Usually refers to New World *Capiscum* plants of the *Solanaceae* (nightshade) family, but can also refer to plants such as black pepper (*Piper*) and pimenta.
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How should I store my chili seeds for planting next year?
Should I let the chili mature on the plant, cut it open and take the seeds, dry them and store in a cold, dark and dry place? Or is there more to it than that.
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What are these swirly green growths inside my bell peppers?
I occasionally discover swirly green growths inside my bell peppers, such as the ones pictured below. What are they exactly? Are they edible?
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Brown Spots on peppers
I have been growing peppers this summer and they have been doing great. The fruit is really starting to take off, but now I have 3 or 4 of my larger fruit getting these brown spots. This is a Red ...
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Help with Pepper Yield
I am growing a couple varieties of peppers this year. They are Red Thai, Bhut Jolokia, and Red Marconi. What is the most effective way to maximize the amount of fruit I get from them. They are ...
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How do I keep an indoor plant hydrated while I'm away?
I'm trying to grow chili plants in my dorm room. So far I'm just starting, so I have just four small pots (until they grow larger and I have to give them a bigger home). I'm usually away for only a ...
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Pruning leaves from bell pepper plants
I have a few bell pepper plants out in the garden and they are finally starting to bud. Is it a good idea to prune the older and larger leaves below the buds to encourage larger fruit?
I am growing ...
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How do I grow chilis in limited light?
I have been growing a few varieties of chili pepper (incl. Scotch Bonnets) in my garden since April (Spring). Due to trees, other houses, etc., they only get about 6 hours of direct sunlight a day.
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Should we help seedlings recover from a bent shape?
Young seedlings are susceptible to bending caused by external force such as heavy wind or flood. The seedlings just lie on the soil and cannot lift up by itself.
Should we help them?
I have been ...
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What is this flying insect?
I found another strange insect flying around in my garden today that I'm hoping to get identification on. This website: ...
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How do I encourage pepper seeds to germinate?
In the past 2 months, I tried to germinate some pepper seeds, but all of them failed. I used some tiny pots to contain the soil (don't know more about it; just black soil in general) and the planted ...
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Will composted cow manure harm vegetables?
We've had a mild winter here, and I'm going to plant out the broccoli (currently under lamps in the garage) this weekend. First time I've grown it and it seems to be doing well but obviously too big ...
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Is this chili plant dead?
I appreciate this is a hard question to answer, I just wanting to get people opinions on whether I can give up on these plants?
I have another plant from the same crop and it still have one or two ...
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How are peppers and mulch used in a desert environment?
I have a couple of pepper plants that I've recently procured. Since I do not want these to go the way every other plant that has been gifted to me (i.e. death), I transplanted them into some large ...
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What is this discolouration of the skin of my pepper?
One of my peppers is showing some strange discolouration of its skin. You cannot feel that it's there, so presumably this is underneath the outermost membrane of the fruit. As far as I can tell there ...
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Why are there small flies on my Fatalii pepper plant?
I have a fatalii pepper plant and today I discovered some very small larva in my plant's soil. I already saw that there were more flies than usual.
Is there any danger for my plant ? Should I kill ...
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How do I prepare a chili plant for a second year's growth?
I have finally managed to make one of my chili plants (variety unknown) live into its second year! I've kept it indoors so far this winter. As it will be spring in a couple of months (I'm in the UK), ...
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Why did my orange bell pepper smell of ammonia?
A week ago I harvested an orange Bell pepper from my garden. It was still halfway green, so I put it on our kitchen counter to ripen. When I finally cut it open for a salad after a week of ripening, ...
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Why is my pepper plant dying?
I planted a capsicum/pepper plant about 5 months back and it's been growing well and producing a few fruits.
I live in Melbourne, Australia and it's now Winter, and the plant now has lots of fruit, ...
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What sort of feeding schedule should I use for pepper plants?
I've been trying to find out about feeding my peppers plants. So far the information I've found is very inconsistent, so I'd like something as definitive as possible.
When should I start feeding my ...
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How much heat can a cherry chili pepper withstand?
How about 45 to 49 degree Celsius? In the morning, usually the temperature is quite high, and sometimes it goes up to 40+. I help to lower the temperature in the morning just once before I go to work.
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Is it worth keeping indoor pepper plants alive over the winter?
It's not quite time yet1, but I'm wondering if it will be worthwhile keeping my indoor peppers plants alive over the winter. What I've stumbled across so far seems to indicate they will probably just ...
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When to plant chili seeds in the UK?
When is the best time to start germinating my chili seeds (various varieties) in order to make the most of next years growing season?
I think I started too late this year and my crop has suffered. I ...
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Why does my pepper plant have yellowing, drying and curling leaves?
One of my pepper plants has so far suffered from pests, blossom end rot and odd skin blemishes. Unfortunately, the plant is now taking a turn for the worse and looking rather unhealthy.
The leaves ...
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How do I grow better Tabasco-type (C.frutescens) peppers?
Virtually all cultivated peppers are C.annuum, and I've had a lot of success growing these from seed. (I also usually buy 3-4 plants locally each year but selection is usually very limited)
I soak ...
