[Market-farming] SEED Company reliability

Pat Meadows pat at meadows.pair.com
Thu Jan 1 12:06:25 EST 2009


On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:27:54 -0600, you wrote:

>The only time you'll see a "cross" in this year's production is when you are
>eating the "seed" as in corn.  And, I've heard, although not experienced,
>that since a lot of the "heat" of a hot pepper is in the seed membranes, you
>can sometimes get some "heat" in a sweet pepper if it is crossed with hot.
>Doesn't change the fruit, only, again, the seed.  Has anyone actually
>experienced this?  Or is it just a "market farming legend"?  

I think that all peppers really WANT to be hot, though, and if you stress a
sweet pepper, it can be a bit hot.  (This is my own theory, without
anything to support it except my own observations.)

Kind of like a wolf-dog hybrid going back to the wild.  :)

Pat
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