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    Gobsmacked

    As an experiment I dried a load of seeds from a sweet pepper I bought at Te**o. I sowed 4 of them a few months back as an experiment to see if it was worth saving the rest for next year and all 4 turned into plants. I was surprised they did and didn't expect anything else to happen realistically as it was getting too late.

    BUT, the last week a couple have flowered and due to the lack of bees in the conservatory I attempted to pollenate them not expecting a result. And I'll be blowed, one of the plants has sprouted two baby peppers.

    Gobsmacked
    Hayley B

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    That's fab - don't be too hasty to get rid either - we grew peppers on a balcony of our house in Nottingham a couple of years ago and were harvesting peppers on Christmas Day...that's where our tradition of having a full chilli with trimmings for Christmas Day lunch came about [and long may it continue].

    Also, they should spring into life in the spring and give you much earlier peppers for next year.

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    • #3
      It's stories like this that make me tempted to just trying sowing out of season... the weather seems so up the spout and I have a few spare seeds, so who knows what might grow.
      pjh75

      We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed. (Neil, The Young Ones)

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      • #4
        i too have grown peppers,chillis,sweet pots and tomatoes from good shop bought specimens and have had good results my next experiment is going to be kiwi !! ha ha that should be fun will post results
        cheers tracy

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        • #5
          oh now that is interesting. I have a few tiny peppers on my plants in my mini greenhouse. i was going to just go and compost them but I might give them a chance to keep growing - will put them in the spare room I think.
          We plant the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed - Neil, The Young Ones

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          • #6
            Thanks MoM I'll be looking forward to eating my first ever sweet pepper.

            I've given the plants a feed and today one of the peps has almost doubled in size, really dinky. Two more plants are flowering although one of them the leaves are looking a bit mosaicy the fourth plant is half the size of the others. I'm surprised I got a 100% rate on the seeds taking if anything.

            Tried pollenating another two flowers today fingers X'd
            Hayley B

            John Wayne's daughter, Marisa Wayne, will be competing with my Other Half, in the Macmillan 4x4 Challenge (in its 10th year) in March 2011, all sponsorship money goes to Macmillan Cancer Support, please sponsor them at http://www.justgiving.com/Mac4x4TeamDuke'

            An Egg is for breakfast, a chook is for life

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            • #7
              i've just brought a couple of plants in, they haven't grown much outside at all, so may as well see what happens.

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              • #8

                I grew these peppers this year from seed from a supermarket pepper. They did really well and produced good crops.
                If they're indoors they don't seem to mind what month it is so it's worth persevering even late in the year.
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                • #9
                  I have a pepper which was stunted due to the cold summer, but it's now growing indoors and although it isn't flowering, I have high hopes for an out of season pepper harvest!!

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