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[HayleyB]

As an experiment I dried a load of seeds from a sweet pepper I bought at Te**o. I sowed 4 of them a few months back as an experiment to see if it was worth saving the rest for next year and all 4 turned into plants. I was surprised they did and didn't expect anything else to happen realistically as it was getting too late.

BUT, the last week a couple have flowered and due to the lack of bees in the conservatory I attempted to pollenate them not expecting a result. And I'll be blowed, one of the plants has sprouted two baby peppers.

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[zazen999]

That's fab - don't be too hasty to get rid either - we grew peppers on a balcony of our house in Nottingham a couple of years ago and were harvesting peppers on Christmas Day...that's where our tradition of having a full chilli with trimmings for Christmas Day lunch came about [and long may it continue].

Also, they should spring into life in the spring and give you much earlier peppers for next year.

[pjh75]

It's stories like this that make me tempted to just trying sowing out of season... the weather seems so up the spout and I have a few spare seeds, so who knows what might grow.

[tracy]

i too have grown peppers,chillis,sweet pots and tomatoes from good shop bought specimens and have had good results my next experiment is going to be kiwi !! ha ha that should be fun will post results
cheers tracy

[Lavenderblue]

oh now that is interesting. I have a few tiny peppers on my plants in my mini greenhouse. i was going to just go and compost them but I might give them a chance to keep growing - will put them in the spare room I think.

[HayleyB]

Thanks MoM I'll be looking forward to eating my first ever sweet pepper.

I've given the plants a feed and today one of the peps has almost doubled in size, really dinky. Two more plants are flowering although one of them the leaves are looking a bit mosaicy the fourth plant is half the size of the others. I'm surprised I got a 100% rate on the seeds taking if anything.

Tried pollenating another two flowers today fingers X'd

[lynda66]

i've just brought a couple of plants in, they haven't grown much outside at all, so may as well see what happens.

[Alice]

I grew these peppers this year from seed from a supermarket pepper. They did really well and produced good crops.
If they're indoors they don't seem to mind what month it is so it's worth persevering even late in the year.

[SlugLobber]

I have a pepper which was stunted due to the cold summer, but it's now growing indoors and although it isn't flowering, I have high hopes for an out of season pepper harvest!!