How do peppers receive their colour?

Question

And could the seeds from a green pepper for example, make an orange pepper for example.

Answer 1

genetic code...not likely

Answer 2

when you're asleep in the middle of the night little fairies with paint brushes flitter by and paint all the fruits and vegetables and flowers in your yard!

Answer 3

This all comes down to genetics. The different colours are due to often spontaneous genetic mutations which produce a slight variation of the original green to say green with a red tint. Selective breeding of the plants gradually reinforces the colour variation until plants with all red pods can be grown. Same for orange and yellow variations in not only peppers, but tomatoes as well. As regards the seeds, this depends on the colour of the pods of the first plant from which the pollen came to fertilise the second plant. For example, pollen from a plant with green pods fertilises another plant with green pods; result is green pods only. Cross green plant pollen with plant with red pods and you get a mix with one colour dominant and the other showing here and there. Taking seeds from the pods of different plants with less dominant colours and cross-pollinating  them can produce some interesting effects such as stripes. The same thing happens in all plants, animals and humans e.g. both parents have to have red hair somewhere in their blood lines before they can produce children (but not all) with red hair.

Answer 4

Do all peppers not start off green and as they ripen eventually end up yellow??? or am i spouting c**p again lol im sure thats what i heard ^O)

Edit... no its goes green yellow then red?? i think

Answer 5

The color of the pepper in it's unripe form is green.  After the pepper ripens, it changes to it's mature color, be it red, yellow, orange---whatever.  It's simply the difference between unripe and ripe----just like most little green cherries turn into red cherries, green tomatoes ripen and turn red.

If you plant seed from a pepper variety that is yellow at maturity, you will get a yellow pepper.  But even on those plants, the immature fruit is going to be green.

Answer 6

All peppers are green.The ripening triggers chemical reactions that colour the pepper either red,or yellow,depending on it's seed genus.No ripening than they are all naturally Green