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    Growing Peppers

    I've got a pepper plant I grew from seed and it's has small fruit, flowers and buds. I was just wondering how many to let fruit, I think I read somewhere that four was the limit per plant is the right?? I have about 5 fruiting and about 5 buds on the plant. Any pointers?


    Cheers

    Tim
    BTW it's a California Wonder Pepper.



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  • #2
    I don't remove the fruits from my plant but the I only get around 6 or so per plant anyway. I'd keep the 5 you have. Have you got a heated greenhouse? My plants are still tiny.
    Mark

    Vegetable Kingdom blog

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Capsid View Post
      I don't remove the fruits from my plant but the I only get around 6 or so per plant anyway. I'd keep the 5 you have. Have you got a heated greenhouse? My plants are still tiny.
      I have a unheated walk-in green house, but I've grown it in the Kitchen window. They were sown on the 24th Feb.

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      • #4
        I've got some in a similar state to yours which is really nice. Never pick off any fruits although am guessing you'll get larger ones if you do, I just prefer to have loads of smaller ones. Last year, from a pretty small Lipstick plant, I got about 15 and would have got more if it hadn't been got by an early frost.

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        • #5
          My pepper seemed to automatically stop developing more after it had set half a dozen. Some just didn't grow and others dropped off instead of growing. Then once the first half dozen were changing colour the next lot started growing. I'd just leave them

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          • #6
            I've never removed a bud/fruitlet from a pepper or chilli plant and I've been growing them for a good few years now I find that the plants automatically drop some if there's more than it can cope with.

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            • #7
              Your peppers look lovely Tim

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              • #8
                Cheers, just sown another batch and some Chilli plants too.

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                • #9
                  I'm jealous Tim, that's huge compared to mine which was sown 5 days before yours. What have you been feeding it on?
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by HotStuff View Post
                    I'm jealous Tim, that's huge compared to mine which was sown 5 days before yours. What have you been feeding it on?
                    Nothing until yesterday, They have had a lot of Sun light though.

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