I've got several pepper plants, mostly red bell pepper but also a couple jalapeno and chili.
They were all started early indoors and transplanted after the frost. I didn't manage the hardening off well, so they were certainly stunted by that, but they survived and seem healthy.
But whereas everything else that was 'damaged' by my incompetence has now taken root, taken off, and gotten huge, the peppers are still really tiny.
Like... the red bell peppers are doing the best. One plant is about 6" tall. That's the biggest one.
The jalapenos and chilis are still less than 2" tall, with just one or two sets of leaves.
I know plants take time to adapt after transplanting. I observed that my tomatoes would be pretty static for about two weeks, then started growing again. The peppers have been in the ground for about 4-6 weeks now. (They were staggered in transplanting so some are 'older' than others)
I grew red peppers about 10 years ago. I don't remember if they were like this or not!
Is this normal for peppers? Are they just REALLY slow getting going? My tomatoes and beans are starting to flower. I've been harvesting lettuce and spinach for over a week. We've been eating fresh strawberries, snipping green onions, and expect some of the broccoli to shoot up its stalk any day now. The carrots are starting to look like miniature tiny carrots instead of just typical roots. Everything's doing well -- but the peppers are so tiny!!!
Oh, since folks will likely ask about the soil, I'll just mention now that they're all in raised bed square foot gardens with "mel's mix" -- vermiculite, peat, and 5 kinds of manure/compost. Very rich and healthy stuff.
Hmm, I might also add that the weather's been wretched here, we've had cloudy and rainy for about 3 weeks straight. It's been ridiculous. The sun is finally back and the running joke on the radio and everywhere is "what's that funny yellow thing in the sky? My eyes! Ah!!! MY eyes!!"
I haven't had to water in 3 weeks. Everything seems just fine, the tomatoes grew a TON during the wet spell, strawberries grew and even ripened without any direct sunlight. My potatoes have gone from just-broaching-the-surface to a thick 2-foot-tall jungle in that time. Would the peppers be more affected by the lack of sun than everything else was?
They were all started early indoors and transplanted after the frost. I didn't manage the hardening off well, so they were certainly stunted by that, but they survived and seem healthy.
But whereas everything else that was 'damaged' by my incompetence has now taken root, taken off, and gotten huge, the peppers are still really tiny.
Like... the red bell peppers are doing the best. One plant is about 6" tall. That's the biggest one.
The jalapenos and chilis are still less than 2" tall, with just one or two sets of leaves.
I know plants take time to adapt after transplanting. I observed that my tomatoes would be pretty static for about two weeks, then started growing again. The peppers have been in the ground for about 4-6 weeks now. (They were staggered in transplanting so some are 'older' than others)
I grew red peppers about 10 years ago. I don't remember if they were like this or not!
Is this normal for peppers? Are they just REALLY slow getting going? My tomatoes and beans are starting to flower. I've been harvesting lettuce and spinach for over a week. We've been eating fresh strawberries, snipping green onions, and expect some of the broccoli to shoot up its stalk any day now. The carrots are starting to look like miniature tiny carrots instead of just typical roots. Everything's doing well -- but the peppers are so tiny!!!
Oh, since folks will likely ask about the soil, I'll just mention now that they're all in raised bed square foot gardens with "mel's mix" -- vermiculite, peat, and 5 kinds of manure/compost. Very rich and healthy stuff.
Hmm, I might also add that the weather's been wretched here, we've had cloudy and rainy for about 3 weeks straight. It's been ridiculous. The sun is finally back and the running joke on the radio and everywhere is "what's that funny yellow thing in the sky? My eyes! Ah!!! MY eyes!!"
I haven't had to water in 3 weeks. Everything seems just fine, the tomatoes grew a TON during the wet spell, strawberries grew and even ripened without any direct sunlight. My potatoes have gone from just-broaching-the-surface to a thick 2-foot-tall jungle in that time. Would the peppers be more affected by the lack of sun than everything else was?
I wonder whether I'll actually get any peppers this year or not....
would be the problem I'd say! Peppers LOVE LOVE LOVE heat & sun... I live in Qld australia, arguably the sunniest place on the planet, and I put might right in the middle of the yard where they get the most sun and they go mad! (I have to put shade cloth over most other things out there)
