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Over the last week or so, the chilli plants (or should I say pepper plants) have decided to drop all excess flowers and "budding" fruit.
Towards the end of last month I isolated quite a few flowering buds. After pollination, I marked them up and thought nothing of it. Last week I noticed that some of the pods I had marked had fallen to floor.
Looking closer at the plants, it seems that all the plants with heavy crops of fruit have started to drop fruit. Flowers and fruit that have not fully formed are drying up then falling off.
It is not a real problem as I have seed for next year
. Just another learning experience. Get your pods isolated early doors.2 actions.
I'm going to give additional feed to see if that helps.
Will harvest some of the green fruit on duplicate plants to see if that brings them back into flower.
I don't think it's as much to do with lack of pollination, as some people seem to think.
I think isolating individual flowers also leads to increased chances of those flowers dropping off because of how they've been disturbed by the isolation bag.