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Finally harvested the seeds from my habanero pollinated with baccatum pollen! The seeds are all pale and healthy looking, and nicely plump but they're so much more wavy than I expected and the size variation surprised me. Some are so small and some are actually quite large, and they're so twisted on themselves in real life. I included a picture at the end of the uncrossed habanero seeds I harvested a few weeks ago for comparison. The weird thing though is that there's so many of them! Over 20 from my crossed pod when my uncrossed pods have under 15 each, I absolutely didn't expect that

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I've posted about this before but my habanero is finally ripe! I'm gonna leave it for another week to let the Baccatum mixed seeds fully mature, and hopefully give me 1 or 2 viable f1 babies for next spring. I also made 3 more crosses with the same genes, and plan to do a few more as more flowers come up so these plants will likely come inside this winter if any of them take, wish me luck! I'll update when I harvest the seeds with my results

Pictures from the past few days, Baccatum parent plant included (only three fruits on the first one because the other flowers were used for breeding) These plants just put out a wave of new flowers, so I made 4 new crosses with the habanero flowers that were ready, and will do them the other way once more baccatum flowers mature

I've seen a lot of people posting pictures of what they think they're growing, and I just wanted to make sure I am actually growing ghost peppers?

Hi everyone! I've always grown up fascinated with genetics and have always hoped that I can do something involving genetics when I grew up, but never really found a niche I was interested in until this last year. I discovered pepper breeding and interspecies pepper breeding. Now I've never even grown a pepper before let alone bred any, and when I had tried keeping plants alive before, they always died, though admittedly I never did enough research. This time I dived deep into researching pepper care, pepper flower anatomy, pepper pod anatomy, the genetics side of things, how some crosses work better one way rather than the other, etc. And then I decided to dip my toes in myself by starting a highly ambitious project that even seasoned gardeners could consider difficult. I've decided to attempt to breed and stabilize a 3 species, 4 variety hybrid of red habanero (pictured) mad hatter, red ghost, and a spicier jalapeno variety. The habaneros I planted from seed never germinated so I had to buy starters from a nursery, and the only habaneros I found were on discount with extremely yellow sad looking leaves. I let them keep what flowers they had, and even crossed one. I emasculated a couple, and pollinated with mad hatter pollen knowing the chances of success were low, but the mad hatter was on its last push of flowers and pollen, and the habaneros flowers wouldn't open until after all the mad hatter flowers were other self pollinated or fallen off, so I took a chance. And it worked! One of the flowers actually took and started to swell and it's even beginning to ripen! The ghost jalapeno cross is also growing, however I forgot to tag it so I don't remember which is which, but if people want me to I can post pictures of some of the ghost pods I have growing too :) hopefully I get a few viable hybrid seedlings this January. I'm going to grow them inside under a grow light early to give them the longest fruiting window I can in full summer sun, wish me luck! I'll continue to post as my project evolves

(Cross posted from r/hotpeppers)

I posted about this cross when it first started swelling a little while ago, now it's starting to ripen! Red habanero mother, and a mad hatter father. Fingers crossed I get a viable seed or two!

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Clipped the anthers and petals a day before the mad hatter had any pollen ready, so I was definitely taking a chance with this one, but the pepper is definitely starting to swell at this point. If it fully takes, and ripens with viable seeds and pollen, it will be the start of a years long journey crossing and stabilizing a hybrid between chinense, baccatum, and annum. Wish me luck!

These are my first tomatoes I've grown from seed, my first year growing any kind of plant, and I'm honestly really proud of myself. I'm in zone 6b. They're purple Cherokee and big rainbow tomatoes :) The significantly smaller one in the first picture was a tiny seedling I transplanted because it popped up a couple weeks after the first two, and I decided to give it a chance and see what happens. It didn't even have true leaves when I transferred it at first, or any root offshoots, but I wasn't going to be upset if it didn't live, but it's doing amazing!

I'm gonna put them in the ground soon, but for now they seem happy in these peat pots. I water them any time the pot looks dry to avoid them drying out, and will end up tearing the peat pot off when I plant them as I've heard they don't break down, and suck water from the soil, but I haven't noticed too many issues with how they're growing so far besides a small amount of sunburn when I transferred them permanently outside after I guess not hardening well enough