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How do i make my own chili plant?

sinderyt151R93x17HKsinderyt151R93x17HK Posts: 99
in Fruit & veg
So ive been growing chili and basil for a while now and want to do more, ive seen a guy on youtube who created his own chili for his spicy sauce company. Sadly i couldnt find any information on how he did it. but i have 2 different types of chili right now, a very weak spicy one, bird eye thai chili and about to start to grow carolina reaper chili. How would i combine all these 3 into 1 chili and then get it to grow with my own kind of heat level and flavour. 
Indoor grower due to our cold climate in Norway

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  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    What you are describing is essentially hybridising chillies which I would think would involve hundreds of specimens in order to get one you like. Wouldn't it make more sense to just buy the seeds from a chilli you like already and call it a day? There's hundreds to choose from already.  
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited September 2021
    Hundreds of plants and several years of cross-pollinating by hand, collecting the resulting seed, sowing and reselecting.  Wash, rinse, repeat. :D   Once you get a plant with the characteristics you want, you then only allow self-pollination on that plant and sow all the seeds from it.  This time, you weed-out all mature plants which don't have the same characteristics as the parent and cross-pollinate those which do.  After a few cycles of doing that, you will have a stable new strain which will mostly come true from seed.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • sinderyt151R93x17HKsinderyt151R93x17HK Posts: 99
    edited September 2021
    amancalledgeorge said:
    What you are describing is essentially hybridising chillies which I would think would involve hundreds of specimens in order to get one you like. Wouldn't it make more sense to just buy the seeds from a chilli you like already and call it a day? There's hundreds to choose from already.  
    For sure theres already plenty of different to choose between. but im interested in expanding the knowledge and learning more. Would be fun to be able to create your own and if it isnt to much of a hassle then why not atleast try. 
    BobTheGardener said:
    Hundreds of plants and several years of cross-pollinating by hand, collecting the resulting seed, sowing and reselecting.  Wash, rinse, repeat. :D   Once you get a plant with the characteristics you want, you then only allow self-pollination on that plant and sow all the seeds from it.  This time, you weed-out all mature plants which don't have the same characteristics as the parent and cross-pollinate those which do.  After a few cycles of doing that, you will have a stable new strain which will mostly come true from seed.

    Thanks, so alot of repeatable work then over time. 
    Indoor grower due to our cold climate in Norway
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Years of work involved,  try contacting Kew Gardens,  they spend years on this sort of research.  It’s not easy.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58PJTo_5JNs
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
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