pepper plants

[kittykat8]

mine are all sweet peppers


Marion

[moggssue]

Yes, I was talking about sweet peppers as well!

[kwa50]

My peppers are not doing too well really, only got flowers on them cant imagine them growing to the size of the one I have just eaten - bought in supermarket.

kwa50
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[Demeter]

Mine are sweet peppers too

kwa50 - if you've got flowers then it doesn't sound you're behind, at least I hope not as I've only got flowers at the mo. Checked them today and one of the flowers is about to drop so I'm hoping there will be a fruit behind it and that'll be the first one for me!

[unconcerned]

You'd be surprised at the shapes and sizes of plants that fall under the "sweet peppers" banner. For example, I am growing a sweet pepper with leaves the size of A4 pieces of paper and a stem the diameter of a 10 pence piece.

[SarzWix]

It's my understanding, that the plants will grow to the space available to them. So if you keep them in a tiny pot, but still water and feed them, they will start to fruit very early but you won't get very many. If you pot the plant up into a 10 litre pot, the plant will grow large and bushy and should produce a lot of fruit, but much later than the one in the tiny pot. So don't worry too much about spacing, your plants will still produce, just not a humungous amount! As an example, because we grew far too many plants this year,I've planted 5 plants into a 10 litre pot - yes, they're crowded but they're adapting to each other and are already flowering madly, whereas the ones which have a 5 litre pot all to themselves are more concerned about growing roots and branching out! As Julian (Unconcerned) says, individual types will vary too.

[Demeter]

Woo-hoo!!
I've got my first fruit set

[greenasgrass]

pepper going rotten

Hi, can anyone help some of the fruit on my peppers is going rotten and then dropping off. Do you think they are too wet?

Thanks

Karen

[amandaandherveg]

Hey Green, not sure as this is my first year growing, but I have been on holiday and my neighbour has been watering the g/h. Unfortunately he got a little enthusiastic and on my return I found all the pots sitting in green slimy water, including all my peppers, oops! I noticed that a few of the flower have dropped off and there doesn't appear to be any peppers setting.

[smallblueplanet]

Peppers prefer being kept on the dry side, when watering let them dry out a bit between waterings.

[Alice]

I've got great big chillies and peppers - fruits and plants. They are grrowing in my small canservatory. I reckon I have all the crop I need and they are taking more space than I can give them. Tomorrow Hard Hearted Hannah (me) is going to take their pics, cut the crop, and put the plants on the compost heap. Well that's the plan at the moment.

[smallblueplanet]

Why don't you just stand them outside? Maybe try overwintering some plants for a head start next year?

[amandaandherveg]

Alice.................noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo............. your poor babies!

I hate throwing things into Dave the Dalek, breaks my heart. I was in Perthshire on Thursday, could have rehomed some of them for you, lol. x

[Alice]

SBP - you might be right. If I can get my long suffering husband to dig some holes for me tomorrow I will plant the chillies and peppers outside and see how they go - but I doubt it.
Amanda - I've just noticed you're in Aberdeenshire, but if anyone in Perthshire wants to rehome some peppers and chillies then contact me Tootie Fruitie. They are going out tomorrow - Sunday. Hard hearted Hannah taking over.

[smallblueplanet]

SBP - you might be right. If I can get my long suffering husband to dig some holes for me tomorrow I will plant the chillies and peppers outside and see how they go - but I doubt it...

I doubt it too Alice. But I'd just put them out in their pots. Even dahn sarf I don't plant peppers in the ground (although I'm sure others do!).