Re: ? For Pepper Growers
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you can pick it now or wait till it turns red / orange / purple , what the end color depends on what you planted
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Re: ? For Pepper Growers
[Re: HobbieTrapper]
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06/15/19 02:06 PM
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Sweet peppers will be sweeter if you let it ripen/turn colors.
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Re: ? For Pepper Growers
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06/15/19 04:19 PM
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Any pepper, spicy or sweet, will get sweeter the longer you leave it on the plant. Jalapenos, for instance, are normally eaten green, but if you leave them till they turn red their flavor is much better and sweeter, it's a completely different pepper. I don't prefer the taste of green peppers, they taste under-ripe to me. I'd let it change color.
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Re: ? For Pepper Growers
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06/15/19 05:01 PM
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FWIW, there is a way to nearly quadruple your harvest.
All pepper plants grow in a Y formation. When the pepper plant starts to flower, cut the top V off of the Y to where it is just a stalk. This stresses the plants and it forms multiple stalks instead of just two.
I have had as many as 40 peppers on a standard green pepper plant. When I do this to jalapeņos, I get 100s.
You think you are gonna kill it, but it will survive. Just fertilize it more as it will be producing more. Ensure you also use epsom salt to prevent bottom rot.
Hope you like peppers. It's called topping. Marijuana growers do it to increase their production, too. That's how I learned about it. Not by growing weed, but by learning about how marijuana is grown indoors, because those guys have it down to a science and a lot of that info can be used to grow other stuff indoors. I used to overwinter my peppers indoors, you can do interesting things to your plants by manipulating light color and time. Tomatos don't like to be topped, they grow all funky. But peppers love it, If you start your plants indoors early, you can top several times to get huge bushy plants. My scorpion and 7 pod peppers were huge, like 5 feet tall and 3 feet diameter, because I'd top them several times, and having the plant be a few years old helped too. And Epsom salts and sulfur are very good for your plants.
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Re: ? For Pepper Growers
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06/15/19 05:13 PM
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. FWIW, there is a way to nearly quadruple your harvest.
All pepper plants grow in a Y formation. When the pepper plant starts to flower, cut the top V off of the Y to where it is just a stalk. This stresses the plants and it forms multiple stalks instead of just two.
I have had as many as 40 peppers on a standard green pepper plant. When I do this to jalapeņos, I get 100s.
You think you are gonna kill it, but it will survive. Just fertilize it more as it will be producing more. Ensure you also use epsom salt to prevent bottom rot.
Hope you like peppers. It's called topping. Marijuana growers do it to increase their production, too. That's how I learned about it. Not by growing weed, but by learning about how marijuana is grown indoors, because those guys have it down to a science and a lot of that info can be used to grow other stuff indoors. I used to overwinter my peppers indoors, you can do interesting things to your plants by manipulating light color and time. Tomatos don't like to be topped, they grow all funky. But peppers love it, If you start your plants indoors early, you can top several times to get huge bushy plants. My scorpion and 7 pod peppers were huge, like 5 feet tall and 3 feet diameter, because I'd top them several times, and having the plant be a few years old helped too. And Epsom salts and sulfur are very good for your plants. I used to spend spend some time in Jamaica, on a friends vegetable farm. Pepper plants can grow for several years in areas w no frost. They would grow them the first year untopped, then cut them back severely, theyd get huge, it was unreal. The third year theyd replace them with seedlings. I can remember seeing pepper plants 6-7 ft tall, with bases bigger around than a beer can. covered in literally hundreds of peppers. One of the things that stuck in my mind, he instructed the women he hired to harvest, to never early pick peppers. he said the flavor wasnt there, and they didnt keep as well.
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