Topic: Whats getting my peppers?

[69diver]

Hi all

First year of a greenhouse on my plot and thought I would go mad with quite a few peppers. Now I have been on holiday and entrusted the watering etc to other family memebers, looking forward to my nice sweet peppers when I came home.

This is what I found

1-  they are mostly still green - only one pepper from nearly 20 plants, all with multiple peppers has started to go red - how long should this take - is it the weather?

2-  something has started eating the peppers from point they attach to the stalk

Any thoughts/advice/support welcome

Regards all

Dene

[BarriedaleNick]

What variety\type 69diver?  And when did you sow\plant out?
Peppers can take a long time to ripen and if you get going late they will be late to form fruit and ripen fully.

Difficult to say what been attacking them without a pic but I have had slugs take chunks from the pepper near the top.
If one is red I expect the rest will follow soonish.  If they dont - pick em anyway and try ripening on a window sill or with a banana or two - Ethylene gas is released as the banana’s ripen and this can help to ripen other fruit although I haven tried it with peppers..
Green peppers are perfectly fine to eat - maybe not as sweet but still good eating.

[saddad]

My money would be on snails...  :-\

[Sholls]

Probably a snail, but I'd also check for signs of caterpillar activity (droppings) and pick off any you discover. I'm still finding monsters, some of which seem a little backward; because as well as chomping on the soft flesh of the fruit they're also going for the stalks.  ::)

[69diver]

Thanks all - off to check for the slimey friends - thought it might be them, but couldn't find any trails at first glance

[saddad]

Welcome to A4A... 69diver... I found one actually inside the pepper!  >:(

[69diver]

Thanks Saddad - my kids call me that sometimes ;D

Better take an endescope!