Double hab

20 years ago

I posted a month or so ago about a double hab flower. It had two stems that grew together with two seperate flowers growing out of it. That double flower fell off. I think because it was really windy.

Now on the same plant I have a double hab. Same twin stem deal with the most wrinkled unripe hab this plant has ever made (it's also the biggest on the plant now). With a smaller normal looking unripe hab growing out.

I didn't see the flower(s) that it came from but I imagine it was a double. I didn't even notice the pepper(s) until today. I was stoked to find the big hab. I was marveling at it's wrinkles and how much bigger it was than the rest of the pods, then I noticed it's "siamese twin". Confusion...

Someone had a theory that the double hab (pod within a pod) might have come from a double flower. I have purchased these pod within a pod habs from the market and they didn't have the double stems like this, so I'm discarding that theory for now.

My friend is coming down on saturday to bbq, I told him to bring his digital camera. I'll do my best to get a pic of it on the plant but it might be difficult. I'll get a pic when I harvest it for sure.

Anyone seen this before?

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Comments (4)

jdog006
20 years ago
Take a picture and post it. I wanna see it.

Could this be a genetic trait that could effect future seed or is it just a freak thing that happened because of the way your plant grew? That is the question that I would be asking.

Different varieties of almost every plant known to man have come about by situations similar to this. (tobacco, vegetables, citrus, flowers, etc. etc.) For instance, white stem varietes of tobacco (a popular tobacco grown for cigarettes) became popular after one farmer noticed two plants in his field that looked different than all the others (they looked sickly to him). He grew them anyway and saved seed from those plants. The next year he planted several acres of tobacco with those seeds (why he planted acres of seed from plants that he thought were sickly is beyond me) and at the end of the year he found that his crop was highly desirable and it brought a premium price at market.

I know that story has nothing to do with peppers. But I find changes in plant genetics very very interesting and that is a good example.

Always save seeds from your best pods. Even if you don't make a major breakthrough and develop some awesome new variety of pepper, saved seed should produce plants that are better suited to your climate and soil conditions.
habbob
Original Author
20 years ago
Ok, I'll take a pic and post it. Also I'll save seeds from the double pod.

Great story on the tobacco. Funny that you said his plants looked "sickly" to him cause this hab plant has seen better days.

The pod's position on the plant might make it hard to photgraph but I'll get a pic regardless of if it's on the plant, get's dropped, or get's ripe and harvested. The larger pod looks friggin awesome. I want to eat it.
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jdog006
20 years ago
I'm anxious to see it.

I hope it turns out to be twice as hot for you as all the others.

lol
organic_nut
20 years ago
I want to see a picture of this also. this type of thing really needs a picture to understand.