(my wife’s hand for scale)

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do you have to take measures to separate the varieties of peppers? Do they cross-pollinate or something?

    My ex-father-in-law grew some hot peppers that were disappointingly mild, and blamed some sort of cross-pollination from the mild peppers next to them. I have no idea whether that is a legitimate claim, though

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      1 year ago

      Peppers do cross pollinate, but that has no effect on the current fruits, just plants grown from the seeds of those fruits.

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      1 year ago

      If all the fruit was weaker than anticipated, that is the genetics of the seeds he planted. Fruit can have a variation in different spots on the plant in heat, but the mild pepper next to it had no effect on that.