Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Sleepingpopman on August 15, 2022, 15:11
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Hi all ;)
I tried growing red peppers in the greenhouse about 4 yr's ago without any success
& swore never again but whilst buying tom' plants the wife said why not try again so
I bought one. As soon as we got home I re-potted it & the 2 tom' plants into slightly
bigger pots & put them on the kitchen window sill :nowink: After a few weeks I potted
them up into their final pots, in the green house. The pepper was put in a fresh flower
bucket giving it plenty of growing room & away it went, plenty of growth & fruits
appearing which have grown to cricket ball size & started to turn red but now they've
started to go black before fully ripe >:( Any thoughts::)
Keith.
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Are they going black because they are rotten, or just turning black? Some peppers and chilli peppers do turn black.
Did it have a name label or was it just sold as a 'pepper'
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Some of ours go from green to black to red. If the fruit isn't wrinkling or going mushy perhaps leave it to see what happens.
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If it's the bottom turning black it could be Blossom end rot. Some of my Bulls Horn peppers have suffered