I was picking habaneros today (right side) and two of the peppers on the left fell off. I ate one and it was much more spicy, instant burn and felt it more in the throat than mouth. Burn wore off after about 10 minutes.
It doesn’t look like a habanero, do you think it was cross pollinated with one of my other plants? Growing Trinidad scorpions, death spiral, 7 pots, Carolina reapers, mad hatters, and apocalypse scorpions.
by Jobobzig
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Very possible, how close are the other plants?
That’s not how that works
Doesn’t cross pollination only impact the offspring of the pepper? Perhaps I’m wrong
A habanero plant will grow habaneros, no matter how its pollinated. The seeds in those peppers will grow into plants with a mix of the parent plants genes. That looks like a hab to me.
No. Unless you planted these from seeds from your garden last year, then I suppose maybe.
Doesn’t work that way, not all peppers are going to look exactly the same. Some varieties stick way closer than others, my habaneros always vary pretty widely in shape.