When the furnace runs, water condenses and is drained in a pvc pipe and that pipe goes outside. I had to thaw it, then I blew it out with our shopvac. It's going to freeze every day when our highs are in the single digits. I think we will go over 10 days without ever getting up to freezing. I plan to check the drain twice a day until we get back to normal temperatures. It's a real pain in the butt. We've been in this house for almost 30 years, and this is a first for us.
Jim, I just love when you share these types of videos when you are working on growing out a new plant. It helps to explain a good deal of what growers go through to get the best plant possible. Can't wait for the update. Be safe and stay well. Catherine
Thanks Catherine! I'm glad that you enjoyed the video. I already have some seedling up from seeds I saved from this one, so we will see how they do in a few months. I hope you and your family are doing well. Stay safe!
This is one of the many things that makes your channel awesome. I will be looking forward to seeing how them peppers turn out. Have a great day Jim and stay warm. 👍🏻
Thanks for the kind words, David! I'm looking forward to seeing how they turn out too. You have a great day and stay warm too, David! It's not easy to stay warm around here now days.
I love the purple foliage on your pepper plants. That's a very interesting experiment. You might have created a new type of pepper. Thanks for sharing😄
Those are pretty wild looking. Almost looked like a cross with jalapeno. Looking forward to seeing how they turn out this year for ya. Stay safe and have a great rest of the week!
Thanks CB! It's going to be interesting to see how this year goes with them. Stay safe and warm over there! Our highs are going to be crazy low here. One day they predict our high will be 2F.
Thanks for setting notifications to all!! Much appreciated. I'm glad that you enjoyed the video. I'm really looking how this project progresses this year. I already have some seedlings growing, and I'll be culling some very soon, by foliage color.
Very interesting - thanks for sharing. Appearance is one thing, but did your selection process consider taste? I suppose I would have saved seeds from all, just "in case".
Not on this pepper. I was mainly going for ornamental with milder heat. I ended up with no heat and a mild smoky flavor. I'll be planting some F6s soon, and they look even better. I also crossed them with a sweet pepper, and the F1s of that cross did taste better. I will be selecting darker seedlings in the F2s, and hope to come up with something similar to the Midwest Midnight Eclipse, except with better flavor and larger peppers.
@@MidwestGardener you're doing a great job helping gardeners like me who are involved in the same multi-year project. I am only now planting seeds from last year's cross and what I am really excited about is what comes from those crosses and their seeds. Thank you!
Great video. I have managed to cross some peppers such as Bell, Ramiro and Jalapeno together. I have some videos of how they did last year. I will be planting the new seeds this year so will have some more F1's and some F1+ and F2 seeds. Good Luck this year.
Thanks James! Good luck with your projects! It's pretty fun to watch what happens from one generation to the next. I have some F4s growing from this project now.
Jim, I love your experiments! Did you (or a family member) taste test any of your hybrid pepper crosses? It'll be interesting to see how your experiment changes this next year... who knows, you may even create a new heirloom variety if you can stabilize it. Our temps have been in the -12⁰ F to -15⁰ F range for the past 4 nights, with -22⁰ to -25⁰ F coming next Monday and Tuesday. I haven't even ventured downtown to pick up my mail at the post office in more than a week. Stay safe and warm! ~Margie
Thanks Margie! I tasted this one, and it is much milder than the peppers of the black pearl. That was a bit of a surprise. I have some seedling started, so this year will be the F3 generation. I hope to get them stabilized. I guess we will see how this year goes first. Sounds like the cold there is even worse than what we have here. They say the high here Monday is supposed to be 2F, and that night is supposed to be -15F. You stay safe and warm too!
awesome insight to your culling process and I love your experimental take on gardening, it adds so much depth to what can otherwise be seen as ordinary. Thanks for sharing as always 🌱🌱🌱
This video has to be one of the coolest videos on youtube! I am going to show it to my friends! Do you have more videos where you show different generations? Something similar to this, or maybe cross pollinating and then showing generations? I would LOVE to see them!
I just have the two pepper videos that you already found. I've been working with some corn for several years, but I haven't combined it all in one video. I'm working with another pepper cross that happened last year that I hope to update after the season is over. And I also have one cross from some friends that I'm looking forward to growing this year.
