The odd, the unusual...

[Fusion_power]

...the seedless orange bell pepper.

I grow enough different plants of tomatoes and peppers that sooner or later something unusual will pop up. I've seen a Brandywine tomato plant with wrinkled leaves, an unusual chimera corn plant that produced genetically impossible colored seed, and now a seedless Orange Bell pepper. I've been racking my brains trying to figure out how a seedless pepper could be useful.

The peppers are small at 3.5 inches diameter by 1.5 inches tall, kind of donut shaped, turn bright orange when ripe, and have that delicious Orange Bell flavor. They just don't have seed. Well, not obviously anyway. I opened up 20 or so of them tonight and after diligent searching managed to find 3 seed in one of them.

DarJones

[carolyn137]

Seedless Orange Bell but much smaller than regular sized Orange Bell, well, it sounds like a stuffing type to me.

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...uffer_Tomatoes

Tania lists quite a few stuffers and I've grown a few but simply can't remember how many seeds were in them. All I know is that I decided it was better to use regular non stuffers and just scoop out the good stuff b/c the walls of the stuffers I grew were not all that edible.

Perhaps the small size was a mutation that involved also altering seed count, I don't know. The fact that there are so many stuffers listed in Tania's list suggests that they had enough seeds to perpetuate the varieties.

I happen to love Orange Bell and it was Craig L who sent me those first seeds many many years ago and right now I can't remember where he got them from.

Google tells me where it came from, link to SSE, where it's offered, http://www.seedsavers.org/Details.aspx?itemNo=1044

But when I checked an older Yearbook from 1994 b/c it was on top of the pile of old yearbooks I have on the floor to my left, Craig is listing it but doesn't give his source, but no doubt knows that anyway.