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u/generalfloppydisk 4h ago
Sometimes jalapeño peppers will sprout curious little arms or shoots right out of the main fruit, almost as if the pepper is trying to grow a miniature version of itself. Gardeners often describe it as the plant’s “backup plan”—when a pepper feels stressed by heat, uneven watering, or a sudden surge of nutrients, the cells in the pepper’s skin may get confused and start acting like stem tissue instead of fruit. The result is those strange little growths: tiny green appendages that look like extra arms. They don’t serve a real purpose, but in folklore some growers like to imagine the pepper is reaching out, either to grab more sunlight or to protect its seeds by creating a decoy.
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u/Mean-Bat-9673 8h ago
Does he save seeds from his own peppers and grow them? He might have started a new phenotype or whatever you call that if he does
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u/LisaRae11 9h ago
Oh my!! They are certainly decorative!! They look tasty. I do not know the answer unless he put seeds upon seeds. I remember cucumbers doing kinda the same thing when planting with seed.
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u/SoonKeem 7h ago
Are there seeds in the arms? That's crazy if there are you should try to germinate them
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u/Feeling_Register_566 7h ago
The two jalapeños in the middle with the markings would make a really good spicy salsa.
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u/agrostisstolonifera 3h ago
The lines on them are usually from stress from the growing season there going to be hotter
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u/Ok-Butterscotch2321 7h ago
Has he seen a doctor?
Peppers and tomatoes, all apart of the NIGHT SHADE FAMILY, can also sprout fruits within each other. Pepper fruiting within a pepper is not nearly as uncommon as you think.
A tomato, fruiting within a pepper, is not nearly as uncommon as you think.
Thank your ignorance to the current.and modern food chain supply, keeping you ignorant until now. This happens.
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u/AnActualSupport 9h ago
They’re just showing off their muscles