I recently tried planting seeds from a green pepper, and lo and behold, it worked! I have sproutlings. I will let you know if they produce. :)
I think these are green pepper plants, am I too late in the year to get peppers and shouldn't I have yellow flowers first?
Normally green pepper plants have white flowers. The plants are still too young to have flowers. You need to grow them up more and make them stronger.
To make them stronger wait a little bit longer. Then cut off the top of the plant. This entices the plant to give new growth and makes the trunk of the plant stronger.
You need to put these plants in a larger pot. The plant only needs watering when the soil is really dry. During the winter months keep trimming the branches of your plants from time to time. The larger the plant, the healthier it is to produce and support green peppers.
To pollinate your pepper plants they need to be in a windy area. The wind pollinates the plant. If you don't have wind and see the new flowers on the plant, just give the plant a small shaking. This will pollinate the plant to produce peppers. Don't shake it too hard.
I grow a lot of pepper plants in Tahiti in our organic garden. The first year I started to grow peppers I made the mistake of letting the flowers turn to peppers. This was bad for my plants because they were too young and couldn't support the peppers. I ended up cutting the plants down and letting them grow stronger. For the first flowering I removed the flowers and didn't let them produce more pepper. Once my trunk of the plant was larger and stronger I then let the flowers produce pepper.
Hope this helps.
I don't know where you live. I'm in NY and am starting to get my peppers now. You do get a flower first. I fertilize with Miracle-Gro weekly.
You say you "think" these are green pepper plants so maybe someone gave them to you and you may not know the age of the plants.
I believe you should try moving them to a 5 gallon container as your pots look too small for a full grown pepper plant.
That looks like a tomato plant to me. It's getting pretty late in the season for either pepper or tomato plants but if the weather stays nice, you might get some fruit. I would leave it outside as long as possible.
These were not Green Peppers plants, turns out they are Cherry Tomatoes AND they have the pretties little green tomatoes you would want to see. The only trouble is, they are still green, am I to late in the year for them to ripen and get red ??
You can bring them inside and allow them to ripen in your garage or somewhere dark and cool. I have taken my unripe tomatoes and hung the entire plant upside down in my garage. I have also packed them in a cardboard box with newspaper. They have ripened either way. I remember that I still had some tomatoes around Christmastime.
Good luck, they look so pretty and will taste wonderful when ripe.
Bell peppers are surprisingly easy to grow and don't require a lot of space to produce a good harvest. This is a page about how to grow gorgeous bell peppers.
When you are new to gardening it can be confusing knowing just when to harvest your produce. This is a page about, "When are bell peppers ready to pick?".
If you put a couple of matchsticks in the hole before you put your pepper plant in, you will be providing the plant with phosphorus, and you will get a more robust plant.
I have one very nice bell pepper about 5 inches long, and the very end or tip is turning black. Any idea why?
By Tamara K.
My plants were looking great and still do. I had 2 peppers, but both of them tuned brown and mushy on the bottom. I went ahead and threw them out.
By Janice S
It sounds like blossom end rot. The rot is caused by calcium deficiency in the plant. Over-watering, too much nitrogen or low calcium in the soil can be to blame.
I have to agree with blossom end rot. Do NOT water them every day. That is way to much water for a pepper plant. Also add some calcium to your soil. IE: crushed egg shells will do nicely here, and is a cheap solution.
Pepper blossom end rot is caused simply by a calcium deficiency in the pepper plant. Calcium is needed by the plant to help form the cell walls of the pepper fruit. If the plant is lacking calcium or if the pepper fruit grow too fast for the plant to supply enough calcium, the bottom of the pepper begins to rot, because the cell walls are literally collapsing.
The calcium deficiency in the plant that causes pepper blossom end rot is commonly caused by one of the following:
A lack of calcium in the soil
Periods of drought followed by large amounts of water
Over watering
Excess nitrogen
Excess potassium
Excess sodium
Excess ammonium
In the long term, adding eggshells, small amounts of lime, gypsum or bone meal to the soil will help improve the levels of calcium and will help you avoid pepper blossom end rot in the future.
Can I grow a single red bell pepper in a pot, or do I need to have twp plants for pollination?
By Ginny from Henderson, TN
When are bell peppers ready to pick?
By ouida (WEE-DA)
You can pick them when they are green or wait until they turn red. They are supposed to be sweeter when red, but you have to leave them on the vine quite a while for that to happen, which means you will get less peppers unless you pick them when green.
I want to make sure the green peppers have grown as large as they are going to grow, so as soon as I see a patch of red on them, that is when I pick them.