Quote Originally Posted by ReV View Post
I think I read somewhere that yes, you can easily make hybrid peppers by cross pollinating, but the variants don't show up in the peppers of the plants, but rather in the seeds. So, you have to cross pollinate, then plant the resulting seeds to get the hybrid.

I think that's what he was doing. He was using seeds from last years harvest. If the various pepper varieties in his garden were too close, he would get "mutt" peppers.