
Planting, Growing, and Harvesting Bell Peppers (Sweet Peppers)
Cooking Notes
Peppers are excellent with almost anything: sandwiches, scrambled eggs, pizza, salads, and dips.
We also enjoy cooking peppers, whether in a beef stir-fry, as smoky roasted peppers, or in meat- and rice-stuffed peppers.
Plus, peppers can be pickled! See how to make pickled peppers!
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Keep the seedlings under the lights as long as you keep the plants indoors. Move the light up as the seedlings grow. When the seedlings are about 3 inches tall you can move them into small individual pots. When night temps reach about 50 degrees it’s time to start hardening the pepper plants. Put them outside in the shade for 1/2 day at first. Then put them outside for the day and gradually move them into the sun before planting them in the ground.
I recently started peppers from seeds using peat moss pellets. Most of the seeds I planted have begun to sprout. I've started leaving the plants in the windowsill and then under a regular desk lamp for light and heat. Do they need to have light all night right now?
how many are the plant yield of bell pepper??/ pls advice thankyou
The yield of a bell pepper will depend on many factors, such as variety, weather and soil conditions, pests, timing, spacing, light, etc. However, for a rule of thumb, bell peppers average about 6 to 8 peppers per plant. Some may yield less (2 or 3), some more (15 or more). Pepper size will vary as well.
I'm a beginner at growing any type of plant. I recently planted four different types of pepper seeds (anaheim, sweet banana, poblano, and pasilla), i put ten seeds in each pot and most have sprouted already. My question is, did I put too many seeds in one pot? and if so, how can I fix the problem since most have sprouted?
How big is the pot? If you are using a tiny pot for seed starting, then 10 is too many. Usually about three would do, and then pinch off one as they show their first true leaves (the first “leaves” are actually sort of baby leaves, called cotyledons, that develop with the seed. The next leaves that form are called “true” leaves, and function slightly differently.) Since you have ten seedlings together, what you can do is either pinch off the weaker seedlings at the base (don’t pull them up, as they may injure the roots of other seedlings)—saving two healthy seedlings to grow in the pot. The other thing you might try is a little more risky — take a blunt pointed object, such as a dull pencil, to tease apart a seedling from the surrounding ones — be very gentle with the plant and at detangling its roots from the others; you don’t want to damage either seedling. Plant the seedling that you removed into another pot. Do the same for seven more seedlings if they look healthy, leaving two in the original pot, preferably undisturbed. The transplanted seedlings may recover enough from their move to continue growing. Good luck!
Do you know what the chemical is in bell peppers that dissipates as it ripens? It has a slight 'bite' to it... that same 'bite' is found in zucchini, and eggplants. I have an immune system that reacts to zucchini, eggplant and green bell peppers. I react less to them when they are ripe.. (that chemical is also apparently present in a lower amount in some of the hot peppers... oddly I can eat jalapenos or hot Hungarian peppers with little reaction!) I know this isn't a 'normal' question for you... but it would help me to better understand (and possibly predict) what nightshades I can and cannot have...
Thanks!
My chilli plants are in a meshed balcony. I have hand pollinated them but still the flowers fall off. I live in Gainesville, FL (Zone 8b). I water them twice a week, when I see the plants drooping because of the heat. I don't over water them as I lost a few plants to showers through the mesh from heavy rains. Why don't I get any fruits?
It too hot for them. They need a cooler environment. Take them indoors and just place them in front of a sunny window. Water once a week because you don't want to over do it since they'll be inside.
Heat causes blossoms to drop. Daytime temps above 90 or night temps above 75 degrees can cause blossoms to drop and even small fruits to abort. Optimum high temperatures for peppers are 60 degrees at night and 85 during the day. Also how shady is your mesh screened balcony? They might not be getting enough light.