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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Hot Peppers
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Is it hot in here or is it just the peppers?
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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
Peppers do cross pollinate, but that has no effect on the current fruits, just plants grown from the seeds of those fruits.
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.