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Challenges in Chili Collection (Anicete, A.)

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Challenges in Chili Collection (Anicete, A.)

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1. Identifying varieties that are distinct from each other
2. Expensive price of chili in the market
3. Weather condition (frequent rains happen especially during the afternoons)
4. Setting up of plots for planting.
5. Cost of planting materials
6. Seed viability and germination

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Timeliness of crop.
Constraints in budget.
Maturity of collecting material
Some are infested of insect
If collected in market( true to type)

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1. Some peppers dry up quickly/ deteriorate
2. Some varieties are the same with a few differences in size
3. Some peppers are very expensive as well as the planting materials
4. Extraction of peppers should be done with gloves (capsaicin burn)
5. Protecting the setup from animals

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Slow processing of documents and needed materials in the institutions involved.

Characterization step was only examined through pictures and given descriptors. Actual eggplant fruits were not available.

Eggplant seedlings transportation and transplanting from greenhouse to minigarden at the apartment.

Seed viability (not much of a concern)

Environment

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1. Obtaining the local name of some varieties
2. Collecting some varieties that would be obviously distinct from the others
3. Finding local farmers in the market for me to gather first-hand information, if possible
4. When to survey and collect (I waited for a household member to be free so that he/she can accompany me)
5. Land preparation (sterilization of soil for the 25 pots was too laborious)
6. Seed viability (no germination yet)
7. Planting distance or space of plants in the pot (since 2 reps each)

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ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

1. Seed viability.
2. Slight variations when characterizing seeds only.
3. Maintenance of the setup.
4. Unpredictability of the environment.
5. Access to seed and its information.

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Chili Collection Issues_Alexandra Beniga 

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Chili Collection Issues_Alexandra Beniga 

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1. Lack of budget
Hence, I only settled on buying 3 fruits per accession since other varieties are very expensive.

2. Lack of viable seeds
Since I only limit the purchase to 3 seeds, some of my prior varieties (eg. green bell pepper, Thailand chili) do not have viable seeds.

3. Availability of Unique varieties
I canvassed on different sites and only 4 varieties are available (labuyo, green bell pepper, red bell pepper, pansigang). I was supposed to get shishito peppers and black pepper but the grower said it is not yet available.

4. Weather
It has been raining these past few days hence land preparation and seed planting was difficult.

5. Soil
We mixed the different potting soil available here plus solarized another set of normal soil just to plant 2 inches of soil per pot.

6. Overall budget
Adjustment to the setup such as fencing, buying other seeds, soil are a bit hard this days since I still do not have budget for its acquisition.

7. Environment
There are cats in our yard so we are going to build a fence.

8. Lack of information from the vendors
Some vendors are not really the farmer of the said crop hence they have insufficient data on the crop's details and origin.

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*Weather
*Identifying the varieties
*Land preparation because it was workload heavy
*Long germination of the small varieties of chili
*birds

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1. Place for planting
2. Cost of planting materials (pots, soil, 10 samples per accession)
3. Variety identification
4. Regeneration (extraneous variables, time-period)

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* not sure whether the samples are F1
* Less space for set-up
*Some chili variety are expensive
* Lack of knowledge about the origin of the crop
* Not sure if the fruits are matured, may affect the viability of seeds