You don’t need a big shaking scary machine to save pepper seeds. When I’m dealing with pretty small batches of peppers I’ll often save seed by hand. This is my hi tech technique to split open peppers. It’s all about splitting the fruit open to get to that seed I cut the pepper in half … More Saving pepper seeds can be easy
This is the Millet Wet Seed Separator. We mainly use this to crush tomatoes and peppers to extract their seeds. Here were using it for peppers. We feed the peppers into the hopper. (Make sure not to cut through the center of the fruit where the seeds are.) The Millet crushes the fruit up and … More Crushing peppers for seed
What are good beginner crops for seed saving on your farm? Choose crops that won’t easily cross with each other. This definitely means crops that mostly self pollinate (selfers). But you can also save seed from crops that mostly cross pollinate (crossers) as long as you only have one variety of a species in flower. … More What are good beginner crops for seed saving on your farm?
Sometimes, in October, when we’ve got a lot of vegetables, we give CSA members a big green basket and let them fill it up with what they want from a bunch of bins. We usually have comparable amounts of each vegetable displayed. We refill the bins as needed. Generally staples like carrots and potatoes are … More Giving CSA members a green basket and some choices
Saving pepper seed is even easier than saving tomato seeds. As long as the fruit is nice and ripe, all you have to do is: split the pepper open, scrape out the seeds, dry those seeds on a counter, and voilà! (Plus you get the seedless peppers to eat or freeze.) But peppers also cross … More Pepper Seed Is Even Easier Than Tomato Seed!
These are 3 peppers from my Scotch Bonnet Remix project. They are F3 fruits from a cross between Scotch Bonnet and some unknown sweet pepper. That means this is 3 generations since they crossed. We have a few hundred plants in the field and I’m trying to choose a handful to grow out next year. … More How To Choose Which Peppers To Keep For Seed
Once upon a time you found the sweetest pepper. You were making your way through a pepper field where no 2 plants looked the same. A field of F3 plants. That is 3 generations after two distinct varieties cross pollinated each other. In this case, a Scotch Bonner (a Capsicum chinense). with an unknown sweet … More The sweetest pepper you’d ever tasted