pepper seeds - MERGED

olly300

pault123 wrote: »

smallblueplanet i took the current fruiting plant seeds from some mixed organic chillies i bought from Tesco, a mixture of green and red but all the same shape. Would the red colour further suggest cayenne variety?

If you have a look at all the chilli links posted you will read that they ripen from green to red. (Unless off course they are a different colour variety.)

You can harvest them green if you want.

pault123

Still reading through all the growing tips

The seedlings are surefire red pointed peppers and baby orange bell peppers - do peppers share the same advice as chillies?

Final question for the experts on here One of the sites suggests picking early and ripening in a drawer with some bananas, will this give same effect as leaving on plant?

smallblueplanet

pault123 wrote:

The seedlings are surefire red pointed peppers and baby orange bell peppers - do peppers share the same advice as chillies?

Final question for the experts on here One of the sites suggests picking early and ripening in a drawer with some bananas, will this give same effect as leaving on plant?

I treat my chillis/sweet peppers the same, except we tend to grow sweet peppers in the ground (greenhouse border) and more hot chillies in pots. If you read more of the post on the link below I think you'll find stuff that says something like - bigger pots give bigger plants and yields, but smaller pots give earlier yields. These things can be trial and error which can also depend on the final size of the pepper plant, there are many different varieties (as you no doubt know!) and these varieties can be very different sized plants - I was trying to grow some Brazilian starfish chillies this year, and the pictures show them growing about 6ft high! :eek:

This link talks about 'artificially' ripening chillies, you will have to register to read it, but its a very good forum dedicated to chilli growing.

http://www.chillisgalore.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6673

SuzieMum

Forgive me but I cannot find help on peppers anywhere but then again I am new here so may be lost!

It is my 2nd year home growing veg. I've realised the absolute absurd price of red peppers (60p each or more!!) so want to try growing them this year. Are they best to start from seed? Do they grow easily and what would they need to be in? A tub, veg patch or gro bag? Do they grow *up* things like beans? Any tips much appreciated.

mum_of_4

SuzieMum wrote: »

Forgive me but I cannot find help on peppers anywhere but then again I am new here so may be lost!

It is my 2nd year home growing veg. I've realised the absolute absurd price of red peppers (60p each or more!!) so want to try growing them this year. Are they best to start from seed? Do they grow easily and what would they need to be in? A tub, veg patch or gro bag? Do they grow *up* things like beans? Any tips much appreciated.

Yes, so easy to grow. I sow mine by mid Feb as they take a long time to get going and with our summers, or lack of them they need to make the most of any sunshine.

I only ever buy my pepper seeds from realseeds.co.uk because they sell really early types which they grow theselves.

Peppers are not big plants so you can grow them in pots. I often growsome in pots as well as beds so i can have another row of plants on the staging in the polytunnel. They are not climers.

See my list of plants that I intend to grow.

SuzieMum

Great news. Somehow I thought they were hard to grow! I will start them off in the porch which is as hot as any greenhouse and put them out when warm enough. A stupid question coming up. When you buy a packet of seeds, how many do you actually plant to get a couple of decent plants to put in a pot? What I mean is do they all germinate? I only want enough pepper plants to fill 1 tub, but not over crowd?

jabba4

1 plant will probably be enough for one largish tub.

Why don't you try growing one in the porch all summer and one in the garden. You'll probably notice a real difference in the rate of ripening.

ALIBOBSY

We grew peppers and chillis in tubs last year, they seem to be quite compact little plants and easy to grow.
I used cheapo seeds and every one I planted grew

ali x

Farway

I must be growing the wrong sort of peppers, my plants were huge, about 4 feet tall and very bushy, the peppers rotted before they ripened [2 years on the trot]

But being a gardener optimism is inbreed, and yet again I will try this year, perhaps a different variety, I have some "Sweet mini red" reduced price from Wilko, plus some long types from Lidl's I have saved seed from, wish me luck

mum_of_4

With peppers you have to remember that we don't have long summers.

Peppers must be sown by mid Feb otherwise forget it. They are easy to grow! Likie suggested it pays to buy the early peppers because you have a fighting chance of red/orange peppers.

It's also the easiest fruit to save seeds fro, so it's worth paying for good seed.