By sharon12

Re: pepper plants
26 Jul 2008 22:33

HI everyone i've just been reading about your pepper plants and was wondering do you get the seeds out of the pepper and use these to grow the plants? and would i be able to grow them now or is it too late ?
i'm very new at this but am willing to try .

Replies

By *Bramble

Re: pepper plants
27 Jul 2008 07:15

Hi Sharon, yes you do use the seeds out of a pepper, but not the green peppers becasue they are not ripe yet., and it is nice to have seeds from red yellow and orange peppers so you can have three different plants. Collect a few and sprinkle them in a pot of compost, then forget about them cos they take weeks to get started, just damp the compost every few days. Not too late for peppers, if you're keeping them indoors on a windowsill which I do all year round and only put them out when it's really nice.
Come back here and ask again when you have baby plants, (around Christmas, only kidding). Bramble xxx

By sharon12

Re: pepper plants
27 Jul 2008 11:01

Thank you Bramble i,ve got a orange one in the fridge so i'll use that one.

By Kitchen Diva

Re: pepper plants
29 Jul 2008 13:58

Sharon12, Bramble is definitely the expert, but I would say that I planted some seeds for the first time about 2 weeks ago and 1 week ago noticed that they'd literally sprouted overnight! They're now about 3" tall and looking very sturdy!

By *Bramble

Re: pepper plants
30 Jul 2008 17:24

That's brilliant KD, I don't know why mine take so long, yours must have been just ready to pop.
Now something's been eating my baby ones on the patio, I've brought 2 of each indoors, it's a JUNGLE out there !