How did you know today's my Saturday? This is an awesome project! I love how you show all of the different genetic variances and why you're selecting plants to save seed from. Planting seeds from hybrids can be like opening a Christmas present. Brad's Atomic Grape tomato seeds I planted last year weren't a stable hybrid, so we got some that grew as advertised and some good sized slicers with no purple streaking.
It was a lucky guess :) I agree, it's fun seeing how all the plants turn out. The anticipation is a lot like waiting to open presents. Interesting about the Brad's Atomic Grape tomatoes.
Looks like a really cool pepper and will be interesting to see how it evolves. Even saving from the larger plants will maintain some of its smaller habits and make for a productive container pepper. They look like great picklers too or slightly meaty for spicy dishes. Great stuff. Thanks for the share!
@@MidwestGardener Are you doing any controlled crosses between certain individuals you like, or just allowing the pollinators to work and nature take its course and select what you like? Your garden always looks so gorgeous, can't wait to see what you do this summer
@@GardensGuitars Thanks for the kind words! I intend to try some controlled crosses every year, but I just never seem to get it done. The bees give me a surprise or two each year, so I'm working with those and trying to improve them by selecting the traits I like to carry forward.
Welcome aboard, Travis! I wish I would have gotten into plant breeding decades ago. When you get your first crosses, the F2 generation is when most of the magic happens. Sometimes it's hard to decide which direction to go, because there are so many different ones. Good luck, and thanks for subscribing!
I'm glad that you think so too. The F2 generation is especially variable. No, I didn't pollinate them. The bees did it for me. I plant to give hand pollinating a try at some point though.
I have two accidental hybrids I'm trying to develop. Like you I'm trying to stabilize their characteristics. The first was a "Tabanero" -- Tabasco / Habanero interspecies cross from a Tabasco seed I saved in 2018. It has sweet, spicy peppers a little shorter and wider than a Tabasco, also earlier to produce. I grew several of its descendants last year with variations in length and size, I'm trying for a larger fruit size. The other one was a Fish / Anaheim from a Fish seed I saved in 2019 which I call "Chisel". I thought it was just a mislabeled Anaheim until I tasted one. Chisel peppers are larger and spicier than Fish, have a pointed chiseled looking tip, are hot and tasty even while very unripe, and hot all the way to the tip. Unlike either parent they fully ripen to red early. It produced all year starting early on. I grew several of its descendents this year -- some have variegated leaves to different degrees, showing their Fish ancestry, and they continue to be early, productive, and hot and good-tasting even when green. I should have a better idea of how they compare to the original in another month when they turn red.
Interesting! The dark foliage is beautiful. I saw that you said the heat level of your creation is much milder than the original, making it my perfect pepper! If you save seeds from this one, how can you ensure true reproductons? What did you name it, lol?
It's much too early to name it or expect it to be stable. From what I read, it takes about 9 generations before a new variety is considered stable. So I'm a long ways from that. If I ever get a pepper that I like after that many generations, then I would work on naming it....if I'm still kicking by then :)
Hi Jim.two years later, 2023. did you regrow the seeds from the black peppers from the end of this video, how did the peppers turn out ? Did you make a video of those peppers. if so could you give a link to it I'm very curious to know. thanks
I don't think I have a video on UA-cam. I named the pepper Midwest Midnight Eclipse. If you google it, you can probably find a video and photo or two. Buas Grows did a review of it. Here is a link to his video: ua-cam.com/video/37ViEaMDw_I/v-deo.htmlsi=eseqVQ83UynZbC1Y
Thanks for subscribing! Much appreciated! I started the plants indoors, and have some growing now. No peppers yet, but I have one that has outstanding looking foliage....so far. I will show one of them that is out in the garden in my weekly gardening update on Saturday morning. It has a flower bud on it, but no blooms or peppers yet. We're not too far off though. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
@@MidwestGardener no problem. Excellent, I will keep my eye out for that on Saturday, find crossing the most interesting thing in pepper growing. Already enjoying more of your content, keep up the good work.
@@shinramox1520 Thanks a bunch! I have 2 other pepper crosses that I'm working with also. And I've gotten into crossing corn the last few years and have a couple of projects going with that.
