Pepper Colour Clarification

[veg4681]

Is it a fact that in order to get orange and yellow sweet peppers, you have to buy colour specific sweet pepper seeds?

I really enjoy the big pack of supermarket/Sainsbury peppers you get from their basic range (very sweet/tasty) and have saved up seeds from a yellow and an orange pepper with a view to sowing them. Has anyone ever grown sweet peppers from bought peppers? I have seeds for California Wonder too but not sure I'll like the taste or let alone it will grow well enough to give me crops .

[Flummery]

Green peppers will ripen up if left on the plant - but different plants give red or orange or yellow. To try and get a variety I bought one plant of each from a nursery - little place I know on the Yorkshire coast - 50p per plant. One had 2 in it so I got 4 good pepper plants growing for £1.50. Some years I've bought the odd tomato plant from here too if I wanted to try something different.

[Richard at GS]

word of warning

There is a very good chance that commercial varieties will be F1, so there are no guarantees they will be anything like the fruit they came from, but the seeds should germinate so it is well worth a go.

[veg4681]

There is a very good chance that commercial varieties will be F1, so there are no guarantees they will be anything like the fruit they came from, but the seeds should germinate so it is well worth a go.

Pity that more than likely they'll be F1 as they need to be for commercial growers for supermarkets' requirements. They taste premium, so sweet I like to eat them raw. Despite all the criticisms about supermarket veggies, sometimes they are really ahead of us growers, me thinks. I don't remember they used to taste that good or in other countries for that matter.