Dave,

As I mentioned, it will also do it on the plant. Probably better to defer to
that.
It may make the pepper more tasty.

Sherwin

Dave wrote:

On Sep 17, 11:11 pm, Myrl wrote:
On Sep 17, 4:51 pm, Dave wrote:

Hello; garden newbie here.

This year I planted banana peppers, green and red peppers in one of my
raised beds. Out of the huge number of banana peppers I grew this
year, one banana pepper was red instead of yellow. It had a slightly
sweeter taste than the usual yellow banana peppers.

What would cause this to happen ... environmental conditions, some
kind of cross-pollination, or ?

Thanks in advance.

Dave - When I was at a local Farmer's market last Saturday morning, I
purchased some little sweet peppers, that came in yellow, orange, and
red! They were all shaped like banana peppers. I used them in a
Mango Chili Salsa, I made. And, they were wonderful!

Did you keep the seeds from that particular red pepper??? Maybe you
could develop your own hybrid!

Myrl Jeffcoathttp://www.myrljeffcoat.com

Oops, turned out the banana pepper turned red after it came off the
plant ... I guess this is what happens as banana peppers mature, off
the plant?