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according to a post on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fiber-Does-The-Body-Good/246058242197224
Fiber Does The Body Good
Flip the bell peppers over to check their gender. The ones with four bumps are female and those with three bumps are male. The female peppers are full of seeds, but sweeter and better for eating raw and the males are better for cooking.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)That's new to me.
Learning something new every day...
-high fives-
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)In short, no! When I saw your question I immediately emailed David Karp. He is a pomologist with UC Riverside and writes the Market Watch column for the LA Times. He explained, The supposition that there are male and female peppers is a common canard, but untrue. Peppers grow from flowers that have both male and female parts. The fruits do not have a gender.
http://blogs.kcrw.com/goodfood/2013/04/ask-evan-is-it-true-that-you-can-tell-the-gender-of-a-bell-pepper-by-counting-the-number-of-bumps-on-the-bottom/
ashling
(25,771 posts)I thought it read that Karp was a pornologist.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)I slept with three gay interracial midget porn Dvd's, my
blow up doll "Marge", and a sheep today, said the Pornologist.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pornologist
ashling
(25,771 posts)Pepperporn, pepperpornologist
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)All fruits are seed carriers. That is the only purpose of fruits. Male plants in non-hermaphroditic species do not produce fruits. Bell peppers are hermaphroditic.
http://www.helium.com/items/1996863-the-difference-between-three-bottomed-bell-peppers-and-four-bottomed-bell-peppers
Rhiannon12866
(204,648 posts)From now on, I'll be checking my peppers more closely...