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I have some bell peppers (yellow) and chilli peppers (red) in my garden which are growing very large and prolific but are still green. when do they start to change colour




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As they ripen, and that depends on how much sun they're getting and the strength of it, to a large extent.

5 Aug, 2010

 

Thanks. We haven't had much sun in the past couple of weeks but plenty beforehand. That's probably why they are flourishing but not ripenening.

5 Aug, 2010

 

I'm desperately trying to remember when mine ripened the year before last (haven't grown them since) but I have a feeling it was pretty late, mid August on, possibly later, and mine were on a southfacing balcony I remember leaving picked peppers on the windowsill in the sun anyway by the autumn.

5 Aug, 2010

 

Thanks. I'll give them a couple more weeks and then pick them to ripen indoors. I've grown them before but never had as many. I'm sure I was picking them in early August

5 Aug, 2010

 

mine in the greenhouse are still very green and not showing any sign of turning, I think it'll be end of the month at least unless we get another heatwave

5 Aug, 2010

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