Saving pepper seeds allows people to preserve unique varieties, limit outside inputs, and save money. Most pepper varieties can be legally saved, though some are protected. New varieties are protected by Plant Variety Protection, patents, or trade secrets for 20 years. Hybrid peppers should not have their seeds saved as the resulting plants will not have the same characteristics. When saving seeds, proper isolation is needed to prevent cross-pollination and maintain varietal purity. Seeds should be harvested from mature, undamaged peppers and stored properly to maximize viability.
Vetable Seed Saving ~ University of California
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Seed Saving ~ sprg.info
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Basic Seedsaving for Beginners ~ herbskoolmtl
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Vetable Seed Saving ~ University of California
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Seed Saving ~ sprg.info
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Basic Seedsaving for Beginners ~ herbskoolmtl
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Saving Seeds ~ Texas Master Gardeners
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
The production system of hybrid cucumber seeds are described here. As hybrids have good market demands so the quality production of F1 high yielding seeds will be economical. Here the best methodologies are described.
Seed Saving ~ FoodShare
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Collecting and Storing Seeds from Your Garden ~ hatch
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Saving Seeds ~ Texas Master Gardeners
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
The production system of hybrid cucumber seeds are described here. As hybrids have good market demands so the quality production of F1 high yielding seeds will be economical. Here the best methodologies are described.
Seed Saving ~ FoodShare
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Collecting and Storing Seeds from Your Garden ~ hatch
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Vegetable Seed Saving ~ Stanislaus County, California
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
How to Save Vegetable Seed ~ Cornell University
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
Seed Saving ~ terraperma
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
In the midst of the toxic atmosphere of Watts, seeds are sprouting, organic gardens are thriving, young people are discovering a vocation, and healthy, whole foods are becoming part of everyday life.
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We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
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He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
2. Why Save Your Own Seed?
There are many reasons why people choose to save their own seed. Some of the most common are:
To preserve unique or
rare varieties
To learn more about plant
biology and reproduction
To limit outside inputs
into crop production
To create a new variety (saving seed is only part of this process).
To save money
3. Intellectual Property and Seed Saving
Before saving seed, a person must verify that the it is legal to do so.
The vast majority of open pollinated pepper varieties are in the public domain and can be freely saved and reproduced by growers or seed companies.
Some pepper varieties are protected by Plant Variety Protection act, Patents, or Trade Secret.
4. 3 Ways to Protect New Varieties
New plant varieties can take 8-10 years to develop. To allow for return on investment and encourage research in variety development, the US has 3 mechanisms to protect varieties
Plant Variety Protection: provides the developer protection for sale of the named variety for 20 years. Exemptions allow farmers to save seed for their own planting and breeders to make crosses with the variety. Variety cannot be sold by third parties unless a license is obtained from the developer. See http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/pvplist
Patent: provides the developer protection for sale of the named variety for 20 years. Seed cannot be saved or used in breeding except with a license from the developer. See http://www.uspto.gov/
Trade Secret: where the developer of the variety does not release information on the parents or methods of breeding.
5. A Note About Hybrids
Many varieties of peppers are “hybrids”. This is often designated by a F1 appearing after the variety name. Hybrid varieties tend to have favorable characteristics like high yield, good color, disease , or fruit uniformity.
Hybrids are produced from crosses between two distinct, inbred parent lines. The seed from hybrid plants is not usually saved for future plantings, because it does not produce plants that are true to the origninal hybrid variety you planted.
6. Open–Pollinated Varieties
Many traditional pepper varieties are open- pollinated. This term is commonly used for what is really controlled pollination, where plants have been in-bred for several generations and have a stable genetic make-up, and out-crossing from different varieties is prevented. Seed saved from such “open-pollinated” crops will breed true to type.
7. Pepper Flower Anatomy
Peppers have what are called “perfect flowers,” which means that each individual pepper flower contains both the male (stamens) and female (pistil) reproductive organs. As a result, each pepper flower can “self- pollinate” to produce a pepper on its own. Though peppers are capable of self-pollination, they often “cross-pollinate” and “outcross.”
8. Cross-Pollination
Cross-pollination occurs when pollen from a plant is transferred to the pistil of a flower of a different plant. If the pollen was produced by an in-bred pepper of the same variety, the resulting seeds should produce plants with the same characteristics as its parents. However, pepper varieties within the same species and even some peppers from different species can share pollen to create viable fruit and seed. The seed from such out-crossing produces plants that tend to have a diverse range of traits. This is why isolation is important when saving seed.
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9. Plan Ahead
Saving seeds requires planning and preparation to ensure that quality seed with the desired characteristics are selected. The first step is to decide how much seed you want to save of each variety. This will determine the number of peppers and plants that will need to be manipulated during the growing season.
