Good afternoon, my reader. There are constant debates among summer residents whether or not it is possible to cultivate sweet and bitter peppers nearby. Many argue that the varieties are "pollinated" among themselves: as a result, sweet peppers become "hot", and they, in turn, lose their bitterness.
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Can sweet and hot peppers still be pollinated among themselves?
First you need to decide on the concept of what the word "pollination" means. When talking about re-pollinated crops, many gardeners mean an event during which varieties growing nearby of the same plant, for example, pepper, strawberry or raspberry, begin to bear fruit with different properties. The strawberries become shallow, the raspberries change color, and the pepper changes the taste and starts to taste bitter. However, does this really happen?
Regardless of whoever the mother culture is "pollinated" with, it will not change itself. Therefore, if you plant different types of strawberries, tomatoes, raspberries and other crops next to each other, then the "parental" qualities are likely to appear in other subsequent offspring of plants. From this we can conclude that hot peppers will not be able to affect the taste characteristics of sweet a neighbor, as well as the close proximity of a sweet variety, does not at all affect the fruits grown on pepper bushes spicy.
In the case of strawberries, the main cause of plant degeneration is a disturbance in cultivation, and raspberries unexpectedly change their properties not only due to agrotechnical errors, but also because this crop grows very much, and in this regard, it is quite difficult to distinguish the processes of different varieties from each friend.
How can you explain the situation when the fruits that grew on the bushes of sweet varieties acquired bitterness, and the vegetables that appeared on the burning plants suddenly lost their sharpness? Let's try to figure it out in order.
Why does bitterness disappear from hot peppers?
First, let's determine the situation when a burning vegetable for some unknown reason loses its sharpness. Most often, the bitter vegetable grows with little or no pungency due to the fact that the "parent" culture was hybrid. Everyone knows that experiments with obtaining seed from hybrid plants end with unexpected results. Maybe the new plant was grown from second-generation seeds, which no one knows, and no one knows if it inherited the pungency from its ancestors or not.
There are gardeners who believe that pepper has lost its taste properties only due to “over-pollination”, and not due to agrotechnical mistakes. There are facts of non-observance of the technique of growing plants for obtaining seed material by some industrial producers, resulting in the emergence of seeds on the market with "loose" properties. That is why vegetables grown on the site, in the first year of planting, have features that are not characteristic of them.
Why does sweet pepper have bitterness?
In these fruits, bitterness appears in the taste due to the fact that the seeds formed in the vegetables took a certain amount of nutrients and a little capsaicin from the predecessor. Human tongue receptors are sensitive enough to such a compound, for this reason, for sensation insignificant bitterness, a small amount of particles of this substance contained in one grain is enough for a person sweet pepper.
And if your varieties do not change their taste, although they grow nearby, then, most likely, sharp varieties of a shrub, and not a vegetable plant, are planted in the beds. These peppers can be cultivated alongside the sweet variety of common vegetable peppers without changing their tastes.
Drawing conclusions
First, study the information about which varieties and hybrids are best to use. For separate planting, you can use any types of vegetable or shrub hot peppers only with the condition that that you can properly care for them and make sure that the pollen of these plants does not fall on the peduncles of sweet peppers. Choose seeds from trusted manufacturers.
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