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Old 22-06-2009, 05:34 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default chili & sweet pepper plant help please.


"wafflycat" wrote
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?

Sounds like it, or leave the greenhouse door open.
We always grow our chillies out on the allotment so don't have a pollination
problem but it does seem that it takes a while for the plants to start
producing fruit, the first flowers don't seem to do much.

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Bob Hobden
just W. of London