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Is there actually such a thing as a ripe green pepper?
Green peppers are not ripe. Even if the seeds are viable (immature pepper seeds can be grown if planted soon after harvesting, but don't have the food storage for long storage), if the pepper is green,...
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Is there actually such a thing as a ripe green pepper?
Usually bell peppers ripen red, orange, yellow or less commonly, brown. Most green peppers that you eat are actually unripe ones that ripen to other colors. Some peppers ripen green, but that is rare.
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Will applying twenty year old cow manure hurt my vegetable garden?
Unless harmful elements fell into your manure during those 20 years without your knowledge, it certainly shouldn't hurt anything. It might not be as potent as properly matured and composted manure, ...
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Do I plant miniature hot peppers whole or cut them open and plant just the seeds?
What I have done is open up the peppers and then clean and dry the seeds out. I subsequently store the seeds and plant them at the appropriate time in the season. In my case I plant them indoors in ...
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How can I get rid of fungus on my pepper plants?
There appears to be a long standing insect infestation, possiby whitefly (does anything rise up and fly about when you go near or disturb the plant?) or scale infestation of some sort. The leaves ...
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Will applying twenty year old cow manure hurt my vegetable garden?
Sounds like perfect stuff. You are going into winter, yes? If you are, just put it on top of the beds thickly. This will help keep the weed seeds already in the soil from germinating as well. In ...
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How can I get rid of fungus on my pepper plants?
Your close up leaf images show an aphid infestation. In my experience, this is a highly persistent insect that infests chili plants amongst others with over 500 different types of Aphids specific to ...
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What is damaging my pepper plant?
I checked both options provided by cr0 and Alina (Thank you both very very much). During the process of comparing the symptoms of glasshouse whitefly and spider mites to my plant's situation i ...
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Overwintering pepper plants
I am trying this right now. I have some transplanted into cold frames with an additional cone of opaque greenhouse film over them and christmas lights available for the coldest nights. It's been ...
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Is it safe to eat veggies grown in soil that has soured?
Yes, your peppers will be safe to eat. the only chance of contamination is if soil from your planter splashes onto the fruit, but they can be washed, and soured soil isn't much higher in human ...
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How aggressively can you prune chilli plants?
I'll help with a few suggestions on pruning. First however, you need to know that those leaves FEED your plant. Topping to make a plant thicker is fine but this usually works best with lots of sun. ...
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Any hope for these pepper seedlings?
Your seedlings look to be suffering from "damping off" — a fungal disease that is generally due to overwatering when seedlings are young. Indeed, your media looks very wet. Seedlings of this ...
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How should I deal with these ill pepper plants?
To be frank, I'd bin them without a second's hesitation, and would have done so a while back, and that's what I recommend to you. They're serving no useful purpose other than as a source of infection ...
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Keep plants alive and healthy, but at a reasonable size?
In the case of the Basil, it shouldn't be too difficult to keep it on a small scale by pruning off the tallest stem tips every few weeks. If you see any flowers begin to develop cut those off as well. ...
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Are the white sections on my bean plant's leaves caused by white flies?
No, they're not the same problem by the sound of it, though it could be. What you seem to be describing on your beans are leafminers, which are the larvae from eggs laid inside the leaf by a female ...
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Did my peppers cross? (see pictures)
If you bought these plants this year, even though they're growing in close proximity, and even if the Reaper pollinates a bell pepper, it won't affect the plants or fruits - it only affects the seeds ...
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How can I get rid of fungus on my pepper plants?
My method: take all peppers and flowers. Then put in the soil some "Actara". This should be enough to save the plant, and not to poison yourself.
Usually I take some pepper and I plant it again: they ...
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pepper rotting disease
The biggest cause of blossom end rot is not, in fact, calcium shortage in the soil - it's erratic watering. If the plant can't take up enough water for its needs regularly, it also cannot take up the ...
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Growing multiple pepper plants in one pot vs just one plant per pot
As is often pointed out in books on small-space gardening, spacing recommendations aren't set to maximise yield per unit area, but yield per plant.
If 3 plants per pot works, carry on. You'll get ...
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How to prune chili plants to help recover from transplant shock
Pruning a plant suffering from transplant shock is often a good idea. If your plant is recovering, I wouldn't worry about it too much, though. Just prune according to normal guidelines for peppers.
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How long can a bell pepper plant thrive while maintained indoors?
Mine has produced for 2 years and I'm questioning if it's going to make it for 3, carrying it through the winter in a homemade growth chamber where it loses most of its leaves. The 2nd year was more ...
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How long can a bell pepper plant thrive while maintained indoors?
My sweet red bell pepper plant is almost through its second summer. It's in a pot, so I brought it in last year and stuck it in a window and watered it daily all winter. It stopped producing around ...
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What is causing the weird bubbles on my pepper seedling's stem?
If those bubble things are hard, they're probably just root nodules, which often develop when there's enough humidity. If true, they're not dangerous at all and actually make rooting cuttings and ...
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What pepper varieties have the longest shelf-life?
It will depend on climate - more than the variety imho. Here in North Texas I have no problem with two weeks, assuming the peppers weren't picked when very ripe. However in somewhere like New Mexico ...
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Pollinating C.pubescens (rocoto) peppers
This is my favorite pepper for a number of reasons, and I have grown it for years.
I've had decent germination rates using potting soil on a heating pad. They don't germinate well in the peat pots. I'...
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Overwintering pepper plants
In my experience, overwintering pepper plants is not easy - but it is incredibly rewarding. If done successfully, you start the season with mature plants that will bloom fully much earlier in the ...
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Crippled young leaves on pepper plant
The roots look healthy enough. Given it's a pepper it's probably ok it is getting potbound, but it will need a new pot (only 1" to 2" bigger though) sometime. I guess you know removing a plant from ...
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Identify pepper plant with purple upright fruit
It is difficult to be sure of the variety, but yes I would say it definitely looks like a Capsicum Fruescens cultivar.
Tabasco and Twilight are probably the two most common cultivars, and these are ...
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Do super hot peppers blister as they ripen?
I will simply tell you from my years of growing and learning with growing. I have grown many different types of hot peppers. Such as habanero, jalapeno, etc. Through out all the growing, and mind that ...
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