Re: [CH] Seeds from Hybrids - was Biker Billies Hybrids?

The NorthEast ChileMan (thenortheastchileman@attbi.com)
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:13:16 -0400 

Hi Frankie,
  How's the seed starting going? Hopefully the ones I sent have had great
germination.

  On the hybrid thing, if I ever find the site that had a great description
of the process, I'll bookmark the thing in a dozen different folders so I
don't lose it again. As I remember you just don't "cross" a couple of
peppers to get some trait you want. You "inbreed' a dominant trait from two
different peppers for three years & then cross these two to get a pepper
that the seeds will have the two dominant traits from. Let's say you want a
purple habanero, you would inbreed Black Namaqulad into itself untill only
purple was the dominant gene & inbreed Orange Habanero untill habanero was
the dominant gene (how they do this or if I'm out in left field on the
process, I'll digress to the experts), then you'd cross the two & the seeds
from this cross produce a "Purple Habanero". The downside is the seed in the
fruit of the hybrid is "crossed" & growing new plants from these seeds can
produce very mixed results. Byron advised me years ago that you would need
to "grow out" the seeds for a minimum of four years untill seeds produced
from all pods produced fruit "true" to the hybrid.

OK, back to my seedlings. Oh, & one other thing, you wrote, Snip:

> Just my stupid question:

There are no "stupid" questions.... I've learned many things from this list
& searches on the internet. We learn from asking because we want to know
something. In this vein I hope I've helped & I hope the information I've
conveyed was as accurate as my memory.

Yours in heat,
Paul

PS Dave Anderson wrote, Snip: I'll try to go into some more details later
today, but the short answer is no.

Dave Anderson
TLCC
http://www.tough-love.com


How'd I do Dave?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank" <frank.neulichedl@conzepta.it>
Sent: Tuesday, 22 April, 2003 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: [CH] Seeds from Hybrids - was Biker Billies Hybrids?
> > Sure, because
> > if it is, saving seeds and planting them out would make getting fruit
> > probably unlike the parent.
>
>
> As I understand it, Hybrids are the result of crossing 2 peppers to get 1
> out with specific features.
>
> If I now isolate this pepper doesn't have the seeds i got from the
> self-pollinated pods the same features.
>
> I think I'm a little bit confused about all this Hybrid-Thing.
>
> Cu
>
> Frankie