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Old 10-02-2003, 05:25 PM
Dwight Sipler
 
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Default Hot Pepper Plants

Sampson wrote:

David DeMar wrote in
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I am trying to grow a variety hot pepper plants indoors. Do these
types of plants typically produce fruit inside? Do they
self-pollenate? Will I have to pollenate them? How is that done?


You might want to set up a humidifier.




Then again, you might not want to set up a humidifier. High humidity
will encourage damping off of seedlings. Most hot peppers do well in hot
dry climates.

As far as pollination is concerned, you can pollinate them by hand, but
that is probably too labor intensive for a significant planting. Are you
trying to get a winter crop or just control the environment?

Check out http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/book/chap6/pepper.html, which
is geared toward sweet peppers, but is applicable to hot peppers as
well.