Sweet "bitter" peppers?

This year she planted three varieties of sweet peppers: black, red and yellow. All the fruits were good and sweet, and one plant of yellow pepper of the "Golden Miracle" variety gave for some reason bitter fruits. Although neither I nor the neighbors planted hot pepper this season.

Dear Alena! Unfortunately, many summer residents in recent years have been complaining about a mix of sweet and bitter peppers. You are outraged that sweet peppers are bitter, but my good friend is a passionate lover of bitter peppers. Imagine his amazement when the fruits of his bitter pepper were sweet, without the slightest hint of spiciness.

There are two reasons for this metamorphosis. The first is cross-pollination with a bitter neighbor, or the dishonesty of the seed manufacturer's firm. The fact is that a seed from a cross-pollinated flower can get into a bag with ordinary "sweet" seeds. Then a plant will grow from it, the fruits of which will be the same in color and size as in the stated description, and the taste will be completely opposite.

Of course, you can't taste every seed before planting. But there are also two ways out of this situation. The first one is to change the company that produced such seeds, or even better, if you write in a “affectionate” letter addressed to her.

The second method generally lies on the surface. Use your own seeds, or get them from someone you know who is confident in the strain. Collect seeds only from fruits of the first and second harvest periods. You need to pick a fully ripe fruit from a bush for seeds. After keeping it plucked for a week, select seeds from it, rinse, dry and set aside until spring.