If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into the embryo in the seed. The genes from the male parent do not play a part in ...

Pots or patches, your growing peppers from seed will need to be fed with a balanced fertiliser to encourage fruit growth.

Believe it or not, it’s not the seeds. Whether you are whipping up a batch of hot pepper vinegar or a tray of Afterburners, working with spicy peppers in the kitchen is a constant game of making ...

Chili peppers have been cultivated by the Indigenous populations of Central and South America for thousands of years. Today, ...

Joshua Tewksbury and colleagues study whether the hot stuff ... of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University, who maintains a huge collection of chili seeds. Bosland told Tewksbury ...

Aubergines, chillies and sweet peppers are ideal plants for pots and growing from seed is foolproof ... swap the small stakes for a larger cane. In hot weather you may need to water twice a ...