I think the Jalapeños cross-pollinated the Habaneros to make… whatever these are.
I think the Jalapeños cross-pollinated the Habaneros to make… whatever these are.
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nf22
If I had a guess, it probably wasnt a habanero cross since the peppers are all facing upwards. Could be wrong tho.
6Foot2EyesOfBlue1973
You mean last year right?
what-even-am-i-
Cross pollination only affects the seeds
Kutsumann
Some idiot told me cross pollination produced a hybrid pepper and I believed that and told a lot of people that shit before I just looked it up.
MCFRESH01
That doesn’t look at all like a habanero plant
white-lobsterz
these look just like my sweet pickle pepper. they have no heat, they are a ‘decorative’ pepper plant because they stay small and are beautiful to watch as they ripe
The habaneros were started from seeds I removed from a grocery store habanero pepper. This is how they’ve grown. My two theories:
1. The grocery store peppers are genetic time-bombs.
2. Growing them near Jalapeños led to this weird cross-hybrid thing.
This is my first time growing peppers, so lmk what you think is actually going on here.
bgoated
This also looks a lot like the pretty n’ sweet pepper I grew last year and overwintered. This is a pic of it where I kept it in my windowsill over the winter. Ignore the thai pepper on the left.
The seeds would have to have been cross pollinated at their origin. Or they were mismarked seed.
Let’s say your jalapeño pollinated your habanero. Your habanero will still yield habanero looking fruit. But if you were to plant seeds from that habanero the resulting plant and fruit will show crossbreeding with the jalapeño.
The last one looks like a different plant entirely, some extra pointy jalapeño.
charleyhstl
I’ve read that you wouldn’t see any cross showing up until you save these seeds and replant next season.
ryanwaldron
Awesome. They are awesome. Save those seeds
Mysterious_Ad4263
You got any extra seeds of these laying around? Would love to do a seed trade!
LockNo2943
Save these seeds and start cross-breeding with itself until F4 or so and it’s stabilized, then sell the seeds and profit! The habapeno! The jalanero!
Tpbrown_
You’d not know until the next generation
N4cer26
Is it even possible to cross jalapeños and Habs? I’m pretty sure they are a different sub species
MystikvlGoddess
I have a chiletepin serrano cross that happened in our yard and when it first started to fruit some of the peppers did face upward like this.
However the yellow with purple looks strikingly similar to a purple puma pepper.
What I do know is those peppers look SPICY!!!! And I bet they are very very flavorful!
MystikvlGoddess
Also you say you got the seed from a habenero you got from the store?! So here’s what I am thinking, it was likely cross pollinated before it even left the pepper farm. It likely crossed with some other pepper and now you got this weird funky guy! These fruits would NOT be the product of cross pollination in your yard because it was likely the habanero seed in the pepper you harvested the seed from that was a cross.
ImpactSuccessful7431
Those are awesome 😍🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Appropriate_Foot_636
Jobanaeros
sephrisloth
I had a scorpion pepper plant growing next to my serranos last year. Hoping this year’s batch of serranos turn out funky from that.
Due_Platform_5327
There are about 50 different varieties of peppers that grow facing up like that… and cross pollination doesn’t happen with that years crop. When creating a hybrid you cross pollination two different varieties then harvest the seeds from that years pods. Those seeds will throw the cross the next year but they will be an unstable cross. Meaning not all the pods will have the same exact characteristics as others. You have to keep crossing them to create a stable hybrid it takes about 10 years. If that plant isn’t what it was supposed to be it was mislabeled not a hybrid.
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If I had a guess, it probably wasnt a habanero cross since the peppers are all facing upwards. Could be wrong tho.
You mean last year right?
Cross pollination only affects the seeds
Some idiot told me cross pollination produced a hybrid pepper and I believed that and told a lot of people that shit before I just looked it up.
That doesn’t look at all like a habanero plant
these look just like my sweet pickle pepper. they have no heat, they are a ‘decorative’ pepper plant because they stay small and are beautiful to watch as they ripe
https://preview.redd.it/45xhnbbxtp8f1.png?width=735&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4e14e559f2e5e3761674a2c64b23b825cb4f0f3
The habaneros were started from seeds I removed from a grocery store habanero pepper. This is how they’ve grown. My two theories:
1. The grocery store peppers are genetic time-bombs.
2. Growing them near Jalapeños led to this weird cross-hybrid thing.
This is my first time growing peppers, so lmk what you think is actually going on here.
This also looks a lot like the pretty n’ sweet pepper I grew last year and overwintered. This is a pic of it where I kept it in my windowsill over the winter. Ignore the thai pepper on the left.
https://preview.redd.it/mcrz7p1pzp8f1.png?width=888&format=png&auto=webp&s=356afb26685a15b58308eb9d85f3cac658a18c50
The seeds would have to have been cross pollinated at their origin. Or they were mismarked seed.
Let’s say your jalapeño pollinated your habanero. Your habanero will still yield habanero looking fruit. But if you were to plant seeds from that habanero the resulting plant and fruit will show crossbreeding with the jalapeño.
The first two look very similar to [Numex Easter](https://chilepepperinstitute.ecwid.com/NuMex-Easter-p616745868)
The last one looks like a different plant entirely, some extra pointy jalapeño.
I’ve read that you wouldn’t see any cross showing up until you save these seeds and replant next season.
Awesome. They are awesome. Save those seeds
You got any extra seeds of these laying around? Would love to do a seed trade!
Save these seeds and start cross-breeding with itself until F4 or so and it’s stabilized, then sell the seeds and profit! The habapeno! The jalanero!
You’d not know until the next generation
Is it even possible to cross jalapeños and Habs? I’m pretty sure they are a different sub species
I have a chiletepin serrano cross that happened in our yard and when it first started to fruit some of the peppers did face upward like this.
However the yellow with purple looks strikingly similar to a purple puma pepper.
What I do know is those peppers look SPICY!!!! And I bet they are very very flavorful!
Also you say you got the seed from a habenero you got from the store?! So here’s what I am thinking, it was likely cross pollinated before it even left the pepper farm. It likely crossed with some other pepper and now you got this weird funky guy!
These fruits would NOT be the product of cross pollination in your yard because it was likely the habanero seed in the pepper you harvested the seed from that was a cross.
Those are awesome 😍🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Jobanaeros
I had a scorpion pepper plant growing next to my serranos last year. Hoping this year’s batch of serranos turn out funky from that.
There are about 50 different varieties of peppers that grow facing up like that… and cross pollination doesn’t happen with that years crop. When creating a hybrid you cross pollination two different varieties then harvest the seeds from that years pods. Those seeds will throw the cross the next year but they will be an unstable cross. Meaning not all the pods will have the same exact characteristics as others. You have to keep crossing them to create a stable hybrid it takes about 10 years. If that plant isn’t what it was supposed to be it was mislabeled not a hybrid.