Bell Peppers in flowering stage

[flowerbug]

i remove buds when i'm planting them out or if i notice them earlier when they are still being moved around before transplanting. after that i tend to leave them alone. sometimes we get three crops.

 

[hdan]

i remove buds when i'm planting them out or if i notice them earlier when they are still being moved around before transplanting. after that i tend to leave them alone. sometimes we get three crops.

I haven't planted a lot of bell peppers.
I believe you're saying they bloom and produce fruit three different times back to back.

 

[flowerbug]

I haven't planted a lot of bell peppers.
I believe you're saying they bloom and produce fruit three different times back to back.

yes, about that, some years we get an earlier frost which will interrupt their last crop, but we will still harvest and use whatever is left.

 

[hdan]

@hdan this is the information I have used when growing peppers, and it has worked very well for me. This lady grows thousands of plants a year. http://pepperseeds.ca/index.php?route=product/category&path=114_89
I pick off all flowers until the plants are a large size, I don't go by plant out date. Peppers that develop when the plants are too small will often stunt the plant and reduce how many peppers it will grow. The energy gets too diverted into growing the fruit instead of the plant. I started getting really nice harvests when I kept all flowers off until the plant was at least a foot tall and bushy. She recommends keeping flowers off for a month once transplanted.

 

[hdan]

@hdan this is the information I have used when growing peppers, and it has worked very well for me. This lady grows thousands of plants a year. http://pepperseeds.ca/index.php?route=product/category&path=114_89
I pick off all flowers until the plants are a large size, I don't go by plant out date. Peppers that develop when the plants are too small will often stunt the plant and reduce how many peppers it will grow. The energy gets too diverted into growing the fruit instead of the plant. I started getting really nice harvests when I kept all flowers off until the plant was at least a foot tall and bushy. She recommends keeping flowers off for a month once transplanted.

Just transplanted my bell pepper plants 5/23/24, and the plants are 18-20" tall. I know if you pinch off flowers for too long the July heat will drop your bell peppers and flower blooms over 90°. But also I here pinch off until one month after transplant which would take me into mid June pinching flowers.
I remember you saying you like to pinch off until 12" tall. I'm 6-8" over 12" now.
Maybe I shouldn't pinch anymore off.

 

[heirloomgal]

Just transplanted my bell pepper plants 5/23/24, and the plants are 18-20" tall. I know if you pinch off flowers for too long the July heat will drop your bell peppers and flower blooms over 90°. But also I here pinch off until one month after transplant which would take me into mid June pinching flowers.
I remember you saying you like to pinch off until 12" tall. I'm 6-8" over 12" now.
Maybe I shouldn't pinch anymore off.

That is a consideration @hdan , because they do drop at those temps. Being in a colder zone here I don't think about that much. The main thing to consider when you're pinching flowers is the size of your plant - if the plant seems like a good enough size to hold a clutch of peppers you can stop. The plant will continue to grow somewhat when you stop pinching flowers, but not near as much as before they start fruiting. Your plants sound big enough to stop pinching and begin to let peppers form.

 

[ninnymary]

Well this is interesting. I've never had blooms when I transplanted them into the ground. I do pinch the tops off to encourage branching and bigger harvestand then let them grow a bit more before putting in ground.. Although I only plant jalapenos and shi****o peppers.

Mary

 

[hdan]

Well this is interesting. I've never had blooms when I transplanted them into the ground. I do pinch the tops off to encourage branching and bigger harvestand then let them grow a bit more before putting in ground.. Although I only plant jalapenos and shi****o peppers.

Mary

My peppers was planted from seed 2/19/24. A bit early.
Have cut off at least 100 flowers per plant in the past month.
Transplanted after night time temperture maintained 60° 5/23/24 at 20" tall.
Nice thick stalks full of flowers. now.

 

[Decoy1]

Interesting discussion. I’m more interested in producing peppers early and then over a spread of time rather than in producing large plants. So I tend to let them do their own thing unless they produce flowers very early. I’m grateful for the fruit that has got to a fair size already.

 

[hdan]

Interesting discussion. I’m more interested in producing peppers early and then over a spread of time rather than in producing large plants. So I tend to let them do their own thing unless they produce flowers very early. I’m grateful for the fruit that has got to a fair size already.

Just a experimental thing. I probably did cut off more flowers than needed.