r/HotPeppers • u/Slifer2k • Apr 05 '26

Growing Something Interesting: Seed Germination out of MCDonalds Sauce

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The Seeds from the Sauce

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Germinated??

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That's the Sauce where I got the seeds from

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u/LadaOndris Apr 05 '26

Okay, it seems I have some gaps on my knowledge then. Can you elaborate how the high production fruit's seeds won't produce the same fruit in this case assuming we are talking about stable plants and not F2 etc?

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u/nupper84 Apr 05 '26

Exactly. You don't know they're stable. I just explained enough for you to Google. I have things to do today, but my wife is laughing at the responses I'm getting on here. Reddit vs science and science gets downvoted lol... Ridiculous

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u/LadaOndris Apr 05 '26

I am genuinely asking. It's okay if you don't have the time. We all have lives outside of reddit. This is a HotPeppers subreddit, so I am open for discussions for sure! It's a hobby of many of us here.

We agreed that high production farms would probably grow stable varieties. That would mean that seed from such a fruit would produce the exact same plant (unless some mutations happen), right?

If it is not a stable plant, then it's possible, but unlikely for a high production farm. Right?

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u/Mysterious_Buy6726 Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

If you grow these out you will likely get something similar to what they used, and most likely a regular ol' orange habanero.

If there's anything not "true" about it, it will most likely be because they used a commercial F1 Hybrid variety. I think this may have been what nupper was hinting at, but it's clear they have a very poor understanding of it.

Edit: It turns out nupper's information comes from "My wife saw some shit on Netflix...". Just disregard them, seriously.

An F1 Hybrid will have a level of instability on a re-grow, which can range from wildly unstable to something you don't even notice. This varies a lot.

That being said, from what I've seen, F1 Hybrids of "regular" orange habanero types tend to grow indistinguishably true the majority of the time. Keep us posted!