Peppers in pots

[Kimbo]

I am growing peppers in pots on my kitchen windowsill. They have started to flower - do they need a pollinator or do they just produce fruit?

[Don Vincenzo]

They will produce fruits, just feed them. Peppers were the first veg I grew for fun few years ago in pots on a windowsill and I got few peppers!!! since them I got hooked on growing vegs...........here I am
regards
Don VIncenzo

[andrewo]

I also pinch out the top after the required height is reached (this is whatever you want them to be) and they bush out.

[multiveg]

Make up brushes come in useful. I tend to brush the flowers, whether with a brush or just a finger.

[Jayneylass]

You don't need to pollinate

Just let them get on with it and keep them watered just enough to keep the leaves turgid. Give tomato feed weekly and treat as you would a tomato; they must be just kept a wee bit warmer than toms.

I had 5 chillis & peppers plants last year and I had loads of great fruit from them. I just had a problem of getting the last plants to ripen. My last pepper went on the compost heap about a week before Christmas and I'm still eating the last of the air-dried chillis this spring.

It was immense fun and this year the only thing I have done differently is to plant more of everything and start them off earlier (last year mid March, this year early Feb) to avoid the problem of late ripening when the days are very short.

Good luck.

Jayneylass

[Kimbo]

Just let them get on with it and keep them watered just enough to keep the leaves turgid. Give tomato feed weekly and treat as you would a tomato; they must be just kept a wee bit warmer than toms.

I had 5 chillis & peppers plants last year and I had loads of great fruit from them. I just had a problem of getting the last plants to ripen. My last pepper went on the compost heap about a week before Christmas and I'm still eating the last of the air-dried chillis this spring.

It was immense fun and this year the only thing I have done differently is to plant more of everything and start them off earlier (last year mid March, this year early Feb) to avoid the problem of late ripening when the days are very short.

Good luck.

Jayneylass

Thinking of trying chillies next year as well seeing the three pepper plants I have are doing so well. I have given them a feed of tomato food and they are on my kitchen windowsill which gets the sun all day

[lyndap]

At the end of the season if you have peppers unripened,uproot plant and hang upside down somewhere cool,light and airy.The peppers carry on rippening.Think you can do this with tom plants aswell!

[Kimbo]

Thanks for all the advice - I now have one pepper getting larger by the day and lots of little flowers all over the place

[JazzDuke]

I am an enthusiastic but very amateur container gardener. Chillis and peppers are dreadfully easy but they do need a good summer. If it's a type that you eat when red then some don't quite make it. Try all the different varieties, they are endless!

[Kimbo]

Side Shoots on Peppers

Should they be removed as with tomatoes or should I leave them on?

Here is my pride and joy

[pigletwillie]

Leave them on, they dont generally go mad like tomatoes but make nice compact bushes.

[Kimbo]

Leave them on, they dont generally go mad like tomatoes but make nice compact bushes.

thanks for that, wasnt sure if they affected the amount of fruits or not