Growing Peppers

[TimH]

I've got a pepper plant I grew from seed and it's has small fruit, flowers and buds. I was just wondering how many to let fruit, I think I read somewhere that four was the limit per plant is the right?? I have about 5 fruiting and about 5 buds on the plant. Any pointers?


Cheers

Tim
BTW it's a California Wonder Pepper.

[Capsid]

I don't remove the fruits from my plant but the I only get around 6 or so per plant anyway. I'd keep the 5 you have. Have you got a heated greenhouse? My plants are still tiny.

[TimH]

I don't remove the fruits from my plant but the I only get around 6 or so per plant anyway. I'd keep the 5 you have. Have you got a heated greenhouse? My plants are still tiny.

I have a unheated walk-in green house, but I've grown it in the Kitchen window. They were sown on the 24th Feb.

[Alison]

I've got some in a similar state to yours which is really nice. Never pick off any fruits although am guessing you'll get larger ones if you do, I just prefer to have loads of smaller ones. Last year, from a pretty small Lipstick plant, I got about 15 and would have got more if it hadn't been got by an early frost.

[tamsin]

My pepper seemed to automatically stop developing more after it had set half a dozen. Some just didn't grow and others dropped off instead of growing. Then once the first half dozen were changing colour the next lot started growing. I'd just leave them

[SarzWix]

I've never removed a bud/fruitlet from a pepper or chilli plant and I've been growing them for a good few years now I find that the plants automatically drop some if there's more than it can cope with.

[Redpepper]

Your peppers look lovely Tim

[TimH]

Cheers, just sown another batch and some Chilli plants too.

[HotStuff]

I'm jealous Tim, that's huge compared to mine which was sown 5 days before yours. What have you been feeding it on?

[TimH]

I'm jealous Tim, that's huge compared to mine which was sown 5 days before yours. What have you been feeding it on?

Nothing until yesterday, They have had a lot of Sun light though.