Crossing pepper, tomato (nightshade family)
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Please help me identify this! Tomato or Pepper???
Comments (8)Wish I'd seen this thread earlier; it pre-dates my membership in GW. It would have been nice just to correspond with those who posted here from other countries. Not sure what the plant is, but I have grown "Turkish Orange" eggplant, and agree with several others - this is not it. Nor does the fruit resemble potato seed. It certainly appears to be of the family Solanaceae. I've grown several unusual members of the genus Solanum, and the only one that even faintly resembles the photo is the wild form of Solanum gilo. It also dries on the plant; while the fruits are edible when young, they are very bitter. I prefer to use them dried in floral arrangements. It is, however, thornless. There are an incredible number of species in the family Solanaceae, and while quite a few are edible, many of them are toxic. It would be very risky to attempt to eat an unknown "nightshade" unless it could be positively identified. Cultivated members of the family tend to not be thorny... although there are exceptions. I grow a particularly thorny eggplant from the Philippines....See MoreWhat happens when you cross a big tomato with a small one?
Comments (8)An F2 generation plant is more likely to be outside of the range of the two parents than an F1 generation plant. Very often the F1 generation is less variable than either parent and the variability increases in the F2 generation. Also, it is more probable that the F2 generation will have individuals that are outside of the parental range if the parents are more similar in size. A cross of a 500g fruit weight variety with a 300g fruit weight variety is more likely to produce F2 offspring with fruit weights over 500g or under 300g than a cross of a 500g fruit weight variety with a 1g fruit weight variety is to produce F2 offspring with weights over 500g or under 1g. Even though the frequencies of such offspring would differ among crosses (the frequencies will depend on the genetic, environmental and interaction effects for both the means and variances of fruit weight), if enough F2 offspring are produced one could find some that have weights outside of the parental range....See MoreWhat Do Tomato-Nightshade Hybrids Taste Like?
Comments (9)Interspecies crosses between tomato and potato were first made 31 years ago. They exhibited extreme levels of dysfunction especially in flowering and fruiting. These crosses were made via protoplast fusion creating a variety of triploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid plants. It is stated in one of the original articles in German that the resulting fruits and tubers were inedible because solanine and other alkaloids contaminated them. Most such interspecies crosses in Solanum would be expected to cause such difficulties. DarJones...See MoreScotch Bonnet X Banana Pepper cross
Comments (6)thank you all. Diafond " In the next generation you will get much more variation and that is when you can start selecting for the traits that you want." Did not know that I would get more variation in the next generations, that is good to know. I just assumed that the subsequent generations were really all about stabilizing. This may have changed my mind on growing these again next year to see what we get. Northeast_chileman great article thanks for the link. Habjolokia, thanks you. I wasn't planning on growing this out again next year but after reading the links and comments here I am rethinking. Good chance I will grow it out one more year to see what happens. nice looking cross yourself. I love the idea of crosses using the white bullet. I always wanted to cross one with a chocolate pepper to see what would happen. Good luck growing it out your cross next year. I would love to see how they come out....See Moremaineman
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