Re: [CH] World's hottest chile
Tina Brooks (shoestring_louise@yahoo.com)
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:04:48 -0800 (PST)
I don't know if I've said it before here, but I have
yet to see the difficulty with germination that people
are suggesting. We have had near perfect germination
rates of all of the seeds we had attempted.
Of course, I have a black thumb and have only ever
managed to get one plant to actually fruit, but I have
customers who have not only gotten fruit, they have
near perfect germination records as well.
Maybe it's the clean Canadian water?
T
--- Dave Drum <dirty_dave@chillicooks.org> wrote:
> Brent Thompson wrote:
>
> > The derogatory tone of "the wonder of the whole
> thing is that the denizens
> > of the sub-continent managed a cross between..."
> bothers me.
>
> No disrespect to the denizens of the sub-continent
> was intended. But,
> I have been informed over and over again that
> crosses such as what was
> accomplished were nearly impossible ... i.e. a cross
> that would breed
> true and produce seed viable to reproduce the
> cultivar with open
> pollination. That's all I meant.
>
> > But anyway, according to the 1983 Crossability
> Matrix of Capsicum Species
> > that I normally post every 2-3 years to this list:
>
> >>Crossability Matrix of Capsicum Species
> >> (Figure 3, Genetic Resources of Capsicum,
> International Board for
> >> Plant Genetic Resources, 1983
> >> [Crop Genetic Resources Centre, Plant Production
> and Protection
> >> Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of
> the United Nations])
>
> > C. frutescens and C. chinense can cross, with
> resulting "F1 hybrids
> > partially fertile". Although this wording has
> always been a bit unclear to
> > me, I believe this means it is reasonable to
> expect these two might cross
> > and create a viable line, at some probability that
> may be low but
> > definitely not-zero.
>
> The "partially fertile" item is what I refer to. It
> seems that CPI has
> viable seed (I hope - I ordered some) that they are
> flogging in Chile
> Pepper magazine.
>
> --
> ENJOY!!!
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> Cider
>
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> what you like and let
> the food fight it out inside." --Mark Twain
>
>
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Tina Brooks
VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces
www.peppermaster.com
Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc.
Phone: (514) 393-3430
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