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
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
This is the fourth part of a series on crop planning for seed production. Seed production planning part 3 covered calculating how much to grow to meet your farm and marketing demands. The next step is choosing when to plant your seed crop to get a reliable seed harvest. (Most of this article was originally … More Plant Seed Crops on Time – Seed Production Planning Part 4
This is the third part of a series on crop planning for seed production. Seed production planning part 2 covered calculating how much seed to harvest to meet your farm and marketing demands. The next step is determining how many plants you need to grow to produce the amount of seed you need. We’ll look … More Seed Production Planning Part 3 – How Much To Grow
So far, autumn has scored well on it’s rainy points. It’s been a little too wet to do tons in the field these days. We’ve been spending some of that rainy time processing pepper and eggplant seed. The extraction is similar to saving tomato seeds but without any fermentation. After we harvest the ripe peppers, … More Saving Pepper Seed