[turnpike]

Hi,

I'm a bit of a beginner and have tried to grow peppers from seed this year.  After germinating and growing a little I put them in bigger pots.  Weirdly after a month or two they are still just a lot of low leaves (about 6 - 8 inches each).  There's been no upward growth at all.

Is this a common problem?

Thanks,
Carl

[Lardman]

Whats the variety ? Some are a lot more compact than others.

[turnpike]

I think they are sungold but will have to check.  They are both just a bunch of low lying leaves with no obvious stem.

[turnpike]

They are california wonder.  One of the packets does say they are stocky but I think this is just leaf and nowt else.  I seriously doubt I'm getting any peppers but I'm wondering what I might have done wrong to make them have no stem.

[sclarke624]

When did you start them off?

[mumofstig]

this is strange   because I am having more success this year with Californian Wonder than I have ever had before.

They are between 18-24inches and I have 1 or 2 quite big peppers on each and more just setting.

[turnpike]

I'm growing them indoors.  I started them a good couple of months ago.  Tomatoes I planted at the same time are 6 foot tall now.  It is very odd.  Other than having labelled one of them I wouldn't know it was pepper.

[Lardman]

This was started at the end of May, and thats a 3.5" square pot if it any use as a comparison for you.

[DavidT]

The plants in the middle row are California Wonder in 5 litre pots.

[turnpike]

Thanks all.  

I've found a single pot full of crowded peppers which shouldve been planted out before they got to about 8-12 inches as they are now... whoops!  I've planted them anyway just incase I get something.  

I still think the original 2 were peppers and something very odd has happened resulting in them just being all leaf and no stem, but atleast I did get peppers from another batch... which I then forgot to plant out