One of the few pepper pods showing, bell peppers. I planted 5 to a box, with 3 of them being conjoined. I also added a vermicompost bin and to my surprise, the peppers have responded really well to that method as well as to my Amaranth + Basil.
I'm a bit behind on my pepper plants this season so im looking to catch up by planting more seeds this month, mainly from the grocery store bell peppers.
Some say they dont fruit or are bad, but honestly its worth a shot. Sounds like what Big Seed wants us to believe lol
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Plant varieties are essentially inbred, so to get strong but still predictable plants, you need to cross two varieties that have some genetic distance.
The plants resulting from a cross are called F1. F1 seeds are comparatively expensive because of the effort required to make them. (Still, they are very cheap compared to other expenses.)
If the storebought peppers are F1 then their seeds are F2 and will be a random combination of parent traits instead of the perfectly predictable F1.
Another reason to buy seed is that you can grow much more interesting peppers. For instance beautiful purple striped Blot peppers or tasty Jimmy Nardellos.