At 05:18 AM 8/12/2002 -0500, bradley ellis wrote: >To those more learned on the list: Am I incorrect as to how the whole cross >pollination works? > > >Brad It is my understanding regards biology that you are correct, changes in the genetic makeup affects the seeds in the chiles, not the chiles themselves. Otherwise it would be the case when a male German shepherd mates with a female Dalmatian would transform the Dalmatian into half German shepherd. Of course this has been argued back & forth on this list for as long as I've been here and have no doubts that folks with anecdotal evidence to the contrary will weigh in to disagree =Mark