I don't have a video specifically for that one. They are basically exactly like the Midwest Midnight Orange, except the peppers are much lighter when they are fully ripe. I don't know if you have seen this video, but it shows a early version that the Midwest Midnight pepper came from. They are the result of a Purple Flash pepper that crossed with an unknown pepper. If you are growing them indoors, sometimes it takes a while for those leaves to darken up. ua-cam.com/video/gLhplWqltew/v-deo.html
Thanks!! I'm hoping I can keep this look for the most part. I was planning to do some tomato grafts this year, but when I lost my first batch of tomato seedlings to damping off, it changed my plans....for now.
Thanks, that's quite interesting to see.. So when you planted the F2's were they from different pods of the F1 or where they from just one pod from the initial plant?
Really cool looking. What did it taste like though in comparison to the original? I would have also saved the big round ones and tried to grow big round dark ones :)
Thanks Alison! It was mildly hot without a whole lot of flavor. I know what you mean. I thought about saving seeds from a couple other peppers, but I just don't have enough room to grow them all.
@@MidwestGardener Yes I understand. Its my 2nd year growing peppers or anything else for that matter. And i do not have any space, no garden just a small outdoor and already regret growing so many
Wow, you got several varieties worth saving and breeding. I actually liked the ruby red with purple foliage better. What is the flavor of these peppers like?
They are mildly hot. I really like the how they did this year too. I have about 5 different lines I'm working with right now. In order to stabilize them sooner, I plan to grow 365 days a year.
@@MidwestGardener I'm working on a sweet to hot cross now, and decided to do them indoors last month to get a few generations a year instead of one. Great minds think alike!
@@Alejandrodorango I just have one that shows how to cross pollinate peppers. After you are successful at that, it's just a matter of selecting one plant to save seeds from each generation until it's stable.
The bees did the original cross for me. After that, I selected which plants to save seeds from. I'm really liking the looks of this year's peppers too from this project.....F3.
What it was crossed with is a mystery, because the bees did the cross for me. I have the F4 generation growing now, and I just planted seeds for the F5 generation. The peppers are longer and a bit thinner, but the dark color of the peppers and leaves is still there.
I haven't really done an update video on this. If you google Midwest Midnight Eclipse, you can probably find a photo or two of one of the peppers that came out of this video. It was sold last year by Matt's Peppers website.
Here is a video on f3 (link below). They turned out longer than the f2s. The f4 turned out very similar to the f3s. I started the f4s in the wintertime indoors, and now I have a couple of f4s and some f5s growing outside right now.
I have a question, can i breed f1 plants with f1 plants? I bought f1 seed and i want to breed them but im afraid that it will not work bc its an f1 seed and not heirloom which might bring some weird genetic
You probably could do that, but I'm not sure what the advantage would be over just saving the f1 seeds and growing them. Usually, you will notice a lot of variability in the F2 generations. I'm working with some F2s this year, and I have 5 that are siblings, but look completely different from each other.
@@mankim2359 In my thinking, breeding f1 to f1 would be just mixing genes that are thoroughly mixed. Out of all the crosses that I've worked with, growing the f2 generation is the most fun for me.
@@mankim2359 I can't tell you what to do with your project, but if it was me, I would harvest seeds from the f1, plant them the next year and see what those f2s look like. You might not need to do any breeding to come up with some cool projects. The bees started this project for me. I didn't breed a thing.
Interesting to see the different generations. Thanks. Stay well. Best wishes Bob.
Thanks Bob! We're trying to stay well, and warm. The high here on Monday is supposed to be 2 degrees.
Wow I forgot how cold it gets up there. We have a very cold forecast here. So far it says 18℉ Monday night. That is really cold for here.
Yep, that is pretty cold for that far south. I hope your pipes don't freeze. Our condensation line froze already, so that has been keeping me busy.
Condensation line is new to me. What's that?
When the furnace runs, water condenses and is drained in a pvc pipe and that pipe goes outside. I had to thaw it, then I blew it out with our shopvac. It's going to freeze every day when our highs are in the single digits. I think we will go over 10 days without ever getting up to freezing. I plan to check the drain twice a day until we get back to normal temperatures. It's a real pain in the butt. We've been in this house for almost 30 years, and this is a first for us.
Whoa! That is so interesting!
Thanks! I can't wait to see how they look this year. I have a few seedlings started already.
Jim, I just love when you share these types of videos when you are working on growing out a new plant. It helps to explain a good deal of what growers go through to get the best plant possible. Can't wait for the update. Be safe and stay well. Catherine
Thanks Catherine! I'm glad that you enjoyed the video. I already have some seedling up from seeds I saved from this one, so we will see how they do in a few months. I hope you and your family are doing well. Stay safe!
