If this is your new hobby then I would suggest trying to do a little bit of everything saving seeds is just one part of it. This being my first year growing from seed I am going to try and save some viable true seeds of some of my plants but i will also buy seeds next year for some new varieties. If you want the seeds to stay true you have to isolate the whole plant or just individual blossoms. I guess you could also wait for the bloom to open and manually pollinate it and then put yarn or string around the stem of that particular bud.

Dale

you want to isolate individual blossoms if you cannot isolate the whole plant. Before the flower opens you need to tie a bag over the bud so no insect pollinators can get to it and wind cannot pollinate it from other plants. Peppers will self pollinate with just some wind in most cases. Many people have methods for this, I know some use tea bags tied with string, some people use tulle or other materials that allow wind and rain to go through but no bugs.

kendra

A friend of mine on here sent me an isolation bag for a whole plant made of tulle. It is so cool. I wish I knew how to make them. I have no experience sewing.

It works perfect over a pepper plant in a 20 inch container with a small tomato cage over the plant. Perfect isolation method. On a large scale this would be very difficult though. I need about 25 more. lol.

Chris

both kendra and chris mentioned the use of tulle.i looked it up online and found it was used for wedding viels and such..is it anything like remay?,the stuff they use for row covers,also where would i find tulle?.i was thinking maybe i could wrap it in some manner around a tomatoe cage and that may work..my sewing skills are not what they should be.lol....thanks.........don

You can get tulle at Mal-Mart in the sewing section-cheap. I think Remay may let the flowers get too warm.

john

thanks john,,,im off to wallyworld today

chris,at what point did u begin to use the isolation bag,and when were u able to remove it?

For those of you that can not so and even for those who can this product is the best for attaching fabrics together. It is latex rubber and it is a miracle in a bottle it will bond permanently and rolls right off your fingers for easy clean up. I got mine at tractor supply in mi. I am also going to use it to isolate individual blossoms the idea came from a link that johnF put on the forum I beleive the post is ingenius something John help me out here. Hope this helps.

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Dale

Hi Dale

Actually credit for that goes to john Taylor who posted a thread on isolation and he does use some kind of fabric glue.

john

interesting posts/ideas. Never thought about that to prevent cross polli.

fiedlermeister, do you use the tulle? Are the seeds you gave me pure bred? Just curious. Also - some are doing fine but very slow to grow. I'll post some pictures.