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Originally Posted by Labradors2
Good to know that it's a worthwhile pepper to grow.
Would it be better to get seeds directly from a striped Enjoya or from some seeds that have been grown out?
Maybe someone needs to splash a little Roundup on them. I've heard that can do some interesting things to Daylilies (if it doesn't kill them first) 
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No not round up. You probably would kill them. There are those mutants that have shown up in Daylilies, usually it comes from what is commonly called gene jumping or manipulating the Madd genes in the plant.
A few folks have tried microwaves. Nobody posted results of how that worked. Best bet if not a natural mutation is xrays for home folks. EMS 9 ethyl methane sulfonate) is used too but too dangerous for untutored folks to handle and work with.
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Originally Posted by Darren Abbey
I'm still thinking there will be a very rare plant grown from seeds saved from an Enjoya pepper that will show the stripes. The genetics are unclear, but the more data we can get the more clear it will become.
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One thing that might be good is if folks also posted pics of their foliage. If you google 'methods for creating mutants in peppers' there a whole lot of scientific research papers about it. Who knew! The few I have read mentioned alot about the difference in foliage first.
Some I read also suggested that especially in the M2 generation alot of differences would up.
With foliage pics posted might see some genetic diversity that might lead to something.
Darren... Did you know that there is a mutant database? Followed a link from another site to it. Not sure how up to date it is, but did find some peppers listed
https://mvd.iaea.org/#!Search?page=1...t=ASC&Criteria[0][field]=FreeText&Criteria[0][val]=Pepper
Mutant
F1 Orange Beauty
https://mvd.iaea.org/#!Variety/3429
Like a lot of the mutants looks like they used 120 Gy of xray. Have no idea what the Gy stands for.
What was interesting to note and a few of us that took seed to have xrayed along with kids candy to make sure it was safe back in the day, didn't have to much success. Might have been to low a dose or what I found interesting in some reports was they soaked the seed for several hours before xraying to get the mutants.
Page for tomatoes for anybody interested
https://mvd.iaea.org/#!Search?page=1...t=ASC&Criteria[0][field]=FreeText&Criteria[0][val]=Tomato
A question.... With how easily peppers cross, wouldn't it actually be better to try out-crossing and back-crossing to get the desirable traits you want. Wouldn't that make future generations more easy to stabilize?