I want to selective breed wild lettuce to a new varietey of lettuce
Wow, how interesting! Can't wait to see the F3 generation!
Thanks Davann! I have some started already.
This is one of the many things that makes your channel awesome. I will be looking forward to seeing how them peppers turn out. Have a great day Jim and stay warm. 👍🏻
Thanks for the kind words, David! I'm looking forward to seeing how they turn out too. You have a great day and stay warm too, David! It's not easy to stay warm around here now days.
I love the purple foliage on your pepper plants. That's a very interesting experiment. You might have created a new type of pepper. Thanks for sharing😄
Thanks Shirley! It will be a while before I can stabilize it, but I like what I see so far.
How interesting. And all so beautiful also 😁
Thanks Vicki! It's going to be a fun year :)
Those are pretty wild looking. Almost looked like a cross with jalapeno. Looking forward to seeing how they turn out this year for ya. Stay safe and have a great rest of the week!
Thanks CB! It's going to be interesting to see how this year goes with them. Stay safe and warm over there! Our highs are going to be crazy low here. One day they predict our high will be 2F.
The one you saved is sure a nice looking pepper.
Thanks a bunch! It's much milder than the original Black Pearl pepper.
Wow it is very cool how some plants change after generations! I hope those black pearl peppers grow more produce this year!
I'm with you....it is pretty cool. It will be interesting to see how this project goes.
Never seen this type before, really beautiful
Thanks! You haven't seen them before, because the only place in the world that they exist is in my garden :)
@@MidwestGardener ha bless
I need to come get some from you then
Awesome video! Experimentation is always fun!
Thanks Nathan! I've always found genetics to be fascinating, so this scratches that itch.
The plant you selected for future propagation is beautiful. I hope the fruit isn't too hot of a flavor. Even so, it makes for a beautiful ornamental.
Thanks! Compared to the mother plant, the heat level is much milder. I'm looking forward to seeing how it does this year.
Amazing
Thanks!
I too have a cross, i planted the f2 so we'll see how it turns out , but nice pepper cross you have there
Nice! It's fun to see the variety in the F2s.
I am looking forward to these updates. Thanks for all the great videos. Notifications set to All.
Thanks for setting notifications to all!! Much appreciated. I'm glad that you enjoyed the video. I'm really looking how this project progresses this year. I already have some seedlings growing, and I'll be culling some very soon, by foliage color.
Very interesting - thanks for sharing. Appearance is one thing, but did your selection process consider taste? I suppose I would have saved seeds from all, just "in case".
Not on this pepper. I was mainly going for ornamental with milder heat. I ended up with no heat and a mild smoky flavor. I'll be planting some F6s soon, and they look even better. I also crossed them with a sweet pepper, and the F1s of that cross did taste better. I will be selecting darker seedlings in the F2s, and hope to come up with something similar to the Midwest Midnight Eclipse, except with better flavor and larger peppers.
@@MidwestGardener you're doing a great job helping gardeners like me who are involved in the same multi-year project. I am only now planting seeds from last year's cross and what I am really excited about is what comes from those crosses and their seeds. Thank you!
@@Andy8mm You're welcome! Hope you get some keepers from this year!
I’d also select the ones you did. The original black pearl is beautiful. All the best, mate.
Thanks! I agree....the Black Pearl is a beautiful ornamental pepper.
Great video. I have managed to cross some peppers such as Bell, Ramiro and Jalapeno together. I have some videos of how they did last year. I will be planting the new seeds this year so will have some more F1's and some F1+ and F2 seeds. Good Luck this year.
Thanks James! Good luck with your projects! It's pretty fun to watch what happens from one generation to the next. I have some F4s growing from this project now.
That's a nice gardening you hsve..I love that. I do pot gardening. Never seen round peppers. Thanks for sharing
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Ha! That is so fascinating... they all look beautiful!
Thanks Sasha! These are one of the toys in my toybox, lol. I enjoy seeing what will happen from one generation to the next.
