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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: peppers
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:45:27 -0600


Last year I tried to grow a yellow and an orange bell pepper, never
>turned. I also bought a six pack of
>chocolate peppers they never changed either. Last year was dry. Any
>suggestions? Thanks Beth


Beth

Peppers, especially bell peppers like the colored peppers you had
problems with, have a tremendous capacity to flower. They will just drop off
flowers and very young fruit they cannot support (Watch the ground
underneath pepper plants next growing season). When the plant goes into
severe stress, it just drops it's fruit and waits for better conditions.
Hot, dry summers are the worst for peppers, unless you can irrigate
properly, and I emphasize properly. If you maintain adequate water, you
should be able to produce fine colored peppers. Unless, of course, your
season is too short. But there are only a few areas in the continental
States that don't have a long enough growing season.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center




  • peppers, Hook Family, 01/29/2000
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: peppers, Shelley Pasco, 01/29/2000
    • Re: peppers, Bill Shoemaker, 01/31/2000

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