[CH] proto peppers
Marc Norman (Marc.Norman@utas.edu.au)
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:08:31 +1100
>Some of the Habaneros had an unusual characteristic.
>When I opened them up,
>instead of the usual seeds, I found another chile inside ! These
>chile babies were always unripe and usually quite small, and
>would generally pop out like a pea from a pod - most unusual !
>Does anybody know what causes this? Is it just a seed getting
>over-anxious, or something else?
actually it's yet another devious plot from the Big Seed manufacturers to
increase the apparent weight of commercial chiles without providing any
additional value to the consumer. Why let all that good space inside the
chile go to waste? my sources say it involves implanting alien dna into the
chile genome that replicates conditions inside the pod. so no your
experiments have not quite gone far enough!
back to the lab...