Quote Originally Posted by stinkyattic
Yeah MArk those little peppers will keep growing until they are ripe, and you can pick them early at the green stage, or leve them on the plant to ripen fully to red or orange or yellow, depending on variety.
Yeah they have to get pollinated; the starts you got were old enough to have had flowers on them already and got pollinated before you got the plants.
There's a couple tricks I've heard about peppers... one is to make sure you harvest as soon as the fruit is ripe so they keep producing. Another has to do with the spacing between plants... I THINK you are supposed to have them fairly close together-touching, actually. Latewood... help... you know this I bet.
Watch for aphids, as they are a voracious pest of pepper plants.
The more sunlight they get, the hotter they become.
Compost is your friend.
Leftover dirt from your indoor grow room works nicely I have found... lol!
I have brought peppers indoors at the end of the season and they keep producing indefinitely except that the fucking APHIDS come with them, gawd...
thanks stinky for the input, was real curious about pepper formation..here they are in their small plot. I think I'll learn a lot with 4 different ones of each type for a change I came home and my stepdad had put a cup and some 'sevin-10' stuff to put on them for bugs..thanks so much :thumbsup: