[jambop]

OK so I just thought I would post about a wee experiment I did with save pepper seeds. The wife bought some lovely red peppers from a local shop last year and I was really taken by the size and flavour so I saved some of the seeds. My thinking was that these had probably been grown in a glasshouse with hundreds of exactly the same plants and so the offspring of cross pollination should be fairly close to the parent plants.
 This spring I sowed some expecting them to take an age to germinate ... but they were through in less that 10 days without additional heat. I thinned them out into 6 inch pots grew them on the planted them out into a raised bed. The result has been very rewarding lots of lovely large green peppers which have a nice flavour. I am waiting for some of them to turn red to try them for sweetness when ripe. The results have been so good that I am not going to bother with bought seed now I will just save some seeds from a nice looking red pepper that has been bought in the winter time.

[mumofstig]

I've been saving the seed each year of a nice non-hybrid pepper for about the last 5 years - so it can work. I hope yours remains stable 

[sunshineband]

Glad to hear it has been so successful jambop. It certainly works with their cousins, the chillies too. Hope they taste as good as the original 

[jambop]

Glad to hear it has been so successful jambop. It certainly works with their cousins, the chillies too. Hope they taste as good as the original 

Still waiting for some of them to ripen. They are a really nice big pepper and taste nice green but should sweeten when red... I hope. I save seeds from my Arbol chilli's every year and they come back great.