Growing capsicum pepper for the first time? Ok - so I have pepper plants in the greenhouse (UK). ...
Ok - so I have pepper plants in the greenhouse (UK). There are small fruits starting to develop astern the flowers. Do I need to thin these or thieve off any leaves? I really have no belief what I should be doing. Can you offer any advice please?
Answers: I grew them ending year I never thinned out either leaves nor fruit and they grew OK, the only piece if you thin them out a bit you should get larger fruits (peppers)
You must enjoy started before me this year as my plants are still very small, (growing surrounded by the greenhouse) perhaps you are getting more sun than I have contained by the central Scotland.
Good luck and good growing for the rest of the year.
Alex
I other leave them alone without thinning, and I return with lots of peppers in August.
If it's really stormy or if it's raining very hard, you might want to put up several stakes up and cover the pepper with perforated plastic that doesn't touch the pepper directly. I live in Chicago where it's especially windy, so I've had to do this several times. Leave them alone...those are your pepper