bell peppers

[majorcatfish]

as most of you know that i started my plants inside a wee bit to early,well for this year at least...
heres my question my bell pepper plants have peppers and blooms on them and the plants are only 10-12" tall
will leaving them on stunt their growth???

 

[journey11]

I always pinch them off when that happens. Your transplants will need their energy to get their roots established first or else you'll never have a good crop from them. Also check to make sure the roots aren't bound. I would take the time to unravel those roots gently if they are.

 

[digitS']

There is a thread on here about "tree sex" :/. I haven't been allowed to look at it yet . . .

That's all these plants seem to think about, Major.

I don't have much trouble with the peppers blooming before being set out but I have removed tomato blooms and left tomato blooms when transplanting out. I get a much earlier ripe tomato if I leave flowers and tiny fruit. The plants that have no flowers during transplant are, at least, 3 times larger and, in time, 3 times more productive.

Not the best environment for peppers & tomatoes here and those that are premature never have time to catch up.

Steve

 

[canesisters]

Major - you've got peppers??!?!?!?? I am not reading any more of your posts!

My bell peppers were a few inches tall and had 4 leaves when they went out mid-April. They've still got 4 leaves and are a few inches tall.....



<grumbling about stupid cool weather and going to look for pea seeds.....>

 

[majorcatfish]

 

[digitS']

Cane', Major has been doing some major babying of those babies.

What you gotta do to maintain your gardening composure is take those kind of things into account.

Yes, that and do this very careful analysis: see, there's a chickweed plant very close to that middle pepper plant. Then, about 10" away from it, about 8 o'clock, there's a quack grass seedling. Just a few inches up is a dead nettle. You can even give special names that are just your own to identify weeds in another gardener's pictures. Yes, it all helps with gardening composure.

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

I would not remove the peppers. The only blossoms that should be removed is the ones that forms in the center crown. This will prevent the plant from stopping blossom production. You can eat them young if you are worried-they are ripe at any time. I always plant my pepper seeds very early indoors. I am in zone 6 and the season is not long enough for good pepper production. If I grow early large seedlings they begin to ripen early enough to get a big crop. If I buy seedlings at a nursery the plants will not ripen peppers until it is almost time for frost, giving me only a few peppers per plant.

 

[journey11]

Oh, I see they are already in the ground... That is a whole other story then. I was thinking you meant peppers in cell-packs...which is where mine are right now. Lucky you! If they're already established, by all means, let them grow!

 

[majorcatfish]

Cane', Major has been doing some major babying of those babies.

What you gotta do to maintain your gardening composure is take those kind of things into account.

Yes, that and do this very careful analysis: see, there's a chickweed plant very close to that middle pepper plant. Then, about 10" away from it, about 8 o'clock, there's a quack grass seedling. Just a few inches up is a dead nettle. You can even give special names that are just your own to identify weeds in another gardener's pictures. Yes, it all helps with gardening composure.

Steve

it's a continuous battle with weeds, lawn moss, poison ivy, pests etc etc.... the joys of owning property

and i love every moment here on our 3.5 acres of heaven

 

[vfem]

Major, you're lucky. Mine just got some flowers.... as do my tomatoes