Summary
The YouTube video explains how to make a super bell pepper plant by cross-pollinating a certified organic mild jalapeno with a certified organic and heirloom sweet bell pepper. The resulting plant will have the yield of a mild jalapeno and the sweetness of a bell pepper. The plant will also be sturdier and have more branches, and the peppers will be larger.
Highlights
- 🌶️ To make a super bell pepper plant, cross-pollinate a certified organic mild jalapeno with a certified organic and heirloom sweet bell pepper.
- 🍎 The resulting plant will have the yield of a mild jalapeno and the sweetness of a bell pepper.
- 🌿 The plant will be sturdier and have more branches.
- 🌶️ The peppers will be larger than a typical mild jalapeno.
- 🌱 The process takes two years, with the plants kept apart during the first year.
- 🔬 The x and y chromosomes and dominant and recessive alleles play a role in determining the traits of the resulting plant.
- 🤔 The YouTuber plans to cross-pollinate a jumbo sweet bell pepper with a mild jalapeno again to test their theory.
Ok, coming from a plant biology background I can tell what you are trying to say here. The problem with what you are saying, like in mendel's pea experiment. This has to be done in a HUGE scale to actuallly get exactly what you are shooting for. With peppers specifically, when you cross-pollinate, the first hybrid seeds almost always come out hot. After that generation, then you start getting the more 75/25 dispersal of alleles. You talked about the shorter plant, the branching, the size of pepper, these are all things that CAN be influenced through the crossing, but you will not be surely getting all of the things you want on 1 cross with 1 resulting plant, if by some chance you do I suggest you buy a lottery ticket tommorrow. To stabilize a cultivar you need 5 successive generations of little to no variation. This is done by cross pollination, observation, self pollination of the resulting seeds, and then tweaking from there. As for the certified organic/heirloom stuff, absolutely does not need to be either.heirloom simply means the cultivar has been unchanged for a long period, usually about 100 years. Aslong as it is not a GMO that specifically has the termination gene added or a sterile hybrid, it will work just fine. All in all good video, but I warn those trying it on your own, be prepared to put time into this you're almost certain to have at least a few failures before you get your success.
Hello there young Luke! Lol!! It's so fun to watch people's old videos. BTW, this is pretty ingenious! Very tempting to try. 😀
you should grow your hair out like this again, you look like one of those superstars here.
So you planted the seeds of the cross-pollinated bell/jalapeno? what's the longevity of the cross-breed?
The word you're looking for in terms of an 'indominant' gene is 'recessive'. No worries, your message came through loud and clear anyway.
Re: genes… "Recessive" is the opposite of dominant.
so you just let them grow up right next to eachother?
You repeated yourself like 10x
cute guy ..
i keep going back to this video, about how you get high yield organic peppers, and i find it fascinating. nice work. thank you for contributing your ideas.
it doesn't have to be organic in order for this to work to be honest cause there's no organic plant shop around me (Ok there is but not paying $10 a seedling) it will work with your box store peppers too as long as the mother plants arnt crosses.
but remember, your seeds will never be true to the new mother plant. so saving them you won't know what you will get
Great video but I just wanted to point out that its dominant alleles and recessive alleles they are what cause the differences between organisms
This opening music xD
You are so young back then lol
you look so young here. hello it was in 2011 lol
I'd buy those seeds from your store…..
The terms you are missing in the video are dominant/recessive and hybrid. The gene that resulted in the "Super Bell," may or may not be on the X/Y chromosomes. Each chromosome has many genes and each species has multiple chromosomes. Without a lab and a Phd., one would have difficulty pin pointing which chromosome the gene is located on. Each trait requires an allele, a gene, from each of the parent specimens. The allele is either dominant or recessive. If the offspring inherits two recessive allele, than the recessive trait will be present. If the offspring has either two dominant alleles or a recessive and dominant combination, the dominant trait will present. You would have expand your experimental group, by planting several seeds from the crossbred pepper to determine whether this particular trait is dominant or recessive. If approximately 75% of the offspring present with the desired trait, then the gene is dominant. Good luck on your continued experimentation. You might be able to develop an excellent hybrid bell pepper seed, by combining the winning traits of these two species.
What ever happened with this plant or if you got seeds out of it ? If you still have seeds for it do a grow out over winter ?
Throw back Sunday
Recessive *. .. the opposite of dominant!
Omg he's a baby here!!!
Trying to be too technical too young. Great job so fun to see u come so far
Well you have came up with a GREAT IDEA. SO AWESOME.
Wow…grown old guy now!
A young Luke PlantTalker
Dang! I feel like I’ve grown up with you Luke my friend! I’ve been watching your videos since 2012. I found you when I was trying to learn to grow bell peppers. At that time. I’d just met my other half and moved from Ferndale, just outside of Detroit and the city where I grew up, to Columbus, OH.
I’ve grown a lot since then in many ways as have you. Both of us got married, bought homes and started little families. I’ve grown TREMENDOUSLY as it relates to actually growing things. I’ve learned so much. I realized last year that gardening is my therapy. I’ve been so content since coming to this realization.
Grow BIG….!
are you selling the seeds for tis cross? links and take my money!