flowerbug
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i remove buds when i'm planting them out or if i notice them earlier when they are still being moved around before transplanting. after that i tend to leave them alone. sometimes we get three crops.
Bell Peppers in flowering stage
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hdan
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I haven't planted a lot of bell peppers.
I believe you're saying they bloom and produce fruit three different times back to back.
flowerbug
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yes, about that, some years we get an earlier frost which will interrupt their last crop, but we will still harvest and use whatever is left.
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hdan
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hdan
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Just transplanted my bell pepper plants 5/23/24, and the plants are 18-20" tall. I know if you pinch off flowers for too long the July heat will drop your bell peppers and flower blooms over 90°. But also I here pinch off until one month after transplant which would take me into mid June pinching flowers.
I remember you saying you like to pinch off until 12" tall. I'm 6-8" over 12" now.
Maybe I shouldn't pinch anymore off.
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That is a consideration @hdan , because they do drop at those temps. Being in a colder zone here I don't think about that much. The main thing to consider when you're pinching flowers is the size of your plant - if the plant seems like a good enough size to hold a clutch of peppers you can stop. The plant will continue to grow somewhat when you stop pinching flowers, but not near as much as before they start fruiting. Your plants sound big enough to stop pinching and begin to let peppers form.
ninnymary
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Well this is interesting. I've never had blooms when I transplanted them into the ground. I do pinch the tops off to encourage branching and bigger harvestand then let them grow a bit more before putting in ground.. Although I only plant jalapenos and shi****o peppers.
Mary
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hdan
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My peppers was planted from seed 2/19/24. A bit early.
Have cut off at least 100 flowers per plant in the past month.
Transplanted after night time temperture maintained 60° 5/23/24 at 20" tall.
Nice thick stalks full of flowers. now.
Decoy1
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Interesting discussion. I’m more interested in producing peppers early and then over a spread of time rather than in producing large plants. So I tend to let them do their own thing unless they produce flowers very early. I’m grateful for the fruit that has got to a fair size already.
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hdan
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Just a experimental thing. I probably did cut off more flowers than needed.
