next to each other (assuming the source stock was pure), the habanero would only put out habaneros and the bell would only put out bells. However, if you took the seeds from the pods of those two plants and started them the following grow season, the plants that sprout *might* be crosses. In other words, the plants that you were growing likely came from some seeds that had a bit of cross pollination. Some genetic thread, then, caused the shape of that one pod. Also keep in mind that first-year crosses (known as F1's) are typically not stable. This means that if you do choose to save the seeds from that pod and sprout them, you might or might not get the same results with the second go-round. Still - it's a cool little surprise!
 
Maybe natural variation? If it is a good pod, save the seeds and look for the same disreable traits in the progeny.
 
I also want to mention that I have been noticing a LOT of so-called "breeders" are just making crosses, leaving them in the F1 status and NOT breeding their stock to near inbred lines, or more commonly known as "stable." You would get some variation with F1, and I would make a small wager to say that if you plant the seeds from that pod, that you would get a large range of variety in pod shape, size, flavor, and heat level from the next generation. IF you do, then it is likely in the F2 stage. This all is assuming that another plant did not pollinate the flower that made this pod, then my above wager is off, lol. It would be a F1 cross of a F1 cross, meaning there is so much genetic possibility, no manner of prediction could be made.
 
Just a thought, keep on growin!
 
mrgg
 
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