Sweet pepper breeder. Passionately promoting creativity in plant breeding! 🎨 🧑🏼🌾🧬📈🫑
Florida, USA
Joined September 2017
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It’s harvest time in Florida. Each bag contains fruit from a single plant that has been crossed to a specific other line. Seed will be extracted and plants grown from it will be evaluated in the next cycle. Chances are, it won’t be good enough. #plantbreeding
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Lobe count in bell peppers can range from 2 to 5 or more. It is determined by a combination of genetics and environmental conditions at the time of fruit setting. It has nothing to do with the sex of the pepper! More on that later...
#bellpeppers #peppersex #supermarketbotany
Are these actual existing gene edited products or just ideas of them? Wasn’t aware there were many products available after all the hype. Would be cool if it actually delivered.
That is some amazing work! I’ve never seen anything like it.
This is Corey Alston, an american fifth generation sweetgrass weaver. He shapes intricate patterns into contemporary sculptural baskets and owns Corey Alston Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets in Ladson, South Carolina
This art form, characterized by the use of sweetgrass, pine needles, bulrush, and palmetto, has been passed down through generations, with its roots tracing back to West Africa.
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Why are the people responsible for this not in prison yet? You can't make America great until this is fixed.
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Fourth-generation growers Garrett and Colin Powell share a bit about what makes their family farm unique and why the Coachella Valley is great for fresh produce growing. thepacker.com/news/industry/…
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Please appreciate the people who work hard to bring delicious food to our tables
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Excellent analysis as always from the Red Pepper King.
Speaking of mechanical harvesting. Here is some footage of a green bell mechanical harvest in California.
Sakata bell peppers separate from the plants easily making them suitable for mechanical harvest. Variety in this video is ‘Arica’
Bell pepper mechanical harvest in California. Machine is a modified tomato harvester. It still requires a good sized crew to operate, but it moves quickly. Downside is the damage it does to the peppers, making it only useful for processing use, not fresh market.
The coordination and efficiency required to harvest a field like this escapes most. It’s a thing of beauty!
Right on!👇🏼
Program efficiency is paramount in plant breeding. Leads to engaged employees and high quality seed and data.
Flexibility is needed though, like deciding on the fly to make a cross based on breeder intuition.
Efficiency+Flexibility are why I’m at @WyffelsHybrids
Sometimes when TSWV pressure is really high and thrips carrying the virus feed directly on the fruits of a resistant variety, you will get an unsightly hypersensitive response, as shown here.
I am so lucky to work with this amazing group. This is the sweet pepper R&D team I work with in Mexico #dreamteam #teamwork
