[CH] Cross pollination

byron bromley (byron.bromley@gsd-co.com)
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:37:39 -0500

Frank writ
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Hi Chilis:
I'm going to try to control as much as possible the pollination to the 15
pepper plants that I plan to plant closely together.  May I assume that if I
force pollinate from one plant to another that this has "set" the plant and
no other genetic material from other plants can henceforth be introduced?  I
would hate to go through the trouble of tying cloth bags on the stems, or
physically separating the plants by screens.
Frank
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FYI

Caroln Male for tomatoes says 4 to 6 ft is enough

SSE  says 25ft seperation is enough

USDA says 1/4 to 1/2 mile seperation is enough.

Known record for a honey bee carrying pollen is 18 miles.

I have watched a Bumble bee stop at 1 blossom on each plant in a 40ft row of
tomatoes.  ~  She had a yellow and orange band.

Want to be positive,  cover them up.

Lord Byron