> Peppers are one of the easier and more forgiving things to grow yourself. Just grow your own or buy from a farmer's market. There's only 5 species that make

> Peppers are one of the easier and more forgiving things to grow yourself. Just grow your own or buy from a farmer's market. There's only 5 species that make up the domesticated peppers. Most come from just 2: capsicum annuum (bell peppers, jalapenos, anaheims, and the vast majority of the rest) and capsicum chinense (scotch bonnet, habenero, ghost peppers, etc). [1] Those 2 species will also cross-breed pretty well, and within a species there is of course no barrier for crossing. The best part of having a garden with a lot of pepper varieties is that next year's volunteers are going to be some fun mystery-cross, like cayanne looking pepper with no heat, or a super hot (but slightly mangled looking) hatch. Sometimes different seeds from a single pod may produce wildly different crosses - pollen from multiple plants may be on that bee! So while you're absolutely correct that peppers are very forgiving[2] to grow yourself, amusingly that makes breeding your own jalapenos for next year a lot of extra effort. If you don't net them off from pollinators and hand pollinate, you will likely get unexpected results. [1] https://peppergeek.com/capsicum-pepper-species/ https://peppergeek.com/capsicum-pepper-species/ has a nice overview for the curious. [2] my family has a joke that peppers are not forgiving, they are masochists - that is they seem to do better when you kind of just ignore them (to the point of not even weeding near them), unlike other plants that do even better when you pamper them.