@@MidwestGardener I bet your wife is pleased your toybox also provides food 😍
Jim, I love your experiments! Did you (or a family member) taste test any of your hybrid pepper crosses? It'll be interesting to see how your experiment changes this next year... who knows, you may even create a new heirloom variety if you can stabilize it. Our temps have been in the -12⁰ F to -15⁰ F range for the past 4 nights, with -22⁰ to -25⁰ F coming next Monday and Tuesday. I haven't even ventured downtown to pick up my mail at the post office in more than a week. Stay safe and warm! ~Margie
Thanks Margie! I tasted this one, and it is much milder than the peppers of the black pearl. That was a bit of a surprise. I have some seedling started, so this year will be the F3 generation. I hope to get them stabilized. I guess we will see how this year goes first. Sounds like the cold there is even worse than what we have here. They say the high here Monday is supposed to be 2F, and that night is supposed to be -15F. You stay safe and warm too!
Awesome, your talking my language now, experimentation. I hope you come up with a great new strain.
I hope so too, Victor. That's the plan, but who knows how things will turn out. I guess that's what makes it interesting though.
awesome insight to your culling process and I love your experimental take on gardening, it adds so much depth to what can otherwise be seen as ordinary. Thanks for sharing as always 🌱🌱🌱
Thanks for those very kind words, Billy! I really do appreciate it.
This video has to be one of the coolest videos on youtube! I am going to show it to my friends! Do you have more videos where you show different generations? Something similar to this, or maybe cross pollinating and then showing generations? I would LOVE to see them!
I just have the two pepper videos that you already found. I've been working with some corn for several years, but I haven't combined it all in one video. I'm working with another pepper cross that happened last year that I hope to update after the season is over. And I also have one cross from some friends that I'm looking forward to growing this year.
@@MidwestGardener That sounds interesting, I will be on the look out for those. Looking forward to it! Happy growing!
@@stinejakobsen9798 Thanks!
I'm trying to cross the habanero with a black pearl. This video was helpful.
Good luck with that. That would make an interesting cross! Glad I could help!
How did you know today's my Saturday? This is an awesome project! I love how you show all of the different genetic variances and why you're selecting plants to save seed from. Planting seeds from hybrids can be like opening a Christmas present. Brad's Atomic Grape tomato seeds I planted last year weren't a stable hybrid, so we got some that grew as advertised and some good sized slicers with no purple streaking.
It was a lucky guess :) I agree, it's fun seeing how all the plants turn out. The anticipation is a lot like waiting to open presents. Interesting about the Brad's Atomic Grape tomatoes.
Looks like a really cool pepper and will be interesting to see how it evolves. Even saving from the larger plants will maintain some of its smaller habits and make for a productive container pepper. They look like great picklers too or slightly meaty for spicy dishes. Great stuff. Thanks for the share!
Thanks! It's going to be a fun year....I think. Stay safe and warm out your way! We're freezing our butts off here.
Your peppers look beautiful!
Thanks a bunch! I hope they get better this year.
@@MidwestGardener Are you doing any controlled crosses between certain individuals you like, or just allowing the pollinators to work and nature take its course and select what you like? Your garden always looks so gorgeous, can't wait to see what you do this summer
@@GardensGuitars Thanks for the kind words! I intend to try some controlled crosses every year, but I just never seem to get it done. The bees give me a surprise or two each year, so I'm working with those and trying to improve them by selecting the traits I like to carry forward.
Just subscribed because this was truly fascinating. I'm a new grower, and my hopes are to create some interesting crossbreeds someday.
Welcome aboard, Travis! I wish I would have gotten into plant breeding decades ago. When you get your first crosses, the F2 generation is when most of the magic happens. Sometimes it's hard to decide which direction to go, because there are so many different ones. Good luck, and thanks for subscribing!
nice content
Thank you!
So cool to see the results of shuffling the genetics. Did you hand pollinate these?
I'm glad that you think so too. The F2 generation is especially variable. No, I didn't pollinate them. The bees did it for me. I plant to give hand pollinating a try at some point though.
I have two accidental hybrids I'm trying to develop. Like you I'm trying to stabilize their characteristics. The first was a "Tabanero" -- Tabasco / Habanero interspecies cross from a Tabasco seed I saved in 2018. It has sweet, spicy peppers a little shorter and wider than a Tabasco, also earlier to produce. I grew several of its descendants last year with variations in length and size, I'm trying for a larger fruit size.
