Pepper question

[doublebowgoats]

Can you trim back pepper plants or will it kill them? We have ours supported but they have gotten lanky the last couple of weeks. Still producing like crazy. And by the way, our one habanero plant has produced an amazing amount of peppers.

[Vicki McGaugh Tx Nubians]

Unless it's a hybrid you may want to save seed.  With our humidity we have a problem growing peppers so I always save seed from the best plants.

Sorry but not for me, trimming back peppers never improved yeilds, now indeterminate tomatoes, go for it, hack them back for tomatoes in the fall.

This month in Texas you want to pull out anything without blossoms and recompost the soil getting ready to plant Cucumbers, Squash (winter), Peppers, Tomatoes and Southern Peas.  I have varieties that I have success with if you are interested.  September 15th starts our big plantings for winter...and then the greenhouse, really looking forward for my first winter in the greenhouse!

Oh and I always use supports for my pepper plants.    Vicki

[Sondra]

my peppers all did crappy

[doublebowgoats]

Thanks for the info Vicki. Sounds like I need to get busy out there.

[Sondra]

My potted peppers have loads of blooms and no fruit 
whats up with that?

[buckrun]

Once temps are over 95 or soil temps too hot- as in potted plants- they will flower but not set fruit.  Just keep them going till it cools off and they will begin fruiting again.
Lee

[Vicki McGaugh Tx Nubians]

Pollinate them yourself also, simply use Qtips.  We have no bees and certainly no butterflies in our heat, and wind, what is that   The humidity holds the pollen in the flower so even a breeze isn't going to cut it.  Vicki

[doublebowgoats]

It seems the peppers were in their death throws. They have produced like crazy until last week when they started looking bad. But I did chop the tomatoes down to about 12 inches and within days they were producing new flowers and foliage.

[Cotton Eyed Does]

 

My potted peppers have loads of blooms and no fruit 
whats up with that?

  I would say they are not getting polinated.

[Cotton Eyed Does]

 

Pollinate them yourself also, simply use Qtips.  We have no bees and certainly no butterflies in our heat, and wind, what is that   The humidity holds the pollen in the flower so even a breeze isn't going to cut it.  Vicki

Vicki, plant Zinnias in your garden.  I have Zinnias planted all over the place and I have TONS of butterflies.  You know I love having a bunch of flowers planted in amongst the veggie plants.  Makes the garden very pretty.

[doublebowgoats]

Yes, zinnias are my favorite. We use them too and have lots of butterflies.

[Tim Pruitt]

I grew a hybrid bell type pepper that taste like bell but is long but wider than a banana pepper.  The two plants are still producing lots of peppers and grew to 6 ft tall.   We stuffed some with chevre and baked - yummy!   

[Vicki McGaugh Tx Nubians]

Tim, try saving some seeds from one of them.  My hybrid I grew 25+ years ago in Pasadena was obviously not a hybrid, and grows true year after year and does well in my garden.  When you are down to just a few peppers left, leave a few to go super ripe...going red, letting it mature, then keep the seeds.  I have been stuffing peppers this year with my meatloaf recipe...it's wonderful!  I also par boil my peppers, let them cool then stuff them with ricotta, pour marinaria over them....excellent.  Will have to try with cherve.   Vicki

[Sondra]

Well my little peppers in the pots are going great guns now that it has cooled off.

[danielsumner]

Pollinate them yourself also, simply use Qtips.  We have no bees and certainly no butterflies in our heat, and wind, what is that  The humidity holds the pollen in the flower so even a breeze isn't going to cut it.  Vicki

The really cheap makeup brushes (bristle type) from the dollar also work really great for pollinating the flowers.