Pepper seeds?

[Greenthumb18]

I saved some pepper seeds from this past season from Jimmy Nardello peppers. They were grown with other pepper varieties in the garden last summer. Do you think the seeds will be true to type? Jimmy Nardello is an heirloom pepper.
I didn't know if maybe the other varieties crossed this one. I would think since its an heirloom the seeds will be true to variety.

What do you guys think?

 

[digitS']

Risky business, Mike. Peppers are predisposed to promiscuity. (Or, it's all the bees and hover flies .)

Fedco wants their growers to separate varieties by 500'. Gracious! That's about 2 blocks!

If you have the room in the garden, it could be interesting & fun to see how Jimmy Jr. turns out. May be okay.

Steve

 

[Greenthumb18]

Risky business, Mike. Peppers are predisposed to promiscuity. (Or, it's all the bees and hover flies .)

Fedco wants their growers to separate varieties by 500'. Gracious! That's about 2 blocks!

If you have the room in the garden, it could be interesting & fun to see how Jimmy Jr. turns out. May be okay.

Steve

Thanks Steve! I will still plant the seeds to see what I get. At least I get to save a little money by planting saved seeds

 

[Ridgerunner]

I started to say that since they are perfect flowers, I'd expect peppers to not cross-pollinate that easily, so like tomatoes and beans, they should be pretty safe. But since I was not sure, I went looking. I was wrong in my assumption.

This article is interesting. Evidently sweeet peppers require less separation than hot peppers because of the shape of the flowers. But if you have a sweet pepper and a hot pepper, the longer hot pepper distance controls. From this article, I'd say Digits may know what he is talking about. Your sweet Jimmy Nardello might be OK, but I would not count on it.

http://www.southernexposure.com/isolation-distance-requirements-for-peppers-ezp-34.html

 

[catjac1975]

Peppers are the only seed I save and have been for years. I mostly grow sweet bell peppers and save the seed of the peppers that are the brightest colors. Unless you have very limited space I would give it a try. I sow my peppers early so I have a large plants when they go out into the garden. That is the only way I can get a good crop of peppers before the end of September.

 

[Dave2000]

Contrary to the article Ridgerunner linked, all the crosses' fruit I had shared a cross in size and shape too. The only way I'd call them "similar" looking fruit was it still looked ~ 50% like the same pepper expected which is more than enough to make it look like a completely different pepper.

 

[omar818]

Does anyone happen to know where I can order ghost chili seeds online? My wife really likes that pepper for some reason, but I find it way to hot to eat.

 

[HunkieDorie23]

I am a small time gardener also and I don't have 2 blocks to plant between varieties so I have never tried saving seeds. But this year I am going to try. I have thought about it for about 3 years and I think I am going to separate by distants and other plants. So 1 variety will be in one bed with tomatoes etc. then other beds will be planted, some with corn or sunflower, vining cucumber, basically tall plants, 20 -30 ft later another variety of peppers and then in the back of the garden another 20-30 ft another variety.

I know that it is risky but I want to give it a shot. I am not selling the seeds, it is for my own use. I know that from my reading that the tomatoes will be OK but the peppers are at risk. I am also limiting the types of peppers to one hot (hungarian hot, yes I am a wimp), one bell (King of the North) and one spice (paprika). Unfortunately I won't be able to let you know how it works out until next summer. I am also trying it with cucumbers.

May I ask how many plants you collected seeds from? I know there is a magic number to eliminate inbreeding. I think it is twenty per variety for peppers. I do not use that many peppers. I am only planting 5-6 of each. My garden has to work for me not me working for my garden.

Would love to be able to figure out what to do with my onions. They require so much more space. I am growing two types of scallions, 7 varieties of garlic, 3 types of onion, and 2 types of shallots. Not really willing to down size those. I only have 4 3/4 acre.

 

[digitS']

Does anyone happen to know where I can order ghost chili seeds online? My wife really likes that pepper for some reason, but I find it way to hot to eat.

Strangely enuf . . . at least, to me . . . I saw them on the racks during my last visit to the garden center.

Ghost is also known as the Bhut Jolokia Pepper: Totally Tomatoes (click)

You can go to Egardenersplace and order from more than the Totally Tomatoes catalog. See over on the left side of the page:

https://www.egardenersplace.com/home.asp

All of those are part of Jung Seed Company.

Steve