bell peppers

[tella.star]

how about bell peppers? how can i make my bellpeppers grows big..
cause they seem so small.

[Durgan]

Originally Posted by tella.star

how about bell peppers? how can i make my bellpeppers grows big..
cause they seem so small.

This is what I do. Periodically I mix a cup of vinegar in a about three litres of water and give my pepper plants a drink. The purpose is to lower the pH, since peppers cannot take up nutrients if the pH is hight (above about 6.5). This is local treatment for adjusting pH by trial and error, and I suspect it doesn't alter the pH permanently.

This is easy to run controls, simply by only giving a few plants the vinegar treatment, and observign the difference compared to the untreated peppers.

My peppers are always stupendlous., both the hot and the sweet.
http://etooj.notlong.com/ 31 August 2007 Harvest of the produce from five plants.

I have no pictures of the sweet bell peppers, since I was away while they were producing, but I was told they were huge.

[fivespud364]

Originally Posted by Durgan

This is what I do. Periodically I mix a cup of vinegar in a about three litres of water and give my pepper plants a drink. The purpose is to lower the pH, since peppers cannot take up nutrients if the pH is hight (above about 6.5). This is local treatment for adjusting pH by trial and error, and I suspect it doesn't alter the pH permanently.

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Does this only work when theyre in the ground or is it worth doing when there in 9cm pots as well just wondering as we always have trouble getting our pepper plants going

[Durgan]

Originally Posted by fivespud364

Does this only work when theyre in the ground or is it worth doing when there in 9cm pots as well just wondering as we always have trouble getting our pepper plants going

I have added a bit of vinegar in the pots before putting into the ground, but used a very weak solution-trial and error. Try it on a few plants you have little to lose.

[tallkenny]

Originally Posted by Durgan

I have added a bit of vinegar in the pots before putting into the ground, but used a very weak solution-trial and error. Try it on a few plants you have little to lose.

In the interests of science I'll have a little go with the vinegar on a couple of mine and see how they do against the rest

[Durgan]

Originally Posted by tallkenny

In the interests of science I'll have a little go with the vinegar on a couple of mine and see how they do against the rest

Actually I was visiting a friend years ago, and he was vinegaring his peppers, and I thought he was nuts, and sort of remembered the practice years later, when I started growing peppers. The science is sound, and it seems to work.

[tallkenny]

would ericaceous compost do the same job?