This is answered comprehensively here. People also ask, do chilli plants need cross pollination?
Domesticated chilli plants (cultivated by people) are often self-pollinating. They don't need other plants to set fruit. Pollination and cross-pollination (pollination of pistils of a flower with pollen from a different plant of the same species) is done by insects.
Secondly, can you cross breed chillies? According to this guide to crossing chili peppers, the seed from a C. annuum and C. chinense cross will be partially fertile. This means that you can cross a cayenne (I think this might be the hottest annuum) with a scorpion (likely the hottest chinense), and get something new.
People also ask, what happens when Peppers cross pollinate?
If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all of the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into the embryo and the seed. So if cross pollination does occur between a sweet and hot pepper, it does not affect the fruit produced, but may affect the characteristics of the next generation.
Can peppers cross pollinate with tomatoes?
Peppers can cross pollinate with each other but not tomatoes and peppers. Genetically it is impossible.
