Rogue plants.

[Shishito512]

This is a just a curious question.
After a few seasons planting in the same area. I finally got some rogue tomato plants growing that I am welcoming. I have no idea if these are cherries or the main tomato’s that I grow each season. They just started flowering.

My question is, I would have thought my first rogue plants would have Shishito peppers since if I forget to pick some days before they turn red. Once red I simply cut them off and leave on the ground.

I live in Southern CA so there’s no extreme weather here.

That’s it, any particular reason I have not seen any rogue pepper sprouts?


Thanks!

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Tomato seeds are really tough, guy I knew who had worked in a sewage works said they used to run off a strip of raw sewage early in the year and the tomatoes would grow beautifully, just tomatoes. Add to that there are a lot of seeds in a tomato and it is not surprising they pop up pretty regularly. I think the peppers would be a little more sensitive. TBH I can't think of another cultivated plant that chucks out 'volunteers' so regularly.

 

[Shishito512]

Thanks for your reply I appreciate it….

Makes sense then why I see Cherry tomato plants growing randomly at this public parking lot by the beach.

Someone probably tossed out their Cherry tomatoes.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Right, or dropped a sandwich, or just bit one and squirted some seeds. Self pollinating varieties, like Moneymaker, come true, but my anecdotal observation is that a lot of the commercial f1 varieties have a cherry tomato as part of the cross, and that comes out dominant in the f2. Not that I can say for sure, but random volunteers do seem to be disproportionately cherries.

 

[MiTmite9]

I grow my own organic orange bell peppers from seed ---- using seeds from previous year's plants. But I have yet to EVER EVER see a volunteer bell pepper plant or any other volunteer pepper plant in my garden. And we use tons of homemade compost and sometimes just bury our kitchen scraps.
Cucumbers, tomatoes, the occasional butternut or pumpkin squash, apricot trees, peach trees, avocado trees. Those are the things we most often find "volunteering" in our garden. (SoCal.)