10. Isolating for Pure Seed
When saving seed, it is important to protect against out-crossing to ensure that the traits of the seeds will be almost identical to those of the selected variety. Four common ways to isolate flowers or plants to get pure seed are:
Grow plants from which seed will be saved indoors or in a greenhouse guarded from pollinizer insects
Use insect netting to cover the plants of the same variety
Separate different varieties in the field by at least 400 feet
Place a small bag over an emerging flower bud and leave it until the flower has self-pollinated. Be sure to label the developing fruit to know which pepper contains the pure, protected seed.
11. Saving Seeds from Outcrossed Plants
Seed from unprotected plants that have cross-pollinated can also be saved. It is an interesting experiment to plant seeds saved from a cross-pollinated plant to see if the characteristics of taste, fruit size, and shape vary. The image on the left illustrates the amazing morphological variation that results from saving seed from a cross of different parents. (shown at top).
12. When to Harvest Seed
Once you have selected the varieties to save and adequately safeguarded against cross-pollination, you must wait until the peppers have matured. Most seeds saved from unripe fruit are not viable. Some studies suggest that seeds saved from early mature peppers that were allowed to dry for 1 to 4 months off the plant have higher germination rates than seed harvested fresh from the fully mature fruit. Be sure that the peppers that you are saving seed from are not moldy or obviously diseased in order to avoid contaminating the seed.
13. Seed Anatomy
Before breaking open your peppers, take a moment to familiarize yourself with the pepper seed anatomy. The testa (visible light-brown seed coating) of seeds that you are saving should be completely intact. The radicle will be the first plant part to emerge upon germination, functioning as an embryonic root system. The cotyledons will be the leaf-like plant part that will be the first to emerge above ground.
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14. Protect Yourself
As previously mentioned, there are advantages to allowing the peppers you harvested to dry off the plant for about a month before removing the seed. Once you are ready to save the seed, make sure that you have goggles, gloves, and a dust mask to wear if the varieties that you will be saving are very spicy. The alkaline compounds that gives hot peppers their spice, capsaicinoids, can be very irritating to the eyes, nose, skin, and throat. These compounds do not spread as easily when moisture in the fruit has been reduced by allowing it to dry.
15. Removing Seed From Fruit
Removing seeds from dried peppers is fairly straightforward. Tear open the skin of the fruit and gently rub and shake the seeds from the central cone onto a small mesh surface. Some seed savers recommend using a blender to separate the seeds from the fruit when saving a large amount of seed from freshly picked peppers. Rinse away the pepper residue and immature seed that float to the top of the blender and save the good seed that sinks to the bottom.
16. Wash and Dry
If the peppers were allowed to dry well, your saved seed may be clean enough to skip this step. However, often times your seed will be mixed with pepper debris or will still be slimy with residue (especially when using the blender method). Use a garden hose or a kitchen sink to gently rinse the seeds on your mesh screen to clean away any unwanted material. Once clean, allow the seeds to dry in a cool location until the seeds are dry enough to break under pressure from a fingernail. Another drying option is to spread the seeds on a clean baking tray and dry them at 100° F for about 6 hours.
17. Label and Store
After allowing the seed to dry, funnel the seeds into small paper bags, small glass jars, sealable bags, or other moisture-proof containers that are clearly labeled with the date and the pepper variety. Store your seed packets in a cool, dry, dark location until you are ready to plant. If stored seed becomes moist and warm, some may begin to germinate or become moldy and contaminated with pathogens. A kitchen freezer is an ideal location for storing seed.
18. Testing Your Seeds’ Quality
If saved and stored under ideal conditions, pepper seed can remain viable for over 25 years. However, pepper seed usually only keeps for 2-5 years. There are several easy ways that you can determine whether your seed will still grow if planted:
1. Floater test: Place seeds in a jar of water and remove any that float. The floating seeds are less dense than viable seed because they are either damaged or never developed the seed embryo. Make sure to dry the seed again before storage.
2. Germination tests: Arrange 10-15 seeds in between several damp paper towels making sure that no two seeds are touching. Place the towels and seeds into a sealable plastic bag and leave them someplace warm for two weeks. After two weeks, open the paper towels and count how many seeds have sprouted. This number divided by the original number of seeds is the damp towels can be used to calculate an approximate percentage of viable seeds of that lot.
19. Characteristics of Quality Seed
High germination rate.
True to type. Few or no off-types.
Pest free.
Uniform size.
20. Authors and Acknowledgements
Produced by Ethan Grundberg, Ildi Carlisle-Cummins, and R. W. Adamchak, with thanks to Allen Van Deynze and Mark Van Horn. Photos by Ethan Grundberg and Theresa Hill except where noted:
1.http://www.seedbiology.de/images/pepper.gif
This project is funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture