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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: 69diver on September 09, 2009, 17:38:26
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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
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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.
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My money would be on snails... :-\
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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. ::)
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Thanks all - off to check for the slimey friends - thought it might be them, but couldn't find any trails at first glance
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Welcome to A4A... 69diver... I found one actually inside the pepper! >:(
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Thanks Saddad - my kids call me that sometimes ;D
Better take an endescope!