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We have grown quite few peppers this year. We had a plant that was on its last legs so I took the small red peppers off it.Put a couple in a casserole last week and we both wodered why it was so hot. Put it down to the ginger and stuff I put in. While doing another casserole this morning I have just done the last 2 small peppers and happend to touch my mouth.Talk about burn. Are small sweet peppers hot or is there a chilli mixed up in the seed. I don't grow chillis at all and havent bought any pepper plants.

Sounds like you have a rogue... OH used a cayenne in a stir-fry by mistake..  :-[
In peppers small usually means hot so there may have been some reversion.. were your small sweet peppers from a "packet" or a "saved" source?

From a packet. Some californian wonder that Ceres sent me or corono di toro that I bought

Dunno what's happened there then...  :-[

That's odd Shirl.  The Sweet California Wonder were from a fresh Wilko's packet.  I've grown them for several years and they've always given a good crop of big sweet peppers.  Mine this year have been very small - more like a round chilli in size.  But I've just been downstairs and tasted one and it's not hot - tried chewing the seeds from inside it and they're not hot either.  I reckon it's been a duff/mixed up batch of seeds.  Sorry about that  :'(

It may not have been you Ceres cos I had marked it corono di toro. So was probably from that packet. Gave ower Tone a piece to try today and he said it was ok, that was until he had chewed it. ;D ;D ;D. He's really hot stuff today

It sounds familiar - I've eaten sweet peppers from shops before, which were hot - but that was when I was in India, and it might be to do with the sunshine or more old-fashioned growing techniques?

I've never grown my own peppers though. Are home-grown ones tastier than the ones you can buy?

Shirton, I grew some corno di torro this year and I think some of them were hotter than I expected. I had several plants of di torro and am sure that one of them produced hotter peppers than the others, but as i used to pick them all at once I never worked out which pepper was the hot one or which plant it came from!
I think my seeds were from a Johnsons mixed pack of chillis that I got from Wilkos.

The plant they came off had died down so I don't know wether or not they would have got bigger.

Like most things Abigail... they taste better if you have grown your own...  :)