Learnt Something Today!

[Caran]

There are male and female peppers. If you upend them and count the bumps, if they have four bumps it's female, if they have three they are male.
I never knew there were male and female peppers. Did you?

[sherrardk]

I did - but can never remember which is which.

[sherrardk]

Think there's also male and female cucumbers - that's what my grandad told me, might not be true.

[Caran]

I read it in a magazine. Never thought of it before.

[Zacs-Master]

Male and female everything. Trees, flowers, etc how do you think pollination happens?

[Caran]

I know Zacs but normally you don't look at a pepper and think is this male or female, at least I don't!

[snags]

Did you know that interlocking the upended bumps of the male and female together makes them ripen more quickly.

[Zacs-Master]

Dirty boy!

[Theland]

Oh gosh! Wan at about LBGTBQXYZETC peppers and cucumbers?
Don't they have the same rights as regular vegetables?

[Theland]

Do you really like watching vegetable porn?

[Zacs-Master]

I’d like to identify as an artichoke from now on

[Theland]

Watch an onion stripping off its skins! Phwoar!

[Zacs-Master]

Perv.

[Buenchico]

Male and female peppers?

If Caran has been taken in by that story then I really must try to sell her some of those shares in Rockall gold mines that I've been trying to offload onto someone ;-)

https://growingtogether.areavoices.com/2018/02/26/debunking-internet-story-about-male-and-female-peppers/

[Caran]

Chris it seemed so reasonable especially as I had a three bump and a four bump pepper!

[Buenchico]

Don't worry. I'll put your gullibility down to not being able to think straight with all that back pain ;-)

I hope that you can find some relief soon!

[Caran]

Thank you Chris.

[Theland]

Two peppers in my fridge.
One is sweating and the other is smiling!
What's going on?

[rowanwitch]

If one is smoking a cigarette and the other one is saying selfish barsteward .......

Male and female cucumbers..... not exactly but some varieties have all female flowers I.e the ones that produce the fruit. You don't want male flowers as pollinated cucumbers are bitter and develop seeds.

[waterboatman]

Nope! Learn something new every day.
I had noticed the three and four bumps, but didn't think there was a reason.

[waterboatman]

Seems I was right! :o}