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Post by daylilydude on May 15, 2017 11:20:37 GMT -5
is a good thing... really?? I have been reading up on this and it's kinda gone both ways. Some say it's good because they grow thick enough to shade the root area and they get more peppers this way?
Your thoughts... I am putting my peppers in the ground in a day or 2 and I might give this a try... about how far apart should they be put?
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Post by paulf on May 15, 2017 12:25:38 GMT -5
I had several extra pepper plants for the space allotted so there are five or six with double plantings. I have done this before and it was like one plant, maybe with a few extra peppers. I just put the two together in the ground like they were one plant.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 15, 2017 13:28:57 GMT -5
Never heard of that before, but if they don't mind a bit of crowding, then perhaps I'll give it a try in a hanging basket this year? Better than tossing out the extra plants.
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Post by daylilydude on May 16, 2017 3:42:26 GMT -5
I had several extra pepper plants for the space allotted so there are five or six with double plantings. I have done this before and it was like one plant, maybe with a few extra peppers. I just put the two together in the ground like they were one plant. I gotta ask Paul... do you have a pic of these for us to kinda see what it looks like?
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Post by spacecase0 on May 16, 2017 10:49:45 GMT -5
I often plant 2 together in the same pot planning that at least one will come up, but forgot to pay attention to production one way or the other will be looking this year at how well they do
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Post by paulf on May 16, 2017 11:50:38 GMT -5
I had several extra pepper plants for the space allotted so there are five or six with double plantings. I have done this before and it was like one plant, maybe with a few extra peppers. I just put the two together in the ground like they were one plant. I gotta ask Paul... do you have a pic of these for us to kinda see what it looks like? Right now in Washington ready to board the charter boat and won't be home for several days but will post then.
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Post by ladymarmalade on May 17, 2017 13:08:16 GMT -5
I always give my pepper plants a mate- unless I am planting them in a bucket, then they go solo. I plant them about six inches apart so their roots can grow together and the leaves can mingle as well.
At the very least, they grow just fine that way, so why not? Saves space in the garden for other things if I can plant two pepper plants in a space where I previously only planted one.
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 17, 2017 15:42:09 GMT -5
Today all of my pepper seedlings got planted (after all those early ones, under cover), and I planted a bunch of them with only half the usual distance between them. The reason was that I had 18 spots for planting under cover (for the pepper maggot prone varieties - usually mild), but I ended up with a bunch more peppers that need covered, since the ones that didn't germinate were ones that didn't need covered, while all of the excess seedlings were the ones that need covered, and those were the ones I filled those pots with. I was thinking of this post as I was cutting extra holes in the plastic, and seeing how close the plants were going to be!
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Post by september on May 17, 2017 20:47:25 GMT -5
A friend saved me all the seeds from a bicolor Enjoya pepper, and I started a whole mess of them, like 50+ hoping one might be the magic one to reproduce the bicolor and save seeds to try to stabilize. Popular opinion seems to be that it is reproduced commercially from cuttings and so far those who have grown seeds have only gotten yellow bell peppers. So my enthusiasm has dampened quite a bit, and now I have this huge bunch of seedlings that I am trying to decide what to do with.
I have one raised bed that was so invaded by weedy grasses that I have not used it for about 2 years - covered it with cardboard and straw, and the grass still grew through it. In a fit of anger this spring, I sprayed it with Roundup, and finally the grass is dead. I am thinking of planting all 50+ unwanted seedlings in this bed, they would be in very close quarters in an 8' x 4' area. Since at this point I don't expect to find the fruit color I was pining for, it would be a good use of the seedlings to see how they do under crowded, but well fertilized conditions. They are already stunted by being crowded in their germination tray so long. And who knows, maybe I have a 1 in 50 chance of hitting the magic color combo again, all I would need would be one fruit per plant.
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Post by ladymarmalade on May 17, 2017 20:54:16 GMT -5
I think that sounds like a great way to put that space AND the plants to use.
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Post by daylilydude on May 20, 2017 4:44:03 GMT -5
And who knows you may find the bicolor or something else for that matter in all those plants... good luck.
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Post by daylilydude on May 20, 2017 18:59:28 GMT -5
Ok I planted a few together in some Styrofoam coolers that were headed for the garbage... so free planting pots are a good thing right?? Here is a few pics... Sweet Banana: Sweet Cayenne: They look a lil tired just because they just got planted and a rough thunder storm rolled thru, so they will perk up a little later i'm thinking... your thoughts??
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Post by ladymarmalade on May 21, 2017 8:47:36 GMT -5
I think those peppers are going to do really well for you! Love the re-purposing of garbage coolers for planters.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 21, 2017 11:45:09 GMT -5
Yep - as long as you poked some drainage holes, they should do really well in there. I'm not sure because I've never used styrofoam coolers that way, but I'd guess that you'll only get one year out of them because of the sun. Hopefully I am wrong about that.
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Post by spike on May 21, 2017 13:23:12 GMT -5
I have a 4' X 4' raised bed. In a 2' X 4' side I plant 8 green pepper plants. They produce so many peppers that I end up giving them away by the basket full.
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Post by paulf on May 21, 2017 19:56:15 GMT -5
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