How to grow hot peppers part 11. Plant profile: Fatali and Jamaican hot chocolate

another harvest

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[StinkyCheese9999]

The info in the video is not correct. Picking off ripe peppers does nothing to speed ripening of existing peppers, that is done by enzymes not by energy from the plant. Picking peppers instead causes the plant to create more blooms. Towards the end of the season what should be done is pick off all new blooms so they do not create new peppers which do take energy from the plant without any hope of ripening, leaving the plant's energy to grow existing fruit to mature size - not ripeness

[ratdavid9]

@StinkyCheese9999 What I mean is, when you pick off the ripe peppers ASAP the energy the plant was putting in to growing those peppers is then put in to the subsequent next group of immature peppers. They will grow faster than if you left ripe peppers on the plant. It will also cause more flowers. I realize the actual ripening process is triggered by chemicals in the plant. I agree with picking off blooms at the end of the season. Do you disagree with this?

[TheRastaRick]

Those fatali and jamaican hot chocolate peppers, where did you get the seeds for those plants? I'd love to grow some! Im currently growing habaneros, cayenne, serranos and scotch bonnet peppers. I have to say that i am a HOT PEPPER LOVER and the peppers you are growing look fantastic!!

[ratdavid9]

@TheRastaRick In my first video I show the catalog that I get all my seeds from. Happy growing!

[scottj719]

I've got a Fataili grown indoors that is just flowering, do these things require manual polination? Or are they just going to start kicking out peppers? I don't think I'ver even gotten peppers on stuff I've over wintered inside.

[StinkyCheese9999]

@StinkyCheese9999

I should clarify what I meant. Leaving fruit on does consume slightly more water and there is a very slight additional energy requirement to pump that little bit up the plant, but this is negligible unless the plant were in an extreme environment lacking (or borderline) sufficient water.

Also if there is a lot of fruit, picking it off allows a little more sun to hit leaves so they produce more energy, and creates new leaf sites without as much stem growth.

[StinkyCheese9999]

@ratdavid9

I somewhat agree. Once any pepper has reached full size, whether ripe or not, the plant has no energy loss due to the pepper staying on the plant, whether left on or picked off the remaining peppers grow at the same rate.

However, picking off peppers encourages new bloom growth which consumes energy, and if pollinated to produce a new pepper, that takes away from growth of pre-existing peppers which aren't full sized yet. Yes I pick blooms off at the end of the season.

[theitalian556]

@Nature1400 ditto lol :)

[Nature1400]

@Nature1400 Srry like I knew that they were peppers I just confused with this conversation.

[ratdavid9]

@Nature1400 Buddy, FYI habaneros are peppers ;-)