=> Re: "re: @satch: on the spiciness of chillies" | In: s/farming
definitely not! This is actually a really interesting topic. Some plants, like corn, are pretty easy to save seeds from. If you plant a corn kernel and get it to sprout, you will get pretty much the same corn, with maybe some variety in color.
Other plants, like apples, are extremely hard to save seed from. Thatβs why everyone does grafting, because it allows one to basically clone the DNA.
2023-05-23 Β· 2 years ago
=> π satch [mod] Β· 2023-05-23 at 19:24:
Peppers are an example of a plant with a lot of important traits that can hide in recessive genes and end up being expressed down the line kind of randomly. Spiciness is one of them. It all depends on what other peppers they (and their ancestors) cross pollinated with.
=> π€ AnoikisNomads [OP] Β· 2023-05-23 at 19:38:
@satch that was a very good explanation, thanks!
re: @satch: on the spiciness of chillies β here's a new post to not dilute the one about balcony gardening. @satch you clearly have more experience than me, and I dont quite understand what you meant: depending on where you buy chilies from, that could be true or totally wrong. often times on smaller farms lots of different varieties are grown together, and so saving seed is not really an option as you can get some really strange hybrid peppers. if your pepper comes from a giant field of...
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