Peppers

[mollykins]

1) Am I right in thinking that salad kind of peppers are closely related to chilli peppers?

2) How does pepper the seasoning come into the equation? (is it the ground seeds or compeltely different?) And what about the black and white kinds you get, how are they made differently?

3) Is there a way of telling what kind of pepper a green one will turn into?

4) What's the sweetest pepper? (i'm guessing red)

I think that's all of my peppery questions. TIA Molly x x

[hammerman]

1) yes...they're a member of the solanacae family which includes potatoes, petunias, tobacco plants, tomatoes and....deadly night shade among others !!!

2) not too sure but it's either seeds or ground roots...the colours would probably represent different varieties.

3) not until they develop....i often use them green though and i picked a large green one last week and it's now turned orange !!!!

4) personally i think they all taste the same.

[mollykins]

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[mollykins]

I would have thought red were the swetest as it's the most different from green.

5) do yellow, orange and red peppers take the same length of time to ripen?

[hammerman]

can depend on a lot of factors but i think they generally all ripen in the same amount of time. However, peppers that ripen in a week in my house may only take 3 days in your house (or visa versa) for example.....there's no exact time and they may even be different from plant to plant when grown in the same greenhouse.

[society]

"5) do yellow, orange and red peppers take the same length of time to ripen? "

Yes

[boxtops]

Many green peppers are unripe red ones, but all three sorts are variants of the same. Ground pepper (black pepper) comes from a completely different plant, the pepper is the ground-up seed of a vine plants, nothing to do with the hundreds of different types of pepper plants we can grown or buy in the shops.
The hottest chilli pepper in the world is Naga jolokia from the Indian subcontinent.