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I suggest you try it, too.  I wonder if the companies selling "jingle 
bells" this year are selling new seed, or last years leftovers?  If 
it's going off the market, it might be hard to find in the future.  Of 
course, you might not have enough room.

Good luck!
Ginda


On Jan 26, 2005, at 8:58 PM, BRosholdt wrote:

> Jim,
>
> I suggest you go ahead and stabilize the hybrid.  You will have to 
> sacrifice a little part of the crop to do this and save the seed, but 
> in the end it would be your OP pepper - not a hybrid.  You could save 
> that seed, and SSE and other organizations would help you preserve it.
>
> I went to several workshops last year studying how to stabilize 
> hybrids (what people call "de-hybridize) and save clean, disease-free 
> seed.  It is not as complicated as you might imagine and the plant 
> parent population required is not necessarily huge.  Peppers are 
> amenable, the only problem being that you can't grow any other peppers 
> anywhere around the ones you are working with.  They cross very 
> readily.  I attended a workshop given by John Navazio from  the 
> Organic Seed Alliance (contact matthew@seedalliance.org) on selection 
> and breed improvement and he gave us a step-by-step procedure for 
> stabilizing a hybrid.  I am a novice at this breeding stuff, but it 
> sounded so do-able, I set off on a quest to save Silver Queen corn.  
> (I grew up with it and would like it to be around in the future, not 
> at someone's whim).  I started improving a favorite tomato, have 
> started saving seed of some favorites with a view towards 
> "regionalization improvement" of the crop, and certain Nafex members 
> can tell you that I even grow seedling trees and am tempted to "let 
> 'em fruit".  (Maybe we'll get a better tree if we work with nature.)
>
> I am sorry so little breeding work is being done in fruit these days.  
> I think gene-info is cool, but am not convinced that moving genes 
> around between species is, at our current level of ignorance, a good 
> idea.
> Barbara Rosholdt
> Zone 6c/7a Virginia
>
>
>
>
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