If the plant doesn’t have enough soil to continue growing more roots, it will begin the next stage of growth, producing fruit.īefore you move your plants outside, we recommend that you prune early pepper flower buds off of the plant. This is a pepper plant’s natural response to limited soil space. If you are waiting for the weather to warm up so that your plants can safely move outdoors, your plants may start producing flowers prematurely. A number of factors can cause this, including small pot size, not enough fertilizer, or irregular temperatures. However, sometimes pepper plants will begin flowering too early. This means that you don’t have to worry about growing multiple plants side by side to get good harvests. Peppers self-pollinate, meaning that each flower contains both male and female organs. Bees, flies, and other insects fertilize the flowers, and the peppers bear seeds. Essentially, the flowers attract insects to your pepper plants, and they pollinate the flowers. The flowers on a pepper plant will turn into the actual peppers. Well, I left the flowers alone and low and behold, they transformed into tiny peppers! Early pepper forming. Before we had any experience growing, we wondered the same thing. But of even more importance, that open space and air allows light in to help ripen fruit quickly.If you are new to growing peppers, you may see flowers on your plant and wonder what they are there for. And not only does good circulation help keep disease at bay, it also increases pollination.
Pruning allows air and light to reach the entire plant. Just as it does for tomatoes, pruning pepper plants is crucial for growing a healthy, productive crop. Tie back any heavy branches back to the main support to keep in check.
Without support, these large peppers snap branches quickly. These smaller plants produce their fruit in compact fashion off of the main stem, and a single support is more then enough to secure the crop.įor larger varieties such as green, red and yellow bell peppers, staking both the main stem and heavily loaded branches is a must. Tie off the main stem a few inches off the ground, and every 4 to 6″ of growth above. Proper support will keep a heavy fruit load from breaking off the stems and branches.įor smaller varieties such as jalapeno, banana and serrano peppers, plants should be staked to support the main stem.
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