Anyone collect seeds from peppers, when is the best tme?

s4lvatore

Now I love green peppers (sweet and hot) lol.

I have 4 plants in my garden that are fruiting really well, 2 hot and 2 sweet, that I just bought on a whim earlier on in the year from a garden centre. They weren't marked what type of variety it was but just chilli and pepper plants.

Turns out the sweet ones are just green, no red or yellow so I am well chuffed and want to collect some seeds.

Is it best o wait till the sweet one is really huge to collect them.

As for the hot one shall I leave a few to red and collect from that?

Lotus-eater

You leave the fruit until they are completely mature, whatever colour that may be. I like to leave my seed ones on a little longer than normal, till they are a little soft, just to make sure that they are definitely mature.

s4lvatore

Woooow, just a quick thing here, as I may have been a bit of an idiot, these green sweet peppers I got, will they go red too if I leave them on the plant?

lolly5648

Yes, if you leave the peppers on the plant they will tun red.

Farway

As you have sweet & chili peppers in close proximity the bees / hoverflies will have cross pollinated them

You may not get sweet peppers from the seed you collect, you may get large chillies,, or small sweet ones, or Heaven knows what mix

Go to Wilikinson's and buy a packet of reduced by 75% pepper seeds

Or be prepared to be disappointed in 2011

s4lvatore

Farway wrote: »

As you have sweet & chili peppers in close proximity the bees / hoverflies will have cross pollinated them

You may not get sweet peppers from the seed you collect, you may get large chillies,, or small sweet ones, or Heaven knows what mix

Go to Wilikinson's and buy a packet of reduced by 75% pepper seeds

Or be prepared to be disappointed in 2011

haha yes, I was concerned about this myself. I think I may buy some of thos pointy ones (pepper of lombardia) from seeds of italy. Anyone tried them?