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For over 29 years I have tried to grow Green bell peppers with little or no
success If I plant 10 pepper plants from the nursery I will get no more 10 peppers . There will be one , or two or none on each one. Average one per plant. Zone 5 in Canada on the US border. My soil has been professionaly tested and is excellent. What am I doing wrong |
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Andy Petro wrote:
For over 29 years I have tried to grow Green bell peppers with little or no success If I plant 10 pepper plants from the nursery I will get no more 10 peppers . There will be one , or two or none on each one. Average one per plant. Zone 5 in Canada on the US border. My soil has been professionaly tested and is excellent. What am I doing wrong Chillis and peppers like a long hot summer. You are probably trying to grow them in a climate that is too cold and/or has a growing season too short. For the warmest four months of the year what is the typical minimum night time and day time temperature? David |
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote: Andy Petro wrote: For over 29 years I have tried to grow Green bell peppers with little or no success If I plant 10 pepper plants from the nursery I will get no more 10 peppers . There will be one , or two or none on each one. Average one per plant. Zone 5 in Canada on the US border. My soil has been professionaly tested and is excellent. What am I doing wrong Chillis and peppers like a long hot summer. You are probably trying to grow them in a climate that is too cold and/or has a growing season too short. For the warmest four months of the year what is the typical minimum night time and day time temperature? David Most likely, David is right. You may want to look into making row covers, or cold frames for them. -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines |
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"Andy Petro" wrote in message
... For over 29 years I have tried to grow Green bell peppers with little or no success If I plant 10 pepper plants from the nursery I will get no more 10 peppers . There will be one , or two or none on each one. Average one per plant. Zone 5 in Canada on the US border. My soil has been professionaly tested and is excellent. What am I doing wrong I haven't got a clue what Zone 5 is but I would have thought that the geographic location you give means that you either wouldn't get enough summer heat to grow bell peppers aka capsicum, or your growing season is too short for them to mature. But really, I haven't a clue - will read responses with interest. |
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FarmI wrote:
"Andy Petro" wrote in message ... For over 29 years I have tried to grow Green bell peppers with little or no success If I plant 10 pepper plants from the nursery I will get no more 10 peppers . There will be one , or two or none on each one. Average one per plant. Zone 5 in Canada on the US border. My soil has been professionaly tested and is excellent. What am I doing wrong I haven't got a clue what Zone 5 is but I would have thought that the geographic location you give means that you either wouldn't get enough summer heat to grow bell peppers aka capsicum, or your growing season is too short for them to mature. But really, I haven't a clue - will read responses with interest. If I read it correctly winter temperature drops down to around -25C (-15F). This doesn't tell you directly what summer is likely to be but it isn't promising. D |
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Andy Petro wrote:
For over 29 years I have tried to grow Green bell peppers with little or no success If I plant 10 pepper plants from the nursery I will get no more 10 peppers . There will be one , or two or none on each one. Average one per plant. Zone 5 in Canada on the US border. My soil has been professionaly tested and is excellent. What am I doing wrong Try growing a different shaped sweet pepper -- like "Gypsy", or one of the Italian frying peppers. I've never had good luck with bell peppers or pimentos. I think peppers get confused by the extremely long days during the summer if you get too far from the tropics. My hot peppers always come on strong in the early fall when the days start getting noticeably shorter, even if the plants were big and blooming already during the summer months. Of course, by the time they put on a big flush of growth and blooms, there's not much time left before the first frost. I usually have good crops of hot peppers, but last year I had a total crop failure because the unseasonable weather all summer long (cold when it should have been hot, hot when it should have been cold, rain at the wrong times.) Fixin' to start my seeds to try it again this year. Bob zone 4, Minnesota |
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On Feb 18, 4:42*am, "Andy Petro" wrote:
For over 29 years I have tried to grow Green bell peppers with little or no success If I plant 10 pepper plants from the nursery I will get no more 10 peppers . There will be *one , or two or none on each one. Average one per plant. Zone 5 in Canada on the US border. *My soil has been professionaly tested and is excellent. What am I doing wrong Peppers do not have to be harvested as soon as they appear ripe, so I think you should try and let them pop up. |
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