Do Peppers self-pollinate?

[korney19]

Originally Posted by freelancer79d

what is that tool called korney19?

I think a pollinator wand or something like that. Hard to find in a search but I got the green one from I think Hydro-Gardens or some place like that. It has a vibrator/wobbler in the end you can see spinning when it runs. The frequency or speed of vibrations changes [over the length of the device] depending on how tight you hold it. A loose hold it makes like more bass/wide vibrations, a tighter grip and the tip is like higher pitch narrow frequencies. I just insert it under a cluster branch until it's touching and hold for a few seconds. On tomatoes, you can actually see the pollen falling off. I wipe between plants to avoid crossing.

Here, about half way down the page, "Tomato Pollinator" right after the grafting clips:

http://www.hydro-gardens.com/growsup1.htm

Hope this helps.

[lumierefrere]

So the pepper I got last year that was such a marvelous color, pollinated and got fruit on it, looking very similar to the lovely F1. Just now I picked a fruit (is it a fruit?), the pepper, and at first I thought there were no seeds inside but upon looking very carefully, I found several tiny seeds smaller than flea beetles.

Would anyone like to take a stab at explaining what's going on since I know nothing about it.

Does the size of the pepper have any correlation with the size of the seeds? (These seeds don't seem right in any case.)

Barb