RE: [CH] Pepper preocupied
Russell Spanard (RSpanard@attbi.com)
Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:00:38 -0500
R:
My novice opinion would be:
While it is possible to graft pepper plants, the grafting process does not
affect the genetic information in either the graft or the host. So, grafting
a branch of a habanero onto a host bell pepper plant (I think that would
work...) would simply permit you to have a single plant that bore both bell
and hababnero peppers, but the characteristics of the habs would have been
predefined from it's original seed, as would those of the bells.
Similarly, some people ask if you plant hot peppers next to sweet peppers,
and they cross-pollinate, will it affect the fruits of either plant: the
answer is no. It will affect the seeds that are created within those fruits,
though. So you'd have to harvest and replant those seeds to see what F1
hybrid you'd get.
I vaguely recall seeing an ad for a potato plant that had tomato grafts,
yielding a single plant that yielded potatoes below and tomatoes above!
Russ
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Subject: [CH] Pepper preocupied
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Can one graft pepper plants ? I mean like taking a cutting from
one and seeing if it will take on another plant thereby sharing
properties from both . Has anyone tried this ? I am game to try . If it
works that huge Rocoto is possible .
Yours Truly
Rodney