Re: Barren Pepper Plants

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• Subject: Re: Barren Pepper Plants
• From: m* l* <m*@micron.net>
• Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 07:15:19 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <D3D60643A741D211B13E00805FE61D29EC5FC1@US4N57>

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At 08:43 AM 8/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>Hi, folks-
>
>My pepper plants are not wilting, but they're not bearing, either.
>
>I have handsome, 20" bell pepper plants that have not even flowered.  12
>inches away is a cayenne pepper planted at the same time, and its fruit is
>already reddening.  Same soil, same bed, same light, same water, same
>everything.
>
>It's hot and dry, but we water regularly.
>
>Do pepper plants suffer blossom drop like tomatoes?  Or is something else
>wrong?
>
>-cbt
>Confused in Central NC
>
I can't speak to your particular situation, since I don't know how large
bell pepper plants usually get there. If they were in my area, though
(southwest Idaho), they're quite large for bell pepper plants. Did you give
them a lot of nitrogen and little P and K? Peppers do drop blossoms during
excessively hot weather. Margaret L


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