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Pepper Plants no flowers
Lulu The Lurcher
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I have grown orange , yellow and red pepper plants from seeds collected after preparing a meal. Lovely green bushy plants but no flowers, hence no peppers. I'm wondering are the peppers you buy in the shops to eat sterile and can't be propagated?
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They're not sterile because you have plants from the seeds.
But it may well be that the variety you've sown need higher temperatures/higher lightlevels/longer growing period than you've given them in order to produce fruit.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Aha! Thanks Dove
Try again next year? Sow in February - a greenhouse is ideal but a sunny windowsill will do. My aged parent has them on a sunny balcony and they're swelling nicely (although whether they'll now ripen is another question)
Yes, as Steve says start them early. I usually grow varieties which are bred to grow in cooler climates and get good results.
Some go red, some orange, some purple - I think they'll all change colour eventually, but some need a longer ripening period to do it - even the green chillies you buy in the supermarket will change colour in your kitchen if you leave them long enough. But of course you can use them when they're green, they'll be just a bit milder than when they're ripe.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.