The other one was a Fish / Anaheim from a Fish seed I saved in 2019 which I call "Chisel". I thought it was just a mislabeled Anaheim until I tasted one. Chisel peppers are larger and spicier than Fish, have a pointed chiseled looking tip, are hot and tasty even while very unripe, and hot all the way to the tip. Unlike either parent they fully ripen to red early. It produced all year starting early on. I grew several of its descendents this year -- some have variegated leaves to different degrees, showing their Fish ancestry, and they continue to be early, productive, and hot and good-tasting even when green. I should have a better idea of how they compare to the original in another month when they turn red.
Sounds like you have some pretty interesting projects going too. It's a lot of fun to see what happens with each generation.
Yes, to me all gardening is an experiment. Thank you for the excellent explanations and expertise.
You're welcome, thanks for sharing yours.
Interesting just subscribed.
Thanks Richard! I really appreciate it!
Interesting! The dark foliage is beautiful. I saw that you said the heat level of your creation is much milder than the original, making it my perfect pepper! If you save seeds from this one, how can you ensure true reproductons? What did you name it, lol?
It's much too early to name it or expect it to be stable. From what I read, it takes about 9 generations before a new variety is considered stable. So I'm a long ways from that. If I ever get a pepper that I like after that many generations, then I would work on naming it....if I'm still kicking by then :)
@@MidwestGardener Well it's a very pretty pepper and plant.
Thanks Sherry!
Hi Jim.two years later, 2023. did you regrow the seeds from the black peppers from the end of this video, how did the peppers turn out ? Did you make a video of those peppers. if so could you give a link to it I'm very curious to know. thanks
I don't think I have a video on UA-cam. I named the pepper Midwest Midnight Eclipse. If you google it, you can probably find a video and photo or two. Buas Grows did a review of it. Here is a link to his video: ua-cam.com/video/37ViEaMDw_I/v-deo.htmlsi=eseqVQ83UynZbC1Y
Just subbed, interested to see how this goes and enjoyed listening to you, have you planted the seeds yet?
Thanks for subscribing! Much appreciated! I started the plants indoors, and have some growing now. No peppers yet, but I have one that has outstanding looking foliage....so far. I will show one of them that is out in the garden in my weekly gardening update on Saturday morning. It has a flower bud on it, but no blooms or peppers yet. We're not too far off though. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
@@MidwestGardener no problem. Excellent, I will keep my eye out for that on Saturday, find crossing the most interesting thing in pepper growing. Already enjoying more of your content, keep up the good work.
@@shinramox1520 Thanks a bunch! I have 2 other pepper crosses that I'm working with also. And I've gotten into crossing corn the last few years and have a couple of projects going with that.
Doing some cross pollinating this season.. very cool man
Thanks! I hope you create some cool stuff. It really keeps the fun in gardening.
@@MidwestGardener thanks.. it really it interesting that is for sure.. hopefully I get something successfully
Any videos for the Midwest Midnight Peppers. We just bought some from Matt’s Peppers
I don't have a video specifically for that one. They are basically exactly like the Midwest Midnight Orange, except the peppers are much lighter when they are fully ripe. I don't know if you have seen this video, but it shows a early version that the Midwest Midnight pepper came from. They are the result of a Purple Flash pepper that crossed with an unknown pepper. If you are growing them indoors, sometimes it takes a while for those leaves to darken up. ua-cam.com/video/gLhplWqltew/v-deo.html
Man oh man I LOVE your wacky garden experiments! Those peppers are soooo pretty! Any plans on grafting any nightshades this year? Hehe...
Thanks!! I'm hoping I can keep this look for the most part. I was planning to do some tomato grafts this year, but when I lost my first batch of tomato seedlings to damping off, it changed my plans....for now.
Thanks, that's quite interesting to see.. So when you planted the F2's were they from different pods of the F1 or where they from just one pod from the initial plant?
I saved seeds from several pods and mixed the seeds, so some of the F2s could have been from different pods.
Really cool looking. What did it taste like though in comparison to the original? I would have also saved the big round ones and tried to grow big round dark ones :)
Thanks Alison! It was mildly hot without a whole lot of flavor. I know what you mean. I thought about saving seeds from a couple other peppers, but I just don't have enough room to grow them all.
@@MidwestGardener Yes I understand. Its my 2nd year growing peppers or anything else for that matter. And i do not have any space, no garden just a small outdoor and already regret growing so many
I'm going to cross yellow aji charapita with black pearl peppers I've been growing in a pot for years.
