Has anyone experienced a second wind with their bell peppers?

[madeline_con]

Ours seemed to be done. Then, they started blooming again, and we seem to have an explosion. weird. It's been raining a lot. :shrug:

[wildeyed]

1. Yes.

I fertilized mine, we got rain and it has been warm. Peppers love heat. The first round wasn't much, but this second round looks more promising.

[brer cat]

2. Late bell peppers

I live in zone 7, no. Georgia. We are just now cranking up with peppers. Two years ago I went out of town in September, came back to find the pepper bushes loaded! Looking for the same this year. Last year the drought pretty much did in the peppers.

[EstimatedProphet]

3. That's good news. My peppers have done little so far

I've gotten a couple jalapenos, a couple wax, and some cayennes. I planted somewhere around 55 plants with 8 varieties.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. I just got an interesting piece of information

Peppers are annuals. What this means for production is that they don't have the time window that annuals like tomatoes do. So if conditions are right later, they may start to produce.

[hippywife]

5. Maybe a little

upset stomach, but not too much wind. :hide:

Sorry, I've been seeing this thread title for days now and, finally, just couldn't resist. :rofl:

[Juneboarder]

6. Jalapenos...

My jalapeno plant had a great bloom and gave me about 15-20 peppers. I tried letting them grow as big as possible on the plant, but they seemed like they were getting any bigger after about 3-4 weeks, so I cut off the peppers that looked ready and the very next day I had about 20 new flowers and two days later i had about 5-6 new peppers starting. Today I have many more and think that cutting the peppers off helps to produce more. I also think that pruning the plant helps as well (when the season starts out and the plant gets crazy). I pruned my tomatos and they are doing the best so far out of the past 3 years of tomato growing.

Good luck with your bell peppers! :)