RE: R: [CH] cross breeding
Parkhurst, Scott Contractor (PARKHURS@LEAVENWORTH.ARMY.MIL)
Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:54:19 -0000
> Anyway, for many or perhaps most fruits, each fertilized
> seed causes some certain amount of fruit flesh surrounding
> that seed to grow, resulting in larger fruits when there are
> more seeds and smaller fruits when fewer seeds.
In the C. chacoense I grew last year I noticed that in the
variations of pod size where bigger fruit had more seeds, but
also bigger fruit had bigger seeds.
In the KT peppers I grew last year I had thick and thin pods,
where the thin pods also had smaller seeds. The seeds I saved
and am currently growing are producing pods of varying sizes,
ranging from the thin of last year, to thick like last year, some
plants have pods twice as big as last years biggest and one
plant has fruit almost the size of an Anaheim. The corkscrew
shape is most prevalent in the thinner fruit, but all exhibit it to
some extent. Each plant's pods are consistently the same size
(i.e. no plant has thin and extra thick pods). I have not opened
up any of the giant KTs to see if the seeds are larger.
Scott... KCK