hot cayenne peppers taste sweet?

[jwalters]

Growing some peppers in the garden and I picked one that was HOT and now the rest of them seem to have a sweeter taste am I picking them to early or are they posibly cross polinating with my bell peppers?

 

[ranchhand]

Peppers will cross pollinate. But it may be any number of things.

Hve you considered joining the BYC sister site, www.TheEasyGarden.com ? There are some real pros over there, and most of them are members here, too!

 

[Boyd]

I'm guessing you are picking a little bit too early.

 

[chicnfarmer]

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I actually read an article From mild to wild: There's a hot pepper to suit every palate by J. Walliser in the June/July issue of Organic Gardening that suggested that pepper varieties are hard to hybridize and that they rarely do...

 

[darkmatter]

If......the pepper has good growing conditions, lots of water, good fertile soil---it will be sweeter. When the pepper plant gets stressed with hot summers, barely enough water, insect attack-----it will be hotter then hello. The plant responds to stress by increasing the capsicum concentration.

 

[ranchhand]

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I actually read an article From mild to wild: There's a hot pepper to suit every palate by J. Walliser in the June/July issue of Organic Gardening that suggested that pepper varieties are hard to hybridize and that they rarely do...



I'm respectful of that, but would like to point out that one article doesn't make a database of proof. The usage of "suggested" and "rarely" mean it's not fact, it's conjecture.

All I can cite is personal experience in growing peppers for many years. The hot peppers get one area and the mild peppers get another area. And they still get mixed up sometimes!