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Hi everyone - does anyone know why my peppers are turning purple and not red like they should - before you ask, no they are not a purple variety - I had this last year so was very careful this year and brought only red varieties???

Could it be the weather - and the temp fluctuations that we have been having?
They are grown in a small poly tunnel.

Regards
Suzie Q

They will go red, don`t sweat it !!

Purple is an intermediate colour on the way to red.  Some of mine are almost black but are showing hints of red.  Perfectly normal!

Quote from: BarriedaleNick on August 27, 2009, 08:27:41
Purple is an intermediate colour on the way to red.  Some of mine are almost black but are showing hints of red.  Perfectly normal!

Thats reassuring as a similar thing has happened to some of my chilli peppers...

Perfectly normal!

The following picture shows you it in three stages;

As said-perfectly normal

lovely picture - they are much more purple than that but as another said theirs went nearly black.

I have to say they look nothing like the picture - if they looked like that I wouldn't be worried at all.

Still - I'll sit it out longer ::)

Bolivian Rainbow, Numex Twilight, Trifetti, Orozco etc all have  a distinctly purple phase on the way to red.