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I would like to grow sweet pepper plants next year in 2008 but as I haven't had any experience growing these I don't know what would be a good started seed.

These would be kept in the greenhouse in growbags (maybe try some outdoor ones).  How many to a grow bag (deep ones)?

As always TeeGees site has provided great info.

What do you think?

PS, just want to say hi to everyone again, not been around here for a while. 2008 is gonna be a big year for me too, gonna be a Dad!!!!  ;D

congratulations on the impending babby,ChrisG..we're trying marconi swet pepers this year, plus a packet we bought from asda, all different colours but I've lost the packet..they did really well for us last year..also saved some seed from a long red pepper we bought from lidl in summer  :)

This is an easy question, in my opinion  without a doubt GYPSY, I grow several others too, but if I had only one it would be this one... yellow, then goes to red and it is reliable when the weather is iffy. It is one of only a few veggies that I would be so adamant about I have pictures somewhere I will find and post XX Jeannine

No need!!

Another vote for Gypsy! Very reliable.

And I've saved my own seed for years. I know in theory you can't from an F1, but it comes up spot-on true to type, except that it turns red earlier. Seems OK to me.

These look great!

Whats the cheapest you have bought them for and where?

I'm trying a variety called Jumbo.
I have suspicions that the picture on the packet is of somebody with very small hands.
The seeds were quite expensive at £2.25 for only 6.

Chris, I started this. PM me and you can have a few  Gypsy on me,I have plenty XX Jeannine.

Thanks Tim, I couldn't find my picture.

Lipstick and Sweet Chocolate - both cropped really well  - somewhere on the forum there is a photo of the plants>

Quote from: Jeannine on December 31, 2007, 17:58:07
Chris, I started this. PM me and you can have a few  Gypsy on me,I have plenty XX Jeannine.

Thanks Tim, I couldn't find my picture.

Thanks Jeannine, PM on its way

As you are at about the same latitude as me, I would suggest King of the North. I have grown it for 2 years now and it is at least 4 weeks earlier than others that I have grown in the past. It produces big red(when ripe) fleshy, peppers. I grow mine at 6 to 8 plants to a growbag on the greenhouse staging. You need to start the seed in heat indoors during February and transfer them to the greenhouse in late April or early May.
I put two plants outside last year with some early protection and they produced a few peppers. As these plants still looked OK in October, I potted them up and they are sitting on my windowsill. This is an experiment to see when they will start flowering again, and then they will go back to the greenhouse.

I find the old/cheap ones California Wonder and Worldbeater quite adequate...
;D

I agree with Jeannine and Tim - definitely Gypsy, closely followed by Jumbo which really does produce enormous fruit which do eventually ripen to red. Both are for growing in the GH and in my experience are still producing fruit long after other varieties have finished.

Tricia

 :) another vote for Lipstick and Californian Wonder from me

Depends so much on what you want them for.
Prefer a good Bell - Labrador - for stuffing.
Prefer a really solid little one - Topepo Rosso - for salads.
Gypsy is always there for anything else. But there are so many good ones.

realfood - 8 to a bag? - that has to be a record? I find 2 crowded.

I couldn't imagine 8 to a bag either XX Jeannine

I grow mine one to a 10-inch pot....

I'm a fan of Toreador, but will also be trying Gypsy this year.

Yes, I grow 6 or 8 to a bag with no problems, though it is usually a 60 litre bag. Got to make best use of the greenhouse space you know. Aubergines I grow at 3 to a bag.