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  • From: sunnfarm AT netscape.net
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu ("Market Farming")
  • Subject: RE: Peppers
  • Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:43:00 -0400


When you remove the first flowers you are actually removing the crown set of
fruit, this first set can draw all the energy from the plant but the crown
set also makes some of the largest earliest fruit, they can yield more than
300 bushels per acre on the first picking, this picking usually brings $6000
an acre or more at my local auction block, pepper growers usually pick the
crown set then inject 30 pounds of nitrogen per acre throw drip to get the
plant back on course...Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

>
>I know that large hydroponic growers do remove the first couple of
>flowers off of their pepper plants and then train them to two stems.
>The removal of the early flowers gives greater overall production in
>the long run.
>



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  • Peppers, gutierrez-lagatta, 04/13/2002
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