bell peppers not growing
irishpat
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Bell Pepper Growth?
Comments (11)imnotbob My peppers always seem "small", too, little dinky things, because I start them and the tomatoes only about a week apart, and the tomato growth always leaves them in the dust! Yes, a couple of feet for spacing is recommended. I agree that fertilization before you plant them out should be on the low side, but there was a recent post (don't know if you saw it) showing that growing peppers do much better with heavier fertilization than has been traditionally recommended. Keeping the fertilizer low right now will keep them from developing too fast before they have room to expand and flower in their permanent home, but heavier feeding later will probably give you some good peppers!...See MoreWays to get Bell Peppers to grow quicker?
Comments (10)Using containers will help some because the soil in them warms faster. But you can also pre-warm garden soil with black plastic landscape fabric. Once soil temp gets to 65 you can plant. Also need to insure max sun exposure in placement. You can also use the shorter DTM variety peppers. Early Thickset, Golden Bell, Gypsy, to name a few. And look at the cowhorn-types too, the sweet frying peppers as they often have shorter DTM. But since they are a hot weather vegetable you will still have the cool spring and fall temps to contend with and that means using season extenders of some kind - cloche, WOWs for spring, low tunnels, etc. Dave...See MoreBell Peppers Finally Growing
Comments (28)Seems that most gardeners complaining about sweet peppers, are in zone 5 and 6 (corelation =weather) Chilie peppers are tough cookies. They can stand heat, draught and produce. I have maybe 30 of them. In the sweet department I have Aneheim and gipsy, no bells. In Asiam farmers market here, they are so inexpensive that I did not feel growing them with pain. Growing bell peppers is pain in the neck. The weather, watering, has to be just so and so(warm days, cool nights). They do not like it hot, they do not like it cold.. Actually zones 6 nd 7 are (should be) perfect for bells. Zones 8 and over are tooo hot. Zone 5 could be a toss of coin. WE have been having low-mid 90s since early july here ATL-GA. Zones 4 and lower, are probably too cold for the bells....See Moregrowing red bell peppers indoors
Comments (1)Hi, Fenderman! I have a single red bell pepper plant growing outdoors. It has the place of honor on my patio table - the only place on the patio that gets enough sun to grow much of anything that needs sun. My answer to your question, based on this one-in-a-row experience, is that you'll keep getting peppers as long as the plant continues to get new growth. I harvested three acceptably large red bells just about 1 1/2 weeks ago. There are presently 3 or 4 that could be harvested, one more just beyond the flowering stage that seems to be developing well, and a couple more buds, on new growth, that have yet to open. On the downside, those presently ready for harvesting are distinctly smaller that the first harvest. I don't have any ready answer for this. Lack of care on my part, perhaps, or something environmental, perhaps. I find that a lot of things in this game are "perhaps"...See Morelelia
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