Peppers: Extremely Stupid Situation...

15 years ago

I made the mistake of leaving my container garden to my relatives for the last three months which meant that my 8 cayenne pepper plants, 3 ancho poblano pepper plants and my tomatillo plants were left to mature on their own. My relatives weren't completely oblivious to the situation and took a couple of the cayenne pepper plants in for the winter to dry, but left the poblanos and a couple cayenne out. The peppers flew off the plant. I found many of them frozen laying around the roof (much to my dismay).

My problem is this:

I found a number of the peppers and tomatillos up on my roof (where my garden is, here in the Big City of Chicago) that were frozen by the winter. The seeds are still inside them. They have been up on my roof for the entire fall to winter season of weather.

Should I try to dry the peppers? Should I leave them up on the roof?

I'm a newb at saving seeds but my relatives did manage to save a lot of the cayenne pepper seeds.

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Comments (3)

remy_gw
15 years ago
Hi,
Lol, we all have strange things that happen. I know from experience that tomatillos left outside on top of potting soil all winter will sprout lots of plants in the spring. I'm not sure how being in a moist and then frozen pepper will affect the pepper seed if you try and bring them in. Humm...you could do both leave some out and take some in.
Just so you know, peppers cross pollinate fairly easily, so your plants next year might not come true to type.
Remy
emmakitty
Original Author
15 years ago
Oh man! Thank you so much! I'm really going to have to look out for the tomatillo sprouts!
Smart! I will definitely try doing a little bit of both. I have enough peppers that it should work.
And that explains why my cayenne peppers aren't all hot. d'oh!
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wildlifeman
15 years ago
emmakitty,

unless u used saved seeds from a previous years crop that doesn't explain why your cayennes aren't hot. as remy stated cross pollination only affects subsequent crops.

it's possible that mild cayennes could be from improperly watering.

wildlifeman