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I received a sweet cherry pepper from someone: red and smooth (open pollinated type).
I could find no trace of any shartage sickness or anything wrong with the plant.
I took the pepper home (Red and ripe, but still firm) and cut it open and saved 56 seeds.
I planted two in hydroponics and the fruit looked exactly the same and the size was still the same.
I gave some plants to my friend PW and his fruit was the same and this year (year 2) his fruit is still smooth and the size is still the same. I did not saved seed from my newer plants. I still had about 40 seeds left of the original 56.
This year (2nd year I have sown some 20 seeds of the original 40. All germinated and grew to about 50cm high.
I planted 15 in my garden bed and use flood irrigation (Extremely hot weather here in South Africa). The temperature some days reach to 40 degrees of C.
The fruits are bigger (about 15%), more flatter if looked at from the side and full of wrinkles, running from the top to the bottom. PW's fruit are still smooth and without wrinkles and of the original size.
I have no sicknesses, but the adjacent plants were infected with nematodes. I am using drinking water. The soil is poor and sandy, with a lot of organic matter, but it is of last years adding. The plants grow good and there is a lot
of fruits and almost no fruit abortion.
Why is mine wrinkled and bigger, but it is of the same batch. may poor, sandy soil be the cause or maybe a shortage due to nematode infestation that causes the roots to fail a bit in taking food from the soil or is there another explanation?
Peppers are suppose to be annuals, and so eggplants, but with our climates they last more. I have heard that some people get better results if the plant it well before winter and let the plant flower just after winter. Then you get fruit throughout the whole 8 months of growing season. This fact is true in the case of eggplant as I have cut one that was planted in a pot down for regrowth to grow into production after its third winter. Our cold winters in Cape Town is never below zero. Average 8-12 degrees of C.
Regards
Johan
I could find no trace of any shartage sickness or anything wrong with the plant.
I took the pepper home (Red and ripe, but still firm) and cut it open and saved 56 seeds.
I planted two in hydroponics and the fruit looked exactly the same and the size was still the same.
I gave some plants to my friend PW and his fruit was the same and this year (year 2) his fruit is still smooth and the size is still the same. I did not saved seed from my newer plants. I still had about 40 seeds left of the original 56.
This year (2nd year I have sown some 20 seeds of the original 40. All germinated and grew to about 50cm high.
I planted 15 in my garden bed and use flood irrigation (Extremely hot weather here in South Africa). The temperature some days reach to 40 degrees of C.
The fruits are bigger (about 15%), more flatter if looked at from the side and full of wrinkles, running from the top to the bottom. PW's fruit are still smooth and without wrinkles and of the original size.
I have no sicknesses, but the adjacent plants were infected with nematodes. I am using drinking water. The soil is poor and sandy, with a lot of organic matter, but it is of last years adding. The plants grow good and there is a lot
of fruits and almost no fruit abortion.
Why is mine wrinkled and bigger, but it is of the same batch. may poor, sandy soil be the cause or maybe a shortage due to nematode infestation that causes the roots to fail a bit in taking food from the soil or is there another explanation?
Peppers are suppose to be annuals, and so eggplants, but with our climates they last more. I have heard that some people get better results if the plant it well before winter and let the plant flower just after winter. Then you get fruit throughout the whole 8 months of growing season. This fact is true in the case of eggplant as I have cut one that was planted in a pot down for regrowth to grow into production after its third winter. Our cold winters in Cape Town is never below zero. Average 8-12 degrees of C.
Regards
Johan
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