After a couple of years of struggling with peppers I have a couple of plants in my greenhouse that are now producing whole uneaten green capiscums and one is actually turnint red. Will they stay red or can I expect organge and yellow too.
The variety (I think) is californian sweet capiscum?
Compo
CAPISCUMS
Moderators: KG Steve, Chantal, Tigger, peter
- Primrose
- KG Regular
- Posts: 8082
- Joined: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:50 pm
- Location: Bucks.
- Has thanked: 46 times
- Been thanked: 305 times
Normally I think the green peppers will turn red, but there are different varieties which ripen into yellow and orange. Perhaps somebody else can clarify but I think you would need to look on the seed packet or at least check the specification if you want to grow some which ripen to colours other than red.
- Jenny Green
- KG Regular
- Posts: 1139
- Joined: Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:47 pm
- Location: East Midlands
If one has turned red they all will unless you have different varieties there.
A few years ago I bought two packets of capsicum seed - one showed red peppers on the front and the other showed green. It wasn't until I'd gone to the trouble of keeping the seedlings and young plants of the two kinds carefully apart and was in the midst of deciding which colour I'd have on which side of my greenhouse that the penny dropped.
A few years ago I bought two packets of capsicum seed - one showed red peppers on the front and the other showed green. It wasn't until I'd gone to the trouble of keeping the seedlings and young plants of the two kinds carefully apart and was in the midst of deciding which colour I'd have on which side of my greenhouse that the penny dropped.
(Formerly known as 'Organic Freak')
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Hi GIULIA,
I feel that has got more to do with your personal taste than anything else. I feel that when we were all introduced to Peppers they were all green and it was only later that the red ones appeared. I remember being most surprised when I had missed picking one and it turned Red. Like Jenny I too should have turned red!
JB.
I feel that has got more to do with your personal taste than anything else. I feel that when we were all introduced to Peppers they were all green and it was only later that the red ones appeared. I remember being most surprised when I had missed picking one and it turned Red. Like Jenny I too should have turned red!
JB.
- Chantal
- KG Regular
- Posts: 5665
- Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:53 am
- Location: Rugby, Warwickshire
- Been thanked: 1 time
I had ones last year that turned yellow and also orange. Not sure what I expected but I got them in addition to green and red.
Chantal
I know this corner of the earth, it smiles for me...
I know this corner of the earth, it smiles for me...
-
- KG Regular
- Posts: 67
- Joined: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:22 pm
- Location: bridgend
the same variety for me last year went form green to black to red
a bad days fishing beats a good days work
-
- KG Regular
- Posts: 3269
- Joined: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:14 pm
- Location: Stocksbridge, S. Yorks
- Been thanked: 1 time
All unripe peppers are green and they ripen to yellow, orange, red, purple, or chocolate etc. depending on the variety. They can go through a range of colours while ripening, but the usual one is green to red.
I over-wintered a chilli pepper last year and have been picking fruits until last week when I trimmed it back. I also did the same with a sweet pepper and picked a large red fruit last week off that. I've saved lots of seeds from both in case my experiment doesn't work and they don't send out new shoots again, but these varieties are perennial in their own countries, so they should be OK if I keep them frost free.
They got through last winter very well and flowered very early. I picked the first fruits in May. I didn't prune them though last year, so I'm waiting to see what happens. They make surprisingly large plants in their second year.
I over-wintered a chilli pepper last year and have been picking fruits until last week when I trimmed it back. I also did the same with a sweet pepper and picked a large red fruit last week off that. I've saved lots of seeds from both in case my experiment doesn't work and they don't send out new shoots again, but these varieties are perennial in their own countries, so they should be OK if I keep them frost free.
They got through last winter very well and flowered very early. I picked the first fruits in May. I didn't prune them though last year, so I'm waiting to see what happens. They make surprisingly large plants in their second year.