[CH] Genetic Drift

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Definitely sounds like a probable problem....  These chile varieties were
developed in isolated locales.  Now that everyone is trading seeds around,
we will have trouble being sure which is the real, original variety.  Unless
"someone" makes an effort to really define what a Datil (etc.) is, and
documents that, and also "someone" takes care to produce a supply of true
seeds, before the stored seeds go bad, and everyone else lets their seeds
cross with various other varieties.  That someone isn't me, though.  My seed
saving is fairly haphazard, and some of my seed is not really true.  I'm not
really a purist.....and I don't sell my seeds.

>
> I think one thing we all should have learned from Jim's benevolence is
that
> with the explosion of the chile seed market there are going to be all
sorts
> of hybrids and crossovers and we may get to a point where no seed is
exactly
> true to it's forebears.   > carpo
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