Perpetual peppers, how to grow chilipeppers

Step 6: Wonderfull peppers!

And then, after 5 months, you get this as end product.

Comments

[secretsoto]

thank you for taking the time to share.  i have  a question can i get seeds from any vegetable i buy from the market and grow it

[tim_n]

Yes. http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedsavinginfo.html

and more importantly: http://www.realseeds.co.uk/whyseedsave.html

[sleeepy2]

I have successfully grown grape tomatoes from seeds taken from tomatoes at a salad bar.
Actually, almost every seed I have tried sprouting from a grocery store has worked, the only exception being dried hot peppers in a bag of parrot treat.

[tim_n]

There are some promiscous veg such as squash which more often than not do not breed true - but this often doesn't matter because you'll be creating your own varieties.

[roadieflip]

I have tried growing from seed from store bought produce, but have had trouble getting them to grow.

My friends mum said that because store bought produce is "forced", they tend not to give good seeds...

I don't know if there is any truth in that, or I just have the knack of killing everything I try to grow. Maybe one of our green fingered friends could comment.

[Jonny Katana]

 In addition to the produce being "forced", I've heard that some growers genetically modify their plants so that the fruits contain seeds that will not germinate, effectively sterilizing the plant. After all, they can't have us laypeople doing something as self-sufficient as growing our own produce, that would drive them out of business!

[shvanbommel]

You have to be careful when you are trying to germinate seeds from produce you buy in a store. Unless it's specifically "heirloom" and "organic" (which has a very loose interpretation) it won't germinate easily and if it does, and it produces flowers, there is a good possibility that the other plants it polinates with will not produce either because they will mix it's sterile genetics within it's systems... Does that make sense?

[Silence]

Hybrids apparently have difficulty germinating to start with. The prob with most produce is that its picked early and ripened on the road. This in my opinion is probably the biggest factor in low germination rates.

[romaine]

Well, I would advice you to invest a packet of 'proper' seeds and see what happens then.
If it depends on the treatment you give them: try dividing your seedlings in groups and putting them in different places/watering conditions/soil mixtures; whichever survives and bears fruit is the way to grow something at our home :)

[romaine]

Thank you for the friendly words, it was fun to make this instructable. The peppers are still producing, they survived the winter.
About your question:
What happens when you use seeds from bought vegetables is that you don't know what will come out, it cuold be that the vegetable in question has been polinated by another species. Sometimes the result may be interesting.
A pack of seeds is not really expensive and you are sure of the species that will grow out of them
(If you sow half the seeds the rest of the packet is there as a backup system)

[secretsoto]

thank u

[zexy]

Thanks for this great Instructable! I think it would do good for everyone to get back in touch with nature and the planet a little and this is just the type of excercise to get it going. :-)