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Growing pepper from peppercorns??
Hia, I'm doing a reserch project on black pepper (Piper nigrum) for my uni course. i was just wondering whether anyone has ever germinated peppercorms? i know in commercial cultivation the plants are grown from fresh seed, but can they survive dessication, being shipped half-way around the world and sitting on supermarket shelves for months? I have just planted some, and will let you know how they do (if there is any interest) but i doubt that they will be growing before my deadline... any comments welcome! Thanks, Alex
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blackorchid wrote:
Hia, I'm doing a reserch project on black pepper (Piper nigrum) for my uni course. i was just wondering whether anyone has ever germinated peppercorms? i know in commercial cultivation the plants are grown from fresh seed, but can they survive dessication, being shipped half-way around the world and sitting on supermarket shelves for months? I have just planted some, and will let you know how they do (if there is any interest) but i doubt that they will be growing before my deadline... any comments welcome! Thanks, Alex Sounds interesting. It never occurred to me to try to grow a peppercorn. I have no idea how they are prepared. I suppose they are just dried and not heated or anything. I think they are actually a dried fruit with seeds inside. Now I wish I had some in the house so I could crack one open and see what's inside. Steve |
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Yeah, they are the dried whole fruit, each peppercorn has a single seed inside. i have just read something which indicated that the fruit is also fermented before drying so i guess the seeds are not viable, however i still have a pot full of pepercorns on my windowsil, in hope of seenig a seedling soon...
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blackorchid wrote:
Yeah, they are the dried whole fruit, each peppercorn has a single seed inside. i have just read something which indicated that the fruit is also fermented before drying so i guess the seeds are not viable, however i still have a pot full of pepercorns on my windowsil, in hope of seenig a seedling soon... I would remain hopeful too. Fermenting may not kill the seed if that's all they do to it. Let us know what happens. Steve |
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Steve wrote:
blackorchid wrote: Yeah, they are the dried whole fruit, each peppercorn has a single seed inside. i have just read something which indicated that the fruit is also fermented before drying so i guess the seeds are not viable, however i still have a pot full of pepercorns on my windowsil, in hope of seenig a seedling soon... I would remain hopeful too. Fermenting may not kill the seed if that's all they do to it. Let us know what happens. Steve Very interesting question. Yes, please let us know! -- Steve Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. |
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Black peppercorn (Piper nigrum) are made from unripe berries. Some
are processed by drying in the sun others may be kiln dried. I suppose the sun dried ones may be germinable. You might also want to give white peppercorns a try, the seeds have ripened a little more. http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/publicati...ns/52/ch42.htm http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2175/index.html http://www.holistic-online.com/Herba...Herbs/h115.htm http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.co...ack_pepper.htm http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/pepper_pictures.htm Pink peppercorn comes from Schinus molle. |
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 21:07:50 +0000, blackorchid
wrote: Hia, I'm doing a reserch project on black pepper (Piper nigrum) for my uni course. i was just wondering whether anyone has ever germinated peppercorms? i know in commercial cultivation the plants are grown from fresh seed, but can they survive dessication, being shipped half-way around the world and sitting on supermarket shelves for months? I have just planted some, and will let you know how they do (if there is any interest) but i doubt that they will be growing before my deadline... any comments welcome! Thanks, Alex Much of the pepper imported into N. America has been treated to kill insects; sometime by heat and sometimes in other ways. I would be surprised to find that it germinated, but that is no reason not to try. Import practices may well vary elsewhere. By the by, the only place where I have seen piper nigrum being propagated (S. India) was by layering, not by seed. The mother vines were growing at the base of "troughs" (4" dia x 3ft length bamboo culms split lengthwise and supported at a 45 deg angle). The bamboo was filled with a compose mixture an the vine directed up the bamboo. At each node, it was held in contact with the compost where it rooted. After the vine reached the top of the bamboo, the rooted sections were cut apart and transplanted. |
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