Pepper Plant help needed - MERGED

olly300

miss_corerupted wrote: »

just found some spare sweet pepper seeds is it to late to plant them now??
planning on keeping them in greenhouse.

The problem you will have is that they won't have enough sun in the winter to allow fruit to ripen. I would wait until next year and sow them in early spring.

miss_corerupted

ah pooh!!! ah well i'll put them somewere safe then!!!

KatsMeow1980

Glad to hear you've solved your knat problem Diva- having the same problems with my chilis/peppers so will be trying your attack method asap!

Little blighters have got in the mushroom kit I got my OH too! grr

Money_saving_Diva_2

Still no gnats!! Wooohooooo, just call me the gnat killer...lol:rotfl:

gillaman

Hi All
New to this thread but it looks really useful. I bought a greenhouse last year and grew peppers and tomatoes in it. Toms weren't bad, but the peppers were odd. They grew like mad, had loads of fruit and every one of the fruits developed very pale beigey patches which eventually caved in. I didn't pick one pepper. This year I've only got two plants in the greenhouse, loads of flowers and some fruit now. Fingers crossed no sign of the strange beige patches yet. Someone said it could be blossom end rot - but they were on the sides as well as the ends. Anyone got any ideas what it could be. Wrote to the RHS and they didn't know. Said take photos and send to us if it happens again! I put half a dozen plants outside this year just to see what would happen - didn't grow, looked pale and weedy so I threw them. Wondering if I should have kept going now. I also planted some tagetes in a tub and put that in the greenhouse to keep whitefly away. Haven't had any whitefly so that seems to have worked. Ordinary French Marigolds got slugged last year, but they don't seem to find the little tagetes as tasty.

~Chameleon~

gillaman wrote: »

I bought a greenhouse last year and grew peppers and tomatoes in it. Toms weren't bad, but the peppers were odd. They grew like mad, had loads of fruit and every one of the fruits developed very pale beigey patches which eventually caved in. ... Someone said it could be blossom end rot - but they were on the sides as well as the ends. Anyone got any ideas what it could be.

It certainly could be blossom end rot which according to the info on the site below can affect the sides of peppers too.

http://www.gardenadvice.co.uk/howto/disease/rot-blossomend/index.html

I've discovered it on several of my greenhouse tomatoes this afternoon so was just looking up info about it myself before I read your post. Would have to be on the ones that are just coming ripe enough to pick too :mad:

Think mine was caused by erratic watering though as unfortunately the ones in growbags dried out to the point they were wilting over twice last week

tomsolomon

tomsolomon wrote: »

Ok now I'm a little concerned......
There must be a dozen or more ants swarming each of the unopened flowers this morning......
I've done a web search and am unable to find anything yet......

Ok would the ants have anything to do with the earwigs nesting inside my only yellow pepper...................:mad:

Money_saving_Diva_2

Woooohooooooo I have my first baby green pepper growing!! :j :j (well it hopes to be a big red one when it grows up!!)

I am sooooooo excited, I just had to share it with you all! This is my first year growing them and they are living on my windowsill.:D

Ok, I can't work out how to make a picture appear on here so here is the imageshack link for those of you curious enough to want to see my new baby!!

http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=myfirstpepper24july08ur8.jpg

miss_corerupted

right, my chilli pepper plant has come out with a huge bright ornage flower. i'm starting to think i my have mislabeled it as it looks like my squash plant.

Should it have little needle liek hairs on it??? and it is quite large in comparison and doesn't look anything like mY pePper plants (if that's what they are) totally lost the plot with my palnts atm

Money_saving_Diva_2

Ok honey, I think you DID mis-label. All my pepper and chilli flowers have been white and fairly small with no hairs on but when I grew squash last year, they had orange flowers and yes, the plant had hairs. Still, it sounds like it's nice and healthy anyway!!:D