Are green, orange, and red bell peppers all from the same plant?

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No, not technically. They’re different types of pepper plants.

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Yes and No. They will mostly be the color you plant but you may occasionally get a odd one. Mainly you can pick them and be able to sort them according to variety by how they look then occasional you will get ones like the bottom pictures that are harder to tell because they change colors.  These are all a varieties of "bell" pepper.

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I grow peppers…. And no. Not all the same plant.

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No they are different pepper plants. While some grocery stores do sell green peppers as unripe peppers there are actually green bell pepper plants that they start green and stay green. If not picked when ripe will mold and decompose green because that is their color. But bell peppers are different hence why you can go and by a red bell pepper plant or orange. There are also ones not usually seen in stores like chocolate bell peppers, purple, black ,white (basically a super super pale yellow),etc. The peppers you get at a regular grocery store could be unripe peppers but there are actual differences if grown correctly. Different compounds and enzymes in the plants as well as capsaicin levels determine color. But if you have ever eaten a real ripe green bell pepper vs a store one that is just unripe the taste difference is huge. I can't stand store peppers so I grow all my own bell peppers and we have every single color because they do taste slightly different...and so much better than store bought.

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No. When my husband plants peppers, he buys seeds for each kind specifically.

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There’s literally dozens of kinds. I grew peppers this summer in my garden. They started out green then if you left them a few more weeks they’d gradually turn red.

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Usually not.
I have plants for orange, red, and green sometimes in think they cross pollinate and I get some weird looking ones. Stripes or half and half.