Looking for a seed source. Or the exact latin name of the variety, my google searches have been fruitless, pun intended.
thx!
Looking for a seed source. Or the exact latin name of the variety, my google searches have been fruitless, pun intended.
thx!
It looks like the following person has some peppers for sale.
I'm saving the seeds of my own three varieties of Pepper plants (sweet, bell and hot) this season. I should have plenty spare suitable for trade or send an SSAE.
Cheers Conor
So, what are you doing to insure seed purity?
I've bought a few pepper plants that I can't find seeds for, and I was thinking of trying to save my own seeds. Peppers cross-pollinate so easily, though. There is a man on an email list I'm on who has some excellent suggestions that I'm going to try. He raises a lot of rare _Capsicum _ species, and has a lot of experience preventing cross-pollination.
He suggested using mosquito netting from an Army/Navy surplus store to put around the branches, then giving the plants a good shake everyday so that they'll pollinate themselves.
Penelope
I've done that with heirloom tomatoes and it works. However, one does tend to get fewer fruits. Then again one only needs a couple for seed. After you get a several fruits started under the netting you can remove it and mark the genetically pure fruits with a twist tie loosely around the stem. That will cut down on heat and mildew problems caused by the netting.
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