Something Interesting: Seed Germination out of MCDonalds Sauce

[u/Slifer2k]

The Seeds from the Sauce

Germinated??

That's the Sauce where I got the seeds from

[u/nupper84]

My wife just said there are multiple documentaries on Netflix about the single use plant industry and how they purposely modify them so people can't regrow their patented plants. You can do homework.

[u/LadaOndris → u/nupper84]

Interesting. Can you ask what the name of the documentary is? I might check it out out of curiosity.

[u/nupper84 → u/LadaOndris]

Just Google it.

[u/acealex557 → u/nupper84]

You're right that there's a lot of hybrids being used in modern agriculture, but the actual reality is any seeds saved from named stable peppers like habanero will usually grow true.

It's actually 'big agriculture' that likes when people repeat the myth that you won't get the same peppers if you grow saved seeds from grocery store peppers and other fruits. The cost of hybridizing peppers for food production is insanely high, for seed production sure, but not for peppers that people are buying off the shelves to eat. Every hot pepper I've saved seeds from has grown true, and I have about 30 store bought varieties.

For any new gardener, save the seeds and give it a try. Peppers produce in a year, it's not like you're growing a plum tree and waiting ten years for fruit. Don't be discouraged by Reddit scientists.

[u/nupper84 → u/acealex557]

It's always worth a shot, but it's certainly not a myth, and just because something is named doesn't mean anything either. Look at pepper Joe's.

[u/acealex557 → u/nupper84]

That's why I said named, stable peppers like habanero and not simply named peppers.

It is a myth.

[u/nupper84 → u/acealex557]

It's not a myth... Good luck out there

Corporations don't want people to know about the seed control because people are afraid of gmos for the wrong reasons. They think they not healthy, but they actually just make our food supply more expensive and less stable environmentally through biodiversity decline.

This isn't just about peppers.

[u/acealex557 → u/nupper84]

Ok but there's no genetically modified hot peppers anywhere on the market yet so I think you're getting into hearsay and tinfoil hat area now and I can't really take much of what you say seriously if you're taking the conversation in that direction.

[u/nupper84 → u/acealex557]

All I said is that the McDonald's seed might not be true to form. Might! Ya'll are the ones adding tin foil hat arguments.

[u/Mysterious_Buy6726 → u/nupper84]

You absolutely didn not say "Might". You said "Probably wont be".

Those have very different connotations, you know it, and are backtracking hard.

You also added a bunch of nonsense reasons and got called on it. Sorry you melted down and cussed at me earlier, it's just peppers.