Investigate the word "Metaxenia". The short summary is that metaxenia is when pollen affects the female plant tissue. It is possible that hot pepper pollen could cause a sweet pepper to develop some capsaicin but as previously posted, many years of research says it does not happen. Corn is a different story. When you grow white corn and it is pollinated by pollen from a corn plant that produces yellow seed, then the white corn plant produces kernels that are yellow. This is because one set of dna from the pollen is incorporated into the corn seed and since that dna codes for yellow corn and since yellow is dominant over white, the result is yellow corn kernels. The general rule of thumb is that the seed are affected by the pollen source but the fruit that houses the seed is not. There are examples such as apple that break this rule for specific characters. DarJones

A lot of cross pollination questions on the site right now. Most years, I grow a pepper patch of mixed sweet & hot peppers - with the two often directly adjacent - and have not observed any heat in the sweet peppers. I don't entirely discount the possibility that crossed seeds might possess some heat... but sweet peppers are not generally eaten without cleaning them. If there were such heat, I would expect to feel it or smell it during cleaning, which has not been the case.

Norma, after you posted this I got in touch with her (I caution to publish her name). I was doing some traveling so contact between us was somewhat slow, but I ended up purchasing a very well-rooted 18' Hummel's Sunset. I was hoping to get my hands on a cutting and didn't expect to find something of the maturity available. It was $18.00. A bargain. I would have never found one of this size here and they're going for higher prices elsewhere online, so needless to say I feel very lucky. So thanks, Norma, for locating a source and kindly passing along her information. I received the plant today and it looks great. To those of you who are looking for a HS, I don't know if she has any more larger plants, but she did tell me she sold HS cutting for $0.75. I would assume those are unrooted at such a low, low price. My new Hummel's Sunset has two trunks.(I've included a link with a picture of it). I would like to separate these. They connect right at the soil line. 1) I'm concerned about cutting them in half and letting the 'wounds' callous over, because it's already been bare-root for a week and I'd like to plant it ASAP. 2) I'm concerned about cutting them in half in fear both plants will not heal properly/rot, since this won't be a relatively clean operation like pruning. 3) I've considered leaving all the roots with the dominate trunk, cutting the other half off above the soil line (so I could plant the rooted one immediately), and just trying to root the whacked off trunk in some grit. But I have trouble rooting leaves in this climate and really want to save both trunks. Any help would be very much appreciated! I know this information is all over these forums, and I looked for quite a while, but sometimes the specifics you need are buried in some seemingly unrelated thread. Thanks everyone. Gray Here is a link that might be useful: My Hummel's

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