Source: Lucille Samson
Question: I was cutting peppers and I found a green growth inside a red bell pepper. Can you tell me if I can plant it and if so, how?
Lucille Samson
Answer: This is a fairly rare phenomenon, but one that does show up occasionally. It is actually a small pepper growing inside the mature pepper.
It’s called an “internal proliferation” and is an abnormal growth, a bit like a tumor in humans, but not harmful. Sometimes it forms a perfectly symmetrical miniature pepper, but in other cases, like yours, the pepper is misshapen and not as easy to recognize. The small pepper is, however, perfectly edible.
And no, you can’t use it to produce another pepper.
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can i make the baby pepper grow?
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you actually can use it to produce another offspring 🙂
Why not?
How would I do it? Which end up? I’ve had it happen quite a few times. The red pepper I cut up a while has four babies! Thank you for any help.