QUALITY OF PEPPER SEED PRODUCTION DEPENDING ON FRUIT POSITION ON THE MOTHER PLANT

The main purpose of the present study was to establish the differences in sowing quality of pepper seeds depending on the fruit position on the mother plant.
The experiments were carried out with two typical Bulgarian pepper cultivars – ‘Kurtovska kapia 1619’ and ‘Bulgarski rotund’. The seeds were extracted when they reached the botanical maturity separately from the first and the second layers and also simultaneously from both layers when the upper (second) layer maturated.
The dry matter of fruits and seeds, energy of germination, germinability, fresh matter of sprouts, weight of 1000 seeds, length of the embryo root and hypocotyl were investigated.
The cultivar differences were observed.
Germination energy and germinability for ‘Kurtovska kapia 1619’ were the highest in the second layer seeds, while for ‘Bulgarski rotund’ – in the first layer, harvested together with the fruit from the second one.
Those results suggest that it is appropriate to divide the pepper seed from the different layers in separate lots of different quality.

IV Balkan Symposium on Vegetables and Potatoes

N. Panayotov

sowing quality, pepper, seed position, germinability, vigour, heterogeneity, viability

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2009.830.72