pepper fruits from cross pollination

8 years ago

last modified: 8 years ago

simple question: when cross pollination occurs, whether by chance or intentionally, between pepper species, do the resulting fruits themselves bare characteristics of the cross pollination or are they perfectly normal looking fruits of the "host" variety buy containing seeds which will grow to give plants that will then have fruits with a mix of the two parent species? also if thats the case, would all the seeds in one cross pollinated fruit give the same results or are they all unique in their "blend" of the two parent species?

reason im asking about fruit appearance is that im growing several pepper species in my container garder and some, such as my sweet yellow banana bell are turning up red and spicier than expected while growing next to a birds eye pepper tree. also an orange bell pepper plant gave fruits that are smaller and crooked in shape a little like the habanero close by.

ive included a picture of some of my peppers: the yellow banana bell that turned red, one banana bell that grew upwards and my jhabanero and two birds eye peppers. i didnt have any of the orange bell pepper on hand.

so?

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Klot K
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Hi Paul,

I am from China and not aware of all varieties you mentioned, such as yellow banana bell. But here is something you may want to know:

1, Species would be a different meaning from varieties, crossing usually happened by chance between the same species but differents varieties. Different species MAY have crossed and set fruit, give you seeds, lower chance.

2, A cross may hightly lead to RED FRUIT on mature, for the yellow, white and brown color of fruit is ALLELE LOSS. But RED one is INTEGRITY.

3, Spicie from parents MAY hightly lead to even, but there is many content making the pepper taste hot in fact. So a hybrid variety could be more spicie than any parent if the parents are complementary on these content.

4 (original selection), To remain and prevent from fruits changing:

1) Make sure the varieties you have grown is NOT HYBRID seeds. Hybrid seeds will derive greatly on the F2 generation.

2) You have already lost the original seeds and need to buy them again.

3) Plant new seeds. When the pepper is blooming, remove the flowers and keep the bud. Put pollen separation net on EACH varieties. Mark the bud on anthocaulus by color or wire. Remove the nets when 5 to 20 fruit set on each plant as needed. Wait for the marked fruits mature. Collect fruits WITH MARK for EACH variety, then original seeds have remained.

Tips:

a) If a different type plant was found before blooming on one variety, remove it.

b) Do step 4 every one or two years, and keeps the seeds on last two generations. If a selection failed, plant the last original generation and keep selection.

c) A normal original selection needs at least 30 plants for each varieties.
Brennan (New Mexico 7a)
8 years ago
Fruits from the parent plant will not show traits of a pepper it was crossed with, those won't show up until/unless you grow out seeds from the fruit that was cross pollinated.
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farmerdill
8 years ago
Concur; Be aware the Sweet Banana and all the banana types are red when ripe.

Also when picking ripe peppers, the seeds are second generation, a sweet pepper crossed with a hot pepper will not have any changes in the pod BUT The fully developed seeds may be hot.