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Old 22-06-2009, 12:45 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default chili & sweet pepper plant help please.

Got loads of different varieties of hot chili & sweet pepper plants in the
greenhouse. Lovely plants. Look very healthy. Plants standing upright,
bushing out. Leaves lovely & green. Loads of flowers. BUT, once flowered, no
chilis or sweet peppers forming. The flower withers, also the small stem it
is on withers and then the entire thing drops of the plant. So it would seem
no pollination? Do I need to get in there with a paintbrush and pollinate by
hand?

Ta in advance.