Re: [CH] Hybrid Info
Brent Thompson (brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com)
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:32:45 -0700
> Hungarian Wax I've had for a couple of years now. They've been in my
> garage on cool nights and I pull them out for the morning sun.
>
> Today, while I was pulling a couple ripe wax's, I notice what looks
> like a
> bell red starting to ripen on one of its branches.
>
> Am I getting a hybrid here?
If this odd-looking fruit is forming on a plant which normally produces
fruits that look like normal Hungarian Wax chiles, then your odd fruit is
simply a deformed fruit (not a pejorative, just a fact -- it could be the
most beautiful delicious deformity of all time). No question of hybrid.
Hybridization affects only the seeds inside the fruit -- or more precisely,
only the genes inside the seeds inside the fruit. And that hybridization
manifests only in the plants (the offspring) that eventually grow from the
hybridized seeds.
--- Brent