Allotments 4 All
Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: tim on August 24, 2007, 06:43:20
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They look well Tim. Mine are getting bigger and bigger but I want red ones. I had a beautiful aubergine and when I looked the bottom had gone rotten. Is this a common fault like blossom end rot.
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Yes Shirlton, but not as common as slug/snail damage... expensive tastes molluscs!
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Or Earwigs!
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They look a delight Tim. Do you keep that as a perennial?
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Too much hassle!
I know some do it with Chillies, but one year's Chilli crop lasts us several years.
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Congrats Tim, looks very healthy - and prolific. Will add to the list for next year :)
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I am also adding this to the list for next year. I have no luck with sweet peppers, and the old man hates them so one plant with fruit like that would be just perfect for lill'ole me. Looks wonderful Tim!
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Tim, you know they will ripen. Gypsy is my most reliable and prolific pepper. Mine are like yours but there is a hint of brownish red to be seen since our summer here in the southwest started four days ago. Quite suddenly the GH toms, peppers and cucumbers seem to be getting on with it at last.
Tricia
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Yes - I'm very patient, but the season of use is rapidly waning.
We normally start picking in mid-July!!
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Tim, are they grown under glass?
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Oh, sorry - I'm always urging people to declare in or out. Very much in for us - not the best growing area.
This is an earlier planting of Gypsy - with Labrador, a trial variety nearest.
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I am so envious of your peppers Tim. I never achieve such splendour, but then I don't have lashings of room in the greenhouse and tend to grow heaps of chillis as we use lots of them but only a few peppers. Me thinks I am going to have to construct some sort of polytunnel or greenhouse on the allotment.
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I think I need a bigger greenhouse too.
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Yes - they are coming along!
This is a later planting than our main lot.
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Wow tim they look amazing :o
How are the plants supported then, it looks like you have a stake but are the branches also supported somehow? x
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I am envious Tim, as my peppers have not even flowered yet.
Is it time to throw the plant on the compost heap or should I persevere :-[
Debs
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Debs - not a lot of hope, I'm afraid. I doubt even my 2-3" green chillies will ripen.
Kitten - string circle every foot. (Did you see my kittens?)
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Gypsy is a lovely pepper, so reliable too. Pity it is an F1 hybrid so we can't save the seed. They are so darned expensive! I've just picked the last 4 on my one plant I grew this year.
Also have 2 plants with 5 massive Jumbo Peppers which are starting to turn red. They were the last to ripen last year too.
My small GH is emptying fast!
Tricia
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I've saved Gypsy before and it's seemed ok. Wouldnt hurt to try.
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As you say Jenny - worth a try. What a pity all my Gypsy peppers are already in the freezer :(.
Tricia
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Thanks tim, great plan. Kittens ???
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http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,35665.0.html
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I've got Canape (F1) and Sweet Rainbow, both have ripened/are ripening for the first time ever. :)
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I have decided that I really do like enormous but green peppers lol
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Your peppers are stunning Tim. Can you divulge the make of the growbags that you use please and what you feed your greenhouse plants with? Thanks.
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I really don't think it makes much odds? I'm sure TG & others will comment.
You see, the ones in this thread are in http://www.thewormcastcompany.co.uk/ bags, while these below are in cheapo ones. Much is luck? Other Peppers ithe same bags have been very poor & late.
Everything in the greenhouse - this year - has ben getting a twice-weekly feed of high K.
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Thanks for that reply Tim. I have tried to grow peppers for two years now but without success. The plants grow to about 3 inches and then stop. Mine have never had fruit. Perhaps it will be a case of third time lucky next year. :D