Posted: 8/10/2010 4:36:29 AM EDT
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Well for some reason I am not getting any peppers. The plants are big beautiful and healthy. Plants are at least two feet tall and have lots of new growth.
There are 5 different varieties. I started all of the plants from seeds back in Early March. I swear I saw blossoms here and there over a month but I have yet to see a single pepper. My boss has always had great success with his peppers but he is having a similar problems with the exceptions of his Jalapenos. I am think that it is caused from the weather conditions this year. Any ideas? |
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No insects to pollinate the flowers? Over 90* days are said to cause blossom drop on many peppers. I never noticed that this year though as we've had quite a few days over 90 here. That is a possibility but the tomato plants have lots of tomatoes just ten feet away. |
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Could be nutrition, i.e. too much N, not enough P, K & trace.
Most likely it's the heat and lack of pollinators. Blossom drop is a common problem. Companion plant stuff like Borage and Cone Flower to attract bees. If you're feeling froggy, you could try hand pollinating your plants but that's a big pain in the ass. |
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Peppers need magnesium.
Take some epsom salt (you know, for your feet), a TBLspoon or so put it in a clean spray bottle, fill with water, shake well mist the pepper plants with this epsom salt mixture (preferably while blooming) watch your plants fall over from so many peppers Literally 20 to 30 peppers per plant. |
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My peppers pollinate fine here in NM and we have mostly over 90 days and a lot of over 100 days. I just picked a five gallon bucket of green chiles last week off of five plants.
I would say it is something in the soil, or not enough water. They will need more water than usual in the heat. |
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Quoted: My peppers pollinate fine here in NM and we have mostly over 90 days and a lot of over 100 days. I just picked a five gallon bucket of green chiles last week off of five plants. I would say it is something in the soil, or not enough water. They will need more water than usual in the heat. We don't get 90+ days very often, but we've had a string of them this year (over 20 and counting), and I'm still seeing my flowers turn into peppers. On both sweet bell and japs. The bees have been out every day, regardless of temp. |
| I don't worry about my pepper production until they have been in the ground 90 days or so they just are not meant to be a huge producer in short time frames. I planted mine around May 15th and am just starting to see what I consder good production on my pimento and bell pepper plants which are mostly 90day plants. If you are wanting some short and heavy producers look into banana peppers around 60 days better at 90 or Cubanelle peppers which produce heavy right before 60 days. In 30 days I am sure you will see a big difference in the fruiting of your plants. |
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I don't worry about my pepper production until they have been in the ground 90 days or so they just are not meant to be a huge producer in short time frames. I planted mine around May 15th and am just starting to see what I consder good production on my pimento and bell pepper plants which are mostly 90day plants. If you are wanting some short and heavy producers look into banana peppers around 60 days better at 90 or Cubanelle peppers which produce heavy right before 60 days. In 30 days I am sure you will see a big difference in the fruiting of your plants. I hope so. However, 12 of my plants are banana peppers which also have no sign of peppers. All of the peppers were started from seed at the end of March and transplanted outside at the end of May. |
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Peppers need magnesium. Take some epsom salt (you know, for your feet), a TBLspoon or so put it in a clean spray bottle, fill with water, shake well mist the pepper plants with this epsom salt mixture (preferably while blooming) watch your plants fall over from so many peppers Literally 20 to 30 peppers per plant. I tried this and it really seemed to work. |
| we start our pepper seedlings the middle of Feb here in Mo. and then greenhoused until May. The one year I had monster plants and little pepper production was the last year I used commercial fertilizers of any type. those high nitrogen commerical blends will promote growth and little fruit if used improperly |
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Quoted: we start our pepper seedlings the middle of Feb here in Mo. and then greenhoused until May. The one year I had monster plants and little pepper production was the last year I used commercial fertilizers of any type. those high nitrogen commerical blends will promote growth and little fruit if used improperly Out of curiosity, what do you use to "fertilize" them since you don't use the commercial options? |
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4 parts seed meal* (I use soybean)
1/4 part ordinary agricultural lime, best finely ground 1/4 part gypsum (or double the agricultural lime) 1/2 part dolomitic lime Plus, for best results: 1 part bone meal, rock phosphate or high-phosphate guano ( I do 1/2 bone meal 1/2 rock phosphate) 1/2 to 1 part kelp meal (or 1 part basalt dust) I will add at times powder milk and epsom salts to the mix the original recipe was out of a San Fran news paper the latest I have found was out of Mother Earth. when I plant all my tomato plants get a handful of worm castings on the root when I trench them in. Peppers get some if there is any left over after planting 60 tomato plants. http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2006-06-01/A-Better-Way-to-Fertilize-Your-Garden.aspx |
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First off peppers pollinate by wind, not by insects. So when they are blossoming they need a breezy area. I have manually pollinated peppers indoors with cans of compressed air.
Magnesium deficiency can be seen in yellowing veins on the leaves. odds are they never would have gotten that big in that was the case. My guess is either not enough drainage, to much nitrogen, or both. |
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pyro6988,
I am having the same problem with my bell peppers. My banana peppers were similar, but have improved over the last 3 weeks. This year is sort of a trial run for me. Will consider the advice in this thread and try to fix it before potential larger scale plantings next year. |