Nice! Good luck with it!
I have a question thank you for the video first of all what did you feed them?
The only fertilizer they got was in the soil I used.
Would love to know how they taste too!
No heat and kind of a complex smoky taste.
I cant wait for the day I pollinate an orange tree with a hot pepper.
That's going to make for some interesting juice :)
Wow, you got several varieties worth saving and breeding. I actually liked the ruby red with purple foliage better. What is the flavor of these peppers like?
They are mildly hot. I really like the how they did this year too. I have about 5 different lines I'm working with right now. In order to stabilize them sooner, I plan to grow 365 days a year.
@@MidwestGardener I'm working on a sweet to hot cross now, and decided to do them indoors last month to get a few generations a year instead of one. Great minds think alike!
@@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14 Exactly :)
Can you tell me tips to start out breeding custom peppers?
There is too much to cover in one response. Mainly cross peppers that have the qualities you want in the new pepper.
@@MidwestGardener do you have any videos or resources which can help out a beginner like me?
@@Alejandrodorango I just have one that shows how to cross pollinate peppers. After you are successful at that, it's just a matter of selecting one plant to save seeds from each generation until it's stable.
Nice,i like it.
I want to ask can i get few seeds? :)
Sorry, I'd like to keep this one close to home for a while.
IT IS ALIVE ,ALIVE
Yes it is :)
hello sir how long it takes to germinate black pearl ?
Usually about 2 weeks or so.
@@MidwestGardener I planted the seeds for almost 3 weeks and nothing happened :(
@@lowspecbenchmarks7983 Sorry to hear that.
Please how do you Cross them
In which plants and which plant do you cross to get
The bees did the original cross for me. After that, I selected which plants to save seeds from. I'm really liking the looks of this year's peppers too from this project.....F3.
Can i use pollen of other plants, like from tomato to cross pollinate in chilli?
I'm pretty sure if it was possible, it would have already been done.
@@MidwestGardener thank u sir, i will try it
@@philipjohn8739 You're welcome, but I don't think it will work.
Wait did I miss what did you cross it with?
What it was crossed with is a mystery, because the bees did the cross for me. I have the F4 generation growing now, and I just planted seeds for the F5 generation. The peppers are longer and a bit thinner, but the dark color of the peppers and leaves is still there.
Can you post al ink to the update of this? Thanks!
I haven't really done an update video on this. If you google Midwest Midnight Eclipse, you can probably find a photo or two of one of the peppers that came out of this video. It was sold last year by Matt's Peppers website.
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Do you have enough seeds that a few subscribers could try and grow Gen3? Could be interesting
Sorry Chase. I'm having more trouble getting what I'm looking for in the seedlings this year, so I won't have any to spare.
Ruby red with dark black leaves in the f2. Where is the f3?
Here is a video on f3 (link below). They turned out longer than the f2s. The f4 turned out very similar to the f3s. I started the f4s in the wintertime indoors, and now I have a couple of f4s and some f5s growing outside right now.
I have a question, can i breed f1 plants with f1 plants? I bought f1 seed and i want to breed them but im afraid that it will not work bc its an f1 seed and not heirloom which might bring some weird genetic
You probably could do that, but I'm not sure what the advantage would be over just saving the f1 seeds and growing them. Usually, you will notice a lot of variability in the F2 generations. I'm working with some F2s this year, and I have 5 that are siblings, but look completely different from each other.
@@MidwestGardener thanks! But what do you mean by “not sure what the advantage would be over just saving the f1 seeds and growing them”?
@@mankim2359 In my thinking, breeding f1 to f1 would be just mixing genes that are thoroughly mixed. Out of all the crosses that I've worked with, growing the f2 generation is the most fun for me.
@@MidwestGardener so i need to plant my f1 and harvest their seeds, sow and then breed them?
@@mankim2359 I can't tell you what to do with your project, but if it was me, I would harvest seeds from the f1, plant them the next year and see what those f2s look like. You might not need to do any breeding to come up with some cool projects. The bees started this project for me. I didn't breed a thing.
Captain Jack would be proud still.
ok
Share some seeds pls. M in South Africa
Sorry, but I'm not close to being ready for that yet.
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For goodness sake! What do they taste like???
Very mild heat and mild sweetness.
@@MidwestGardener thank you!
@@fartukov You're welcome.