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Sweet peppers
If I plant the seeds from supermarket orange sweet peppers, will I get
predominantly orange peppers on the plants, or a mix or red, yellow and orange (on different plants of course, and assuming I get any at all!)? -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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michael adams wrote:
:: "michael adams" wrote in message :: ... ::: ::: "Chris Hogg" wrote in message ::: ... ::: ::: :::: If I plant the seeds from supermarket orange sweet peppers, will :::: I get predominantly orange peppers on the plants, or a mix or :::: red, yellow and orange (on different plants of course, and :::: assuming I get any at all!)? ::: ::: ::: Green turning to orange. ::: ::: Unless they're FI hybrids in which case it's not so ::: straightforward. As seed from FI hybrids doesn't always ::: grow true to the parent plant. ::: ::: When they sell the colour mixtures (non FI hybrids) they ::: give you so many seeds of each colour. So presumably ::: that's how they identify them. From what coloured pepper ::: they were from. :: :: ... :: :: er, apparently they're actually different varieties, rather :: than being different colours of the one variety. And even :: Sweet Rainbow Mix - which comes in white, yellow, orange, :: red, lilac, purple, and chocolate includes 6 hybrids. :: :: If the supermarket pepper was an FI hybid - which :: may be more economical for them despite higher seed costs :: so as to give uniform size and yield etc then the offspring :: may be different in some respect or other. Regardless of F1, colour, size or shape, I would suggest growing some anyway as home grown has more flavour than shop bought - and that applies to almost everything - supermarkets are interested in presentation, uniformity, colour and size, taste is way down on their list of priorities....personally i couldn't care less what fruit and veg *look* like, they're for eating not looking at! -- If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. |
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