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Mar 30, 2016 2:00 PM CST
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Name: Keith
Long Island, NY (Zone 7a)
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I pollinated a small, ornamental hot pepper with bell pepper pollen. I have seedlings from this cross. The ornamental pepper was tiny so I grew it in a pot, but the bell peppers were large planted in the ground. What would be best way to plant the hybrid plants, pot or ground?
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Mar 30, 2016 5:14 PM CST
Name: Elaine
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Doesn't really matter, Keith but why don't you try some one way and some the other? Most peppers do fine in either pots or in ground. If you plant one in a pot and it gets too big, you can still pot it up, or plant it in the ground.

With a cross like that you're not going to know what you'll get until they're mature. You could get dwarf plants with huge peppers, or huge plants with little hot peppers, or heaven knows what. Depends upon what the parents of those peppers were, too. Should be interesting! Keep us posted?
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Mar 30, 2016 5:54 PM CST
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Name: Keith
Long Island, NY (Zone 7a)
Zinnias Plays in the sandbox Roses Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge) Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Organic Gardener
Region: New York Native Plants and Wildflowers Lilies Seed Starter Spiders! Enjoys or suffers hot summers
dyzzypyxxy said:Doesn't really matter, Keith but why don't you try some one way and some the other? Most peppers do fine in either pots or in ground. If you plant one in a pot and it gets too big, you can still pot it up, or plant it in the ground.

With a cross like that you're not going to know what you'll get until they're mature. You could get dwarf plants with huge peppers, or huge plants with little hot peppers, or heaven knows what. Depends upon what the parents of those peppers were, too. Should be interesting! Keep us posted?


Sounds like a plan! I will keep an update, if things go well I will give seeds away from the peppers I harvest this year.
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Mar 30, 2016 6:09 PM CST
Name: Brandon Garrison
Kentucky (Zone 7a)
I can't wait to see how they turn out!
I too am trying to cross some peppers this year!
I Just gotta figure out which can and can't be crossed first.
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