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  • My peppers turning red :)

    Goes out into the greenhouse today and found 2 peppers turning red




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    Carrie

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    Fab. I like those long cornet-shaped ones. Do you know the variety?
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    • #3
      I can't think what it is off top of my head. I will have a look in the morning what it is called. I also have sweet banana peppers growing to. But they don't look as good as these ones.
      Carrie

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      • #4
        My overwintered peppers ripened early, I've had a huge crop from just the 3 plants of Doux d' Espagne. It is really worthwhile, as long as you have windowledge space



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        • #5
          Nice, I aint got that many like you. Maybe because I have not been feeding it enough.
          Carrie

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          • #6
            Wow, that's impressive!
            My peppers are still solidly green and I have my fingers crossed for them to ripen.
            How do you overwinter a pepper plant, Thelma? Do you mean that you sow them in the winter?

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            • #7
              I'd say forms Thelma means keeping a plenty from last year and making sure it makes it thru the Winter... Many people do it with chilli peppers....

              Thelma, I am growing Doux Despagne too this year from seed.. Do you do anything different with them to chilli's when overwintering??
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              • #8
                I just dig them up from the greenhouse border, trimming roots if necessary to fit into pots, and prune down to about 12 ins tall. They tend to drop some of the remaining leaves, after the shock of moving.

                They stay in the spare room where the radiator is usually off. Give just enough water to keep them alive
                until Spring, when they start to grow again. They then get a drop more water, sometimes a little half strength tommy feed.

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                • #9
                  My chillies are all still green, I'm so jealous of everyone 😀
                  I'm going to try overwintering after seeing Thelma's.


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                  • #10
                    we have some going red, the long Californian type and some yellow ringo colouring up nicely the Hungarian wax is mixed yellow, orange, red and the Hungarian black are all now going a rich dark red, we had home made pepper soup last night and it was really good and all 15 plants are cropping well after the lovely early summer so we will be freezing loads of them...mind you these were germinated in January and grown on on our wide windowsills.
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                    • #11
                      Snackbite orange have already produced one crop in July and are now starting to form new peppers. Seeds were sown towards the end of January and they stopped flowering once 4 or 5 peppers had set on each plant. I'm growing these on the landing windowsill (south facing) and hoping to overwinter them.
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                      • #12
                        My peppers are still green, but I do seem to have plenty on my two plants.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Penellype View Post
                          Seeds were sown towards the end of January and they stopped flowering once 4 or 5 peppers had set on each plant.
                          Is that typical of the variety? All the peppers and chillies I've grown have a continuous fruiting cycle, once they started flowering they don't really let up and have both on the plant all through summer.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by WilliamD View Post
                            Fab. I like those long cornet-shaped ones. Do you know the variety?
                            They are f1 corno di toro rosso peppers


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                            • #15
                              Excellent. I grew corno di toro rosso myself a couple of years ago:

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