Can bell peppers pollinate hot peppers?

Giddy up

Giddy up

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IMG_1790.JPG Might be a stupid question but...I have some poblanos and yellow bell peppers growing amongst each other...today I noticed some of my poblanos turning a golden green color, when my poblanos have always started turning black about now...did my poblanos get knocked up by a bell pepper? Is that possible? Apologies for the shitty pic
 
dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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Giddy up said:
View attachment 4004587 Might be a stupid question but...I have some poblanos and yellow bell peppers growing amongst each other...today I noticed some of my poblanos turning a golden green color, when my poblanos have always started turning black about now...did my poblanos get knocked up by a bell pepper? Is that possible? Apologies for the shitty pic
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Same genus. Different species. Probably won't happen by itself. Two species of the same genus can be crossed and it does happen all the time in nature. The cross would be denoted by an x after the genus name and the hybrid would be named for the person who hybridized it, for example Capsicum x 'Pinworm'. Hope that helps.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i've grown habaneros, banana peppers, green peppers and jalapenos all right next to each other, and have never seen any kind of hybrids.
maybe if i kept some of the seeds and grew them out i might get some mutants, but they won't grow half jalapenos / half green peppers
from pollinating each other
 
Poontanger

Poontanger

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Yep ANC, is on the money
& if it was a cross pollination & U kept some seed & planted it out , it would not produce a stable strain , it would fly off everywhere, in regards , shape ,size , color & so on
Example , 1 year I used a male flower from a yellow squash & pollinated a black jack zuchinni, let the zuchinni fully mature & collected seed, all 4 seeds I grew the following season were all different shapes & colors , 1 bush even produced a round fruit , of lime green color
 
athomegrowing

athomegrowing

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from what i have read, you would risk getting either deceptively spicy or surprisingly mild peppers via cross pollenation. they would have about half of the heat, so a bell pollenated with a habenero would bore a spicy bell pepper. i am about 80% sure of the above.
 
Poontanger

Poontanger

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when you X pollinate a plant the mutation occurs in the seed not the fruit
Example , if yo took a male butternut pumpkin flower & pollinated grey female pumpkin flower , that grey pumpkin would grow & taste exactly the same as a grey pumpkin , but the seed in hat pumpkin is were the X is
So when u plant that seed you will get all sorts of funny things happen
 
xtsho

xtsho

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LtlWilli said:
In the world of apples, people worry about "the right one" to pollinate their favorite trees...Actually, all they need to do is plant one crabapple.
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Some farmers plant them in their apple orchards. They flower early and for a long time and will pollinate most apple varieties.
 
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