Found this little pepper inside, can it be planted or is it too far along in growth? If anyone has successfully planted & produced more peppers, would love any tips to help it thrive!
New pepper plants are grown from pepper seeds, not from internal proliferation/carpelloid formation which is what you see here.
Eat it or compost it but planting it will not result in more peppers.
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You can plant the seeds from the placenta of the pepper. But the mini pepper inside is immature and any seeds inside of it are not viable. Those “baby” peppers are sterile. They’re called an “internal proliferation”. They’re completely edible and usually very tasty. They usually occur when there is drastic weather changes, drought, under or over-watering, injury to the flower or fruit in initial stages, or genetic mutations. These types of internal proliferations happen about 1 in 1,000 peppers.
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New pepper plants are grown from pepper seeds, not from internal proliferation/carpelloid formation which is what you see here.
Eat it or compost it but planting it will not result in more peppers.
You can plant the seeds from the placenta of the pepper. But the mini pepper inside is immature and any seeds inside of it are not viable. Those “baby” peppers are sterile. They’re called an “internal proliferation”. They’re completely edible and usually very tasty. They usually occur when there is drastic weather changes, drought, under or over-watering, injury to the flower or fruit in initial stages, or genetic mutations. These types of internal proliferations happen about 1 in 1,000 peppers.
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