The problem with saving seeds from store bought peppers is that you don't know if they were hybrid and/or if they were cross pollinated. So you won't know what fruit shapes/colors/heat levels you might get. They could be like the original or they could be different.

Rodney

A good example of using store chili's is the mini bells. Many times they are hybreds so you may get a large bell pepper instead of the mini bells. Its fun to try but they might not be exactly like you bought.

Will the result be edible at least?

Edible yes but not necessary palatable to some. Theres some ornamental peppers that have a disagreeable taste and if they got cross pollinated with those then I wouldnt think they would be as tasty. This is a far stretch though but cobsidering some crops are F1 hybrids it could happen.

Also another thing is if the peppers were imported they could have been irradiated and the seeds may or may not sprout. The ones that do sprout probably won't live long.

I had one experience with bell peppers and they were seeds from market bought. The plant was weak and took forever to produce. And I imagine this variety would have been more suited to farming field where they do things different from home gardens. Makes me never ever want to grow bell peppers again. I do see some selected varieties of bellpepper seem more readily to produce fruit even in small 4 inch pots they are sold in.

Hybrids always produce fruit, and they are always edible.

If it were me, i would not sacrifice much garden space on potential mystery peppers (if they are indeed hybrids). The pepper pods may look and taste different, production can be poor.

But, if you got this far, you may as well plant a few of each. But i would also purchase a bunch of tried-and-trues from your local garden center. If you are into Bell peppers, but want better production, then i would also pickup some sweet italian frying types, both red and orange.

Curious to hear how they turn out btw.

Steve

I have grown two or three varieties from grocery store bought peppers. In each case they have grown true for me. I suggest you try it only if you are open to them not growing true. I found it kind of exciting to see if they did indeed grow true or if they would wind up significantly different.

Thanks guys! I spent four hours in a typhoon today drenched covered in mud planting them with leaky boots. I planted over 100 of them. My garden is totally full now. I planted about 10 "real "plants about a week ago so we're covered. Should be an exciting year I'll let you know what happens.

As a side, jalapenos and habaneros, which I love, are considered exotics here. This year nobody had them in and we ended up driving an hour to go to the garden center where they had only one of each. I'm gonna baby those plants this year and save the seeds and hopefully I can start those from seeds. This year nobody had them in and we ended up driving an hour to go to the garden center where they had only one of each. I'm gonna baby those plants this year and save the seeds and hopefully I can start those from seeds.

I have grown several varieties from store bough ( about half a dozen) in the past. They all grew true, as far as I could tell.
Cross pollination in commercial fields is very unlikely, as they plant hundreds of the same variety in one place. That is a departure from home garden. But theoretically cross pollination is possible unless you bag.

Sey

Plants took really well. Growing already. Btw, I'm almost certain these are the peppers for sale localy.

Funny, as at 168 yen they are almost triple the price of tomato or cucumber seedlings.

Had to look up how much 168 yen was in U.S. dollars. :) $1.40 isn't much and I'm kinda surprised that the tomato plants are one-third that price (that's a good deal for tomatoes).

Rodney

Last winter, when I was antsy to practice germinating peppers, I bought a Jalapeno from local fruit market. There was no name on it, those seeds grew into good plants. I gave the seedlings away and planted out three. They grew nice Jalapenos I donated to the food pantry for weeks. Mary

Ya, I thought the price was great too. There are 3 or 4 varieties of both tomatoes and cucumbers available at that price. They grow and taste great. For more yen there's many specialty types.

Neat! Hope it tastes great!

Super payoff!

I planted some seeds from store bought mini sweet bell peppers (orange and red about 2" to 3" long). The peppers on the plants are still green, but larger (1/2" longer). So I suspect that the peppers were hybrids. I believe OP's pepper is larger and possibly a hybrid.

I can't really tell the differences in terms of tastes. They are just sweet belle peppers. If I continue to save seeds and grow more seasons, the peppers will adapt to my climate better.

I've been lucky. I have orange and red sweet peppers, jalapeño, and a scotch bonnet pepper all doing well. The canary melon grows fierce, tons of flowers, two early fruits and then seems to die prior to full ripening. It also get a ferocious white powdery mildew for some reason. I've done fantastic with butternut squash, horrid with delicata and in the middle with acorn.

The sweet peppers don't get to the store size though, maybe 2/3 of the size.

If there is any difference between the two varieties, then it is likely hybrid, you just do not realize it. It is very hard to tell anyhow.

I believe most of the vegetables, like toms, beans, peppers, and many many others are hybrids. The production is so high. Growers can't make $ if they grow the low yield heirlooms.

With this, sometimes the difference is small, sometimes it is big.... To a lot of people, we probably do not even care. I still have many named variety seeds. But sweet pepper is just sweet pepper....

Photo uploads feature torched apparently. Anyway, they all turned colors, I have gorgeous sweet harvest.

Fantastic results, CONGRATS!

Amazing looking harvest and gotta love those colours!

Ditto on the impressive spectrum of colors! I'm not a sweet pepper guy, but they look delicious.