[CH] C. cardenasii (idiot)

Love2Troll (Love2Troll@kc.rr.com)
Sun, 2 May 2004 20:29:10 -0500

I have problems.  Thought my 14 remaining seeds would be a great plenty in which to get the two plants necessary for producing pods & more seed.  Nope.  I'm usually pretty good at seed starting, but apparently am an idiot.  Can hopefully get more seeds from the German seed bank for next year, but am SOL for this year.

No big deal I thought.....     will just follow instructions for crossing with C. eximium and C. pubescens as outlined here and salvage something:   http://veghome.ucdavis.edu/classes/vc221/pepper/PEPPER.htm  Yep, that's gone now too.  A page that I have referred to and quoted from several times over the last year or two, but not smart enough to actually save it to disk.

So....  

Can anyone tell me which way to make the crosses if I should be fortunate enough to get any blossoms on my lone C. cardenasii?  As I recall, they have to be made in the proper direction.  For example...   male C. pubescens to female C. cardenasii or male C. cardenasii to female C. pubescens to get proper results.  (or maybe that's with a C. eximium cross?)  If I get enough blossoms I can try all possible ways, but have read on forums that they can be very stingy with their blooms. 

JohnT