TWINS???

[wrightdaddy]

I have never seen this and now it has happened on two different plants the first one shrivled up and fell of this one looks like it might take. Has anyone seen this before will it be two peppers? sorry about the blurry pic.

 

[Nova]

Never seen one like that. I want one!!

 

[Dshlogg]

That's awesome. I had two peppers joined at the stem last year. I wish I saw the flower. Maybe it looked like that.

 

[silva83tj]

hmmmmmmmmm looks cool

 

[PaulG]

Maybe it's global cosmic space dust causing rampant mutant pepper flowering.

Great pic anyway.

 

[trebortook]

I had Bhut Jolokia twin earlier last year. Re-Potted them and they are both wintering well.

 

[stc3248]

was just reading about this earlier today...hope they take!

 

[theghostpepperstore]

I have had alot of this happening the last two years. Check out this post


http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/23082-triplets-pepper-porn/page__fromsearch__1


I recently had a flower in my greenhouse that appeared to be 4 or 5 flowers joined but it fell off.

 

[patrick]

I've had joined flowers before but never seen one with two stigmas before. Very cool.

Reminds me of twin .50 cals. Watch out bees!

 

[mrz1988]

This usually happens when two flower buds start and then merge together. I'm uncertain of whether or not the genetics actually change but if they do it would be a case of polyploidy. Polyploids are very common in strawberries and it's how we get mutant superberries that have all sorts of clefts and look like four or five jammed together. I've had a few of these flowers but none of them took, they happen in something like 1% of all flowers and seem to be most common in chinense strains.

I'm pretty sure though that these are just two buds that got joined together, something like a siamese twin, not a double/triple/whatever bud. They should produce two or three genetically normal (but not necessarily identical) pods if this were in fact the case. Hopefully yours takes because we all like to see some nice mutants!