Poor tomato / pepper crops

[Two_Sheds]

Chillies

Have any of you with small amounts of peppers taken the first pepper/flower off...it seems to boost the plant into production. Just a thought. I've done it with all mine and have peppers and chillis aplenty.

I'm growing Cayenne in a pot on the patio ... it had early fruit, nice and red, but only two.

I planted other Cayennes on the allotment, and they are going great guns ... no ripe fruit yet, but lots of green ones.

Although I've been told that chillies fruit better when their growth is restricted (in a small pot) my actual experience tells me the opposite ... planted in the soil is much better for them (and means less watering for me to do).

[Two_Sheds]

they were sown in march - i seem to remember some people on here at that time saying it was too early to sow tomatoes .........???

It all depends on your growing conditions. If you can keep them light, warm and you have the space, then start them early.

[Farmer_Gyles]

think i'll just have to write this year off as "bad luck" with peppers and toms
i'll start them earlier next year and fingers crossed i'll have even more space for them too

[Lavenderblue]

I've not got a single chili this year but, by some magic, I have got several aubergines! i can't believe it! I read that you can over winter chillies so I am going to try that. i lost all my allotment tomatoes to blight but the 4 spare plants we stuck in pots on the patio are all ripening - best by miles so far is the galina yellow tomato - lots of fruit and its really delicious. I am going to seed save that one this year. My peppers are disappointing, just a few small ones on 3 plants. I hope that they grow a bit more. I think we really need a proper greenhouse really to grow peppers and the like.

[zazen999]

try nipping out the first flower or fruit....but I've already said that.....better some peppers than none

[Farmer_Gyles]

try nipping out the first flower or fruit....but I've already said that.....better some peppers than none

we heard you the first time!! bit late for this year tho, will try it next year

[zazen999]

No it's not!!!! The first year we grew peppers, we were picking them, from a first floor balcony, on Christmas day. All grown outdoors - in Nottingham

[afrench108]

Its has been worst year ever for my toms too....24 pots with 4 varieties, 'roma' 'money maker' 'gardners delight' 'tigerella', and 10 outdoor on plot, usually tigerella and money maker brill but both blighted...roma usually slow but 10times better than normal and cherrys finished already...big bell peppers never do anygood for me so stuck to cayenne, chiilishake and they are huge and fully loaded...
I agree its been the wet/damp weather again like last year and look forward to next summer???? Just hope for SOME SUN.....

[SMS6]

I had 3 punnets full of tomatoes in my fridge yesterday so I thought I'd better set to and make them in to pasta sauce for dinner and freezing. Which I did, then went out to the greenhouse and guess what?

I've got 3 punnets of tomatoes in my fridge.



My peppers are in a raised bed in the greenhouse, I water them every other day, feed them when I feed the tomatoes. The plants are really well established and healthy looking with quite a few peppers on them - but I can't see any evidence of ripening!!

There is a grape vine in the same greenhouse which has spread quite a bit across the roof - could it be restricting the light too much? Does anyone remove leaves on peppers to let more light in to the fruit?

[afrench108]

I always remove the bottom leaves below the fruit, as with toms and it never harmed the crop or plant yet...