My sweet banana peppers are HOT, does that mean I am picking them too soon?
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If you plant sweet peppers, banana, bell, etc, any sweet variety to close to any pepper that is hot, they will cross pollinate and make the sweet peppers hot as well.kepp the 'sweets" and the "hots well away from one another...
Peppers, Sweet and Chili
Peppers are usually self-pollinating. Insect cross-pollination does occur sometimes, and if it does, hot bell peppers can result, since the gene for hotness is dominant. If grown closer than 500 feet apart, plants must be caged or bagged to prevent spicy surprises in future years.
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I have heard that the very middle part that holds the seeds is actually quite hot. That is why you usually only see them as rings, because they've cut out the hot middle.
peppers are hot
That could just be the flavor of that strain. I bet they are good!
It could mean that you have hot peppers. Also the seeds hold the most heat in peppers.
It means you got cross pollination with a hot peper plant, time won't help.
Not at all. It means somebody switched the labels before you picked the six pack of seedlings.
There is a variety that looks like sweet banana, but are fiery hot. Either that, or at the nursery somebody goofed.
the less water a pepper plant gets the hotter it will be, the more water it get the milder it will get.
try watering it every day.
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