Mini Sweet Pepper glut...

[Earthgirl Jen]

What were they called these mini ones you have so many of?

Nothing fancy honest this was the seed packet:



The picture shows 'dumpy' peppers, which I did end up with on some plants and some plants had the more traditional shaped peppers.

The 'dumpy' peppers ranged in size from 1-2", but the ordinary shaped peppers ranged in size from 2-3". The 'dumpy' peppers had thicker walls to them while the ordinary ones were slightly thinner. Just my own observation.

All the plants were at least 1ft off the ground (so in theory the air was slightly warmer)
Each 30lit pot had MPC, coir and a bit of ordinary soil in them. Each 30lit pot also had 2 handfuls of BFB and 3 handfuls of chicken manure pellets when they were transplanted into their big pots from their their 1lit pots (3 x 1lit pots to a 30 lit pot).
I tend to keep peppers on the slightly drier side for the first couple of months. I only upped the watering once the peppers had started to grow and swell (approx 2 mths) and then I fed them half strength tomato seaweed feed 3 times a week...

Still harvesting 20plus peppers every 3days at the moment. Although our weather is now humid, cool and cloudy, has been for the last week and according to the forecast will remain the same for the next week... So everything will now slow down...

Next year I will not grow quite some many small peppers (I didn't realise this years weather would be so good!) and expand the picking season with some larger varieties..

[Two_Sheds]

They’re so pretty, but I’m intolerant: they give me painful indigestion, (but chillies don’t)

[Earthgirl Jen]

They’re so pretty, but I’m intolerant: they give me painful indigestion, (but chillies don’t)

I must have munched my way through a piece of nearly all of them (just to check sweetness you know )

Chillies don't particularly like me... lol... Good job we are all different

[robbra]

Mine have been flowering for about a week so is it too late to expect peppers to appear?
Rob

[Earthgirl Jen]

Mine have been flowering for about a week so is it too late to expect peppers to appear?
Rob

As long as you have insects about to pollinate them then...
No we are still in the middle of Aug, I still have small peppers appearing on my plants and as long as we get some warmth at some point over the next couple of months then the peppers will grow and ripen.
The weather will decide how large they get. I harvested my last peppers last year in October. Just don't keep them overlywet, just moist. If the weather is like ours cloudy and humid for the last 2 days then I've just kept them moist as they aren't drinking much. So watered yesterday and today I haven't. No sun at all and a humidity over over 70% for the last 48hrs...

if no insects about then the paintbrush method (just like for melons) but just brush the pollen from flower to flower and share it between them all should make sure you get some peppers.

[robbra]

Thanks Jen,
This is the first year any of my peppers, or they could be chillies, a mixed packet, have ever got to this stage. Must be the weather.
It looks like the paint brush again like I did with my pear trees, worked a treat, they taste sweet.

[chillithyme]

I picked up a pack of these seeds in wilko today,half price,can’t wait to grow them