Jack will have to answer your pollination question, So Lucky. I can tell you that I have had Marconi peppers many times in my outdoor garden and, there is a nice little stand of seedlings right here at my elbow (in the south window) right now!
I wish TEG would allow us to control text size. Then, I could go from the tiny, nearly-impossible-to-see word -- up to a HUGE, 4 letters/line word! GROW!
There aren't all that many things in the world that we can start with and not use up the resource. What do they say? "If it can't be grown, it must be mined."
Grab it, use it, burn it, grab some more, use that, burn that . . . . . Growing plants isn't like that. (Unless we are mining the nutrients in our soil.)
We wouldn't be able to stay around to watch it but a quick search turns up the information that a million seeds from a sequoia weigh only 8 pounds (.000128 ounce/seed). One sequoia tree from one of those seeds may weigh 2,600,000 pounds! If the sequoia is 2,000 years old, it has gained an average of 1,300 pounds each year. Jack, imagine if you could grow 1,300 pounds of
food each year from one of your seeds!
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