Red Peppers

Kurtovszka Kápia (still green but will be red within a week or two).
A favorite of mine, very sweet and aromatic when it's red rip.



Csangó F1 hybrid Kápia. Started to become red a couple of days ago. Better late than never. The seeds were taken out from the hybrid fruit last year so it's probably not exactly the same as the original one was but it's good enough to eat.

 

Hi Everyone. I have never grown Bell Peppers before so thought I'd try it this year. knowing nothing about them we experimented with having 3 growing in a grow bag in our pop up greenhouse and the rest in a long window flower pot. They are all in the greenhouse and after a very slow start (planted in late April) they started to grow. We now have lots of flowers and a few peppers but then we noticed some black dots appearing on a couple, my biggest one is about the size of a ping pong ball. I also have a lot of yellow leaves at the bottom of the plants of the ones in the pot and not sure why this is. The middle plant in the grow bag is also withering so thinking I will have to pull it out. Any one know what I might have done wrong here? I water them a little every day but now thinking maybe that's too much. Also feed them tomatoe rite once a week.

 

Here is a couple of pictures of my peppers

 

Hi Gill.......I'm growing peppers for the first time this year but luckily haven't had any issues with mine. I planted mine in individual buckets (one in each) but still find I have to water them thoroughly every other day. I'm just wondering whether your containers were big enough, therefore the plants are suffering. When you water, make sure the soil has a good soaking and continue the feeding.

 

Hi Sheal,
Glad your not having any issues. I have three in one grow bag which is normal but I do have 6 in the other long pot so think you may be right about having to many in one pot there. Maybe they need more soil than the grow bags provide too. Next year I will try putting them in individual pots. There is plenty flowers on them, just hope some survive but doubtful as the leaves seem to be turning yellow fast.
Thanks and good luck

 

It may be a good idea to pull the worst one out of the grow bag and pull two alternate ones out of the pot to give the others a chance. It will let them spread their roots further and they'll get a better share of the feed.

 

My peppers are making up nicely but still to see some colour. I just hope they don't run out of heat and sunshine before they get there.

 

Quite a lot of "fruit" to carry on the plant, all at once. Either than or its normal and my husbandry is rubbish and thus I only get a few at a time?!!

 

I'm not sure if they should have been thinned out Kristen, I've not grown them before. The plants are about 3ft 6in tall and on that particular plant there's a lot more growing above those. I've been feeding them with tomato food.

 

I don't know either but I do know that I've never managed to get than many on my plants!

 

I have the self thinning variety. Most plants have conformed and produced no fruit whatsoever

 

Sounds more like "stick-thin" to me?!!

Zero-size model perhaps? "F0"

 

That's a shame Freddy, give them another try next year. I have just two plants, the one you see above is loaded with fruit, the other one I don't think will make it past flowering.

 

Hiya Sheal.

I will try them again next year. I'm pretty sure they were fine right up until the moment they stalled. I just need to figure out why they did that I may well try them in a Growbag next time, or even the greenhouse border, but that would mean less tomatoes, we'll see

 

Soooo.......my red peppers are still growing, in fact a couple of them are huge but I have a problem though, they are not red and showing no signs of turning red! It's late in the season and the heat has disappeared from the island, so is there any chance they'll ripen and is there any help I can give them please?