Anybody got any tricks to tips for growing peppers? I have done ok with jalape�os the last few years but I can't get my bell peppers to produce as well. This year I also added some anaheim and habaneros.
Growing Peppers
- Thread starter Dodge Man
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I've never heard of anyone that had any distinct success with bell peppers. They seem to be very tempermental. You're lucky to get one the size of a small tomato.
I was taught to always plant a folded-back cardboard book of matches sulfur-head first into the dirt at the bottom of your pepper plant. Not sure about any of the science with it, but apparently hot peppers love the sulfur.
I was taught to always plant a folded-back cardboard book of matches sulfur-head first into the dirt at the bottom of your pepper plant. Not sure about any of the science with it, but apparently hot peppers love the sulfur.
Wobblyshot1
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I don't fool with bell peppers but on the others that I do grow, I've had good results using bonemeal. Sprinkle some around each plant every 2-4 weeks during the growing season.
WRbowhunter
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last year was the first year that I had good success with Bell peppers during the summer. the other years seemed like if the plants survived the summer they would not produce until late September and October.
I have had years that the bell peppers got so big and heavy that they would break the limbs but most years I am lucky to get 3 or 4 peppers per plant
catman529
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I grew bells once, production was OK, but not as prolific as the hot peppers. Hot peppers are low maintenance.
Brisco Darlin
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i grow hot peppers. you don't really have to fool with them much.
LA man
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we have had good luck planting cayanne and halapeno's and banana peppers but our bell peppers dont do to good
gil1
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Sako said:
I agree. I accidentally planted the squash a little too close to the bell peppers last year, and they got completely overrun by them. When the squash died out, I cut it back, and the peppers started growing like crazy. It was way late in the season.
