Sweet Peppers and Chilis

ellemm

Zazen999 wrote: »

Yes, wait until they are red but if the season ends then take them off green and they should turn colour eventually.

Thanks Zazen999. I have noticed the plant I have taken inside does not have any more flowers developing so I guess what's on it just now will be all I will get.

Zazen999

ellemm wrote: »

Thanks Zazen999. I have noticed the plant I have taken inside does not have any more flowers developing so I guess what's on it just now will be all I will get.

Not necessarily; if this is the case, then it might flower again once the chillis are taken off; I am afraid I rarely leave them on to go red/yellow whatever....so mine keep flowering to keep producing.

If you dare; try taking them ALL off, once they reach a reasonable useable size, and see what happens.........

ellemm

Zazen999 wrote: »

Not necessarily; if this is the case, then it might flower again once the chillis are taken off; I am afraid I rarely leave them on to go red/yellow whatever....so mine keep flowering to keep producing.

If you dare; try taking them ALL off, once they reach a reasonable useable size, and see what happens.........

Might as well give it a go - thanks!

evilmonkey_2

I'm attempting to grow chillis on a very bright window ledge. I'm watering them twice a day, I've given them food, and they plants are growing hugely tall and bushy but refusing to flower. Only one has produced any flowers, and those have all died off. What am I doing wrong?

Why are my chilli plants just sitting there being green?

Zazen999

Watering twice a day :eek:

Stop feeding them; and stop giving them so much water. Let them dry out a few times so that the leaves droop before giving them more water. Nip the first flower off. All this serves to make it think it is drying so it should send out flowers shortly afterwards.

How is it getting pollenated? Try leaving outdoors if you can or leaving the window open on nice sunny days - or any day when it isn't pouring down.

davemorton

Another question, in one sense I am lucky, as my chilli plant must have over a 100 chillis on it,, but they are all really small (about 10mm) and dont seem to be getting any bigger. I chopped the top of the plant off to stop it growing any ore, as it was just gettting too big. Will these chillis increase in size, and is there anything I can do to help it? (dont know what sort of shillis, as it was just bought as a 'chilli plant'.

davemorton

Just looked, and it is a scotch bonnet.

Zazen999

Scotch bonnets shouldn't be that small; but if it is a seed saved by someone who doesn't know about seed saving - peppers don't always come true unless the flower was isolated so it might be a quirk. If it was bought from a garden centre/nursery then I'd be inclined to call up and ask....or just start taking some of the bigger ones off and using them to allow the plant to put energies into the others.

SEE

When I bring my plants in for the winter, will the leaves drop off and then come back in the spring?

davemorton

Thanks Zazen, although even the bigger ones are too small to use (about the size of a pea.) I thought it might have been because there was so many fruit on the plant. Oh, and yes, it was a shop bought plant.