billh
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Post by billh on Apr 3, 2016 7:49:34 GMT -5
I have checked with Mr. Google and he either doesn't know, or I'm not savvy enough to understand so I thought I would come to the experts for a straight forward answer. Can I save Big Jim pepper seeds or is this a hybrid plant? Thanks in advance
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Post by coppice on Apr 3, 2016 9:55:48 GMT -5
I have checked with Mr. Google and he either doesn't know, or I'm not savvy enough to understand so I thought I would come to the experts for a straight forward answer. Can I save Big Jim pepper seeds or is this a hybrid plant? Thanks in advance Why couldn't you save "big Jim pepper" seeds? At the very worst your (I'm thinking out loud now) F1 pepper will show some of its parentage. So you will have to start selecting for the qualities you liked about the original generation. This aught to be the bomb for a diary of your own here as you save and select seed what ever the outcome. Our great grand parents had to save some of their seeds, and went on about their daily garden business doing their own picking & chooseing. We have the luxury of time and space to select for taste (or eye appeal) and not only existence. Rumors of 'sport' seeds growing into triffids, and eating the pets are greatly exagerated.
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Post by september on Apr 3, 2016 14:37:59 GMT -5
I'm guessing that your Big Jim is the same as NuMex Big Jim. Tomato Growers Supply and some other catalogs do not indicate that it's a hybrid, so you should be fine saving seeds. Apparently there is now a further development of it called NuMex Heritage Big Jim. There is an interesting article about it at NuMex Heritage Big Jim
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 3, 2016 15:38:46 GMT -5
It is not a hybrid, so you can save the seeds, but, as with all peppers, they cross easily, so isolate the flowers before they open, or you may get a surprise.
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Post by Gianna on Apr 27, 2016 20:34:40 GMT -5
I grow Numex Joe Parkers as my preferred Anaheim type chile, another open pollinated variety. When I got the seeds, there was a bit of genetic contamination in them. Over the years I keep selecting those plants that have traits that I like, and save their seeds. But only when there are no other varieties growing nearby.
There have been a couple of numex chilies that have been 'reinvented' and standardized as 'Heritage' and brought back closer to what they once were after decades of genetic drift. Numex Big Jim is one, Numex 6-4 (from which Joe E. Parker was derived) is another.
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