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What should I do after a pepper plant has partly broken under its own weight?
So, I'm sitting here on my computer and get the life scared out of me by a horrible cracking, rustling, thudding sound. I turn to find one of my peppers plants has broken - apparently one of the upper ...
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What is the right way to pick peppers so the plant keeps producing?
Does it matter where on the stalk you cut or remove the fruit off the plant so that you don't suck away its future earning potential?
Let's take the photo here, of a Cayenne pepper (Capsicum annuum), ...
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How do I actually “pinch out” a pepper plant?
I've been given a few peppers plants a few weeks ago, which I'm now trying to grow inside, on my sunnier window ledges. While trying to find out how to care for them, most advice I've found seems to ...
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Why did my pepper plants suddenly shrivel?
I've been growing pepper and chili plants in a greenhouse on my balcony since March and they have been growing strong. However, I started a new job last week and have not had the time to tend to them. ...
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What are these blemishes on the skin of my bell peppers?
I've noticed the following on two of my oldest bell-peppers, also called capsicum (the third pepper of that "batch" had almost finished going red and ripening instead):
It's not "on" the surface - ...
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Is September a good time to sow chili pepper seeds in Hong Kong?
I want to grow some habanero chili and jalapeño chili, but it is already September in Hong Kong. Although people said that chilis can't stand winter, I suspect the recent winter of Hong Kong is ...
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Should I pick my peppers early or wait till they mature (ripen) on the plant?
I planted a small assortment of pepper plants a month ago, and I have a couple of small jalapeño and anaheim peppers hanging off of their respective plants. I'm wondering if I should go ahead and pick ...
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What kind of pepper is this and when will it be “ripe”?
What kind of pepper is this and when will it be "ripe"?
The peppers are a bit larger than a cherry tomato (maybe apricot size).
UPDATE: The peppers turn red after they ripen.
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What should I do with a leaf that was almost torn in half?
I'm growing pepper plants on my window sills, and yesterday had a minor incident.
While reaching over one of the plants in the bathroom, to close the window above it, my foot slipped and I caught ...
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Why is an indoor pepper plant flowering but not producing fruit?
One of my pepper plants has started to flower, and the petals are falling off to reveal a pepper growing from that stem - well, at least the first two have, and the other flowers seem to be bulging ...
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Insect infestation on my pepper plant, what do I do?
I have spotted that one - and only one - of my peppers plants has a number of small black flies of some type hanging around the soil. And while writing this I've just spotted that one (and only one!) ...
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Should I be concerned that my pepper plants all “face” the window?
I have peppers plants growing on my sunniest window sills, they're not massively sunny at the moment as the weathers been a bit weak recently. But the plants' leaves are quite heavily twisted towards ...
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Should I remove fruits afflicted with blossom end rot?
A few of my peppers are, it seems, suffering blossom end rot - first identified a week or two ago - this is based on the descriptions on the condition elsewhere on the site, but here's a few pics to ...
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What size plant pot should I be using for young chili plants
I have 4 small chili plants (sorry not sure what variety they are), they have 3 sets of leaves. I re-potted them from a seed tray about 2 weeks ago. I'm a bit concerned the plant pot is too big? When ...
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Are chilis an annual plant?
Are chili plants an annual plant? I have read on the web that they are perennials. But mine have never lasted more than a year.
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Do peppers change color when left on the plant?
My mother and I purchased some pepper plants from Costco. The info card they came with (which identifies them as Capsicum annuum bell peppers†) depicts vibrant red bell peppers. However, they've ...
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Will these Chili plants have enough time to flower and produce chilis?
I'm worried I might have planted my chilis too late. This is what they look like now, and there are 5-6 weeks left of summer here. Will they have enough time to produce chilies?
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One of my indoor pepper plants seems to drink less water than its peers. Should I be concerned?
When I water my potted peppers, they all get pretty much the same amount of water, as I have a small jug that I've discovered provides just enough water to soak through the soil and just start seeping ...
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A few leaves on my peppers are showing multiple small holes, should I be worried?
I've noticed that a small number of the leaves on my pepper plants are showing several tiny holes through their surface. These are focused towards the stem of the leaf, and not so much towards the ...
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What could be causing rot to appear on the skin of my bell peppers?
I have a set of four bell pepper plants that I am growing in 12" containers in my backyard. They've been growing alright until the fruits on the plants have started to develop what appears to be a rot ...
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Keeping mockingbirds off potted plants (ornamental peppers)
I have a rectangular pot on the deck full of ornamental peppers ('Poinsettia' and Chile Pequin "bird peppers"). As is typical of ornamental peppers, they're about a foot high and covered with small ...
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Should I remove the small leaves growing out of the bottom of my pepper plants?
My peppers plants are doing well (I hope...), but while looking closely at them today (I was looking at the flowers (or fruit?) poking through at the base of the leaf stems), and I've now really ...
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Why won't my pepper grow?
For the past three years (since I started gardening) I've tried with no luck to grow peppers. Two years ago I was able to grow a few pepper plants (out of many) but the peppers did not get very big. ...
