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Ever get the feeling you should just give up?
Sweet peppers......not at all sweet. I nurtured and did everything right that I can see and my peppers taste.....well just awful. In fact maybe a tiny bit bitter.
My hot chillies are fine but the sweet peppers are small and green and yuk! Any ideas please what went wrong? I grew them in the greenhouse in biggish pots in multi-purpose compost. Grew them from seed starting in Feb. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! |
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Ever get the feeling you should just give up?
"Lintama" wrote
Sweet peppers......not at all sweet. I nurtured and did everything right that I can see and my peppers taste.....well just awful. In fact maybe a tiny bit bitter. My hot chillies are fine but the sweet peppers are small and green and yuk! Any ideas please what went wrong? I grew them in the greenhouse in biggish pots in multi-purpose compost. Grew them from seed starting in Feb. It's been that sort of year, ours in the greenhouse are only now growing fruit and the ones out on the allotment have done nothing at all. I think it was the cool and very up and down spring and early summer which held them back. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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Ever get the feeling you should just give up?
On 11/01/15 15:55, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Lintama" wrote Sweet peppers......not at all sweet. I nurtured and did everything right that I can see and my peppers taste.....well just awful. In fact maybe a tiny bit bitter. My hot chillies are fine but the sweet peppers are small and green and yuk! It's been that sort of year, ours in the greenhouse are only now growing fruit and the ones out on the allotment have done nothing at all. I think it was the cool and very up and down spring and early summer which held them back. For some reason, sweet peppers are much more sensitive to temperature than (most) hot peppers. I believe that Capsicum chinensis (Scotch bonnet, habanero etc.) are also sensitive, but I don't like their taste, so have never tried growing them. I tried sweet peppers, once, and had zero set, so gave up. This year has been dire, and I had failures even on fairly reliable vegetables. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Ever get the feeling you should just give up?
"Lintama" wrote in message ... Sweet peppers......not at all sweet. I nurtured and did everything right that I can see and my peppers taste.....well just awful. In fact maybe a tiny bit bitter. My hot chillies are fine but the sweet peppers are small and green and yuk! Any ideas please what went wrong? I grew them in the greenhouse in biggish pots in multi-purpose compost. Grew them from seed starting in Feb. Indian gardeners in the UK, swear by sowing the seeds in October and then overwintering the plants for the following year. We do this for garlic, why not peppers? Phil |
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Ever get the feeling you should just give up?
"philgurr" wrote in message ... "Lintama" wrote in message ... Sweet peppers......not at all sweet. I nurtured and did everything right that I can see and my peppers taste.....well just awful. In fact maybe a tiny bit bitter. My hot chillies are fine but the sweet peppers are small and green and yuk! Any ideas please what went wrong? I grew them in the greenhouse in biggish pots in multi-purpose compost. Grew them from seed starting in Feb. Indian gardeners in the UK, swear by sowing the seeds in October and then overwintering the plants for the following year. We do this for garlic, why not peppers? My cayennes are six inches high now, sown them in Sept. Every time I've tried starting them off in Feb or March, they are around this high by April and by May they are destroyed by greenfly. If you grow seeds from supermarket chillies, they are never attacked by greenfly but they don't produce chillies neither, they produce pointed peppers of various sizes and taste pretty much like normal capsicums. A mate of mine swears these are chillies he's growing (because the seeds came from a chilli originally) even though I can eat them raw in front of him, seeds and all....they have a very slight heat when eaten raw, but none at all when cooked, no good to me. |
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Thanks for all comments.
I will not be growing bell/sweet peppers again. Tried three years running now and won't bother next year. Will still do the chillies. I find them easy enough. |
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