RE: [CH] Black Seeds

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	> >Everyone was concerned
	> >about black seeds. I read
	> >a great explanation on
	> >Firegirl's site by Pepper Joe.
> > >http://firegirl.com/askmrsf/blackseed.html
> 
	> I just wonder if maybe there might be some other 
	> explanation also.

	I would have to agree that there is something else re-
	sponsible.  I don't quite buy the part about mistaking a
	jalapeno for a rocoto.  And _everything_ I have read,
	seen or heard says C. pubescens doesn't cross with
	C. annuum.  Hell, it's hard enough to get C. pubescens
	to fertilize within its own species.

	A possibility for discussion:
	     Some sort of seed necrosis, where the immature seed
	is "aborted" due to, say, bad temps or insufficient moisture.

	The black seeds I sometimes see do not appear at all 
	healthy, unlike the rocoto seeds that somehow look like they
	belong that color.

	I don't know what the answer is, but I'm not really satisfied
	by any that I've heard yet.

	Scott... "Everybody's searching for something, they say.  I'll
	get my kicks on the way"... KCK

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